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 and they end up having more damage with your organs especially the kidneys the first one is getting up frequently at night urinating this is called noctua you have too much sugar in your blood and the kidneys filter the blood and the body is naturally trying to get rid of this excess sugar because it's toxic and the other thing to know is that wherever the sugar goes water goes with it and so as it's getting rid of the sugar it's also getting rid of your fluids making you dehydrated I remember in practice one guy uh 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 and 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 and he was able to sleep through the night from there on out and so this leads us with the number two which is excessive thirst now of course being a diabetic you're going to be dehydrated so you're going to constantly need water to hydrate yourself but the other thing to realize that when you're a diabetic or you have high sugar you're also naturally going to retain sodium and so if your body is going to hold this salt it's also going to need more water and so you have this feedback loop where you're drinking all this water you're urinating excessively which then creates dehydration caus you to drink more and this keeps going around and round and round when you're getting rid of the water you're also getting rid of potassium magnesium calcium but for some reason you tend to retain more sodium okay the next symptom is restless leg syndrome I had this and of course 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 where your muscles won't get the oxygen and it becomes is very very fatigued and so you don't want lactic acid build up in your muscles when you're sleeping because you're going to feel very restless you're not going to have the oxygen in your legs and so your legs are just going to feel very energetic another connection with this restless leg is a magnesium deficiency which you nearly always see with people with high blood sugars and without magnesium the muscles cannot feel relaxed and be calm it's a B1 and magnesium deficiency because the person is usually consuming too many refined carbs or sugars and so they can take a lot of bwan and temporarily feel better but unless they get rid of the sugars uh it just keeps coming back now the next symptom does relate to restless leg syndrome but it's more with problems in your lower feet this is called peripheral neuropathy which you have this it could be burning on the bottom of the feet it can be pain it can be numbness it could be any type of weird sensation at the bottom of your feet and the reason why why it gets worse at night is because you're lying down flat and you're getting more um pooling of blood which is going to create a little more pressure on the nerve endings which are damaged the remedy for peripheral neuropathy is really twofold one is it's a type of B vitamin called botam with alphalipoic acid together it's a really powerful combination now the next symptom is also related to this it's cramps in your lower legs or your feet because someone has too much sugar in the blood and that creates a magnesium deficiency and when you don't have enough magnesium calcium starts building up inside the cell and calcium is all about muscle contraction not muscle relaxation magnesium is more about muscle relaxation so when you have this imbalance of not enough magnesium and too much calcium in the wrong place you're going to get cramping in your lower legs or feet the type of magnesium I would recommend is magnesium glycinate because it also helps you sleep at the same time now the next symptom I want to talk about is this excessive sweating at night usually in the face the neck or upper part of the body and I'm not going to confuse this with a different condition night sweats or hot flashes because of menopause this is different this is a situation where a person is just sweating at night for no reason it's not even necessarily too hot and this is because the blood sugar problem puts that person in a state of fight or flight mode this is called sympathetic dominance it's a part of the nervous system that is more of a adrenaline type stress State and because adrenaline is activated the person starts activating more sweat as a compensation mechanism and so when you have this blood sugar issue your body's going to be under more stress now this can occur also with low blood sugar because adrenaline is activating and tring to raise the blood sugar but it can also occur from high blood sugar as well all right the next condition is sleep apnea this is a situation where you don't have enough oxygen because there's some type of obstruction of air in the back of the throat or the sinuses this is a classic diabetic symptom it usually occurs because the person has 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 from glucose or sugar and because insulin controls this whole thing it creates this resistance to insulin and so the door is uh 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 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 night with this like stress a hormone activation and you might also have a 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 uh 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 they delay this 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 gird 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 you're 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 at B1 is consuming too many carbs or even being a diabetic and so when my children would have nightmares they' always want me to give them some B1 which will handle that very quickly now the next thing you might experience is uh 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 right 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 part palpitations this is primarily because of the lack of electrolytes pottassium 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 flight or fight 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 and the last symptom is uh a headache when you wake up in the morning this usually occurs because you are very dehydrated and the Brain needs enough uh fluid to prevent it from having pain and having 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