Rhonda Patrick· PhD
This elevated blood sugar (hyperglycemia) can create symptoms that mimic anxiety or insomnia, leaving you restless and overheated
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This elevated blood sugar (hyperglycemia) can create symptoms that mimic anxiety or insomnia, leaving you restless and overheated
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So when someone eats that evening snack of spiking their blood sugar, then they go to bed in a hypoglycemic state. They're going to have all of the signs and symptoms of anxiety. They're going to be laying there hot. their heart is going to be beating hard and fast and they're going to feel that pulse pounding and wonder what am I anxious about? Why can't I just sleep? Well, it's not because you have anxiety. It's because you went to bed hypoglycemic.