Though diabetes is a tough and unforgiving condition, it does not always need to be a Mt. Everest in your life…

Everyone gets affected differently by Diabetes as it depends on your age, gender, what type of diabetes you have, your body type, fitness level and many other factors. Doctors like to treat the diabetes with known medications and believe that it is the only way to treat diabetes, but that’s how they have been taught in Medical school. Whether you follow the modern way, or the natural way, the first thing you will have to do is make dramatic lifestyle changes if you are not living a healthy lifestyle.

The first and most important changes you can make is to eat healthy, lose weight and exercise. This will already help a great deal to naturally balance your blood sugar levels.

Treatment will obviously depend on the type of diabetes you have, the sign and symptoms and your response to treatment. Treatment is definitely not just a once off visit to the doctor, but a continually monitoring of your glucose levels on a daily basis, continuous reading of new findings, drastic life changes, and definitely more education. If you are diabetic, then you need to know what it is about, and what you should do and not do. It is also strongly advised that you should lose weight if you are overweight, as the body can use insulin more efficiently, thus stabilizing the blood sugar level.

Can we naturally regulate our blood sugar levels

Research has proven that it is possible to have very stable and normal glucose levels in our blood with the use of herbal and homeopathic remedies and the needed supplements. The correct supplements can aid in treating the symptoms and thus making it easier to have a normal lifestyle.

Herbal remedies, dietary supplements and the correct lifestyle changes can eliminate the need for prescription medication and can also aid in the prevention of organ and tissue damage associated with uncontrolled diabetes.

Tips for coping with Diabetes

• Diabetes Type I sufferers always stand the risk of developing Type II diabetes. Regular exercise will decrease the possibility to developing type II diabetes by as much as 50%. Even if you are a diabetes type II sufferer you should still engage in some exercise, but we suggest consulting a medical practitioner first as to which exercises will be suitable.
• As previously said, by losing weight you assist the body in better utilizing insulin, thus if you are over weight, lose it.
• It is best to reduced the intake of refined and processed foods that contains high levels of fat and sugar.
• Eat plenty of whole grain foods that is rich in Vitamin B and Chromium.
• Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
• Monitor blood glucose levels on a daily basis.

Natural remedies

Insulate Plus

Insulate Plus is a 100% natural herbal remedy that supports pancreatic health by supporting the Islets of Langerhans and promote systemic balance in the endocrine and circulatory system.

The Insulate Plus will maintain healthy blood glucose levels when used in combination with a healthy lifestyle and healthy food which excludes excess sugar, unhealthy fats, stimulants, artificial preservatives and colorants.

Diabetonic

Diabetonic is a remedy that temporarily corrects imbalances of minerals in the blood and pancreas. These imbalances are caused by the modern farming techniques and lifestyles, making food missing the essential minerals needed. It will also lessen your craving for sugar as the blood sugar levels gets balanced. Having balanced blood sugar levels means more energy as there is a normal range of sugar in the blood that can be taken up by the cells. Diabetonic will also maintain the balance of cell salts in the body as it is a combination of three, cellular-supporting biochemic tissue salts which can be taken up in the cells as soon as the body is low on energy or have sugar cravings.

Tissue salts are naturally occurring in the body and manufactured to ensure safe, yet optimum potency, thus they are safe to use for all ages (from infancy to old age) - as well as during pregnancy!

Conclusion

Regulating and maintaining a normal blood glucose level is possible without the use of modern medicine and other toxins.

It will however require a complete lifestyle change, requiring the sufferer to eat healthy, monitor their blood glucose level daily and engage in exercises. Combined with the natural remedies, this lifestyle change will promote health of the pancreas, liver, circulatory system, visual system as well as overall systemic health.

If you eat foods containing sugar, the blood level of sugar goes up. If you are a healthy person, within 2 hours after sugar consumption, the blood level goes back to within the normal range of 80 - 120 mg /dl. The consumption of sugar will trigger the receptors in the pancreas to produce insulin which acts immediately to move blood sugar into storage. However, when the release of insulin becomes too excessive as a result of poor receptor response of the sugar level, the blood sugar level drops further. This situation has been erroneously termed as hypoglycemia. This occurrence is common in diabetes.

If you are diabetic, you have to be aware of this episode and know the signs and symptoms because indifference or unawareness can be fatal especially if you are on the move. This is especially so if the episode occurs while you are driving on the road. Mishaps have happened in the past.

Initially the signs are headache, insomnia, anxiety attack, and palpitation. This is a sign of an emergency where adrenaline rushes to take control of the person. In a way, this is good so that the person becomes aware of the problem and can take remedial actions.

