Sufficient Sleep & 6 Cups of Green Tea - Proven Ways to Increase Your Energy Expenditure & Conserve Your Resting Metabolic Rate While Dieting | Part II of A Multipart Series
I suppose you will have known that sleep hygiene & green tea help, but did you know the exact numbers when it comes to their effects on your resting energy expenditure, as well? No? In this case, today's SuppVersity article is for you! In the first installment of this new SuppVersity series , you've learned about the pro-metabolic effects of eating less frequent large(er) meals and the ability of caffeine to boost resting energy expenditure and fatty acid oxidation. Today, we're going to take a look at the effects of sleep and green tea on the amount of energy your body consumes in a given 24h window. In 2011, Christian Benedict and colleagues conducted an interesting study. The German scientists examined the resting energy expenditure of 14 normal-weight male subjects on two occasions during a regular 24-h sleep-wake cycle (including 8 h of nocturnal sleep) and a 24-h period of continuous wakefulness in a balanced cross-over study. Not living in tune with you...
