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 NATUROPATHY
Diet: Unbalanced blood levels can lead to or aggravate a stressed stomach, so eat small meals frequently throughout the day to keep blood sugar levels balanced. Eat whole grains such as oats, quinoa, or brown rice with every meal. These foods contain high levels of B vitamins and fiber, and increase your body's ability to make serotonin, a neurotransmitter that has a calming effect on the body and eases anxiety. B vitamins are also are calming to the nervous system and fiber keeps your bowels moving. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Chromium supplements can improve blood sugar levels. Of fifteen studies, twelve found at least some positive effect of chromium supplementation on various aspects of diabetes. In my own clinical experience, I have found chromium to be very helpful in fighting sugar cravings.
Dose: Take 200 meg per day. Vanadium
This trace mineral is, like chromium, essential for insulins actions on lowering blood sugar. It's found in a wide variety of foods, including seafood, meat, dairy, cooking oils, and fresh fruits and vegetables. It is often low in diabetics; in those cases, it should be supplemented. |
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| TIP: EXERCISE REGULARLY
Exercise regularly to maintain optimal blood sugar levels. Exercise helps reduce weight and lowers blood sugar. It improves insulin sensitivity, the immune system, and circulation. It lowers blood pressure and LDL ("bad") cholesterol, raises HDL ("good") cholesterol, and reduces the risk of heart disease. Find an exercise that you like and try to do at least four sessions a week.
NATUROPATHY
Diet: The most important therapy for diabetes is a healthy diet. Eat plenty of vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds, and whole grains. |
KC Craichy
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 This causes hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), resulting in high insulin levels followed by severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar levels). Panic attacks seem to be triggered when blood sugar crashes to its lowest levels, so it is important to avoid blood sugar spikes. Chronic sleep deprivation can also be a significant factor as well.
PHOBIAS
Phobias are seemingly inexplicable fears that may be either specific (fear of heights) or social. |
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| Alcohol causes your blood sugar levels to drop, which can contribute to the general feeling of malaise. Alcohol also acts as an irritant to the lining of the stomach, which is why drinking can cause nausea or even ulcers if you drink heavily on a regular basis.
• Vomiting
• Disturbed sleep
• Extreme thirst
• Dizziness
• Depression, anxiety, and irritability
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• Dehydration
• Fatigue
• Headache
• Sensitivity to light and sound
• Trembling
• Red eyes
• Muscle aches
The primary goal is to rehydrate the body, which will ease many of the symptoms. |
| Conventional and alternative therapies aim to protect against episodes by introducing lifestyle changes that will keep sugar levels stable. However, in serious cases, emergency medical attention may be needed.
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Modify your lifestyle: Low blood sugar that occurs in an otherwise healthy person is treated by lifestyle modification. It is important to develop the right balance between what is eaten and when it is eaten relative to activity. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Caution: Please let your doctor know that you're taking ALA, and monitor blood sugar levels carefully, since it can lower your need for insulin or other diabetic medications. I've seen this occur in my own patients, and it can be a cause for alarm if you aren't prepared. Even though you obviously want your blood sugar lowered, you also don't want it to be pushed unexpectedly low by this combination. You and your doctor can work out a lower dose of medication, be it oral or insulin, as you gradually start using the ALA. It has no side effects. I would strongly recommend it to every diabetic. |
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| Blood sugar levels at the high end of "normal," coupled with other risk factors for type 2 diabetes, may help identify apparently healthy men who are at an increased risk of the disease, a new Israeli study suggests.
THE STUDY
For the study, the researchers obtained fasting glucose levels for more than 13,000 men from the Israeli Defense Forces, all between the ages of 26 and 45. During the average 5.7 years of follow-up, 208 of the men were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. |
| Diabetics Don't Know About this Critical Test
The ^4ic7test shows average blood sugar levels over the past 120 days. The test is done by a lab or in your doctor's office in addition to home monitoring of blood sugar. The A1C test tells whether diabetes treatment is working effectively —but 61% of diabetics recently surveyed did not know what it was. The A1C test can help diabetics adjust diet, activity and medication to avoid possible complications from the disease. Ask your doctor how often you should have an A1C test. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Various drug extracts exhibit antimicrobial and fungistatic efficacy, and have an influence over liver metabolism and liver sugar levels. The saussure amines it contains inhibit the formation of stress-related stomach ulcers. A bronchospasmo-lytic effect has also been described. A dry extract of the drug administered in 500 mg dosages p.o. 3 times daily over a 3-month period led to a statistically significant reduction of angina pectoris attacks among patients with coronary heart disease. |
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| Slow-digesting carbs keep blood sugar levels on an even keel.
