And that’s what I did for years and years and years.”Jill is living with sleep-related eating disorder, also known as sleep eating — an arousal condition in which part of the brain wakes while the rest sleeps.
Sleep eating is a parasomnia, an abnormal or unusual behavior during sleep, similar to sleepwalking, sleep talking, sleep terrors, and sleep sex, or sexsomnia.
Ultraprocessed foods such as candy, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, chips and crackers are preferred choices during sleep eating, Schenck said.
“All those can be the ultimate causes of sleep-related eating disorder, and that’s why in medicine, we call that a final common pathway disorder.
“We studied a group of sleep-related eating patients in the lab, and they had periodic limb movements along with the sleep eating,” he said.
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Organizations:
CNN, Hennepin County Medical, University of Minnesota
Locations:
Minneapolis, Hennepin, Rome