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 from the day before. And you come up empty.

Here's what this episode proposes: you were solving the right puzzle with the wrong set of clues.

Neil connects sleep directly to blood sugar management in T1D -- not in a vague "stress affects glucose" way, but in a specific, directional way. The relationship between sleep and blood sugar runs both directions, and the second half of that equation is what T1D content has been leaving off the list. This is the episode where the puzzle starts to get a new piece.

We're wrapping up Week 1 of the While You Were Sleeping Challenge. If you've been tracking your sleep and morning numbers, keep building. This is the episode that starts making sense of the data.

In this episode:

The two-way relationship between sleep and blood sugar in type 1 diabetes
Why morning blood sugars sometimes have nothing to do with what you ate the night before
What happens to insulin response when sleep is disrupted
Why doing all the right things still produces confusing results sometimes
What to add to your data tracking before next week's big number

This Week's Challenge: Track sleep hours, morning blood sugar, AND how easy or hard it felt to manage your blood sugar the next day. Did your corrections land where you expected?

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