You need medication. A vegan, sugar free diet and can help, but you need to be monitored by a doctor and continue taking your blood sugar. Sometimes this can reverse the disease, but you cannot count on it. Generally medication is still needed. Cinnamon supplements MIGHT also help stabilize blood sugar, but generally not enough to get you off of medication.
Precisely With type 2 youll need to diet but gradually and sensibly, elimination of fatty meats and dairy is advisable, and excersize lots, gentle walking etc Drink enough water for the day Take your meds until doctors tell you otherwise Buy a blood glucose monitor if you dont have one already and test your blood sugar regularly to ensure its within a safe range Type 2 IS reversible, unlike (usually) type 1, so doing this right is a pretty big thing. Also make sure your diet is full of vitamins from fruits and veggies so you may fight off infections or illness effectively There are also plenty of special diabetes forums out there Good luck
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The first step in treatment of T2DM is going to be lifestyle modification, but it does depend on how high your blood sugars are. The key things in protecting yourself are (1) keeping blood sugar under control and (2) keeping your blood pressure under control. In numerous studies, these are the two biggest risk factors in pathological outcomes in diabetes patients. So--you've got to be consistent with measuring and treating your blood sugar levels. The big lifestyle modifications, as I'm sure you've heard elsewhere by now, are diet and exercise. You can find out tons about both at diabetic support groups and websites. But if those don't control your blood pressure, it is important to consider medications, which can be very, very effective in helping to get your blood sugar under control. There may be herbal preparations out there that will also effectively control your blood sugar, and it certainly doesn't hurt to try those. Just make sure they don't have any interactions with medications you may already be taking. Pay attention to how you feel--sometimes medications and herbs can have an additive effect, which could potentially make you can hypoglycemic (too little sugar in your blood). Again--the most important things--watch your blood sugar, and secondly your blood pressure! You really can make a difference in how this condition affects your life, whether you're able to reverse it or not.
Type 2 diabetes is very different than type 1. The answers don't seem to bear that out. Fat people hate this disease. 90% of the people with it can cure it by losing weight. Being fat is bad for health so the body is not metabolizing the sugar and making you fatter but is instead urinating out the sugar. Would you rather get fatter? Sugar is only metabolized in your muscle. Drugs are not good for your health but is only to make money for drug companies. This is called capitalism. You did not mention that you were overweight. How do you get rich without losing your poverty? You can't. Do you want to stay heavy and get rid of the type 2? You want to take something where you can eat what you want and not be fat? I call that a license to kill. James Bond could kill anyone and not be punished for it. He has a license to kill. If you are the rare 10% that are not fat then you should eat the foods that are good for health and do bodybuilding to build muscle. If you are fat, then do the same. Eat foods made by nature and try to avoid manmade foods that were designed to make you fat and addicted to food. You can lose weight quickly with the lemonade diet. You can lose weight slower and stay thin with the Ninja Warrior Diet.
Not all people with diabetes are overweight. I have a family history of it (probably stemming from undiagnosed celiac disease) and while some people, like my father, were overweight when diagnosed, most of my family on that side was perfectly normal weight and have healthy eating habits. For them, it's take drugs or die a slow, debilitating death. An aunt of mine lost 100 pounds soon after she was diagnosed and it did nothing to change her blood sugar, despite now being on the low end of the normal weight range. Drugs are extremely good for your health when that's the only thing that keeps you healthy. The drug companies are all evil bullshit only goes so far.
I have to disagree. Obviously in the cases you mentioned the drugs were needed but in the majority of cases of TYPE 2, especially when caught earlier, are EASILY treated with diet modification, exercise and generally just helping your body out a little more Type 1 is a completely different story, but type 2's have a massive hope of a cure with natural remedy. Of course the OP should take their meds until theres a significant improvement unless the doc has said otherwise, but theres no need for it to be a long term thing, unless this is a particularly advanced case. Overweight or not, foods, exercise, herbal remedies...these things will seriously change the life of a type 2 Its not "diet" as in "omg need to lose weight!"...its about eating the RIGHT foods. Its not going to do any good to someone thin as a rake who has nothing but sugar doughnuts and lemonade!
That's a good site. I'm on meds for high blood pressure and a recent blood test showed my blood sugar was on the high side. My dad had type2 but he managed to reverse it with diet, but doctor reckons I'm more at risk of developing it because I had a parent with it. Anyway, I did the blood glucose tolerance test and seemingly I'm borderline, so lifestyle changes. Nothing drastic, just eating healthy, taking more exercise, basically walking everywhere lol. and I actually do feel better for it. Fingers crossed I don't develop it.
