Studies have found that cutting back on sleep results in poor glucose control in those who have type 2 diabetes.
What I have noticed from living with a person with type 2 diabetes is that the sleep pattern is very disrupted, it is rare for that person to experience unbroken sleep, the longest period of uninterrupted sleep is around 5 hours, and that’s rare.
There are other studies that have found that poor quality sleep appears to be associated with obesity . Since both of these problems, diabetes and obesity, are on the increase in the Western World, do we blame these conditions on poor sleep quality?
I really don’t think that poor sleep quality causes type 2 diabetes or obesity, both conditions result from overindulgence in food, mostly of poor quality.However, maybe overindulgence in food combined with a stressful lifestyle gives the final push towards both conditions.
So far the study was only done using patients who already had type 2 diabetes, and it was found that poor quality sleep resulted in poor glucose control. A study involving “healthy” insomniacs may prove to be informative if their blood sugar control was measured.
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