Snoozing in Late on the Weekends Can’t Make up for Lost Sleep
Orange County, CA - March 6th, 2019 - Most of us lose sleep during the week due to stress, sleep disorders, or too many work commitments. It’s encouraging to know you have a weekend full of shut-eye to look forward to. However, a new study shows that sleeping in on the weekend does not contradict chronic sleep loss.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommends adults between the age of 18 and 60 years old to sleep a total of seven or more hours per night. A previous study from the CDC reports that approximately 33 percent of adults in the United States, do not sleep the recommended seven hours per night. Earlier studies have proven that there is a strong association among little to no sleep on a nightly basis, and an elevated risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular problems.
Research from the University of Colorado-Boulder, suggests that even if there are certain advantages to sleeping in on the weekend, our health still suffers; making it an issue of consistency. "The key take-home message from this study is that ad libitum weekend recovery or catch-up sleep does not appear to be an effective countermeasure strategy to reverse sleep-loss-induced disruptions of metabolism," said senior study author Kenneth Wright, director of the UC-Boulder Sleep and Chronobiology Lab.
For the study, the researchers divided 36 volunteers who were between 18 and 39 years old into three groups. Group one slept for a total of nine hours, and group two slept for five hours; both groups were asleep for the required amount for nine consecutive nights. The third group slept for five hours for the first five nights and was then allowed to sleep as much as they wanted during the weekend, followed by two more five-hour nights.
Results showed that group one and two ate more at night, gained weight, and experienced a 9 to 27 percent decline in insulin sensitivity; particularly poor sensitivity in their liver and muscles during the study duration. Group three experienced a 13% decline in whole-body insulin sensitivity, and they snacked less after dinner but the gains disappeared when the weekend ended, and they went back to five-hour nights.
“In the end, we didn’t see any benefit in any metabolic outcome in the people who got to sleep in on the weekend,” said lead author Chris Depner, an assistant research professor of Integrative Physiology.
It appears that the reason we have a problem with sleeping in on the weekend is when Monday arrives, we then are forced to endure the stresses of the week. Sleeping in weekend mornings and falling asleep at a decent time Sunday night, makes it challenging. Consistently sleeping seven hours per night is the best way to keep your sleep and health balanced. “It could be that the yo-yoing back and forth – changing the time we eat, changing our circadian clock and then going back to insufficient sleep is uniquely disruptive,” said Wright.
Research with larger groups is fundamental, for the reason that the study was small. The study appears in the journal Current Biology.
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Snoozing in Late on the Weekends Can’t Make up for Lost Sleep Orange County, CA – March 6th, 2019 – Most of us lose sleep during the week due to stress, sleep disorders, or too many work commitments. It’s encouraging to know you have a weekend full of shut-eye to look forward to. However, a new study […]