Symptoms which follow include fatigue, fainting and memory loss because of a lack of sugar in the brain. You do need sugar in the brain to produce energy. Therefore you should always have a sugar candy or chocolate at hand to avoid aggravating the situation.

To avoid the above episode, you should always monitor your diabetes and start living a healthy lifestyle.

My parents used to tell great grandma to “stay out of the sugar!” whenever we left her house. I wasn’t sure why they said it, but everyone got a kick out of it. Great-grandma, I came to find out had ‘the sugar diabetes’ (pronounced dia-BEE-tuzz by my family) so she wasn’t allowed to eat a lot of sugar (horrors). Anyhoo, years passed before I understood why. It’s pretty confusing so I thought I’d do you a quick little lesson, in layman’s terms, on what diabetes is, and what the different types mean.

What is diabetes?

When you eat carbohydrates (mainly sugars and starches), your body digests the food and the glucose (sugar) is sucked from your small intestine into your bloodstream. The glucose goes into your bloodstream so it can be delivered to cells throughout your body. The cells then convert the glucose to energy and you get to live a little longer.

When the glucose enters your bloodstream, your blood sugar (aka blood glucose) levels rise, triggering the production and release of a hormone called insulin. Insulin is made by beta cells scattered throughout your pancreas and, among other things, it tightly controls the level of sugar in your blood stream at any given time. It does this by telling your muscle and fat cells to pull the glucose (sugar) from the blood into the cells, out of the bloodstream.

It stands to reason, then, that if your body is unable to produce insulin, or can’t produce enough insulin, or can’t properly use the insulin, then you will have too much sugar in your blood and that’s a bad thing. When you have elevated levels of glucose (sugar) in your blood you are said to have hyperglycemia or you are “hyperglycemic” (low blood sugar is hypoglycemia). If the sugar in your blood tests out at consistently high or above average levels, then you are diagnosed with a certain type of diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic disease meaning that once diagnosed it lasts a lifetime, although it can be controlled.

What is Type 1 Diabetes?

You have type 1 diabetes (aka insulin dependent diabetes or juvenile onset diabetes) when your pancreas cannot produce insulin at all. This happens when your body’s immune system malfunctions and mistakenly manufactures antibodies (proteins in the blood that are part of the immune system) that attack the beta cells in its own pancreas, rendering it incapable of producing insulin. Any time your immune system attacks your own body tissues it is called an autoimmune disease. That’s what type 1 diabetes is. This tendency to produce abnormal antibodies is believed to be, in part, genetic, although it is not fully understood.

Type 1 diabetes is the least common, and it is found primarily in young, lean people under the age of 30. Screening for certain types of antibodies is encouraged for individuals who have a parent or sibling with type 1 diabetes.

What is Type 2 Diabetes?

Of the people who have diabetes, 90% have type 2 and it occurs later in life. It is sometimes called non-insulin dependent or adult onset diabetes and it is characterized by the fact that you can still produce insulin. The problem is, you don’t produce enough, or your body doesn’t correctly use the insulin it produces. Your body’s cells may be insulin resistant. This is the primary problem in type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is when your cells don’t respond normally to a given amount of insulin, meaning that higher levels of insulin are needed in order for insulin to have its effects. In type 2 diabetes, there is also a steady decline of beta cells (they produce the insulin in the pancreas), which causes less insulin to be produced, thus contributing to worsening glucose control.

How Insulin Resistance Leads to Type 2 Diabetes

Insulin resistance precedes type 2 diabetes, sometimes by years. In fact, your blood glucose and insulin levels may be normal for years and then, bam! you become insulin resistant. At this point, you will often see an association of high insulin levels, abdominal obesity, cholesterol issues and/or high blood pressure. When you have all these issues, you have metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance has a strong genetic factor and can also be caused by some medications, but it is often seen in people who have metabolic syndrome, are obese, pregnant, severely ill, stressed or using steroids.

Here’s how it works: One of insulin’s jobs is to tell your muscle and fat cells to pull glucose from your blood so it can be used by the cell. This is one way that insulin “controls” your blood sugar levels. Insulin basically attaches itself to the surface of the fat and muscle cells, knocks on the cell’s door and says “okee dokee, open up”. The cells hear the knock and says “come on in you beautiful sugar baby” (it lets the glucose in, thereby removing it from the blood stream). Then the cell uses the glucose to provide energy to the body. With insulin resistance, the muscles don’t even hear the knock and so the pancreas is notified to make more insulin, which increases the levels of insulin in the blood that causes a louder knock. The resistance continues over time and as long as the pancreas can create enough insulin to open the cells doors, then you’re okay. Once the pancreas can no longer keep up, the blood glucose levels begin to rise - at first only after meals when your glucose levels are highest but eventually when you’re fasting too. At this point, you have type 2 diabetes.