The late night snack is a genetic disease

A study of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, United States, conducted on some mice, has led experts to verify that a mutation of the genes that regulate sleep and power supply would cause the syndrome night

The late night snack is a genetic disease

Getting up in the middle of the night and point fridge and pantry is not just a fact of my throat, but it may depend on genes, the so-called syndrome nutrition night , which drives many people to eat at night , it is real and seems to have also genetic origins. According to a study from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, United States , the syndrome would be caused by the malfunction of genes deputies to the synchronization of dietary patterns with sleep. This , according to experts , would alter meal times .

The research, published in the journal Cell Reports, has been conducted on some mice . It is estimated to suffer from the syndrome power at night is about 1-2 % of the population . Symptoms include difficulty sleeping at night and need to eat before bed.

The consequences can lead to suffer from obesity and all the problems associated with it . The syndrome has been recently classified as an eating disorder , but the cause has so far remained unknown. The researchers thus inoculated and then " muted " in mice a human gene associated with the regulation of food and sleep , and found that the mice ate more when they were supposed to sleep.

Another genetic mutation has instead led the mice to sleep more. For this reason, researchers believe that genes work together to regulate sleep and feeding . An error in both genes cause sleeping problems and feeding .