Disturbed sleep and stress can increase your sugar levels drastically. We get disturbed sleep because of our diet that does not support our body type. Food stressors are the biggest stressors faced by in our body. Disturbed sleep causes stress hormone “cortisol” to go up. Cortisol and master hormone Insulin are linked. Fasting sugar increases on most occasions if we have disturbed sleep. Disturbed sleep could be a result of our life style stressors or due to our food. There a
Your sugar levels can increase drastically, if you go on a ketogenic diet and are not able to sustain the diet for a long period of time and get back to the regular carbohydrate based Indian diets. A 55-year-old lady was a sugar patient and wanted to desperately lose weight. Enthused by the results of other friends and family members who got wonderful results with ketogenic diet, she decided to also try the ketogenic diet program. She got fantastic results with the ketogenic
Gestational diabetes can show up as Diabetes after several years with a big bang. Ensure to keep a watch on your nutrition and lifestyle after the delivery so that you can delay diabetes for a long time. A 35-year-old Indian lady in USA was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes in the 4th month of her pregnancy. We analyzed her diet pattern and were able to help her through the entire pregnancy without any medication. Through the 9 months, she had to report her fasting blood su
Your blood reports give a wealth of knowledge about the causes of diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides. Use the knowledge of nutrition to reduce your medications. Make appropriate lifestyle changes to support your body. A 46-year-old TOFI (Thin Outside & Fat Inside) business man with 3 stents for the past 10 years was suffering with diabetes, high cholesterol & triglycerides that was on the rise. His cardiologist would call him for routine visits every 3 months to mon
If you have a family history of diabetes or high cholesterol, you can delay diabetes by many years with diet & modifications of a lifestyle that supports your body type. During a routine annual medical checkup, a 40-year-old businessman, realized that his fasting sugar was 160 and his post prandial was 220 and LDL cholesterol was 180. He had seen his father suffer with diabetes for many years and also witnessed his father’s untimely death. Seeing results of other friends who
A 62-year male client was suffering with diabetes for past 7 years. He was maintaining his (sugar levels of) HBA1C at 7 with 12 units of a basal dose of insulin and 48 units of bolus dose (16 units before each meal through the day. His cholesterol (LDL) levels were a staggering 454. In 3 months, with changes in diet and lifestyle, his body did not need 48 units of (bolus) insulin. Currently his fasting sugar ranges between 100 & 140 and his post prandial ranges between 150 -
Diabetes is an ailment linked to Insulin (the master hormone). When there is insufficient production of Insulin, it is called Type 1 Diabetes. When the body produces more insulin than required to move the food into the cells or when the body produces insulin but the cells are not able to use it efficiently, it is called type 2 diabetes. India is the diabetes capital of the world with as many as 50 million people suffering from type-2 diabetes. As per WHO, it is estimated that
Did you know that Diabetic medications can be reduced or even eliminated through knowledge of appropriate nutrition and adequate lifestyle changes that supports your body ? If you are a diabetic and have higher fasting blood sugar than post prandial sugar, then the following paragraphs are a must read for you. By Indian Diabetes, I mean the Type 2 Diabetes in which the Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS) is high but the Post Meal Blood Sugar (also called PPS, short for Post Prandial Su
Appropriate Nutrition & healthy active lifestyle that consists adequate Physical Activity, reduced intermittent Stress & minimized disturbed Sleep contribute to reducing sugar levels and in many cases even reversing diabetes. Here is how each of these factors influence diabetes. Nutritious Meals with 20 or less glycemic load (GL) aid in uniform supply of insulin thus enabling a slow release of sugar into the blood stream. Most Indian nutritious meals have as high as 50 to 60
Nutrition vs Diabetes !! A 65-year-old lady, suffering from diabetes, with 30 units of Insulin & 6 diabetic medications a day was suffering from frequent hypoglycemia, joint pains, acute fatigue, psoriasis, hair loss & muscle loss. With the above medications, her fasting sugar with the was around 170 and her post prandial (meal) was around 250. The foods she was consuming on a regular basis was insulin generating (spikes) and causing all the above conditions. We made some cor
Childhood obesity is a frequent occurrence in affluent families where over-nutrition in the form of excess calories and under-nutrition in the form of vitamins and mineral deficiency coexist. On many occasions, owing to the adoption of western lifestyle, families having overweight/obese children who can be broadly classified into the following categories where: Both parents and all the children are obese. Here, the whole family is overweight or obese.Both parents are of fairl