Shortness in Sleeping Hours Can Lead to Insulin Resistance

Insulin resistance can lead to type 2 diabetes and it’s also one of the main symptoms of type 2 diabetes. Various unhealthy habits can lead to the resistance of insulin. A recent study unveiled that sleeping shortness accompanying high fat diets is a more dangerous factor leading to insulin resistance than many others that all ready known.

The latest study showed sleep deficiency for one night may lead to the insensitivity level of insulin equivalent to continuously taking a 6-month high fat diet. Eight dogs were involved in the experiments to get the result. Researchers firstly had the dog slept uncontinuously for one night and then fed with high fat food for a period of 6 months. Related data was gained before and after the two changes and similar insulin sensitivity level was presented. The number for one night sleep deprivation is 33% and 22% for six-month high fat diet.

From the research, it can be concluded that sleep shortness can also attribute to insulin resistance. Being connected with the previously conducted researches, this research makes sense as sleep shortness had been found change the fat tissue activities into a similar state of that in obese people.

With the result, people who are in diabetes condition may improve the insulin resistance situation by cultivating healthy sleeping habits; besides people that are in the verge of contracting diabetes may benefit from improving sleeping time.

Other Common Causes for insulin resistance

Both high fat and high refined carbohydrates food intake can be a contributing factor for insulin resistance. Diabetes and insulin resistance mutually interfere with each other, thus the improvement of diabetes condition can also improve the insulin resistance situation. However what easy to be ignored is that vitamin D deficiency can also lead to insulin resistance, from which avoidance of vitamin D shortness can be helpful in preventing insulin resistance from get worse. In addition, some drug like protease inhibitors may also lead to insulin resistance.

In general, fostering healthy eating habits, sleeping for reasonable hours without staying up and doing appropriate exercise are very beneficial natural measures to control insulin resistance and prevent injection of medical insulin to balance the sugar amount in blood.