Your Best T1D Year

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 drops, blood sugar ticks up slightly, the pancreas compensates automatically, and the whole thing resolves before they're even awake. They make coffee, go about their day, and have no idea any of it happened. For T1D people, that feedback loop doesn't exist. The penalty just lands.
This episode explains why the same sleep deprivation hits harder when you don't have a functioning pancreas to compensate -- and why T1D people have been quietly doing the backup system's job manually every single morning, often without realizing that's what they were doing.
We're in Week 2 of the While You Were Sleeping Challenge.
In this episode:
  • How a healthy pancreas automatically compensates for sleep-related insulin sensitivity changes
  • Why the T1D body absorbs the full 21% impact without automatic correction
  • What "doing the backup system's job manually" actually looks like before the first cup of coffee
  • The emotional reality of running on interrupted sleep while managing blood sugar
  • What to add to your data tracking this week
This Week's Challenge: On mornings after rough nights, notice if you had to work harder -- more corrections, more frustration, numbers that were less predictable. That's the 21% showing up in real life.
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Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

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