Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes

By Kristy Jenkins

Manage Type 2 Diabetes the Natural Way

Are you at risk for Type 2 diabetes and looking for natural ways to prevent it? Are you seeking natural remedies and therapies to complement your conventional treatment plan? Do you want more options to manage diabetes and prevent all the complications and serious health risks of this disease to live a long healthy life?

Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes was written specifically for you.

Every page of Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes is filled with information that can help you in your fight. Some of the most basic and frequently asked questions about the disease are addressed in this book. You can learn about your risk factors, the health consequences, and symptoms of diabetes. The differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are also explained. The book also gives you hope as it lets you know that you are not alone in battling this disease.

Explore Treatment Options For Type 2 Diabetes

There's no doubt that modern, conventional medicine does help control diabetes, but you don't have to limit yourself to it. Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes opens your mind to other types of healing methods, especially those that benefited people for centuries.

Learn and understand how complementary care and a holistic approach to managing diabetes can benefit you and how you have more options to manage and beat diabetes.

Massage Therapy, Yoga, Meditation, Supplementation with Healing Plants and Herbs, Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Biofeedback Treatment, Acupressure, Homeopathy And Others...

Why Should You Consider Alternative Treatment Options To Manage Type 2 Diabetes?

They Are Natural
They Are Safe
Some Have Helped People Lessen The Amount Of Diabetes Medication They Take
They Can Improve Your Overall Wellbeing And Health
They Do Not Replace Conventional Medical Care But Complement It

Natural Therapies Can Enhance Your Conventional Medical Care
And Improve Blood Sugar Numbers

The Best Reason Of All...

Any Efforts That Stabilize Blood Sugar Numbers Help To Prevent The Many Serious Complications Associated With Diabetes, Including...

Heart Disease

Stroke

Hypertension

Amputation From Nerve Damage

Kidney Failure

Peripheral Vascular Disease

Diabetic Coma

Premature Death

Let Discover Natural -Alternative Therapies for Managing Type 2 Diabetes Be Your Companion On The Road To Health, Wellness And Freedom In Managing Diabetes

Live Life Without Diabetes

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456625115

Book preview

What Is Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus (or just diabetes) is a metabolic disorder associated with elevated blood glucose. Normally, we take in glucose from the stomach when we eat foods containing carbohydrates. The glucose elevation triggers the islet cells in the pancreas to put out a hormone known as insulin. Insulin binds to cells in the body allowing the cells to take up the glucose to use as fuel for cells.

Without insulin production or with insulin resistance, glucose cannot get into the cells, which do not get enough nutrients and the sugar (glucose) in the bloodstream elevates, damaging organs and blood vessels. This is when diabetes occurs.

Two Types of Diabetes

The first is type 1 diabetes, which is considered an autoimmune disease where the body makes antibodies that destroy the islet cells of the pancreas, leading to very low insulin levels and extremely high blood sugar (glucose) levels. Once the death of the islet cells occurs, the process is irreversible. The patient’s only recourse is to take shots of short, medium, and/or long acting insulin to make up for the insulin the body doesn’t make. Type 1 diabetes is often referred to as insulin dependent.

The second is called type 2 diabetes. In this type of diabetes, the individual makes enough insulin; however, the cells become resistant to it and even with elevated insulin levels, not enough glucose enters the cells. The blood sugar rises and causes the same complications as type 1 diabetes. Fortunately, this type of diabetes can be treated with medication, healthy lifestyle choices, and other natural therapies. Type 2 diabetes, unlike type 1 can be reversed, with weight loss and healthy diet.

Diagnosis Of Type 2 Diabetes

Diagnosis of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes is made by a doctor, and is based on a blood test known as the Hemoglobin A1C. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, lab analysis of blood is required to ensure accurate results.

While glucose-measuring devices (finger stick tests pictured on the left) either used at home or at the doctor’s office can be used to track and manage blood glucose on a regular basis, they are not accurate enough for diagnosis.

The A1C became the standard test for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and prediabetes in 2009 and is reported as a percentage:

Normal reading is below 5.7%

5.7% to 6.4% indicates prediabetes, and those with a reading above 6.0% are considered at a very high risk of developing type 2 diabetes

Any reading over 6.5% means a person has diabetes

Risk Factors For Type 2 Diabetes

Anyone can get type 2 diabetes, but certain high risk factors exist:

People age 45 and older

Those who are obese or overweight with a BMI or 35 or more

Those who have had gestational diabetes

When type 2 diabetes runs in the family

Those who have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes

Poor lifestyle choices, like unhealthy diet and lack of exercise

Those who have low HDL (good) cholesterol or high triglycerides

Those who have high blood pressure

African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders are at higher risk for contracting this disease

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