Does sleep deprivation cause diabetes?

In one famous study, Eve Van Cauter, PhD, at the University of Chicago, put healthy young men onto a program of sleep restriction, allowing them only four hours of sleep per night. After 11 nights of short sleep, these men developed problems processing glucose. Many people have read this evidence to mean that sleep regulates our blood sugar and that sleep loss leads to diabetes.

However, it’s too early to reach such dramatic conclusions. For one, it’s possible that the stress of taking part in a study, not the sleeplessness itself, produced the physiological changes. Second, the study looked only at young men.

It doesn’t tell us anything about how women or middle-aged subjects respond to sleep restriction. Finally, and most important, there are very few people who sleep only four hours per night for 11 nights in a row. What about people who cut their sleep short for just a few nights at a time?

Or people who regularly sleep seven or six or five hours? The study also doesn’t tell us what happens when people get more than four hours of sleep but less than the much-hyped requirement to get eight.

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