Manage your diabetes with more sleep
Sleep is critical for many aspects of bodily function. In fact, suffering from sleep deprivation puts you at risk of developing diabetes. John Merendino, MD, explains how your quality of sleep can impact your overall quality of life.
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The more sleep deprived we are, the more likely we are to develop diabetes.
It turns out that sleep is critical for many aspects of bodily function, especially the deep stages of sleep, or REM sleep.
It's during REM sleep that we encode memories. It's critical for learning. But it also seems to be the case that DNA repair occurs
during the REM stages of sleep, allowing us to grow older in a healthy way.
When we're sleep deprived, we have increased carbohydrate craving. We tend to gain weight, not only because we're eating more
and we're awake more hours to eat, but also, strangely enough, it turns out that we burn more calories when we're sleeping than we do when we're just lounging around
and resting. My latest recommendation is to make sure that you're more
socially engaged. There's a lot of data that shows that social isolation and loneliness are a major cause of diabetes.
And there's data to show that people who become more socially engaged do a better job of managing their diabetes.
Getting involved with the people in your life is probably the single most important thing that you can do to improve your happiness by making sure
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