 In this video I want to answer this question. Why does a lack of sleep lead to overeating? It's actually built into us from an evolutionary standpoint. Humans are the only animal on the planet that will deprive themselves of sleep on purpose. Your brain doesn't understand how much you like Netflix or the games on your phone. If any other animal is sleep deprived, it is because of one of three reasons. Number one, they're caring for their young. Ben there done that. When you have young kids, you're not going to be sleeping well and we'll cover later in the course what you can do to survive if you can't get better sleep. Number two, they are starving and need to be awake because they need the extra time to hunt for food because food is short. And number three, they are stressed and trying not to get killed by a predator. So caring for their young, starving or stressed. So if you aren't sleeping, your brain thinks that you're searching for food or you're trying not to become food. This is why poor sleep causes hunger and a focus on food. This is also why poor sleep leads to a massive stress response and both of those lead to weight gain. Let me read you this quote here from Plutarch. It is a hard matter my fellow citizens to argue with the belly since it has no ears. So again, your brain is causing these responses that are going to lead to this increased food consumption, increased fat storage. So this theory makes complete sense, but let's look at the science that actually supports it in the next videos. I'll see you there. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.