Sleep Interrupted? Adrenal Dysfunction, Blood Sugar And Sleep Work Together

the most common thing that will interfere with sleep is adrenal

dysfunction so the job of the adrenals is to maintain blood sugar and the

adrenals maintained make a hormone called cortisol that maintains your

blood sugar through the night so at night it should be the lowest so that

your melatonin can kick in and put you to sleep then the cortisol rises

throughout the night to maintain your blood sugar because the longer it's been

since you eaten the more cortisol you need to maintain that blood sugar so

then the blood sugar should be that the cortisol should be the highest in the

morning both to maintain blood sugar but also to wake you up because then it

there's a spike of cortisol in the morning to turn off your melatonin but

then you get up and you have something to eat so now you get blood sugar from

the from the food so your cortisol can drop down and now your cortisol

wants to rest throughout the day because it's going to work the next night again

but the cortisone doesn't get to rest because we have such stressful lives and

we don't eat properly and we eat starchy food and we have sugar spikes and sugar

dips that causes reactive hypoglycemia and now your cortisol has to kick in

again and then you add all the emotional stress and the hustle and bustle that we

have in our daily lives so that means that the adrenals and the cortisol is

just going going going and then when they're sort of worn out now they can't

maintain your blood sugar through the night and now you get interrupted sleep

patterns so most sleep problems have to do with with adrenal stress