Diabetes can be a debilitating disease that can have a devastating effect on your nerves, eyes, and even your heart. If left unattended to, diabetes can become a serious problem, and might even cause death.
While this is an extreme outcome, other more common outcomes of living with diabetes can be managed. Knowing more about which type of diabetes you’re dealing with and how to handle it can go far in ensuring a higher quality of life.
Here we will discuss the intricacies of diabetes, how it affects your life, and how pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, or PEMF, can help you.
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease that occurs when there is an excess of glucose in your system and not enough insulin to counteract it. Normally, insulin is made to counteract the glucose that enters your body as a result of eating food and drinking beverages.
When your body is unable to utilize insulin to counteract the glucose in your system, or when the insulin in your body is used incorrectly, the result is one of two types of diabetes.
Type-1 diabetes is when your body does not produce any insulin at all. The reason behind type-1 diabetes involves the body’s immune system attacking cells in the pancreas that would normally produce insulin. The cause of this is unknown, but glucose management is important in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Type-2 diabetes is when your body does produce insulin but either it doesn’t produce enough insulin or the insulin being produced is not used in the right way. This can be brought on by multiple situations. People who are overweight might end up growing resistant to insulin, resulting in type-2 diabetes.
The older you get, the more likely you’ll be to get type-2 diabetes. There is a link between diabetes and family history as well, making your risk much higher if your parents had diabetes. Women might find themselves more susceptible to type-2 diabetes during and after pregnancy.
During pregnancy, gestational diabetes might occur. This is a form of diabetes-specific to pregnant women and that normally goes away once pregnancy is over. Another reason women might end up with type-2 diabetes is known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which occurs due to an imbalance of hormones in the body. This imbalance leads to cysts developing on the ovaries and an increased risk of becoming diabetic.
Another potential cause of type-2 diabetes relates to smoking and alcohol intake. If you smoke or drink an exorbitant amount of alcohol, you may put yourself at an increased risk for type-2 diabetes. Quitting smoking and lowering the amount of alcohol you drink can bring your risk back down.
How is Diabetes Detected?
To know if you have diabetes you can always get tested by your doctor. The older you are the more your doctor will be inclined to test you for diabetes. There are several tests your doctor can run in order to know whether you’re alright, prediabetic, or diabetic.
When testing for blood sugar levels, the higher the blood sugar level, the closer you will be towards being diabetic. Keeping your blood sugar levels low is important in not pushing yourself towards type-2 diabetes.
Can You Avoid Diabetes?
If you’re pre-diabetic, there are things you can do to avoid becoming a full-blown diabetic. You can change your diet to be a bit more health-conscious. Consuming foods that are high in cholesterol, fat, salt, and sugar will worsen your health and push you closer towards type-2 diabetes.
In addition to eating healthy, having a regular exercise routine would be helpful. Maintaining an active lifestyle can help to reduce weight, maintain safe levels of blood pressure, and reduce your risk for heart disease.
How to Treat for Diabetes
If you have type-2 diabetes, there are several things you can do to help maintain high levels of health. Some methods of treatment involve exercise, diet, and medicine. Exercise can help to keep your weight in check, your insulin levels in check, and to lower your risk for heart disease. In general, exercise is good for your overall health.
Maintaining proper weight will help insulin work better within the body. Maintaining a proper diet can help to maintain proper levels of insulin and glucose in the body. Diets high in fiber and complex carbohydrates are best to help manage diabetes. Monitoring how often you eat can help as well.
Eating three meals at the same time every day will help to normalize your insulin levels throughout the day. At times, your doctor might even prescribe medicine for you to take to manage your type-2 diabetes. Sometimes it can be a specific kind of medicine to manage a certain aspect of diabetes, or it could be insulin to bolster the body’s natural supply. Either way, it will help to keep your diabetes in check.
How PEMF and Diabetes Coexist
PEMF therapy is known to provide temporary relief to pain caused by various ailments. With diabetes, PEMF therapy has the ability to not only provide relief from nerve pain caused by the disease, but it has also shown the ability to hinder the further progression of any related pain.
PEMF therapy directly impacts cells, recharging their electromagnetic fields and creating an environment meant to improve the body’s natural method of healing. Studies have shown that people with diabetic neuropathy (or nerve pain caused by diabetes) can benefit from having PEMF therapy used to “significantly reduce” the amount of pain produced by diabetes.
Due to these findings, it’s safe to say the use of a PEMF device would produce the same positive effects when used at home. If you live with diabetes, HealthyLine can provide the perfect apparatus to help you with your symptoms. The TAJ-Mat™ Full 7224 Firm - Photon PEMF InfraMat Pro® provides the perfect combination of PEMF therapy with four other natural therapies that can complement the healing properties of pulsed electromagnetic field therapy.
The addition of heated stone therapy allows for sore muscle relief. Negative ion therapy grants you an improved mood. Far infrared therapy helps to improve your ability to relax and unwind. Photon light therapy rejuvenates your skin and helps improve skin-related issues like acne. With a TAJ-Mat, you can experience PEMF therapy that helps deal with pain brought on by diabetes along with several other natural therapies that will improve your overall health.
