Extra Sleeping Hours On Weekends Decrease Type 2 Diabetes Risk: Study

Weekdays simply mean rush days while weekends mean heaven. A study suggests that having extra hours of sleep during weekends can eventually restore your energy and even reduce the risk having type 2 diabetes. 

According to WebMD, the National Sleep Foundation states that almost 63 percent of American adults do not have enough sleeping time because they are waking up early to start their busy day to catch up with their appointments and schedules. Others even opted to extend their working hours late at night trying to finish everything before the deadline. Hence, they cannot have enough sleep during weekdays and just try to extend their sleeping hours during weekends.

Considering that this behavior is now practiced as a hobby, a recent study from the University of Chicago shows that people, who lack sleep for consecutive nights, have changes on their blood sugar levels. However, having some extra sleeping hours for two consecutive nights will not only catch up with the lack of sleep they are experiencing but also have their blood test back to normal signifying that it reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes as posted on Tech Times.

Moreover, the senior author of the study,  Dr. Ezra Tasali revealed that the metabolic response of the body in line with the extra sleeping hours were very interesting and hopeful. The research was conducted among 19 volunteers who were allowed to sleep for eight and a half hours for four consecutive nights and only four and a half hours for the next four subsequent nights. Then, they were allowed to extend their sleep for the next two nights to have an average of 9.7 hours of sleep. The insulin blood level sensitivity returned to normal after the experiment according to Science Daily.

On the other hand, since the study was only conducted in a short period of time, researchers are looking forward to taking into consideration the effects of extended sleep among people who repeatedly curtail the weekdays sleep.