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Doing This In the Morning May Be Making Your Diabetes Worse!

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Doing This In the Morning May Be Making Your Diabetes Worse!

Your habit of hitting the snooze button can be disruptive and leave you with poorer quality sleep.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The alarm always seems to go off way too early every morning. Bleary-eyed, you reach over and slam the snooze button.

Just ten more minutes … and you fall back to sleep, only to hear the alarm again far too soon. Unless you have a pressing engagement in the morning, you may be tempted to continue pushing that snooze button repeatedly. 

But, it’s not a problem right? Everyone hits the snooze button. Well, it might be making your diabetes worse!

Hitting the Snooze Versus Setting the Alarm Later

The quality of your sleep during those 10-minute intervals can be quite poor. After hitting the snooze button, you are probably going to fall back into the beginning of your sleep cycle, which results in the release of a number of hormones designed to encourage deep rest. After 10 minutes, getting disturbed from that rest can cause you to feel even more tired!

Regularly hitting the snooze may also disrupt your routine and draw out the waking process, resulting in a poorer quality of sleep.

Some researchers recommend pushing your alarm back to prevent this daily cycle and giving yourself that extra rest needed to wake up feeling more refreshed.

Poor Sleep and Blood Sugar

You may be wondering why hitting the snooze button repeatedly is bad for diabetics. If you are in the habit of snoozing for multiple intervals before waking up, it can leave you feeling tired, distracted, and with potentially higher blood sugar levels.

 

Research has shown that getting a poor quality of sleep or getting less sleep overall can result in persistently higher blood glucose levels and greater insulin resistance. It makes keeping your blood sugars within healthy levels much harder during the day. It could even have long-term effects on your body.

So, instead of snoozing, you might want to just set your alarm for ten to twenty minutes later in the morning.

References

Most scientists say you shouldn’t hit the snooze button — here’s how to snooze the right way. URL Link. Accessed October 29th, 2017.

Restless Sleep, Restless Blood Sugar. URL Link. Accessed October 29th, 2017.