When rats don't get enough sleep over a long time, their bodies show signs of inflammation and trouble managing blood sugar, but giving them a traditional herbal remedy called Jiao-tai-wan seems to help reduce these problems.

A traditional Chinese medicine called Jiao-tai-wan might help rats that don't get enough sleep process sugar better, by lowering certain blood markers and activating helpful pathways in their body.

A traditional herbal remedy called Jiao-tai-wan may help calm down inflammation in sleep-deprived rats by lowering certain body chemicals and turning down a key inflammation switch in their brain, liver, and fat tissue.

When you only get 4 hours of sleep, your body’s immune cells get activated in a way that causes inflammation, and this happens even if your stress hormone levels don’t change.

Not getting enough sleep is linked to how your body processes sugar and fat, which can raise your chances of gaining weight, developing type 2 diabetes, or getting metabolic syndrome. Basically, poor sleep messes with your body's hormone balance and heart health.

Giving a traditional herbal remedy called Jiao-tai-wan to sleep-deprived rats helps them gain less weight, eat less, and become more sensitive to insulin, while also calming down body-wide inflammation — and this might be because it boosts certain body clock genes in key organs.