Don’t IGNORE These Nighttime Signs of Diabetes

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Check out these 15 symptoms of high blood sugar that might occur while you’re sleeping.

1. Frequent urinating

This is known as nocturia and occurs when your kidneys remove excess sugar from your blood.

2. Excessive thirst

As your kidneys eliminate sugar through your urine, you deplete magnesium, potassium, and calcium. You can also become dehydrated, so you may have excessive thirst.

3. Restless legs syndrome

Excess sugar depletes vitamin B1. Vitamin B1 deficiency causes lactic acid buildup and a lack of oxygen in the legs. This can also be related to magnesium deficiency.

4. Peripheral neuropathy

This condition causes burning, pain, or numbness on the bottom of the feet. Benfotiamine combined with alpha lipoic acid is a great remedy.

5. Cramps in lower legs and feet

Too much sugar in the blood can cause a magnesium deficiency and calcium buildup. Magnesium glycinate supplements can help, and can also improve sleep.

6. Excessive sweating

This usually occurs in the face, neck, or upper part of the body. High blood sugar causes sympathetic dominance, which causes a person to be in a constant state of fight or flight.

7. Sleep apnea

This usually occurs because a person has high levels of insulin.

8. Hypoglycemia

If you have high blood sugar, your body will try to lower it with insulin. This can cause you to wake up during the night with low blood sugar. Following a low-carb diet for at least 6 to 8 months can help correct this problem.

9. Delayed sleep

High levels of sugar delay the release of melatonin.

10. Gastric reflux

High blood sugar can affect the autonomic nervous system that controls the valve on the top of the stomach, causing GERD.

11. Nightmares/vivid dreams

This is typically related to a neurotransmitter problem caused by a deficiency in vitamin B1, which is depleted by high blood sugar.

12. High blood pressure

Nocturnal dipping occurs when your blood pressure and pulse rate decrease during sleep. When you have diabetes, this doesn’t happen. This is called non-dipping.

13. Heart palpitations

This is caused by a lack of potassium and magnesium and can be corrected with a good electrolyte powder.

14. Teeth grinding

The activation of the sympathetic nervous system puts a person into a state of stress while they’re sleeping, causing teeth grinding.

15. Headache upon waking

This usually occurs because of dehydration.

Transcript

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0:00.0	There are quite a few nighttime signs of diabetes that you should know about.
0:03.7	And it's very important to recognize what your body is trying to tell you because so many people ignore these signs
0:07.9	and they end up having more damage with your organs, especially the kidneys.
0:11.2	The first one is getting up frequently at night
0:13.9	urinating. This is called nocturia. You have too much sugar in your blood and the
0:19.4	kidneys filter the blood and the body is naturally trying to get rid of this excess sugar because it's toxic.
0:25.4	And the other thing to know is that wherever the sugar goes, water goes with it.
0:29.6	And so as it's getting rid of the sugar, it's also getting rid of your fluids making you dehydrated.
0:35.0	I remember in practice, one guy was getting up, and I'm not kidding, 10 times a night.
0:40.7	I mean, talk about a symptom that can destroy your life because he was so tired all day long and I told him this
0:46.9	symptom was completely unnecessary. We told him what to do, which I'm going to tell you what to do, and this advice
0:52.4	corrected the problem within three days and he was able to sleep
0:54.8	through the night from there on out. And so this leads us with the number two which is
0:59.5	excessive thirst. Now of course being a diabetic you're going to be dehydrated so you're going to constantly need water to hydrate yourself.
1:08.3	But the other things you realize that when you're a diabetic or you have high sugar,
1:12.0	you're also naturally going to retain sodium.
1:15.0	And so if your body is going to hold this salt, it's also going to need more water.
1:19.5	And so you have this feedback loop where you're drinking all this water, you're urinating excessively,
1:23.7	which then creates dehydration, cause you to drink more, and this keeps going around and
1:27.4	round and round. When you're getting rid of the water, you're also getting rid of
1:30.2	the potassium, magnesium, calcium, but for some reason you tend to retain more sodium.
1:35.6	Okay, the next symptom is restless leg syndrome.
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