Diabetes and Hypoglycemia
Natural medicine is effectivein reversing insulin
resistance in diabetics
Problems with blood sugar regulation are increasing at an alarming rate in America. Type 2 Diabetes (Insulin Resistant Diabetes) has increased 10 fold in our children. 41 million Americans have been diagnosed with Prediabetes. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that doctors are now seeing patients with both the symptoms of Type 1 and 2 Diabetes layered upon one another, with a possibility of a Type 3 Diabetes soon to be diagnosed. We believe that the alarming rise in this rate is directly related to our personal diet and lifestyle choices. We are a nation that tends to overeat, overstress, and under exercise. We tend to eat foods high in calories, sugar and fat but low in nutrient content. We tend to overload our bodies with stimulants and depressants (caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana) in order to cope with our daily occupational, financial, and family responsibilities. This chronic pattern takes its toll on the body, mind, and spirit.
When your body has trouble processing sugar and carbohydrates you may feel symptoms of:
Headaches / Migraines
Nausea
Dizziness
Shakiness
Mood Swings (Anxiety / Depression / Irritability / Anger)
Sweating
Forgetfulness / Clumsiness
Sleepiness
Heart Palpitations / Racing
If you have been diagnosed with hypoglycemia, Diabetes Type I/II, then natural medicine can support you to feel energy again. With a specially designed diet, good nutritional support, and herbal medicine you can feel more balanced.
As Naturopathic Doctors, our goal is to actively prevent and treat illness and connect each person with vibrant health. We view the body as a whole and use the most natural, least toxic therapies such as clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy and physical medicine to promote the body to heal itself.
Here’s a 3-step plan that should help you gain control over your diabetes if you have it, and protect you from getting it if you don’t:
Recreate your diet so that you eat foods based on your body’s unique needs with (Food Intolerance testing) and (Nutritional Counseling)
Start an exercise program today!
Increase your nutrient density by greatly increasing your intake of fresh fruits and vegetables and by supplementing with one of the most researched nutritional products in the world in order to fill in the rest of your nutritional gaps. (Click here for more info).
Simple Steps To Managing Hypoglycemia & Diabetes
1. Eat 5 – 6 small meals/snacks per day instead of one, two or three larger meals. Include in each meal a protein source and a source of good fatty acids (preferably unsaturated and unheated i.e. flax seeds, flax seed oil, cold pressed vegetable oils, nuts, seeds and their butters, deep sea cold water fish and avocados).
2. Add to your diet:
Fresh raw seeds/nuts and their butters (i.e. flax, sesame, chia, pumpkin,almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts)
Garlic
Onions
Avocados
Green beans
Jerusalem artichokes
Whole complex grains (i.e. millet, brown rice, buckwheat)
3. Avoid consumption of:
Sugar in all its forms i.e. fructose, sucrose, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, molasses, honey, rice syrup, etc.
Soft drinks, fruit juices and carrot juice
Excessive salt
White flour and everything made from it
Highly refined, processed and canned foods including frozen dinners and highly processed breakfast cereals
Tobacco
Alcohol
Caffeine (coffee, tea, chocolate, cola, aspirin, bromo-seltzer and Excedrin)
Nature provides many solutions foreffectively balancing blood sugar
4. Read the ingredients/labels of your food and know what you are putting into your body.
5. Therapies that may be recommended by your doctor:
1-2 tablespoons Brewers yeast per day (not nutritional yeast). Good sources are Kal or Twinlab.
Exercise vigorously on a daily basis.
If you are overweight talk to your doctor or about a sensible plan for reducing. This plan will very likely include nutritional counseling as food issues are a common source of emotional stress and anxiety.
Talk to your doctor about providing the proper support and diagnostic testing for the restoration of your adrenal glands and blood sugar response.
Assessment of possible food allergies / food intolerances.
If following the above instructions does not sufficiently reduce your symptoms add protein to each of the 5 meals/snacks you are eating daily.
Other helpful ideas: learn visualizaion/affirmation techniques, practice meditation techniques,
Consider scheduling an appointment with Dr. Bryan Skinner, ND for a constitutional (homeopathic) remedy in order to decrease or eliminate patterns of stress, anxiety, or emotional eating.
For more detailed diet information read Hypoglycemia: A Better Approach by Paavo Airola, Ph.D. and chapter 2 of The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Murray, N.D. and Pizzorno, N.D.