Sleep Deprivation?

Question

How does sleep deprivation decrease/increase weight?

Answer 1

well when you sleep your body does more healing and woking nd growing so if your tired then it will be harder to lose weight good question hope i helped

Answer 2

not sure but sleep and food are the two things that going without are definitely proved to turn you crazy the fastest.

Answer 3

From what I have read -- not witnessed -- sleep deprivation puts the body into a state of stress that causes metabolism to rise.  It would decrease weight as it also makes the mind become dysfunctionally irrational.

From what I have witnessed in myself, sleep deprivation also cancels out hunger in at least some circumstances.  I became so stressed out trying to keep awake that ALL I wanted was to go to sleep, and I had not eaten either dinner or breakfast!

Now, deprivation is not the same as staying awake too long, which can cause "the hungries".  My sleep deprivation was mild, and it was due to a need to travel about 500 miles on an errand and then to return within a set amount of time which I just barely had time to do, and then to have to do homework for college!  Not a good situation safety-wise for driving at the very least, and I miraculously caught myself waking up as I was driving on the shoulder of the road on my trip back!  Good thing there were no parked cars on the side of the road!

As for sleep deprivation in captivity, such as at Guantanamo torture prison, I do not know the effects.  It is hard to know those effects due to the total secrecy of our torture prisons.  But I am sure it affects a lack of appetite in addition to all of the mental stress of being kept awake in captivity.

Also, as for what Pretieyez4u said, less sleep in a domicile situation may lead to more snacking and overeating, I do not buy what she says from what she researched.  Sounds like some researchers were making up their own answers without asking for real questions!

Answer 4

I am a larger woman and i have had sleep studies done... i have sleep apnea, they put me on a machine at night and i have seen a difference of over 30 lbs in a year w/o trying.  i found this under sleep deprivation in wikipedia.

Several large studies using nationally representative samples suggest that the obesity problem the United States might have as one of its causes a corresponding decrease in the average number of hours that people are sleeping. The findings suggest that this might be happening because sleep deprivation could be disrupting hormones that regulate glucose metabolism and appetite. The association between sleep deprivation and obesity appears to be strongest in young and middle-age adults. Other scientists hold that the physical discomfort of obesity and related problems, such as sleep apnea, reduce an individual's chances of getting a good night's sleep.