Live Longer (and BETTER) with Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes destroys your body from the inside out because of the damaging effects of chronically high blood sugar.
This means that, in addition to living with diabetes, you’re also facing an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, eye disease, kidney disease, and even cancer.
Fortunately, you can SLASH these risks and prolong your life. But there’s no time to waste!
When it comes to type 2 diabetes, the sooner you get your blood sugar under control, the better your long-term results will be.
In one of the longest clinical trials of type 2 diabetics, researchers analyzed data spanning four decades.
This elongated timespan gave them a bigger picture of the long-term impact of adequate glucose control.
What they found was that folks who managed blood sugar levels with drugs like sulfonylurea, insulin, or metformin had a lower risk of heart attack and early death compared to those who tried to manage their blood sugar with diet alone.
See, once your cells no longer respond to insulin, your body stops regulating your blood sugar levels.
And diet alone cannot fix this.
Research DOES support reversing diabetes (or sending it into remission) in some cases, using key lifestyle changes, including diet and weight loss. For tips on reducing your blood sugar with lifestyle tweaks, see my earlier report HERE.
But realistically, not everyone will be able to achieve this effect.
If you have diabetes, you need to take action to manage your blood sugar levels, and the sooner you start doing so, the better.
It can preserve your quality—and LENGTH—of life.
P.S. Stop dreading your next diabetes appointment.
SOURCE:
“Post-trial monitoring of a randomised controlled trial of intensive glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes extended from 10 years to 24 years (UKPDS 91),” The Lancet, May 17,2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00537-3
