#MEwx Barometric Pressure and your Blood Sugar

What about Barometric Pressure and your Blood Sugar? Is this another connection to Migraines?

Yep, looks like it’s all connected in one way or another.

Blood Sugar

When the pressure drops during a cold front, it causes the viscosity, or thickness, of the blood to increase, said Jennifer Vanos, assistant professor in geosciences at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, in an interview with weather.com

"Diabetics will have more trouble controlling their blood sugar during cold fronts," she said.

Rapidly dropping blood sugar could also trigger a migraine attack. Reactive hypoglycemia is a condition in which your blood sugar falls quickly, and it usually happens when the sugar rush from high-carb or high-glucose foods wears off. It's one of the least understood, but very real, migraine triggers.

When blood sugar dips as a result of a change in the environment, it can produce what is called low barometric pressure fatigue.

 

*Joint Pain

s at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston surveyed 200 patients with knee osteoarthritis and found a link between changes in barometric pressure and ambient temperature and changes in knee pain severity

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*What is high barometric pressure and how does it differ from the impact of low barometric pressure symptoms that raise your awareness of mysterious joint pain?

"It's not clear why a falling barometer would exacerbate joint pain and arthritis, but studies such as this one confirm that they do," reported Mother Nature. "It could be that barometric pressure affects the viscosity of the fluid that lines joint sacs, or it could be that it triggers the pain responses in the nerve endings of the joint. Either way, it's what your grandma has been saying for years: Some people feel pain in their joints when a storm is approaching."

Some people really can feel atmospheric pressure changes within their bodies.

Those with migraine, diabetes, high or low blood pressure, or osteoarthritis are the most susceptible to extra aches and pains before a storm. You can't control the weather, but understanding how weather changes affect you can help you prevent the worst or make better plans to weather the storm.

These 4 high- and low-barometric-pressure symptoms may help explain why you're feeling a bit off. Paying attention to changing weather patterns and weather symptoms can be a good way to manage your overall health. 

 

*Recently I’ve done some research online about whether or not science has been able to show that phases of the moon, such as a full moon affects human behavior.

Sadly, science STILL falls back on studies that reinforce previous studies “clearly showing” that the moon has no effect on what “we” do during the full of the moon.

My father was a police officer, my sister in law is a career nurse, my brother was a paramedic prior to retirement, my wife was a court clerk and I worked in the medical benefits industry as an attorney for my entire legal career where I saw it every single month.

According to science all of us are wrong and they’re right. But then again, this is the same field of study that always said there was no medical benefit to eating chicken soup and that Barometric pressure had no impact on such things as aches and pains, sinus headaches or blood pressure.

I guess we’ll just have to wait for them to prove themselves wrong again.