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10. Meditation Meditation is useful for diabetics due to how it helps reduce stress levels. It can assist with stress by lowering your blood pressure and slowing down the rate, thus putting us into a relaxed state.
9. Look After Your Feet Nerves to the feet are the most common area to be at risk. Check your feet every day for any pain and keep the blood flowing by standing up and moving around often.
Take note of any early signs of nerve damage, such as numbing or tingling feeling to the feet, and most importantly, mention this to your doctor.
8. Regularly Test Your Blood Sugar Levels The most important thing to prevent your diabetes from developing and potentially resulting in nerve damage is to keep your blood glucose levels under control.
And when you’re able to learn what triggers a spike, you can make better decisions on what is right for your body.
7. Consume Omega 3 Fatty Acids It is a strong anti-inflammatory, helps to fight Alzheimer's disease, and improves joint health.
It is also found that Omega 3 fatty acids not only have the ability to protect our nerves, but they may also be able to restore damaged nerves.
6. Acupuncture Acupuncture can assist in managing diabetes by reducing inflammation, reducing weight, and may even manage blood glucose levels.
This technique can improve the blood sugar and lipid levels in the body, and assist with improving nerve cells, making it very beneficial for diabetes sufferers.
5. Stop Smoking If you can stop smoking, you’ll be decreasing your risk of developing nerve damage, plus decreasing your risk of life-threatening illnesses that are associated with smoking.
4. Control Your Blood Sugar With A Healthy Diet Making healthy choices is so important, and is vital for those wanting to control and improve the symptoms relating to diabetes.
A healthy diet helps you to feel great each day by providing you with energy but also helps to prevent diabetes from developing and becoming more serious with time.
3. Add Turmeric To Your Diet Turmeric has an anti-inflammatory effect on the body, and is an excellent antioxidant, making it excellent for diabetics. Its benefits will be helping your body to return to better health, and avoid the chances of developing nerve damage.
2. Limit Alcohol Consuming too much alcohol can seriously decrease the effectiveness of the medication. It can cause your blood glucose levels to lower to a dangerous level for up to 24 hours after drinking.
So if you want to reduce your chances of developing nerve damage, always drink responsibly and understand that drinking while diabetic has its risks.
1. Get Moving Exercise can help to lower your blood sugar levels by up to 24 hours, so it’s an excellent way to help manage diabetes and prevent nerve damage.
It doesn’t have to be strenuous, and light to moderate intensity is perfectly fine, and will still have a positive impact on the body. --------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: No part of this channel may be reproduced, transmitted, or distributed in any form or by any means, electrical or mechanical, including recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from DiabeticsTalk.com. The information contained in this channel is provided ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind. The entire risk as to the results and the performance of the information is assumed by the user, and in no event shall Diabetics Talk be liable for any consequential, incidental, or direct damages suffered in the course of using the information in this channel.
