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lack of sleep

Pura Vida

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Type of diabetes
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5. It can increase your risk for developing diabetes.
There’s a direct correlation between lack of sleep and diabetes, Dr. Awad says. It’s due to your body’s ability to regulate insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas that controls your blood sugar, he says. “Lack of sleep reduces the production of insulin from the pancreas and decreases gluten tolerance,” Dr. Awad says. “Cells are then less effective at using insulin, and that can lead to the development of diabetes.”

To be clear: Sleep deprivation isn’t cited by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) as a potential cause of diabetes, but insulin resistance—which can be caused by lack of sleep—is.
 
That's true but I developed insomnia through my early aggressive attempts to go low carb.
It was like seeing my body freak out through an overnight change.
 
As I lifelong poor sleeper - very light sleeper and with 15ish years of shift work in my life -I think it's important for medical professionals not to be too didactic about issues like this. There's nothing people can do about sleep difficulties, and it's just the way some of us are.

However, as stated by ronancastled, if there is a lack of sleep prompted by specific illness or action in a previously good sleeper,that's another matter.
 
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My own sleep issues started years ago when my 2nd child was around 4 months old. I woke to hear an anguished animal cry coming from his room. I rushed in to find him lifeless and already cold. The cry was his death cry.

I picked him up and ran to our room with him and dropped him on the bed. The drop caused his heart to start again. The only sign of life was a slight movement of his left hand. He was breathing but so very cold. I warmed him up in bed with us.

Next day I took him to the doctor. She totally dismissed what I was telling her! She said I shouldn't have picked him up and that he wouldn't have been cold if I had heard him cry a moment before lifting him. I asked for a monitor for him so I could go quickly to him if it happened again. She laughed at me.

So, for the next few nights I set my alarm to wake me every hour so I could check he was OK. After that I didn't need to set it, I woke anyway.

A few months later it happened again. No cry this time but when I checked on him he wasn't breathing. I revived him and all was well, except that my sleep pattern and my hormones were wrecked. It was over 20 years before my sleep pattern recovered.

A year or so after the incidents with my son, my dentist had exactly the same thing happen with her baby. Her doctor listened and gave her a monitor. Like my son, hers had just one more episode a few months after the first.

I don't regret messing up my sleep patterns for my boy but I do get upset when doctors just don't listen to their patients and then blame the patients for something that the doctors could have helped with.
 
@zand so sorry this happened to you, every parents worse nightmare, pleased it only happened once more & the outcome was good, sorry it’s taken 20 years to get back to sleeping properly, I was up at 05.30 with my 2 for years, still wake at 05.18 every day without an alarm & they’re 28 & 24
 
I does not matter when I go to bed, I still wake up the same time. On the rare occasion I sleep longer it makes me groggy.
 
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