What Type 1 Diabetes Actually Does to Your Sleep Architecture | Episode 200
SHOW NOTES:200 episodes. Neil didn't plan on this. He definitely didn't plan on spending episode 200 explaining what your liver does at 3am without your permission. And yet here we are.This is the epi...
22 Touko 7min
Bedtime Consistency and T1D: Why Timing Beats Total Hours for Blood Sugar Control
SHOW NOTES:You've been told to get eight hours. Here's what the research actually found.A 2023 study of 76 adults with type 1 diabetes tracked both CGM and sleep data for one week. The finding: sleep ...
20 Touko 6min
The T1D Sleep-Blood Sugar Feedback Loop
SHOW NOTES:Bad sleep makes your blood sugar harder to manage. Worse blood sugar disrupts your sleep. Worse sleep makes your blood sugar worse. You've been running a feedback loop -- without knowing it...
18 Touko 6min
The Dawn Phenomenon in Type 1 Diabetes: Why Your Blood Sugar Rises While You Sleep
SHOW NOTES:You went to bed at a perfect 110. No active insulin. Flat arrow. You did everything right. You wake up at 182. Nothing happened -- no low, no alarm. You just slept. Except something did hap...
15 Touko 7min
Why Sleep Deprivation Hits Harder When You Have T1D
SHOW NOTES:Sleep deprivation reduces insulin sensitivity in everyone. That's not a T1D-specific finding. Here's what is.In people without diabetes, the system has a feedback loop. Insulin sensitivity ...
13 Touko 7min
One Night of Poor Sleep Reduces Insulin Sensitivity
SHOW NOTES:Here's the number: 21%.One study. People with type 1 diabetes. Sleep-deprived condition (4 hours) versus adequate sleep (8.5 hours). Same food, same insulin, same activities. The sleep-depr...
11 Touko 6min
What's Really Causing Your Unexplained Blood Sugars
SHOW NOTES:The pump site. The insulin. The food from six hours ago. The stress. The general vibe. Neil has blamed every single one of these for blood sugars that made no sense -- and for 34 years, he ...
8 Touko 6min
Sleep and Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:You went to bed at 112. Flat arrow. No active insulin. Textbook. You should be proud. You wake up at 218. So you run the checklist -- check the site, question the insulin, replay every meal...
6 Touko 6min
