I’ve been losing sleep for quite a while now. Just wondering if anybody knew if constant sleep deprivation can lead to diabetes.
Can Sleep Deprivation Cause Diabetes?
May 17th, 2010 § Tags: Cause, deprivation, Diabetes, Sleep Posted in Diabetes § § 5 comments
The most common factors believed to contribute to diabetes have always been too much food and too little exercise. However, sleep deprivation seems to also play a role in abnormal glucose metabolism.
According to sleep experts, most adults need seven to eight hours of sleep each night to feel alert and well-rested.
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Adolescents and teenagers need about nine hours each night, younger kids require 10-11 hours a night and children in pre-school 11-13 hours. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine offers the following tips on how to get a good night’s sleep:
Follow a consistent bedtime routine.
Establish a relaxing setting at bedtime.
Get a full night’s sleep every night.
Avoid foods or drinks that contain caffeine, as well as any medicine that has a stimulant, prior to bedtime.
Do not go to bed hungry, but don’t eat a big meal before bedtime either.
Avoid any rigorous exercise within six hours of your bedtime.
Make your bedroom quiet, dark and a little bit cool.
Get up at the same time every morning.
A new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Society suggests that healthy young people who regularly got less than 6.5 hours of sleep a night had greater insulin resistance than people who got 7.5 to 8.5 hours of rest. Insulin resistance is the condition that often leads to Type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is typically a disease of adulthood. Other causes are aging, obesity, poor diet, stress – in fact, any of the conditions that lead to a weakening of the body’s immune system.
Sleep deprivation in the industrialized world is rapidly rising to epidemic proportions. With the pressures of work, family life and recreational pursuits, there is little time left for sleep. And this is dangerous. Sleep is as important to a person’s health as food or water – almost as important as breathing.
And people are seriously short changing themselves, leaving their bodies open to attack from dozens of life threatening and disabling diseases and disorders.
Now diabetes has been added to that long list. In fact, many of the patients who suffer from sleep deprivation because of a sleep disorder are also afflicted with diabetes. The connection is self evident.
Twenty to thirty years ago, Americans slept, on the average, seven and a half to eight hours a night. Today? Many people sleep as little as six hours a night, and some sleep even less. This isn’t because of any sleep disorder, but because of the pressures of daily living. The bad news is that the pressure of daily living is gradually leading to life threatening diseases, disabling disorders and even death.(diabetes is one of them)
You’ve probably heard the expression: “Wake up and smell the coffee.” We are already spending far too many hours awake, and probably drinking gallons of coffee to do it. Maybe it’s time to shut down the coffee machine, turn out the lights and get a good night’s sleep.
Sleep deprivation can not cause diabetes however it can elevate your blood glucose levels. This probably occurs because you are more than likely eating poorly.
No. Type 1 is unknown as to what causes it, and there are many factors that can cause type two, but there has been no contection between sleep deprivation causing diabetes.
But I wouldn’t recommend not getting any sleep anyway. It must be making you feel quite sick.
No, this does not cause diabetes.
There is some correlation, but not causation yet.
On a personal note, I find that my blood sugars stay much better if I get even 6 hours of sleep. Less than that and I wake up with relatively higher blood sugars, which kind of hang around all day.