BE A BLOOD SUGAR SLEUTH
1 You’re bogged down by stress
Whether it’s “bad” stress (you’re unhappy in your job, your child is struggling in school or you’re caring for an ageing parent) or “good” stress (you’re getting married, moving or planning a holiday), your body responds in a similar fashion.
“Rising levels of the stress hormone cortisol can contribute to insulin resistance and may also affect other hormones related to blood [glucose] management,” explains Nicole Bereolos, certified diabetes educator, clinical psychologist and a Diabetic Living USA
adviser. “The end result is that there’s more [glucose] in the blood, and your cells are not using insulin as well as they normally would. It’s a double whammy.”
You can’t scrub stress out of your