What determines the speed of digestion? A food's particle size. The smaller the particles, the faster the food is digested and the higher its glycemic index.
Milling, baking, cooking in water and other forms of processing increase starch gelatiniza-tion, which increases the glycemic index. That's why processed foods have high glycemic indices.
Example: Canned pasta, which is cooked for a long time, has a higher glycemic index than pasta cooked al dente. |
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| Banana leaf has also been shown to lower blood sugar levels. Take 16 mg in capsule form twice a day.
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HOMEOPATHY
Diabetes is a condition for which it is inappropriate to suggest self-help homeopathic prescribing, since both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are chronic conditions. As such, any homeopathic treatment that is given will be of a constitutional nature and needs to be provided by an experienced homeopathic practitioner.
HERBALISM
Herbal medicines used to treat diabetes generally aim to lower blood sugar, protect vascular integrity, and preserve the function of the pancreas. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Lycium fruit tea nourishes the eyes, enriches the blood, and helps control blood sugar levels.
Lycium Tea
Add 2 tablespoons dried lycium fruit to 12 ounces water, decoct 10-15 minutes, steep 10-15 minutes.
Lycium berries have been described as having a sweet, mild, raisinlike flavor. In fact, the Chinese call them "red raisins." Whole, dried berries have a pleasant taste and can be eaten raw (up to 1 ounce per day). They can be added to hot and cold cereals, shakes, smoothies, salads, desserts, trail mix, fruit and nut bars, and soups. |
Bill Sardi
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 At normal sugar levels the pH ranged from 6.72 to 7.01. When glucose was instilled, the pH shifted to the acidic side, to pH 6.43 in the area around the tumor cells. [Br J Cancer 68:492-500, 1993]
Cancer cells exhibit abnormal energy production. Instead of generating ATP, the energy molecule, from respiration of oxygen, tumor cells use sugar (glucose) as their main energy source. The by-product of tumor cells is lactic acid, which in turn generates gluconeogenesis, the production of more sugar. Thus, cancer cells are assured a continuous supply of glucose for their growth. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The body regulates sugar levels automatically through simple reflex mechanisms. When sugar touches the taste buds for the sweet taste on the tongue, the pancreas is given the instruction to secrete insulin, which is required to make it (the sugar) available to the cells.
If you eat artificial sweeteners, the body naturally responds to their sweet taste by secreting insulin. Rather than receiving sugar in the blood as expected, however, it receives a combination of protein compounds. |
| After a little while the sugar levels drops below normal, which may cause depression, moodiness, and exhaustion.
If you are overweight and believe that you can reduce weight by restricting your daily intake of calories, you will be very disappointed. Within a few days, your body will run out of energy and want to eat, hence the increased appetite or craving. If you still don't eat enough, you will fall into a depression, which may cause you to binge on food ravenously. |
| This effectively lowers your sugar levels. However, since this situation can be life endangering, your body quickly signals "hunger" which becomes a sudden, strong "craving." Since foods with artificial sweeteners are not able to meet the demand for an increase in blood sugar, you begin to look for sugary foods.
Instead of saving the calories that are contained in ordinary sugar, you have artificially increased your need and appetite for more sweet food. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Blood sugar levels are maintained in the normal physiologic range.
Achieving the Relaxation Response
The relaxation response can be achieved through a variety of techniques. The most popular are meditation, prayer, progressive relaxation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback. All of these techniques have the same physiologic effect: a state of deep relaxation.
One of the most popular techniques for producing the relaxation response is diaphragmatic breathing. To produce the desired long-term health benefits, set aside at least five to ten minutes each day to perform this relaxation exercise:
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David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| Mouse studies have shown that shilajit is better than the drug metformin at reducing blood sugar levels and that when shilajit is combined with the drug Glibenclamide, a greater drop in blood sugar was noted than when using either of them alone. Shilajit also had benefits for people with problems involving blood lipids. It reduced total cholesterol levels and increased levels of healthy high density lipoproteins (HDL—good cholesterol). |
| Asian ginseng lowered blood sugar levels and enhanced cognitive function in this recent study.
Effects of Panax ginseng Extract on Exercise-Induced Oxidative Stress
(Kim et al. 2005).
