Prediabetes Treatments:
Natural Treatments for Prediabetes
In most cases, modern doctors and herbalists treat prediabetes in similar ways.
The two primary ways to treat prediabetes is to change your diet and increase your exercise.
Herbalists and natural remedy specialists may go a step further and suggest herbal supplements which can help with the weight loss and help control the blood sugar swings.
Diabetes goes hand in hand with obesity, and prediabetes often happens in conjunction with moderate weight gain and sedentary lifestyles.
Coupled with poor eating habits, and it's just a matter of time before many people with prediabetes end up developing full adult onset type two diabetes, along with many of the side effect-health problems of the condition.
Estimates currently say that 54 million people in the United States have prediabetes, but studies have been done on the various types of treatments, and though there are medications available to help delay full diabetes from developing, the best results have been found to come from losing weight.
In fact, these studies have shown that losing 5-10% of your body weight and getting moderate exercise for 30 minutes a day produced a 58% reduction in diabetes for the study participants.
Not only can diet and exercise delay or prevent full diabetes from developing, but some people are even able to return their blood sugar levels to more normal levels.
This is effectively "reversing" the damage done over time.
Proper eating changes to treat prediabetes naturally include much of what you hear for other medical conditions and weight loss programs.
Include more fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet, cut out or drastically reduce sugars and simple starches, add quality proteins and fats, and include more fiber.
By eating more fruits and vegetables, you're helping your body to get more fiber naturally already.
Adding additional fiber is important because your body's cleansing organs need that fiber to help filter and move solid wastes out of your system.
If you're not able to get additional fiber in your body from foods, you may want to consider taking a natural fiber supplement such as flax seeds or psyllium husks.
There are herbs which will help in this respect too.
Alfalfa is one which provides your body with high amounts of extra nutrition, plus it acts as a "broom" within your colon to keep solid waste material moving out regularly.
Increasing the amount of good proteins and fats you eat is important as well, because these help keep your blood sugar levels more balanced throughout the day.
These foods have the added effect of helping you to feel full and satiated much longer as well, so you'll end up eating less overall.
You don't have to cut carbohydrates completely from your diet, but this is the most important area that must be changed to fully affect your body's blood sugar levels.
Simple carbs found in standard white breads, pastas and rice are treated like sugar in your body, and they cause your blood sugar levels to spike drastically after eating them.
Changing to whole grain breads and pastas, or brown rice is one way to help minimize those effects.
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