We all hope to have a fit and healthy body. However, losing weight and getting into shape can be painful and challenging. The best weight-reducing methods are eating healthy food and getting regular exercise. You can do these things during the day, but how can you use the time when you are sleeping to your advantage?
Scientific research has suggested that your sleeping profile can affect your body’s weight. Here, we share the seven most effective ways to help boost fat-burning processes while sleeping. Let’s check them out!
1. Sleep in a Cool Environment
Your metabolism is constantly burning calories. However, your metabolic processes work more quickly in the daytime and slow down at night. During the day, your body is busy with physical and mental activities. Your internal body functions still run at night, but at a slower pace.
Research published in the journal Diabetes suggests that sleeping in low temperatures increases the body’s metabolic process at night. These improved processes speed up fat-burning capabilities.
The researchers conducted this study on adult males for four months. In the first month, the participants slept in a 75-degree Fahrenheit (23.8 C) environment. In the second month, the room was cooled to 66 degrees F (18.8 C). Then, the participants slept in a 75-degree Fahrenheit room again in the third month and spent the last month sleeping at 81 degrees Fahrenheit (27.3 C).
The results showed a 42 percent increase in brown fat after the study participants slept at 66 degrees Fahrenheit. Therefore, the researchers concluded that the body experiences an increased fat-burning process in colder environments. Additionally, the metabolic activity slowed to normal when the participants slept at relatively high temperatures during the last month.
Hence, this study shows that sleeping at a low temperature increases the production of brown fat. This brown fat produces energy that increases your body’s ability to metabolize glucose (sugar). Thus, this process helps your body burn fat at night.
In short, sleeping in a cool environment may help you lose weight.
