Tag: diabetes

Lower your blood sugar and prevent nerve damage linked to diabetes with alpha-lipoic acid

Randolph Jason

Lower your blood sugar and prevent nerve damage linked to diabetes with alpha-lipoic acid By Virgilio Marin for Prevention Alpha-lipoic acid, or ALA, is an organic compound that acts as a powerful antioxidant. It’s both water- and fat-soluble, which means it can work in every cell or tissue in the body. The antioxidant properties of ALA are linked to several health benefits, including lower blood sugar levels, reduced inflammation and improved nerve function. For these reasons, experts suggest that ALA may help people with Type 2 diabetes and prevent peripheral neuropathy – nerve damage that often leads to numbness,…

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Reducing your intake of sugary drinks by 1 serving a day may lower diabetes risk by at least 10%

Randolph Jason

Reducing your intake of sugary drinks by 1 serving a day may lower diabetes risk by at least 10% by: Virgilio Marin for Natural News Researchers from the U.S. and China suggest that drinking a serving of water, coffee or tea in place of a sugary beverage may lower Type 2 diabetes risk by up to 10 percent. In a paper published in the Diabetes Journal, they further revealed that swapping sodas and 100 percent fruit juices for diet sodas and artificially sweetened drinks did not seem to lessen diabetes risk. These findings…

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The Simple Eating Hack That Could Prevent Most Diseases Including Blindness

Randolph Jason

The Simple Eating Hack That Could Prevent Most Diseases Including Blindness by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola Dr. Chris Knobbe, an ophthalmologist, is the founder and president of the Cure AMD Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD, a leading cause of blindness in the U.S. — and the third leading cause of blindness globally (after cataracts and glaucoma)1 — is said to be a disease associated with aging, but, in the presentation above, Knobbe asks, “Could age-related macular degeneration be a disease of processed food…

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THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: CONTROLLING DIABETES ELECTROMAGNETICALLY

Randolph Jason

THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: CONTROLLING DIABETES ELECTROMAGNETICALLY By JOSEPH P. FARRELL for Giza Death Star Do you still think electromagnetic medicine isn’t real? Then wait until you read today’s article shared by J.T. (to whom a big thank you for spotting this one!). Before we get to that, however,  an apology: due to some scheduling glitches I didn’t notice until today, there wasn’t a blog for yesterday, but there were two blogs for one day earlier this week, so my apologies for the confusion. Today’s blog-focus is a stunner, and as…

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Study Links Higher Level Of Exercise To 25% To 32% Lower Risk Of All-Cause Mortality

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Study Links Higher Level Of Exercise To 25% To 32% Lower Risk Of All-Cause Mortality from Natural Blaze Study links higher level of exercise to 25% to 32% lower risk of all-cause mortality in people with type 2 diabetes New research presented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, shows that having a greater exercise capacity is associated with a significantly decreased all-cause mortality risk of between 25-33% in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The study was…

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Shake it off: Study finds that whole-body vibrations can reduce inflammation in patients with Type 2 diabetes

Randolph Jason

Shake it off: Study finds that whole-body vibrations can reduce inflammation in patients with Type 2 diabetes By Divina Ramirez for Prevention Diabetes is a metabolic disease that is prevalent worldwide. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), 34.2 million Americans had diabetes in 2018. An overwhelming chunk of this population is diagnosed with Type 2, the most common form of diabetes. In the face of this chronic disease, researchers from Augusta University in Georgia and Ohio State University found that whole-body vibration has potential benefits on the bacterial communities in the gut, resulting in reduced inflammation. The vibrations also led to enhanced…

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The Real Pandemic Is Insulin Resistance

Randolph Jason

The Real Pandemic Is Insulin Resistance by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola According to a January 2019 update by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 122 million American adults have diabetes or prediabetes1 — conditions which have been shown to increase your chances of contracting and even dying from COVID-19.2,3,4,5,6,7 As noted in an April 16, 2020, report by The New York Times:8 “Obesity may be one of the most important predictors of severe coronavirus illness, new studies say. It’s an alarming finding for the United States, which has…

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Diabetes Can Increase Complications of COVID-19

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Diabetes Can Increase Complications of COVID-19 by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola For a limited time only, PBS is streaming a free documentary on America’s diabetes epidemic (it may not be available in all areas; check your local PBS to see if it’s in your area). Coincidentally, diabetes is a comorbidity that can increase your chances of contracting and even dying from COVID-19,1 making this documentary particularly timely. One of the best strategies to beat COVID-19 is to get any underlying chronic conditions under control. Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure…

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Prevent diabetes and heart disease by cutting at least 300 calories every day, regardless of your BMI

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Prevent diabetes and heart disease by cutting at least 300 calories every day, regardless of your BMI By Michael Alexander for Prevention Cutting the caloric equivalent of a pizza might help improve one’s biomarkers for metabolic syndrome such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride levels. This is according to recent findings by researchers from Duke University in North Carolina. The results of the study were published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. The researchers found that cutting around 300 calories a day…

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Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension

Randolph Jason

Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola While the World Health Organization has put the death rate from novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at 3.4%,1 a study in Nature Medicine put it much lower, at 1.4%.2 The fact is, with many cases going unreported and untested, mild and asymptomatic cases may not be included in official COVID-19 death rate figures, which could skew the death rate significantly, making it appear higher than it actually is. In Italy, however — the “new” epicenter for COVID-19 — the number of…

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