If you have been told that you have been diagnosed with diabetes, then it is more than likely your doctor is going to prescribe you with some form of medication.
These medications can used for various treatments such as lowering your blood pressure, suppressing your appetite, lowering you cholesterol, lowering your blood sugar, or maybe even having to have insulin injections.
If the image or thought of taking expensive medications that might possibly have side effects or sticking yourself with needles doesn't get you too excited, you’re not the only one.
There are millions of people today that have decided that they are going to choose natural treatments for type 2 diabetes.
Some of these ways have proven effective for not only reducing symptoms, but also reversing type 2 diabetes completely.
Probably the Most Effective Way to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
In most cases one of the commonest symptoms that most people have in relation to developing type 2 diabetes, is carrying around too much extra weight.
If you regularly over indulge in unhealthy foods, you end up damaging the ability of your cells to respond to insulin.
Insulin begins to spike to take care of the overeating of carbs, your cells don't respond if they have become resistant to insulin, and carbohydrates are converted to glucose and stored as fat.
Just about all diabetes specialists and proper nutritionists will tell you that eating the correct foods and avoiding the "rubbish" is a clear and simple way to get your diabetes under control
When you eat a low carbohydrate, low to medium calorie, healthy food diet, your cellular ability to respond to insulin can be returned.
Eat less calories than your body naturally burns, eat more protein and less carbohydrates especially those unnecessary simple carbs, add regular exercise, and you will begin to lose weight.
You’ll then naturally start to feel more energetic, which more than often leads to participating in even more physical activity.
When you start getting active as opposed to sitting around doing nothing, and cut out the junk food, fried food, fast food and processed food, it won’t be long before you reach and maintain a healthy body weight.
This kind of diet change, especially with some regular exercise chucked in along with some smart nutrition, has proven effective for reversing diabetes in people of all ages.
Are Natural Herbs any Good for Type 2 Diabetes?
There are some herbs and spices that have been said to lower elevated blood sugar levels.
They are also reputed do things such as speed up your metabolism and lessen your appetite.
Try adding some of the following herbs and spices to your food, to see if they can help improve your blood glucose control.
Cinnamon
Fenugreek
Ginger
Aloe Vera
Bilberry extract
Bitter lemon
A bit more research is required to scientifically prove if the following herbs and spices can help to lower high blood sugar levels, but, in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic, these spices are touted for their ability to reduce diabetes symptoms.
Allium
Ginseng
Ficus carica
Coccinia indica (the ivy gourd)
Gymnema sylvestre
Bauhinia forficata
Using Acupuncture to Treat Type 2 Diabetes
Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment of diabetes has for a long time included acupuncture.
This ancient Eastern healing practice involves shoving tiny little needles into different parts of the body.
This is said to help clear up blocked energy channels which lead to a host of physical and mental health problems, that includes diabetes.
This is one of the common practices for treating diabetes in China, and as Traditional Chinese Medicine is becoming more widely accepted in the west, it is starting to grow more popular worldwide as well.
Meditation and Type 2 Diabetes
Meditation is a daily practice that simply involves clearing your mind so that you can return to a place of calm emotions.
It’s getting to be generally accepted that mediation can be used for a multitude of physical benefits.
Although meditating may not directly stop or reverse your diabetes symptoms, it can help you take control of your body weight.
Several studies link a regular meditation practice to weight loss where the individual has been overweight or obese.
Because being overweight is a risk factor for diabetes, meditation might be able to keep diabetes from developing the first place, and helping reverse it once a diagnosis has been made, due to getting the weight off.
Can Nutritional Supplements Help With Type 2 Diabetes?
Chromium is needed for your body to produce the glucose tolerance factor that helps insulin work well.
There are studies that have shown a chromium supplement taken daily might help with diabetes control.
Similar has been said for a daily ginseng supplement, although as I mentioned earlier, there is a lot more research to be done in this area.
There has been research done that shows a magnesium supplement can aid towards preventing the development of type 2 diabetes.
So as far as herbal remedies and supplements are concerned, though a lot of people will say they have been helped by taking them.
There is still a lot of research to be carried out to prove that they do actually have any profound effect on preventing, curing or reversing type 2 diabetes.
The only scientifically proven methods at this current time is, changing our lifestyle and making sure we eat the right nutritional foods, and get adequate exercise.
