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Bad sleep makes your blood sugar harder to manage. Worse blood sugar disrupts your sleep. Worse sleep makes your blood sugar worse. You've been running a feedback loop -- without knowing it.

This is the episode where things click. Neil connects all the pieces from Weeks 1 and 2 into the full picture: the bidirectional relationship between sleep and glucose management in type 1 diabetes. High blood sugar increases overnight bathroom trips. Low blood sugar fires the alarm. Glucose variability through the night disrupts sleep architecture even without a full wake-up. And the worse you sleep, the more your insulin sensitivity drops the next day. The loop is real. And here's what nobody usually says: you can interrupt it from either side.

We're in Week 3 of the While You Were Sleeping Challenge.

In this episode:

The full sleep-blood sugar feedback loop in T1D, explained end to end
Why both high and low blood sugar disrupt sleep in different ways
How glucose variability affects sleep stages even without a full wake-up
Why you don't have to fix both sides of the loop at once
How to pick one end of the rope and start pulling

This Week's Challenge: Pick one small thing to try before bed. Just one. An early blood sugar check, consistent bedtime two nights in a row, screens down an hour before sleep. Write down what happened in the morning.

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