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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 6min
The T1D Sleep-Blood Sugar Feedback Loop
SHOW NOTES:Bad sleep makes your blood sugar harder to manage. Worse blood sugar disrupts your sleep. Worse sleep makes your blood sugar worse. You've been running a feedback loop -- without knowing it...
18 Maj 6min
The Dawn Phenomenon in Type 1 Diabetes: Why Your Blood Sugar Rises While You Sleep
SHOW NOTES:You went to bed at a perfect 110. No active insulin. Flat arrow. You did everything right. You wake up at 182. Nothing happened -- no low, no alarm. You just slept. Except something did hap...
15 Maj 7min
Why Sleep Deprivation Hits Harder When You Have T1D
SHOW NOTES:Sleep deprivation reduces insulin sensitivity in everyone. That's not a T1D-specific finding. Here's what is.In people without diabetes, the system has a feedback loop. Insulin sensitivity ...
13 Maj 7min
One Night of Poor Sleep Reduces Insulin Sensitivity
SHOW NOTES:Here's the number: 21%.One study. People with type 1 diabetes. Sleep-deprived condition (4 hours) versus adequate sleep (8.5 hours). Same food, same insulin, same activities. The sleep-depr...
11 Maj 6min
