New Drug discoveries for Diabetes. But you\u2019ll still have to remember to take them in order to be Medication Adherent
\nThe Strange Relationship of Diabetes and Sugar<\/p>\n
January and February of 2015 have revealed several new studies regarding Diabetes and the diseases relationship to Sugar. All of the studies promote that we should give up added sugars. But there\u2019s so much more going on here. After all, our blood cells require sugar. (This chronic disease is all about Insulin Resistance.) That\u2019s where sugar is supposed to be: INSIDE the blood cells. We use insulin in order to push sugar into our blood cells. What we don\u2019t need is all the extra sugar floating around in our systems. In the case of Diabetics our body\u2019s systems don\u2019t know what\u2019s good for us.<\/p>\n
\nFor the past few years I\u2019ve been going by the RULES for diabetics: Diabetics are told that we\u2019re supposed to eat at least two \u201cservings\u201d of fruit per day. When I questioned this my doctor responded, \u201cyou have to eat something.\u201d I did try to eat fruit daily\u2026 but I quickly found that all fruits are not created equally. You may have to experiment a little on how your own system responds. I like apples, but I have come to realize that they may be more sugary than I had noticed when I was a little younger. If, for instance, I were to eat half an apple, that would probably be okay. A whole apple eaten all at once might be the sugar equivalent of having a fifth cup of coffee. Maybe a little over the top, even though our bodies didn\u2019t used to respond so vigorously as they do with age. Juices are verboten all together. I was making smoothies with great, healthy raw veggies and it turned out that I was mainlining glucose because there was no Protein powder added. My blood sugar was soaring into the 400s. It could have been literally quite dangerous: Death by Broccoli. So no more juices or smoothies without knowledge of what it does for me. These days when I make a smoothie it\u2019s about the protein powder mostly. Add a little almond milk, some organic strawberries, half a banana, a splash of flax seed oil and some ice. Blend. Awesome.<\/p>\n
Careful with the fruit. A new study indicates that FRUCTOSE (sugar from fruits) may be even worse for a diabetic than regular old white table sugar. And when you combine the two, it\u2019s way worse than either used alone. Read about this study in Science Codex. Another study, in US NEWS, finds that we diabetics might have been better off had we more Vitamin D in our bodies. It\u2019s hard not to believe that because it seems that it\u2019s the cure for virtually everything. For me, it\u2019s difficult to be medication adherent to Vitamins because the label instructs us to take them but don\u2019t say when; as with any kind of medication or supplement we have to have a plan to take then at the same time daily if we have any hope of being medication adherent to an effective plan. I\u2019ve heard Doctors tell their patients to \u201c\u2026take more Vitamin D\u2026 you\u2019re low,\u201d but this doesn\u2019t really get implemented on it\u2019s own, does it? We have to make a plan to incorporate it into our daily routine. We likely need a reminder.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem is the spiking of your blood sugar, either high or low. You don\u2019t want either. What you want is for your blood sugar to stay between 85 and 140. It goes up after you eat as your body works to digest the food. If it goes too low then you can pass out. It\u2019s actually these spikes that do the most damage to your internal organs. Some researchers at Lund University are using a drug that they call DPP-4 to limit the extreme swings. Read about this in EurekAlert<\/a>.<\/p>\n I went in to a health food supplement store about a week ago, having heard about Glucocil. It\u2019s \u201cnatural,\u201d it must be true, the label says so. It\u2019s basically vitamins and such that give your body a fighting chance at keeping your circulatory system working along with managing your blood\u2019s highs and lows. I take it with lunch and dinner as the directions on the bottle say. I believe that it may be working, though I\u2019m really eager to see what affect it will have after a month of using it.<\/p>\n So far, the only difficulty is remembering to take it with my meals. I need a reminder for that. I use Medtexter to help me manage all of my medications, prescriptions or over the counter or even Vitamin D. Any med that you\u2019re going to take needs to be taken as directed if you\u2019re going to be medication adherent. I\u2019ll let you know what my little Glucocil experiment yields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Drug discoveries for Diabetes. But you\u2019ll still have to remember to take them in order to be Medication Adherent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21],"tags":[22,43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}