BE YOUR OWN HEALTH AUTHOR WITH CURCUMIN TO COUNTER DIABETES
According to the Williams textbook of endocrinology, it was estimated that in the year 2013, there were over 382 million people throughout the world suffering from diabetes. We have all heard of diabetes in our daily lives as a very common term but it’s difficult to fathom the effects this condition can have on a human body.
Diabetes is the name given to a number of diseases that involve abnormal metabolism of sugar due to the erratic functioning of the hormone insulin. A small organ behind the stomach called pancreas is responsible for the production of insulin and assist with the balanced storage and usage of sugar as well as fat from the food.
Radha Shukla, a 35 year old housewife was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, which is a chronic condition wherein the pancreas produces very little insulin or no insulin at all. It is also called insulin-dependent diabetes. It generally develops when the immune system of the body destroys the insulin-producing beta cells in a part of the pancreas called the Islets of Langerhans.
Jeet Chopra is a successful software engineer who has been suffering from Type 2 diabetes for the past two years. For years his routine included sitting in front of his laptop with more or less no exercise. Unpredictable work schedules and party scenes added with consumption of all wrong foods played havoc with his body resulting in non-insulin dependent diabetes. The dual causes of this type of diabetes are either the body resists the effects of insulin or do not produce enough insulin to maintain a normal blood glucose level.
The news of pregnancy comes across as a mixed bag of emotions for the parents. One of the major concerns of pregnancy is gestational diabetes that happens when the blood sugar levels shoot up during pregnancy in a lady with normal sugar levels before conceiving. During pregnancy, the placenta produces hormones that can drastically increase the sugar levels. Pancreas does jump in to rescue but at times the insulin produced is not enough to counter the excessively high sugar levels, leading to gestational diabetes. Uncontrolled gestational diabetes can cause certain complications during childbirth.
The common symptoms of all the types of diabetes are almost the same and are as follows:
- Frequent urination– Absence or low levels of insulin affects the ability of the kidneys to filter the glucose back into the blood. The kidneys then start taking water from the blood in order to dilute the glucose causing the bladder to fill up soon.
- Intense thirst and hunger– The cells in the body are deprived of energy since insulin is not functioning properly, resulting in constant hunger pangs. The answer to disproportionate thirst lies in the fact that the body is trying to replace the liquid lost due to frequent urination.
- Unexplained weight gain or loss– Weight loss is more common among type 1 diabetic individuals. Decreased insulin production will lead to increased energy demands as a result of which more fat cells will be broken down causing weight loss.
- Fatigue and irritability– Less insulin means less glucose entering the cells leading to extreme tiredness, listlessness and irritability.
- Blurred vision– This is caused when the tissue is being pulled from our eye lenses which affect the focusing ability of the eyes.
- Decreased healing ability and skin infections– Increased levels of sugar in the blood cause the healing time of wounds to shoot up and if neglected can also lead to gangrene formation.
- Numbness and tingling sensation in feet and hands– Too much sugar in the blood could lead to damaged nerves causing numbness and tingling sensation.
With such complex symptoms, this disorder has no cure. A diabetic individual needs to modify his lifestyle in order to keep the disease under check. According to the ancient Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, curcumin and turmerone have been proved to be beneficial in curbing the effects of diabetes by:
- Curcumin reduces insulin resistance by assisting insulin to get into the cells by the AMPK pathway.
- Insulin producing beta cells grew faster and lived longer with the consumption of curcumin.
- According to the literature review published in the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, curcumin and turmerone can prove to be an ideal drug alternative in treating as well as preventing type 2 diabetes.
- Curcumin demonstrates anti-inflammatory actions by suppression of nuclear factor kappa B, production of cytokines and reducing the activity of enzymes and proteins that cause inflammation. This reduction in inflammation can protect the kidneys from diabetic neuropathy.
- The high risk of oxidative stress and heart disease is reduced by the antioxidant properties of curcumin.
- Acting as an anti-hyperglycemic agent, curcumin lowers elevated levels of blood sugar level as well as balance blood glucose and insulin levels in diabetes.
- One of the amazing potentials of curcumin is its potential to regenerate pancreatic cells which can benefit in type 1 diabetes.
- Diabetes can disturb cholesterol metabolism in the body. Many studies have shown that curcumin regulates the liver function which in turn reduces the abnormal lipid and cholesterol levels.
- Curcumin can act as a wound healing agent by speeding up the process.
- Gastro paresis is a condition in which there is a delay in the movement of food from stomach to the intestine in diabetic patients leading to a spike in glucose levels. Curcumin reduces the rate of gastro paresis.
Now that curcumin and turmerone have such great benefits, isn’t it better that one gets to use their purest form. That assurance and guarantee is given by using Sugeric from Bagdara Farms. All one needs to do is boil a cup of water with ¼ tsp of Sugeric, honey and ¼ tsp of black pepper and voila, the magical yellow potion is ready. It is recommended that one starts off with small quantities gradually increasing the dosage with time.
Interesting reads to support what we are saying:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27190999
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24279645