Amazing

I have a friend who is a physiology researcher in Italy. They have found that obese people have a significant decrease in growth Hormone, and when it is replaced to levels of a normal 25 year old, there is a significant decrease in body fat, and an increase in lean muscle. There is also an increase in stamina, decrease in lipids, a 72% decrease in adult diabetes, with a 60% decrease in heart attacks, and strokes. It will be published in about 18 months, but each one of the researchers have add it into their patients medication protocols that have a decrease in growth hormone. I asked my doctor here about it, and he said the FDA has restricted it to the point that doctor's will not prescribe it unless you are a child diagnosis with growth hormone deficientcy. Of course he also said that the majority of growth hormone is made when you sleep.

I've only been really sleep deprived twice in my life, the first time after an all-nite prom party going to a track meet the next morning and the second time at Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School. I wanted to go to sleep so bad that I ended up DORing, like in the movie the Ofcr and a Gentlmn. DOR stand for Drop on request = you become a civilian again. I may have made it through if I didn't have watch duty from 3:30 to 5:30 a.m. after staying up to wire my locker up. All I wanted to do the next day was go to sleep. I can't go to sleep. If I DOR, I can go to sleep. Yeah that's the answer. I wish I hadn't, but it's too late now. My life would be totally different if I had stayed with it. I never would have met my wife and known my son. All in all, I guess things worked out OK.

Boy, I could have told scientists this 10 years ago. The birth of both my children, each by unplanned c-sections, and having no help after the first one (but hired help after the second one) was all I needed to know that lack of sleep causes weight gain, and a host of other problems. I can't believe they're just figuring this out. What took them so long?

Ask a mom who did her job about this one!

Great stuff...thanks!

There have been so many studies tacking this issue from one angle or another...it still amazes me that people set the alarm to cut into their sleep time to exercise. It takes a long time for a new message to really sink in, I guess.

Do what you can to optimize sleep...the results pay off in so many ways!

Sean Folkson