
Sleep and Metabolic Health: How 6 Hours of Sleep Destroys Your Metabolism
You’re eating right. You’re exercising consistently. You’re doing everything your doctor told you to do. Yet your blood sugar keeps climbing, your weight won’t budge, and your energy crashes every afternoon. Your doctor runs labs, adjusts your medication, and tells you to “try harder” with diet and exercise. Meanwhile, you’re sleeping five or six hours a night, convinced that’s just how much sleep you need. I know this pattern because I’ve seen it hundreds of times in our Direct Primary





