Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus)

A condition characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from the body’s inability to use blood glucose for energy.

Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas no longer makes insulin and therefore blood glucose cannot enter the cells to be used for energy. Type 2 diabetes, either the pancreas does not make enough insulin or the body is unable to use insulin correctly.Pre-diabetes, a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal but are not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. People with pre-diabetes are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes and for heart disease and stroke. Other names for pre-diabetes are impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose.

Natural Treatment for Type II Diabetics at Ban Ing Nam Health Resort & Spa

Currently, there are many people who are suffering from having high-blood sugar and they have to tolerate with the circumstance they are facing. Not only that they are physically sick, but it extends to their mental health as well. They are required to take prescribed medicine, have insulin jab due to high sugar level, and dialysis would be their last resort.

Ban Ing Nam is ideal lifestyle modification vicinity for type II diabetics to learn how to live with proper lifestyle to get blood sugar down cut down medication and even free from the disease. It is simply a matter of the correct path of understanding towards the disease and how to tackle it wisely. Everyone can do it if they know how to manage it.

Is it True that Diabetes is Incurable?

Many people have the notion that diabetes is incurable which, in fact, is untrue. Most of the diabetics do have similar lifestyle; they eat unconscientiously and do not have ample exercise. This behavior simply leads to obesity and high blood sugar. It is true that diabetes is genetic but it only accounts for 30 percents. Presently, it is found that visceral fat within the stomach has much impact on the emergence of diabetes due to the fact that visceral fat tends to resist insulin. Subsequently, efficacy of starch and sugar digestion would not be met and blood sugar level is inclined to rise. Therefore, if we manage to live a well-balanced life, diabetes could just be easily tackled.

Natural Course of Diabetes

We are prone to diabetes as we get older and generally would starts after 40 years and above. However, the starting age of having diabetes tends to drop due to inappropriate consumption behavior and conventional lifestyle has been derailed which lead to higher risk of getting diabetes. Many patients would have their chances of changing themselves once diabetes has knocked on their doors, but not many of them could really cope up with what they are actually facing. Soon they are required to be on from superficial medication to severe dosage. As time goes by, additional different complementary medicines are needed. On the average, efficiency of medication intake will last approximately for 10 years and it would be the time that pills alone could not take control of sugar level anymore. Insulin would then play its role.

Not only the frustrating diabetes that keeps on pestering, a patient will need to take different medicines for other illnesses that tag along and of which that co-exist with diabetes, such as high-blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Is Diabetes Preventable?

For those who should look after themselves with proactive measures:

  1. Cut off excessive weight. Studies have shown that if redundant weight is cut down by 5-10% and do exercise consistently, the risk of getting diabetes could be reduced as much as 58% in 3 years.
  2. Have well-balanced meal. Avoid too much of carbohydrate, sugar, and oily food. Vegetables, fruits, fish, and lean meats are advisable.
  3. Take food that is high in fiber. This helps prevent heart diseases and helps lose irrelevant weight because fiber will delay hunger. Intake of fiber should be 25-50 gram a day.
  4. Do consistent exercise about 3 to 4 times a week, at least 30 minutes for each time. Exercise will enhance insulin to take better effect due to the fact that muscles use energy produced from sugar; increase in muscles and fat reduction will lower the chance of having diabetes.
  5. Avoid too much alcohol because it would hinder efficiency of pancreas.
  6. Have sugar level checked twice a year, starting from 25 years of age and above.

What is the Natural Treatment for Type II Diabetes at Ban Ing Nam?

It is still not too late for diabetics to look after themselves to improve their own conditions by preventing intervention of other illnesses in the future. The most crucial factor to ward off intervention of illnesses is to control the sugar level to conform to the criterion by:

  1. Counseling with experts on diet, exercise and disease treatment.
  2. Reducing weight to the standard.
  3. Having serious and consistent control of food intake, especially carbohydrate and sugar. Study of amount of sugar intake from food and suitable amount to be taken is required and learn how to live with this lifestyle.
  4. Doing proper and having suitable amount of exercise under supervision of personal trainer.
  5. Keeping track on sugar level consistently. Sugar level before breakfast should be within 80-120 mg/dl, sugar level after each meal after 2 hours should less than 140 mg/dl, and cumulative sugar should be less than 6%.