What if I told you one of the biggest things stopping you from losing your unsightly belly bulge is your inability to put yourself on a good sleep schedule? Now, let me change how I word that. If you sleep more, you will lose that stubborn belly fat.

How? Well, it may sound complicated at first, but with a little explaining, I’m going to show you why sleep should be the first thing you change when trying to blast belly fat.

Sleep Affects Two Key Body Systems

According to an article published in Medscape Neurology, sleep regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary axes. The pituitary is like the master switch for all of the endocrine glands. The pituitary is controlled by the hypothalamus and two key hormones are activated during sleep (growth hormone and releasing hormone). Continue reading →

To understand how stress affects your sleep and other functions in your life, one needs to understand what the word stress actually means in terms of its sources and applications and how that affects your body and your sleep.

Most people associate the word stress in a connotatively negative way, however, although the majority of stress isn’t positive, not all stressors or stress are “bad.”

For example, crying “tears of joy,” or even laughing uncontrollably are stressful events that are the result of happy times. According to Dr. Doni Wilson, a naturopathic doctor who has widely explored the topic of stress in relation to health in multiple online articles and in his e-books, “stress is the primary condition of life”, and he goes on to say that “whether we feel exhilarated, thrilled, or listless, or jumpy, and depressed, cortisol is likely at the root of our experience”. Continue reading →