Is Stress Secretly Raising Your Blood Sugar Levels?

About This Episode

Did you know stress can secretly raise your blood sugar—even if you’re not eating sugar or carbs? In this video, Dr. Beverly Yates ND uncovers how stress impacts glucose levels and shares practical strategies you can use right away.

When working to reverse type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, it’s important to understand the root cause issues that affect blood sugar levels and glycemic control. The Yates Protocol has 5 Simple Steps to Fix Your Blood Sugar and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes. Stress is one of the five steps that are critical for healthy blood sugar levels, healthy A1C numbers, healthy blood pressure numbers and normal hunger, appetite, and satisfaction responses.

Here’s what you’ll learn

• How cortisol, the stress hormone, triggers blood sugar spikes (even with a healthy diet)

• Why chronic stress can lead to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes or prediabetes over time

• Surprising symptoms of stress-driven blood sugar problems (like mood swings, cravings, and sleep issues, including sleep apnea)

• Hidden sources of daily stress you might be overlooking, from irregular sleep to work overload

• Simple, actionable techniques to lower both stress and blood sugar for better health

Interesting Fact from the Episode

Did you know that you can experience a delayed blood sugar spike from stress—even hours after the stressful event is over? That “random” high reading might actually be your body catching up from yesterday’s chaos!

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:04:51 – 00:05:04

“We’re not designed really to be constantly under stress. We’re designed to have stressful moment recovery, have a stressful moment recover, have a stressful moment recover. And for many of us, that’s not how our day to day lives are lived.”

• 00:09:53 – 00:10:01

How Stress Mirrors Poor Sleep in Hormonal Chaos: “It’s really unfair that stress, just like poor sleep, in fact can trigger all of these hormonal disruptions and metabolic havoc.”

• 00:25:01 – 00:25:21

“Is this really what you want to take into your sleep world when your blood sugar is setting, resetting, Rather, your blood pressure is resetting, your soul is resetting your mind, your memories are being restored and, you know, firmed up. Think about what you want to invite there and will this help you with stress or will it harm you? Be very intentional about it.”