Administration of ginseng extract to seven healthy but sedentary subjects significantly increased exercise duration and the levels of the antioxidant enzymes catalase and superoxide dimutase. |
| Regular consumption of lycium fruit promotes the growth of healthy bowel flora, lowers LDL and VLDL cholesterol levels, and it can even mildly lower blood sugar levels.
In one Chinese study, forty-two men with infertility (low sperm count and/or motility) were given xli ounce of lycium fruit per day. After two months of treatment, thirty-three patients had returned to normal levels of fertility and all of them were able to eventually father children.
Dosage and Safety
Tincture (1:4): 60-90 drops up to four times per day.
Decoction: Add 2 tsp. dried fruit to 12 oz. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 None of his fifty patients were overweight and all of them were taking insulin shots to control their blood sugar levels.
His experimental diet consisted mostly of whole plant foods and the equivalent of only a cold cut or two of meat a day. He put his patients on the conservative, American-style diet recommended by the American
Diabetes Association for one week and then switched them over to the experimental "veggie" diet for three weeks. He measured their blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels, weight and medication requirements. The results were impressive. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Their sugar levels bounce up and down, up and down. They're getting highs and lows, which make their mind fog up and prevent clear thinking and memory."
Dr. Spreen follows up with other recommendations. "We ask people to eat foods in their natural state, not processed foods. If a person stays on junk all the time—eats 12 candy bars a day, three soft drinks or more (with seven teaspoons of sugar in each soft drink), and smokes and drinks and gets stimulants in other bad foods—taking a multivitamin just isn't going to do the trick. I try to get people off caffeine. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Balances sugar levels in the blood, which is particularly important for diabetics
?Is essential for the generation of hydroelectric energy in the cells of the body
?Is vital for the absorption of nutrient components through the intestinal tract
?Is needed to clear the lungs of mucus and sticky phlegm, particularly in those suffering from asthma and cystic fibrosis
?Clears up catarrh and congestion in the sinuses
?Is a strong natural antihistamine
?Can prevent muscle cramps
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Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Blood sugar levels are raised dramatically as the liver dumps stored glucose into the bloodstream.
The Relaxation Response þThe heart rate is reduced and the heart beats more effectively. Blood pressure is reduced. þBlood is shunted towards internal organs, especially those organs involved in digestion. þThe rate of breathing decreases as oxygen demand is reduced during periods of rest. þSweat production diminishes, because a person who is calm and relaxed does not experience nervous perspiration. þProduction of digestive secretions is increased, greatly improving digestion. |
KC Craichy
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| When blood sugar levels drop, the brain will virtually demand that sugar or simple carbohydrates be consumed to restore normal glucose levels.
In summary, insulin resistance causes a chronic increase in both blood sugar and insulin in the body, resulting in metabolic disturbances that affect our ability to lose weight and maintain muscle mass, which in turn can lead to many serious health problems. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Similarly, those who have been eating way too many sweets and have developed imbalanced blood sugar would be wise to refrain from all sweets, including fruits, until their blood sugar levels are stabilized. The same would be true of fats, and extreme or stimulant foods. Start experimenting within the parameters of the following Dietary Basics and you will soon discover what's right for your body-mind system.
Pure water is the best drink for a wise man.
Thoreau dietary basics
1 ~ follow the eating-for-health guidelines
.. .as much as possible. |
KC Craichy
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| Researchers have also discovered that the constant insulin "highs" produced by fluctuating blood sugar levels lead to an increase in body weight. Insulin stimulates an enzyme called lipoprotein-lipase, which directs circulating fatty acids into fat-cell storage, which in turn increases body weight. This only reinforces why anyone who snacks on cookies, ice cream, candy, cakes, potato chips, and other simple carbohydrates will put on the weight.
The extremely high sugar content in the modern American diet has been found to directly relate to numerous degenerative diseases. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| As discussed earlier, while you may need to eat more initially to restore balanced blood sugar levels, or less to clear your system, having animal protein three times a week is a ballpark amount to strive for.
Fresh free-range and grass-fed organic animal protein free of additives, hormones, pesticides and antibiotics is always your first choice whenever available. Meat packers that offer these quality standards boldly display this on their tags and labels. |
| They also cause a dramatic rise and rapid fall in blood sugar levels. Eating these simple carbohydrates is like driving a car with a stuck accelerator: you speed around for a short time, then run out of gas. |
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