Blood Sugar Fix PROTECTS Your Heart and Kidneys
Type 2 diabetes doesn’t have to be a death sentence.
It doesn’t even have to be permanent.
You can take steps to send your diabetes packing. In fact, you can even normalize your HbA1C levels (a measurement of blood sugar over several months) without taking ANY medication.
And new research reveals you won’t just reap the immediate benefits when you do. You can ALSO dramatically reduce your risk of heart and kidney disease in the future.
When you have type 2 diabetes, the high blood sugar that’s coursing through your veins is an equal opportunity destroyer.
It damages your heart, kidneys, eyesight, nerves, brain, and everything in between.
But getting your glucose under control—even for just a few years—can dramatically reduce your risk of severe health problems in the future.
For this study, researchers didn’t want to just see if folks could send their type 2 diabetes into remission. We already know that‘s possible.
Instead, they wanted to find out what long-term health benefits reversing diabetes would have.
They discovered that people who sent their diabetes into remission had a…
- 40 percent lower risk of heart disease and a
- 33 percent lower risk of kidney disease.
Those results were already impressive enough. But being in remission LONGER—four years or more—had even GREATER benefits with a…
- 55 percent lower risk of kidney disease and a
- 49 percent lower risk of heart disease.
Here’s the most exciting part… this risk reduction remained even if the diabetes remission was only temporary.
In other words, controlling your blood sugar even for a SHORT time will have health payoffs LONG into the future.
What’s the best way to put your diabetes into remission? Lose some weight.
It’s never easy, but it’s always worth it.
P.S. You can REVERSE your diabetes—without taking a single drug. CLICK HERE to discover how.
SOURCE:
Gregg, E.W., Chen, H., Bancks, M.P. et al. Impact of remission from type 2 diabetes on long-term health outcomes: findings from the Look AHEAD study. Diabetologia 67, 459–469 (2024). doi. org /10.1007 /s00125-023-06048-6