Diabetes has a big impact on your life. And high blood glucose can be a scary thing. But mainline medicine holds the conviction that you can take control and bring down glucose naturally.

Here are a few crucial ways for reversing the effects of blood glucose problems.

First, if you have diabetes, ask your doctor about getting on a course of statins. Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs including Lipitor, Mevacor, Pravachol, and Zocor. Daily meta-study published in the January 2008 Lancet, a well-respected medical journal, concluded that diabetes patients who took statins had fewer cases of closures of arteries and leading blood vessels, and reduced heart attacks and strokes due to closures of arteries. numerous physicians are now consider statins to be a standard part of the treatment for diabetes.

Second, protect your eyes. after your kidneys, your eyes are the second leading organ of the body affected by uncontrolled glucose over the long run. But blindness is no longer an inevitable correlate of diabetes.

Here’s what you need to do to keep your eyes in good shape.

See your ophthalmologist or optometrist annually at least. Provided that you are controlling your sugar, your eyes will stay normal. If not, you are most likely to show signs of cataracts (a cloudy or opaque lens that can block your vision), glaucoma (high pressure inside the eye that can damage the nerve), or retinopathy (which has a variety of effects).

Alcohol may worsen eye problems. Smoking certainly raises blood sugar levels in diabetics. You can stop or undo damage as long as you stop smoking now. Detecting and treating diabetic eye disease with laser therapy can bring down the development of severe vision loss by an estimated 50 to 60 percent.

The long and short is that diabetes is a disease of habits. To control your glucose, you’ve got to make your unconscious habits, conscious.