Chronic Stress

Whether you experience physical or mental stress, it brings about significant changes in your blood sugar levels. Stress comes in various forms such as work stress and family stress, financial stress, emotional stress, etc. Stress can be dangerous for prediabetics and diabetics because one may experienced more than one form of stress hence doubling or tripling its negative effect on blood sugar management.

Diabetics who are generally under stress have very poor control over blood glucose. This is due to the stress hormone, cortisol, increasing the sugar level in the blood. It is proven that unusually high levels of cortisol lead to conditions like Cushing’s syndrome, a lesser known cause of diabetes.

Constant stress and frustration caused by long term problems with blood glucose regulation can also wear people down and cause them to neglect their diabetes care.

Though stress changes blood sugar levels, its impact varies from person to person.

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