Morning readings

[SueCuz]

I have got my BS readings into the 6s from 17. I was wondering why it is always higher in the morning than last thing at night. It doesn’t seem to go down until before I eat in the evening even though I walk to and from work everyday and am on my feet all day.

 

[Robin]

I have got my BS readings into the 6s from 17. I was wondering why it is always higher in the morning than last thing at night. It doesn’t seem to go down until before I eat in the evening even though I walk to and from work everyday and am on my feet all day.

Whether you eat or not, your liver is constantly trickling out glucose to keep your vital organs ticking over. Sometimes the liver ramps up the glucose output a bit in the wee small hours, historically, to prepare your body for the coming day (going out to hunt a woolly mammoth for breakfast, etc). So it’s quite common to wake up with a higher glucose level than you went to bed on.

 

[SueCuz]

Thank you, there is a lot to learn!

 

[helli]

Sounds like Dawn Phenomenon.
At the start of the day, it is normal for our livers to dump glucose into our blood streams. A healthy pancreas reacts by releasing insulin.