{"id":7921,"date":"2012-11-03T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2012-11-04T00:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T04:16:59","slug":"study-suggests-sleep-duration-affects-hunger-differently-in-men-and-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/11\/study-suggests-sleep-duration-affects-hunger-differently-in-men-and-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests sleep duration affects hunger differently in men and women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release via HealthCanal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/sleeping_older_couple.jpg\" alt=\"older couple sleeping\" \/>A new study suggests that <strong>increasing the amount of sleep that adults get could lead to reduced food intake, but the hormonal process differs between men and women<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestricting sleep in healthy, normal weight participants has limited effects on metabolic risk factors and may affect food intake regulating hormones differently in men and women,\u201d said Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD, FAHA, the study\u2019s principal investigator. \u201cWe were surprised by the lack of a significant effect of sleep on glucose and insulin, leptin, and sex differences in the hunger-stimulating hormone ghrelin and the satiety hormone GLP-1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study, appearing in the November issue of the journal <em>SLEEP<\/em>, tracked the sleep duration, glucose dysregulation, and hormonal regulation of appetite in 27 normal weight, 30- to 45-year-old men and women. Participants provided fasting blood draws, and they were studied under two sleep conditions: <strong>Short (4 hours) or habitual (9 hours). Short sleep increased total ghrelin levels in men but not women and reduced GLP-1 levels in women but not in men, a sex difference that has not been reported before<\/strong>.\u00a0 The results suggest that the common susceptibility to overeat during short sleep is related to increased appetite in men and reduced feelings of fullness in women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results point to the complexity of the relationship between sleep duration and energy balance regulation,\u201d St-Onge said. \u201cThe state of energy balance, whether someone is in a period of weight loss or weight gain, may be critical in the metabolic and hormonal responses to sleep restriction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the authors, this is the largest controlled clinical investigation of the effects of sleep reduction on hormonal regulation of food intake. 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