{"id":35216,"date":"2014-01-29T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35216"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:42:46","slug":"sleep-no-more-diabetes-and-sleep-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35216","title":{"rendered":"Sleep No More: Diabetes and Sleep Deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without adequate sleep, I read in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/2014\/01\/13\/sleep-more-important-than-you-might-think\/1R6iiCYWbCSKY1K2wmwOVP\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Boston Globe<\/em> article<\/a>, \u201cyou get sick, fat, and stupid.\u201d You\u2019re at greater risk for problems including cancer, heart disease, weight gain, neuro-degenerative disease, and, yes, (type 2) diabetes. What\u2019s more, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/12\/opinion\/sunday\/goodnight-sleep-clean.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em> article<\/a>\u00a0published the same week, the problem isn\u2019t just that so many Americans are sleep deprived\u2014it\u2019s that our sleep is interrupted. The <em>Times<\/em> article examined newly published research showing that the brain has a \u201ccleaning\u201d system that only works well when we get uninterrupted sleep. \u201cAs your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It\u2019s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result of your daily thinking.\u201d Without that daily cleaning, \u201cThere is a buildup of the types of proteins that the glymphatic system normally clears out during regular sleep, like beta-amyloids and tau, both associated with Alzheimer\u2019s and other types of dementia.\u201d And, the article continues, if someone\u2019s sleep is interrupted repeatedly over time, the \u201ctrash\u201d builds up, and the brain\u2019s cleaning system can never catch up. \u201cIt\u2019s like the difference between a snowstorm\u2019s disrupting a single day of trash pickup and a prolonged strike. No longer quite as easy to fix, and even when the strike is over, there\u2019s likely to be some stray debris floating around for quite some time yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Diabetes-and-Sleep-Deprivation.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35217 lazyload\" title=\"Diabetes and Sleep Deprivation\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Diabetes-and-Sleep-Deprivation-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Diabetes and Sleep Deprivation\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>My guess is that anyone who has type 1 diabetes, or who has a child with type 1 diabetes, can only look at such research with a rueful shake of the head. Yes, I know Mark and I need to get more sleep. I know all about the dangers of sleep deprivation. We used to get more sleep, during those few golden years when our whole family was sleeping through the night. But now, there\u2019s that little issue that whenever Bisi\u2019s blood sugar is unpredictable\u2014I\u2019d say these days that\u2019s about 2 or 3 nights a week\u2014one of us needs to set the alarm and wake up at around 2; and probably again at 5. Also, if she eats dinner late, or has a late snack, we need to stay up for three hours after that to test her, once the insulin in her system has run its course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On vacations the ratio of wakeful nights is much worse, since she\u2019s usually not eating the low-carb foods we tend to eat at home. So we inevitably come home from a week away feeling like we\u2019ve been run over by the sleep-deprivation express.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you or your child has diabetes, waking up to check for lows or correct highs is an essential, constant, and especially wearying part of managing this disease. I\u2019ve talked with several parents who wake up to check their children every single night. Someday, the one setting the alarm will be Bisi, not us. She\u2019ll be the one to have to drag herself up out of sleep to check on her blood sugar. But I\u2019d like this to be Mark\u2019s and my task for as long as possible (on most nights, Bisi doesn\u2019t seem to rouse at all when we check her; though having your finger pricked has to have some effect on quality of sleep). Her body is dealing with enough already\u2014the daily assaults of fluctuating blood-sugars, and the continuing auto-immune attack of the disease. I\u2019d like to keep sleep deprivation out of the mix. Someday, when Bisi\u2019s off at college, or once an artificial pancreas has come online, Mark and I will (I hope) go back to a healthier way of sleeping. \u00a0At that point, I think we\u2019ll have to pay our \u201cmental janitors\u201d some overtime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sleep No More: Diabetes and Sleep Deprivation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"anyone who has type 1 diabetes or who has a child with type 1 diabetes suffers from sleep deprivation. 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