Dr. John A. King describes how fragmented sleep disrupted his gut bacteria and insulin regulation, making weight loss nearly impossible despite intense exercise. Swedish research shows short sleep shifts gut bacteria in ways that promote obesity. He tried a three-product supplement regimen and saw rapid weight loss.
Hey folks, John King here. Enjoying this, the 60 Day Trim Up. I'm finding it very informative and very beneficial. Just a little bit of background story before I give you a thought or something that I've found. My sleep used to be very normal. I had normal sleep, you know, I was a normal teenage kid. I slept all the time. As an adult man, I, you know, I had no problem getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep. I could run on 6, but really liked that 8 to 10. When, when in 2008, I had this life implosion and a whole range of recollection of horrendous trauma events, my sleep cycle changed dramatically. I went from very normal sleep cycles to, on average, about 90-minute blocks. I couldn't sleep more than 90 minutes or I'd end up having horrible flashbacks, lots of memories, horrible nightmares. So I trained myself to basically not get too deep into sleep. Been bodybuilding, you've heard some of that stuff for a lot of years, always had a challenge with losing weight. So here I am doing 5 days a week of hard heavy lifting. And even 5 afternoons of an hour to 90 minutes of cardio and still unable to lose weight. So here I am in this 60-day challenge. I'm 10 days in and I've dropped 7 or 8 pounds, which is phenomenal for me. I've got to travel this weekend. If I hadn't, I actually think I'd hit my goal of 10 pounds in 2 weeks, which is exceptional. So there's a guy out of Sweden, University of Sweden, and he's a sleep study, a sleep therapist, and he's done a range of study and he's the first person to connect gut health and sleep. And what he's noticed is, you know, with gut health, with the levels of bacteria, the wrong levels of the wrong bacteria within your gut can affect stroke, heart disease, Diabetes and weight loss. Bad gut health leads to obesity. So this is what this guy's put together. And this first guy that has, he's done a series of studies and he took 2 groups of people. And for the first cycle through, they all had good sleep. And then he measured gut bacteria. Second cycle through, bad sleep, only depriving them of 2 hours a night. And what happened is the bacteria changed. 50% of the gut bacteria changed. So what he's suggesting is that the nature of the bacteria itself was still there, but the ratio, up to 50% of the good bacteria had gone. So now there was so much more of the bad bacteria, say 75% of the bad bacteria present. And it's this imbalance that affects our ability to be able to metabolize things. So when we look at weight loss and health, good gut health is absolutely essential. And, and, and I don't know a lot. You know, I, I am a Plexus skeptic. So I, I don't know a lot about it, but I do know that the products that I was given, and I was given, I think, what they call a Triplex or something. So these 3 products, one is a cleanse, which is very effective. One is a probiotic. Now, I've spent a fortune on probiotics, and this one seems to be having a different effect. And then there's a slim thing, which is an insulin— helps regulate your insulin. Now, what's very interesting is in this gut health and this sleep study, Is that lack of sleep leads to a direct inability of the body to be able to regulate insulin. Poor insulin levels leads to, uh, not only potential diabetes and diabetes 2, but also an inability to lose weight and a propensity towards obesity. So part of what I'm starting to come to terms with is the combination of these 3 with cleaning, Within regulating good bacteria within the gut, helping to regulate insulin, is having a personal, a real personal effect. I wish it would actually help me sleep more, but it may. I'm not sure. I haven't noticed a big change there, but I'd be very interested to see this correlation because at some point the correlation's got to go backwards. Internal health. As you start to prosper on the inside, everything else starts to prosper. So I'm just wondering how that's going to go back that way. So very interesting. Anyway, thanks.
