If you have diabetes, particularly type 1 diabetes or severe type 2 diabetes, and you’re taking insulin, you know that managing your blood sugar levels can be like riding a roller coaster: sometimes they’re too high and you correct them; other times you have too much insulin for the amount of carbohydrates and exercise you are doing and your blood sugar levels drop too low, resulting in hypoglycemia; then eat lots of sweet things and longer acting carbs to spike your blood sugar and get it too high again.
In the longer term, there could be serious consequences of having average high blood sugar levels for months or years, such as:
- lose sight
- having parts of your arms or legs amputated
- kidney damage
- ketoacidosis leading to coma and possibly death.
Even if your blood sugar is not that high, the average effects could be:
- poor eyesight, blurred vision
- loss of feeling in the fingers and toes
- leg cramps
- yeast infections leading to candidiasis
- sore mouth
- Wounds that take a long time to heal.
However, it is possible to reverse all of these symptoms with a holistic approach to health and a healthy lifestyle, including a healthy diet, exercise, stress reduction, mental and emotional techniques, and increased awareness.
Diet
My key strategy for managing good blood sugar control is to only eat a relatively small amount of carbohydrate at each meal and as a snack. This means eliminating or significantly reducing the amount of starchy carbohydrates such as bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice that you eat.
This will help reduce your margin of error when estimating the amount of carbohydrate in your meal. This will help you avoid the blood sugar roller coaster and instead have stable blood sugar levels. It will help reduce uncertainties related to other factors, such as glycemic load, exercise, hormones, stress, illness, or just the seemingly random functioning of our bodies.
Replace starchy carbohydrates with plenty of vegetables, preferably raw and sprouted, seeds and legumes, eg mung bean sprouts, alfalfa sprouts. Get more protein from plants like spinach and hemp, and consume healthy essential fats from plant-based fats like avocados, nuts, and seeds. This diet will also give you more nutrients for your body to heal itself.
working out
Regular exercise is a vital part of controlling and lowering blood sugar levels. It works the way your body is designed: to use the energy from the carbohydrates in your food to power your muscles directly when you move. Exercise also has multiple health benefits, both in terms of physical health and general well-being. Exercise releases endorphins, which are the hormones that make you feel good. This explains the feelings of satisfaction and even joy after a good exercise or training session. It’s also great if you can exercise outside, preferably in the country, so you get the benefits of fresh air, more oxygen, sunshine, and being in nature.
As you begin to exercise, your body uses glucose and fat to supply your muscles with energy. This could be from food if you have eaten recently or from stores in the body. Otherwise, glucose is released from stored glycogen in the liver and fat is drawn from fat stores in your body, thus helping you lose weight.
Exercise increases insulin sensitivity and, for people with type 2 diabetes, reduces insulin resistance. For people with type 1 diabetes, increased insulin sensitivity means that if you’re going to exercise after a meal, you’ll need less insulin for a meal.
Do some of each type of exercise regularly each week:
- Aerobics/cardiovascular: 20 to 40 minutes a day, 5 days a week
- Anaerobic/strength training – 10 – 20 minutes, 3 days a week
- Stretching/flexibility – 10 minutes a day, yoga class once a week
other factors
Other notable factors that affected blood sugar: Stress and illness raise it; relaxation decreases it; and for menstruating women, hormonal changes with different times of the month wax and wane.
There are many studies showing strong links between stress, negative emotions, and poor health. Your body has a physical reaction when you’re stressed or feeling bad, making it harder for your body to function in a healthy way or heal itself.
Meditation to reduce stress.
A wonderful way to relax and reduce stress is through regular meditation. There are a large number of studies and scientific articles that describe the benefits of meditation on physical, mental and emotional health.
By far the most effective way to meditate that I have found is through the use of binaural beat technology. It’s a way of meditating that allows you to go deeper into meditation with the push of a button! You can do this by listening to meditation CDs with binaural beat technology.
This is a fantastic way to meditate effectively, with virtually no effort, using “binaural beat” technology. This method allows you to meditate as if you have been practicing for 10 or 20 years, like a Buddhist monk, and you get the benefits of meditation much faster and more reliably. The beauty of this method is that it is very effective and easy to use. You can even do it while you sleep!
Achieve normal blood sugar levels
The information in this article will help you achieve normal blood sugar levels. It will also help you stabilize your blood sugar and keep your long-term average blood sugar levels within the normal range, that is, HbA1c between 4% and 6% or at least within the healthy range of levels blood sugar, up to an HbA1c of 6.5%. , so you will not have long-term complications. You will be able to reduce the amount of insulin you need and possibly even go off insulin altogether. By paying your medical bills directly, you’ll save money on insulin purchases and avoid costly unscheduled hospital visits and hospital stays.
