
Bedroom Secret Delivers BETTER Blood Sugar
Most health professionals will insist that, in order to control your blood sugar, you MUST massively revamp your diet.
But what they should really be taking a closer look at is your SLEEP.
For years, research has linked poor sleep quality to a rising risk of type 2 diabetes. Yet mainstream medicine continues to overlook the connection.
But what does sleep have to do with your blood sugar?
Well, the truth is, it’s been a bit of a mystery until now…
Many crucial functions occur in your body while you’re asleep. And many of those affect your health during your WAKING hours.
For example, when you’re in deep sleep, non-rapid eye movement sleep spindles (a pattern of brain waves) combine with slow brain waves to trigger your brain to carry out learning and memory tasks.
In fact, it’s during this time that memories are essentially downloaded to your brain’s hard drive.
Now, a new study has uncovered evidence that this SAME “coupled set” of brain waves impacts how well your body controls blood sugar.
When researchers studied the sleep data of 600 volunteers, they found that when these two deep-sleep brain waves paired up more often, the effect on blood-sugar control was far more significant the next day than…
- how long a person slept, or
- how “well” they slept.
You see, the stronger the waves were, and the more frequently they lined up, the more the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) took over. (The PNS is what’s responsible for your body’s relaxation response.)
Switching to this calmer branch of the nervous system led to increased insulin sensitivity the following day. (Insulin is the hormone that shuttles sugar out of your bloodstream and into your cells.)
In other words, deep sleep essentially REBOOTS your body’s response to insulin.
The result is better blood-sugar control.
The researchers got the SAME results when they repeated the study in a larger group of people.
I know from firsthand experience that when you talk to folks about diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes, their eyes tend to glaze over.
But a prescription for better sleep? Yes, please!
So here is a crash course. For better, deeper sleep…
- turn the TV off early (better yet, skip it altogether!)
- avoid blue light at night (fluorescents, LED TVs, monitors, smartphones, and tablets),
- and sleep in a completely dark, cool room.
Not only will deeper sleep help your body handle blood sugar better, but it will make you feel better, too.
That’s MY kind of medicine.
P.S. Many of us could STILL use a little extra help in the blood sugar department. And it turns out NATURE is ready to lend a hand. CLICK HERE to discover nature’s TOP 5 options for better blood sugar control.
Source:
“Coordinated human sleeping brainwaves map peripheral body glucose homeostasis.” Cell Reports Medicine. doi. Org /10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101100

Written By Dr. Richard Gerhauser, M.D.
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