About This Episode
Sleep apnea can cause diabetes and diabetes can cause sleep apnea. Both sleep apnea and diabetes impact blood sugar control. This makes reversing type 2 diabetes and achieving healthy blood sugar levels much more challenging. Discover why sleep apnea can cause type 2 diabetes, and why type 2 diabetes can cause sleep apnea.
The unrelenting fatigue, brain fog, inflammation, and issues with high blood pressure are common with both type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea.
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They feed each other in a vicious cycle that most doctors don’t fully explain, and in fact, they don’t mention it at all.
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Lean people with sleep apnea develop type 2 diabetes at alarming rates, and they may stay lean, their weight may not budge, and yet they can wind up with both conditions.
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It can be as dangerous as drinking while driving. It’s that big of a deal to have sleep impairment, just like it is to be impaired with alcohol.
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When cortisol is chronically elevated night after night, it creates insulin resistance. Your insulin just isn’t as effective at bringing your blood sugar out of the bloodstream. You know, taking your glucose inside your cell to make it available for energy, and instead you go into storage mode. And usually it’s going to park more and more of that excess blood sugar, that excess glucose in the liver, okay? This can start to build up your body stores of body fat. Even though maybe you appear to be lean, you might still have a struggle with visceral fat. Fat in the abdomen, fat that’s stored in the liver, fat that is behind that abdominal wall. Your cells stop responding properly to Insulin signal. The insulin is there, but it cannot do its job of moving glucose inside your cells.
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