Video Post by Andreas Moritz

Hi, this is Andreas Moritz and I am responding to a question that I receive quite frequently about children who become obese and develop type II diabetes and this is an escalating problem nowadays and I would like to address that.

We now know that diet plays a major role, but that’s not the only role that we find present in obese children or children that become diabetic. One of the major reasons is actually sleep deprivation or in some instances, having too much sleep and/or the wrong type of sleep. Many children, teenage children, they are up many hours during the night and sleep during the day, particularly during vacation time, holiday time, and they find themselves like sleeping until ten o’clock in the morning which I discussed in my book “Timeless Secrets Of Health And Rejuvenation”. it’s very detrimental to a person’s health.

Now research has shown, and that’s done at the children’s hospital of Philadelphia, that too little sleep and too much sleep both contribute to an increase in type II diabetes and what it was found that sleep deprivation basically increases blood sugar levels, suppresses insulin secretion, and once insulin is suppressed in the body, the extra sugar in the blood can then be converted into fat and that contributes to the escalation of obesity among teenagers.

There have been many studies that found, in adults… these are adult studies… that have found the same thing… that adults who become sleep-deprived or who do not sleep at the proper night hours, for example people who work the night shift, have a higher risk of developing type II diabetes. The insulin suppressing effect of lack of sleep, that when we sleep less, the insulin is not secreted in the correct amounts to keep the blood sugar at the right levels, is certainly something that we have in control.

We do have the choice to sleep early, and sleeping early should be before ten o’clock in the evening so that we wake up when the day begins and not much later than that, because the longer we sleep the worse it becomes, because once we sleep past sunrise or at least an hour or later than sunrise, our digestive ability becomes suppressed and our elimination capacity of waste products becomes suppressed, and the body is forced to hold on to urine, fecal matter, and lymph toxins, which then backwash into the system and contaminate our body.

So going to bed early, early to rise, is a very important piece of advice that I can give to teenagers and adults who want to keep the risk of developing type II diabetes and obesity at bay.

There are many studies to show that for every hour of sleep we have lost, or deprived… or being deprived of, the person increases the rate and the blood sugar levels. So this is simple advice, doesn’t cost anything and it’s very effective.

I have seen people lose weight simply by sleeping early before ten o’clock and get up early in the morning at around six o’clock, and they find that they have more energy during the day, the digestive system picks up, it’s far more effective than in a person who is sleep-deprived because when we are tired it’s not just that we feel tired but our digestive system is tired, our liver is tired, our brain and nervous system are tired, the heart becomes tired, because there is far more congestion building up in the body because of the sleep-deprivation that it makes it harder for our system to circulate blood, to circulate lymph, to eliminate waste, and to digest food.

So simple advice, please take it at heart and follow the natural rhythms of life. The circadian rhythm teaches us exactly how to live if we listen to nature, and to the advice that nature gives us simply by showing us how the light changes from light to dark, and when it’s getting dark that we are slowing down, eventually follow our instincts, our feelings, because there is a natural time where we feel tired.

It’s good not to stimulate ourselves with coffee or food so that we actually feel sleepy at the right time and go to sleep at the right time, and then wake up when nature wakes us up, and so they are that very natural cycles, they are called the circadian rhythms, which dictate and control the biological rhythms in our body, which in turn is controlled by hormones and the hormones are regulated by the circadian rhythm such as melatonin and serotonin which integrate with one another.

So when at 9:30 – 10:00 o’ clock, melatonin secretion begins, that is the sleep hormone that allows us to feel sleepy and drowsy, that’s when we should follow that natural instinctive inclination to go to rest and sleep and when the sun comes up, when the light, daylight, shows up, that’s when serotonin begins being secreted both in the brain and in the digestive system which then allows us to wake up, derive energy from the food that we have digested during the previous meals and to then follow our day to day activities.

Simple advice, cheap, inexpensive… everyone can do that or almost everyone can do that, and it’s certainly very precious and it can prevent many, many illnesses such as type II diabetes and obesity-related illnesses such as cancer.

Thank you.

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