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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Can exercise "cure" my diabetes?

Lets first consider some benefits of exercise with diabetes or anyone for that matter. It lowers weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, improves depression, improves sleep, decreases appetite, improves HDL(good) cholesterol, improves insulin sensitivity, and increases energy. The list goes on and on.
We know from several studies exercise is one of the most beneficial steps a person can take to control blood glucose. Interestingly, I have personally viewed blood sugar logbooks side by side to exercise logs. On the days exercise was done the blood sugar was 30 points lower.On the days exercise was not done the blood sugar was higher sometimes requiring more medications.
Exercise can in fact, cause enough weight loss, reduction in blood pressure, and reduction in blood sugar to greatly improve ones health. Maybe their doctor says to them "You have done so well with exercise you no longer need your blood pressure medication or lets reduce your diabetes medications".
In this case the improvement in ones health allows them to reduce or even omit medications. This is a huge success for the diabetic. Think of all the money saved on medications!
Unfortunately, there is no cure for any type of diabetes.  Consistent exercise along with weight loss can cause symptoms to disappear, but diabetes will always be present.
If a person exercises consistently and can reduce or omit medications think of how much better their health is. The possibility  to "pushing off or delaying" diabetes symptoms into the future is golden

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