Don’t IGNORE These Nighttime Signs of Diabetes

There are quite a few nighttime signs of diabetes that you should know about, and it's very important to recognize what your body's trying to tell you. Because so many people ignore these signs, they end up having more damage with their organs, especially the kidneys. The first one is getting up frequently at night to urinate.

This is called nocturia. When you have too much sugar in your blood, the kidneys filter the blood, and the body naturally tries to get rid of this excess sugar because it's toxic. Another thing to know is that wherever the sugar goes, water goes with it.

So as the body gets rid of the sugar, it's also getting rid of your fluids, making you dehydrated. I remember in practice, one guy was getting up, and I'm not kidding, 10 times a night. I mean, talk about a symptom that can destroy your life because he was so tired all day long.

I told him this symptom was completely unnecessary. We told him what to do, which I'm going to tell you what to do, and this device corrected the problem within 3 days. He was able to sleep through the night from there on out.

This leads us to number two, which is excessive thirst. Of course, being a diabetic, you're going to be dehydrated, so you'll constantly need water to hydrate yourself. But the other thing to realize is that when you're a diabetic or have high sugar, you'll also naturally retain sodium.

If your body is going to hold this salt, it'll also need more water. There's a feedback loop where you're drinking all this water, urinating excessively, causing dehydration, leading you to drink more. This cycle continues.

When you're getting rid of water, you're also getting rid of potassium, magnesium, and calcium, but for some reason, you tend to retain more sodium. The next symptom is restless leg syndrome. I had this, and I was consuming a pint of Ben and Jerry's every single night for over a year.

Little did I know all that sugar was depleting a key vitamin called B1. When you're deficient in B1, you start building up a lot of what's called lactic acid in your muscles. This lactic acid makes your muscles fatigued.

You don't want lactic acid build-up in your muscles when you're sleeping because your legs won't get enough oxygen, and they'll feel very restless and energetic. Another connection with this restless leg is a magnesium deficiency, which you nearly always see in people with high blood sugars. Without magnesium, the muscles cannot relax.

It's a B1 and magnesium deficiency because the person is usually consuming too many refined carbs or sugars. The next symptom is peripheral neuropathy, which affects the lower feet. This could be burning, pain, numbness, or any weird sensation at the bottom of your feet.

The remedy for peripheral neuropathy is a type of B vitamin called biotin with alpha-lipoic acid. Now, cramps in your lower legs or feet can also be a symptom of too much sugar in the blood causing a magnesium deficiency and calcium build-up. The type of magnesium I would recommend is magnesium glycinate.

Excessive sweating at night, usually in the face, neck, or upper part of the body, can be a sign of sympathetic dominance due to blood sugar issues. This can occur with low or high blood sugar levels. Lastly, sleep apnea is a classic diabetic symptom where there's a lack of oxygen due to airway obstruction, typically in the throat or sinuses.

A lot of insulin that is pumping through their body. Doctors never measure it, but it's related to something called insulin resistance, where the body is trying to protect you from too much toxic glucose or sugar. And because insulin controls this whole thing, it creates this resistance to insulin.

So the door is blocked. But of course, the problem with this is you're going to gain a lot of weight because you have this compensating excess amount of insulin, which is a fat-storing hormone. Now, the next symptom has to do with just hypoglycemia, low blood sugar.

Because the body is going to want to get that sugar out of your bloodstream, and it does it with insulin. Like I said in the previous symptom, your insulin's going to be high, and the high insulin is going to try to push the blood sugars down. So you're going to wake up in the middle of the night, sometimes with low blood sugar.

And one of the big problems with that is an activation of adrenaline. So you just wake up in the middle of the night with this stress hormone activation. And you might also have an elevation of this other hormone called cortisol, usually between 2:00 and 3:00 in the middle of the night.

In fact, right in the early morning when the alarm clock is going to go off, that's when you can sleep the best. And this release of sugar is also accompanied by the production of sugar by your liver in the early morning. You just need to get on a low carb diet for a period of time, probably longer than you think, to correct it.

Because sometimes it takes six to eight months. But many times it's not coming from the diet. It's coming from your liver just making too much sugar because you ate the wrong foods for many years.

The next symptom is delayed sleep because high levels of sugar delay the release of melatonin. You'll be lying down at night and waiting to go to sleep, but you just can't go to sleep easily. The next symptom relates to gastric reflux or GERD, where you have to kind of sleep on this wedge or prop your pillows up because the acid is regurgitating from a valve in your esophagus.

The reason for that is because the blood sugar issue is affecting the autonomic nervous system, which controls the valves of the body, including the valve on the top of the stomach. So, we're getting this lack of control. I think a really good solution for that would be the low carb ketogenic diet as a necessity, but also consuming two meals - the first meal in the morning, the second meal at lunch.

Now, the reason that's going to help you is because you're getting maybe the same calories but they're in the first part of the day, not the last part of the day. Because your system is so slow, if you eat too late, things just kind of back up. The next symptom is either nightmares or very vivid dreams.

Those are usually related to a neurotransmitter problem because you're very deficient in B1. One of the big things that deplete you of B1 is consuming too many carbs or even being a diabetic. So when my children would have nightmares, they'd always want me to give them some B1, which will handle that very quickly.

The next thing you might experience is a bit of high blood pressure in the middle of the night. This is called non-dipping. Typically, a person when they go to sleep should have things slow down - pulse, blood pressure.

That's called nocturnal dipping. But with diabetes, you have what's called non-dipping. It doesn't do that.

The blood pressure is just going to start going up. You might not even feel your blood pressure, but you're just going to feel awake. The next symptom that occurs while you're sleeping with a blood sugar issue is heart palpitations.

This is primarily because of the lack of electrolytes - potassium deficiency and magnesium deficiency. They would benefit greatly from a good electrolyte powder with a lot of magnesium and potassium. The next symptom is teeth grinding.

The activation of the fight or flight mechanism or the sympathetic nervous system puts a person into a state of stress while they're sleeping as their jaw muscles are activated and they're grinding their teeth. The last symptom is a headache when you wake up in the morning. This usually occurs because you are very dehydrated and the brain needs enough fluid to prevent it from having pain and pressure.

Realize that it's not just about drinking more water to hydrate you. You need these electrolytes with it. Now that you know the clues, the question is what to do to really correct this once and for all.

If you have not seen this video on what to eat to handle that, check it out - I put it right here.