It isn't worth a single penny…
Do you know a prediabetic (an early stage which
will develop into the full-scale disease) person can cut the risk of getting
diabetes by more than fifty percent? What a stress reliever it is for people
who are taking those extra steps to avoid the disease.
But, what if you have already acquired
diabetes? Does it make any better to keep thinking about it and taking stress
of having diabetes? Does stress really affects diabetes? If yes, how does it?
Research has proved that people who have used
easy relaxation techniques have noticed a significant drop in their blood sugar
levels over a period of months. In fact about a third of the people lowered
their blood sugar levels by one percent or more after a year, this is at par
with that of diabetes drugs. So exactly stress affects our blood sugar levels?
To understand this, you just need to understand
what happens when you are stressed. Basically, when you are in tension your
body pumps out cortisol hormones in response to stress your mind is taking,
these hormones are released sparing available glucose for the brain, generating
new energy from stored reserves, and diverting energy from low-priority
activities (such as the immune system) in order to survive immediate threats.
However, extended cortisol secretion results in significant physiological
changes. Now, these hormones make your heartbeat and breathing speed increase,
they also while sending glucose stores into the blood for making energy
available to your muscles results in higher blood sugar.
So, this implies that, stress is directly
proportional to your blood sugar. Higher the stress, higher will be your blood
sugar levels. What a Mathematical Biology, isn’t it!!
Now, calm down and give yourself a smile before
you start reading further, taking tension over it and emitting those cortisol
hormones to take your blood sugar high. We mean it, take a break.
Stress again and you are contributing to
insulin resistance. Yes, your diabetes provoked by stress guarantees the
insulin resistance. Since you know how diabetes is affected by insulin
resistance, we will move on to inform you that stress also makes it difficult
for the pancreas to secrete the insulin which is required to move glucose out
of the blood. Wicked to make you sick!!
The worst of all, you gain weight when you are
stressed. Well, the cortisol hormones we told you about earlier are also known
to increase appetite. You would have heard people saying about how they tend to
eat more when they are stressed, in fact they tend to munch up whatever fatty,
high-calorie and junk snacks are in their reach is due to their hormones. These
cortisol hormones also encourage your cells in your stomach to conserve fat.
This fat weighs on your belly that increases your risk of heart attack.
Frankly speaking, now that we’ve given you so
much information to think about your stress, we are worried if you will be
stressed on this “stress” fact too. Diabetes is indeed a disease which affects
your lifestyle and it gets exaggerated with the way you handle it.
Now, if you are worried about your children
that they may also get diabetes, you have one less thing to worry about. Just
register yourself at www.Grass-Diabetes.com and get a detailed report on the risk of
diabetes for your each family member depending upon their individual
lifestyles. Isn’t it better to know your enemy to fight him rather than going
unprepared and fall victim, will you?
Stress affects your lifestyle as it affects
your mind. It is highly unlikely that you will think of a good walk or doing
exercises when you are stressed due to your growing to-do list at work, peer
pressure, health of your child or your fight with your better half. Start by
practicing the art of relaxation, do some yoga, train to control your mind and
not vice-versa, start seeing the big picture rather than getting stressed in
the nitty-gritty’s of life and harming your health.
A few things you can do when you are stressed:
·
Lie down & focus on your body - Be aware of
all good & bad things happening within you from toe to top
·
Deep breathing - Focus on your breathe
·
Experience the present - Don’t rush over
everything
·
Meditate - Make it a habit
·
Spread your social wings - Build a good social
support system in your friends & family to whom you can talk to when in
stress
·
It’s not that hard but just keep a small note
of all good things in your life - look at it when stressed and feel better
·
Listen to a soothing music or just sing loudly
·
Just run away - not necessarily run, you can
walk too - Any form of exercise will help you release good chemicals
·
Laugh out Loud… LOL : )
If
diabetes is preventable, just avoid it.
Over two decades of our services to diabetic
patients through Singhal Diabetic Clinic located at Haridwar, has made us
thinking of the health status of current generation. Be it the fast paced
lifestyle lived by our younger friends or the life lived by middle aged generation
under tremendous physiological career pressure, all this takes its toll on
their health. If this lifestyle is clubbed with your genetic composition i.e.
your family’s history of diabetes, the threat of diabetes will be one of the
major concerns. As the old saying goes, prevention is better than cure, your
knowledge towards your own body and the lifestyle you chose determines your
future. You are welcome to explore and know more about your risk of diabetes at
www.Grass-Diabetes.com
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In our next issue, we will
explore the simpler way to identify the
good food & bad food for your diabetes. If you have any queries, feel
free to contact us:
Yours,
Dr. M Singhal
Grass-Diabetes.com
Email:
doctor@grass-diabetes.com
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