Stop Heart Failure AND Diabetes?!
Diabetes brings with it a hefty amount of collateral damage throughout your body… but it is especially hard on your heart.
Heart failure is one of the most common complications of type 2 diabetes.
Heart failure doesn’t happen overnight. Changes occur over years that break down your heart’s structure and function.
Researchers wanted to find out if there was a way to help reverse these early changes in the heart. In the process, they identified two key solutions:
One that can IMPROVE heart function… and one that can actually help REVERSE diabetes.
There’s always been a lot of debate about the roles diet and exercise play in your heart health and diabetes.
Researchers divided people with diabetes into three groups: an aerobic exercise group, a low-energy meal-replacement group, and a routine care group.
After 12 weeks, the people in the exercise group experienced significantly improved heart function. This benefit was NOT found in the diet group.
But don’t count the diet out yet.
The diet group experienced positive effects on their heart’s structure and vascular function. But that’s not really the best part.
The best part is that they saw significant improvement in their diabetes.
This research helps point to a program that reverses your diabetes while helping prevent its most common and deadly complication: heart failure.
Of course, there are plenty of other simple ways to improve your blood sugar and your heart health.
Get plenty of sun exposure each day… avoid artificial blue light (especially at night)… and try to spend some time each day “grounding,” or connecting to the earth barefoot. Simple steps like this go a long way toward improving your overall health.
