𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲?

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬?

Are you continually feeling hungry, even though you are eating mountains of food this Christmas.

Well, there could be a few reasons as to why, such as the types of food you are eating, to how much sleep you are getting each night.

We also need to remember that our emotions whether that be happy , sad , angry to being excited all stem from our hormones, which again can be affected exogenously (Externally) or endogenously (Internally).

But do our hormones affect how hungry we are , or possibly how much of an appetite we might have?

Well, the short answer is yes.

Firstly, we have Leptin, which is your body’s satiety hormone (Feeling full)

An interesting study at Stanford University discovered that just one night of sleep deprivation and poor sleep quality leads to quite a severe suppression of your leptin levels.

This is one of the reasons that you will eat everything insight following a late night, as your “Feeling full” hormone isn’t working correctly.

Then we have Ghrelin, your “Hunger hormone”.

Another study showed that just one night of poor quality of sleep led to a 20% increase in ghrelin levels. So again, this may be one reason as to why your appetite goes through the roof following a late night, or continually going to bed late.

Improving your sleep looks like a good place to start if you are continually feeling hungry, or if you just never seem to feel full and ended up eating your bodyweight in cheese or chocolates yesterday!!

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