Sleep disruptions can lead to type 2 diabetes

This is an eye opener for me. Now how to stop the disruptions if the sleeper forgets them?

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center report that disrupting sleep damages the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels, potentially raising the risk of developing type 2 diabetes More than 18 million Americans have diabetes and the most common form is type 2, in which the body either becomes resistant to insulin or doesn’t produce enough of it to regulate sugar in the bloodstream disrupting the deepest sleep periods of volunteers rapidly resulted in reduction in their ability to regulate blood-sugar levels Whenever the volunteers went into slow-wave sleep the researchers made noise — enough to disturb the sleep though not to fully awaken them After just three days the ability of the volunteers to regulate blood sugar was reduced by 25% reduced amounts of deep sleep are typical of ageing results suggest that strategies to improve sleep quality, as well as quantity, may help to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in populations at risk