Diabetic Treatment Goals

Before we look at new treatment options we’ll look at the current level of knowledge regarding the prevention of diabetes. If your blood sugar levels are currently normal but you have a family history of diabetes, the information in this report may help you delay or completely avoid developing the disease.

But if you’ve already been diagnosed as a diabetic, this report will help you pursue the following closely interrelated goals:

1. Increase your control of blood sugar levels

2. Increase insulin sensitivity

3. Delay or avoid diabetic complication

Of course any diabetic treatment must be centered around the single most important goal - blood sugar control. For the diabetic, a rise in blood sugar can cause serious problems, some of which can be permanent.

If you decide to try some of the treatments discussed in this report, always consult with your doctor first and be sure to closely monitor your blood sugar.

Insulin sensitivity is another important subject for diabetics for when it’s all said and done, insulin insensitivity is the root cause of the disease. For reasons that are poorly understood, most type II diabetics produce more than enough insulin but somehow their bodies have become insensitive to it’s normal ability to control blood sugar levels. The result is type II diabetes - increased insulin production (as the body produces more insulin in an attempt to bring down elevated blood sugar levels) and high blood sugar.

Avoiding Diabetic Complications

Diabetes is well-known to cause a long list of health complications. At the top of the list is the number one killer – heart disease. Studies have shown that approximately two thirds of diabetics die of heart disease before their time. Fortunately there are a number of natural products that can slow or even partially reverse the development of heart disease and at the same time help keep your circulatory system as healthy as possible. Improving your circulation will also help you avoid the foot and kidney problems that often plague diabetics. 

By bolstering the body’s antioxidant defense system, we can counter the tendency of diabetics to age and die prematurely. Studies have demonstrated that diabetics need more antioxidants than healthy individuals and we now know that these heightened needs can be easily met through a combination of pleasant dietary changes and the use of nutritional supplements.

While some doctors are openly embracing these new approaches, many less progressive doctors continue to ignore them. But today visionary physicians such as Dr. Andrew Weil are championing an exciting new approach he calls “Integrative Medicine”. This new kind of medical practice doesn’t narrowly limit itself to prescription medications but instead embraces a much wider range of treatments, including those borrowed from other medical traditions. 

Dr. Weil is a Harvard trained medical doctor (M.D.) who has also spent several years studying oriental medicine in China. He also holds a degree in medical botany and so is familiar with herbal medicines traditionally used by various cultures around the world. 

Dr. Weil prescribes prescription drugs or surgery to only about 10% of his patients. The others receive safer and less expensive herbal medicines, alternative therapies or simple advice. His system concentrates on providing the most appropriate treatment for each health problem rather than stressing one form of treatment over another. Minor health problems are usually treated with less toxic herbal medicines while prescription drugs and surgery are reserved for more serious health problems.

This trend is being fueled by another complimentary trend. Today’s health care consumer, tired of toxic and overpriced medications, is demanding a more holistic and natural focus. They are also tired of taking a passive role and want to become more proactively involved in their own health care.

This exciting new brand of medicine is today having a profound impact on our entire health care delivery system. But such revolutionary change of such a large system will, unfortunately take time.

Though diabetic medications have an important role to play in the management of diabetes, it’s important to remember that prescription drugs are not a cure for diabetes. They are instead only one form of treatment. It’s a sad fact that most diabetics go on to suffer life-altering complications and die prematurely despite years of prescription drug treatment.

I think you’ll agree after reviewing this report, it would be extremely foolish in the extreme to think that taking diabetic drugs is all you need to do to control your disease.

Diabetes is a chronic and complex condition, but its complications are not inevitable and are, in fact, largely preventable. If you’re reading this report, you’re about to open a whole new chapter in the battle against your disease. No matter how long you’ve had diabetes, you’ll find something here that will be of value to you, that will help you take control of your health care, and in so doing take back control of your life – and at the same time, your future.

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