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To: bert

“high blood sugar has an effect on my sleep. About 3:00 something changes and I wake up but it is not salt”

I’ve read that the 3:00am wakeup is when your stored glycogen has been depleted.

https://www.google.com/search?q=liver+glucogen+store&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=glycogen+depleted+sleep

The liver stores glycogen when you eat and then turns it back into glucose to keep your blood sugar stable between meals. A good protein snack right before bedtime would boost glycogen. A carb snack is probably not a good idea as that could spike blood sugar followed by a crash.


59 posted on 04/30/2016 8:20:56 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

-—A carb snack is probably not a good idea as that could spike blood sugar followed by a crash.-—

Thanks

That might really be be the problem. I must eat a snack with my bed time meds


65 posted on 04/30/2016 8:54:26 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....)
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