In a study presented in 2009
at the 23rd Annual Meeting of
the Associated Professional Sleep
Societies, LLC Seattle, Washington,
a group led by Professor Sergio
Tufik at the University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil, measured weight loss in
healthy young men, and found
that weight loss during sleep was 3
times that of awake bed rest, and
that the highest level measured
was during slow wave (recovery)
sleep. No explanation was offered
for the significant differences, but
recovery physiology during sleep is
an energy expensive enterprise, is
dependent on sleep, and is exclusively sourced from adipose fat.
stress, promote quality sleep and
recovery physiology, reduce the
risk of metabolic syndrome, and
improve memory and learning during REM sleep. Sleep is a bariatric
event, in so far as recovery physiology utilises adipose fats drawn
from the circulation; exercise uses
a mix of adipose and muscle fat.
Eight hours of quality sleep and
recovery physiology may oxidise 5
times the body fat of a 90-minute
exercise session (Dr Michael Mosley
in a BBC study – 49 grams versus
9.5 grams).
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This important study seems to
have slipped below the radar of the
metabolic science community, but
underpins the perspectives of this
project.
Post bariatric surgery, the metabolic parameters correlated to
weight gain and diabetes (hyperglycaemia/hyperinsulinism), are
reversed in advance of weight loss.
In other words these parameters
are not caused by weight gain/diabetes; they are the driving forces
of these conditions.