Your Liver Can Raise Your Sugar While You Sleep. Many people with diabetes assume that a high fasting sugar reading is the result of what they ate the night before. Not always.
In fact, your liver may be contributing more to your morning sugar than your dinner. Here's why?
A Healthy liver stores glucose and releases small amounts when the body needs energy. But when the liver becomes fatty and insulin resistant, things change. Now add three hormones into the mix → Glucagon, Cortisol, & Adrenaline.
While you're sleeping, these hormones signal the liver to release sugar into the bloodstream. In an insulin-resistant liver, that signal can become exaggerated. The result → You wake up with a fasting sugar that is much higher than expected even when dinner was controlled.
This is why high fasting sugar is often not just a food problem. It's a liver health problem, an insulin resistance problem, a stress hormone problem, And sometimes, a muscle mass problem.
What can help?
- Finish dinner by 7 PM
- Aim to sleep by 10 PM
- Do some stair climbing or light activity after dinner
- Manage stress levels
- Build and maintain muscle through strength training
Because muscles are one of the body's biggest glucose consumers. If your fasting sugar stays high despite controlling your diet, it may be time to look beyond food and address the real drivers behind it.
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