Cortisol and Blood Sugar: The T1D Overnight Connection You're Probably Missing
SHOW NOTES:Cortisol isn't trying to ruin your blood sugar. It's trying to help. It has never once, in your entire life, acted with malice. It is a useful, important hormone that is -- in the modern wo...
5 Kesä 7min
How Bedroom Temperature and Blue Light Affect Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:Neil wants to be upfront: this episode is going to sound like wellness content delivered by someone standing in a field in linen pants. He knows. He can't control how it sounds. What he can...
3 Kesä 7min
Your Pre-Sleep Blood Sugar Check Is a Sleep Decision, Not Just a Safety Check
SHOW NOTES:You already do this. You check your blood sugar before bed, glance at your CGM, maybe set a temp basal. You've been doing it for as long as you've had T1D. Here's the reframe: you've been d...
1 Kesä 6min
T1D Sleep Challenge: Four Weeks In, What We've Learned
SHOW NOTES:Four weeks ago, Neil asked you to do one thing: write down how many hours you slept. That was it. Just a number. And now here we are.This is the halftime checkpoint of the While You Were Sl...
29 Touko 6min
How to Adjust CGM Alarm Thresholds for Better Sleep with Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:When did you last actually look at your CGM alarm threshold settings? Not to silence an alarm. Not to check a number. To actually look at the thresholds -- the settings, the specific values...
27 Touko 6min
CGM Alarm Fatigue in Type 1 Diabetes: How Your Alerts Are Wrecking Your Sleep
SHOW NOTES:How many times did your CGM alarm last night? If you have to guess -- or if you're honestly not sure because your arm is doing the silence-and-go-back-to-sleep thing on autopilot -- that's ...
25 Touko 5min
What Type 1 Diabetes Actually Does to Your Sleep Architecture | Episode 200
SHOW NOTES:200 episodes. Neil didn't plan on this. He definitely didn't plan on spending episode 200 explaining what your liver does at 3am without your permission. And yet here we are.This is the epi...
22 Touko 7min
Bedtime Consistency and T1D: Why Timing Beats Total Hours for Blood Sugar Control
SHOW NOTES:You've been told to get eight hours. Here's what the research actually found.A 2023 study of 76 adults with type 1 diabetes tracked both CGM and sleep data for one week. The finding: sleep ...
20 Touko 6min
