Avoiding Diabetes

28 Jul

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There are many different aspects of your health that affect whether or not you develop diabetes. Some of these factors are outside of your control including:

Age - If you’re over 45, you’re at a heightened risk. And up to 20 percent of Americans over age 65 have diabetes.

Heredity - If a parent had diabetes, you’re likelier to also develop the disease.

While ignoring your diabetes can seriously harm your health and increase your risk of complications, it is understandable that a person with diabetes would experience these feelings. Fortunately, there are strategies for alleviating the stress of managing your diabetes, and avoiding diabetes burnout.

Type I diabetes is a very serious and non-preventable condition where the patient needs a daily dose of insulin since the pancreas does not produce it at all or in enough quantities.

“The kind of cravings and patterns tell us natural medicine professionals a lot about the missing minerals and other triggers. By correcting them, cravings usually stop within as little as a couple of weeks. Avoiding diabetes is fairly easy early on. When an individual is already deep into it, improved control (and sometimes reversal) may still be possible but needs to be done under the supervision of a knowledgeable professional.”

Diabetes tablets

Metformin has been shown to reduce risk of diabetes, but this may mainly be because it is treating diabetes rather than avoiding it. Other diabetes tablets have not been studied adequately. Drugs to reduce weight would have a role.

Basically, the antibodies that may arise when whole cow’s milk proteins are absorbed in the infant’s gut can sometimes lead to the destruction of the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. It has been suggested, as a potential mechanism, that some protein on the surface of the cells ‘looks’ like a cow’s milk protein, as far as the antibodies are concerned.

Of the millions of Americans with diabetes, it is amazing that the preventable form of Type II makes up an overwhelming majority of the cases. This is extremely serious, since diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.A totaling over 70,000 people every year and costing over $132 billion annually in direct and indirect costs.