Jimmy Mohamed has something to say about sleep. Because if food is a central subject for well-being, we must not forget sleep, and especially the devastating effects of the lack of it.
There are the forbidden foods to help you experience menopause better, collagen drinks are recommended as a rejuvenating cure, then pointed outall these trends are linked to well-being. Research in the spirit of the times that the doctor knows very well Jimmy Mohamed. Rather than prohibiting, the doctor followed by more than 1.6 million subscribers on Instagramand new face of Health magazine (France 5) prefers to give sound advice. As he does in particular in the pages of his work Zero constraints to stay young (ed. Flammarion).
And the 34-year-old doctor has something to say about sleep. Because if diet is a central subject for well-being, sleep largely has its share of responsibility. He reports the effects of lack of sleep on sugar levels, highlighted by researchers who carried out studies on three groups of adolescents. And we discover that sleeping in is not so good after all. In these three groups, one was sleep deprived, another was able to sleep in, and a third was getting just enough sleep.
Is sleeping in a miracle solution for sleep debt?
Yes, it’s not a very big spoiler, as you can imagine, it’s the group of teenagers who don’t sleep who have a disturbance in their sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. And this, unlike the group of teenagers who got enough sleep. But Jimmy Mohamed reveals the astonishing result of this study to you. In reality, the group that was put into “sleep debt” but who were allowed to get up later on the weekend, had the same biological and metabolic disturbances as the group with sleep debt, who were not able to sleep in.
So you will have understood it well: sleeping in is not the miracle recipefar from it. “We always come back to the same conclusion: any sleep lost during the week can never be made up for on the weekend.“, explains Dr. Jimmy Mohamed in his book.
Original article on Purepeople
