T1D Sleep Stages Explained: Why You're Exhausted After 7 Hours of Sleep
SHOW NOTES:You slept seven hours. By any reasonable measure, that should be enough. You woke up feeling like you slept four. You weren't imagining it.This episode breaks down sleep stages -- light sle...
10 Jun 6min
Fear of Hypoglycemia: The T1D Sleep Problem That Doesn't Show Up in Your CGM Data
SHOW NOTES:Your CGM says 115. Flat arrow. No active insulin. You've checked it twice. The number is completely fine. And you're still awake at 2:48am.This is not you being dramatic. This has a name: F...
8 Jun 7min
Cortisol and Blood Sugar: The T1D Overnight Connection You're Probably Missing
SHOW NOTES:Cortisol isn't trying to ruin your blood sugar. It's trying to help. It has never once, in your entire life, acted with malice. It is a useful, important hormone that is -- in the modern wo...
5 Jun 7min
How Bedroom Temperature and Blue Light Affect Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:Neil wants to be upfront: this episode is going to sound like wellness content delivered by someone standing in a field in linen pants. He knows. He can't control how it sounds. What he can...
3 Jun 7min
Your Pre-Sleep Blood Sugar Check Is a Sleep Decision, Not Just a Safety Check
SHOW NOTES:You already do this. You check your blood sugar before bed, glance at your CGM, maybe set a temp basal. You've been doing it for as long as you've had T1D. Here's the reframe: you've been d...
1 Jun 6min
T1D Sleep Challenge: Four Weeks In, What We've Learned
SHOW NOTES:Four weeks ago, Neil asked you to do one thing: write down how many hours you slept. That was it. Just a number. And now here we are.This is the halftime checkpoint of the While You Were Sl...
29 Mai 6min
How to Adjust CGM Alarm Thresholds for Better Sleep with Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:When did you last actually look at your CGM alarm threshold settings? Not to silence an alarm. Not to check a number. To actually look at the thresholds -- the settings, the specific values...
27 Mai 6min
CGM Alarm Fatigue in Type 1 Diabetes: How Your Alerts Are Wrecking Your Sleep
SHOW NOTES:How many times did your CGM alarm last night? If you have to guess -- or if you're honestly not sure because your arm is doing the silence-and-go-back-to-sleep thing on autopilot -- that's ...
25 Mai 5min
