Just like diabetes itself, we don’t have a cure yet for the dawn phenomenon. But unlike diabetes, you can’t completely control it. The best you can do is tame the dawn phenomenon.
There are a lot of definitions for what the dawn phenomenon is, but the simplest is the government’s one, “the early-morning (4 a.m. to 8 a.m.) rise in blood glucose level.” The best way to see if you have it is to test your blood at bedtime and then when you get up, and if it’s higher then you probably...
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