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The Relationship Between Sleep and Blood Sugar
If you get a poor night's sleep tonight, your next day levels of cortisol are higher. Cortisol not only drives up blood glucose, but over time it increases inflammation and insulin resistance. If we drive up inflammation, things like lipopolysaccharides, things like IL-6, we've also seen in research that stress by itself can create so much damage on the gut that it can lead to ulcers.