While many reasons could exist for this problem, I first rule out food issues: If they eat a higher - carbohydrate dinner, they likely
experience blood sugar crashes that can disrupt sleep.
I was
experiencing blood sugar crashes and working on cutting out foods that created this.
Not exact matches
The fat, eyeless cavefish harbor the same genetic mutation as people with an inherited form of severe diabetes and
experience diabetes - like
blood -
sugar surges and
crashes after eating, yet they are perfectly healthy, according to a study in Nature led by geneticists at Harvard Medical School.
When I first began
experiencing the symptoms of adrenal fatigue (e.g. weight gain, exhaustion, anxiousness, irritability, unable to sleep through the night,
blood sugar crashes, etc), my automatic response was to look at my diet.
By keeping your
blood sugar in check, you'll
experience less
crashes and have an abundance of continuous energy as a result.
I have not
experienced crashes in energy throughout the course of the day, likely because I am not consuming starchy or high - GI foods during the under - eating phase, so my
blood sugar and insulin levels stay very steady.
Oftentimes, people with poor
blood sugar stability will
experience pronounced spikes and
crashes in their
blood sugar which leads to many health problems including weight gain, low energy, and emotional instability.
Unfortunately, once you hit the energy peak, your
blood sugar quickly drops and you may
experience a
sugar crash, or sudden fatigue.
When we consume a soda or many fruit juices (especially from concentrate) we
experience a spike in
blood sugar levels, followed by a
crash to lower levels than where they started (thus prompting the body to release fat in an attempt to stabilize).
My own
experiences back this up; compared to consuming a globule of raw honey, I always find that the classic energy
crash resulting from an earlier
blood sugar spike was much larger with a sugary chocolate bar.
This means that you won't be
experiencing blood sugar highs and lows, energy
crashes, «hanger,» or even crazy
sugar cravings.
If you have ever
experienced hangriness, unexplained
sugar cravings, hunger soon after eating, mid-afternoon energy
crashes, or woken up in the middle of the night hungry or unable to fall back asleep, it is time to focus on balancing
blood sugar at each meal.
They observed that the subjects who ate the processed foods were hungrier and
experienced surges and
crashes in
blood sugar in contrast to the low - glycemic eaters.
But one day, my
blood sugar crashed a couple hours after and I
experienced shakiness and hunger which was very confusing.