Nature Cure For DIABETES

Nature Cure for Diabetes

Exercise was the recommended therapy for diabetes in India as early as 500 BC. American Diabetes Association very strongly recommends exercise as the most effective way of controlling diabetes. According to the association "Exercise appears to help muscle cell take up and use sugar, even when there are lower levels of insulin in the blood."

In New England Journal of Medicine issue of 29.11.1979 Dr. Vijay R. Soman of Yale University says "The data in this study suggest that physical training can be valuable in the treatment of obesity and non insulin dependent diabetes because it augments tissue sensitivity to insulin, whether or not it causes weight loss". Dr. R. C. Cantu in his book "Diabetes and Exercise" says, "Can diet and exercise prevent diabetes? The answer to this question is an emphatic yes." And, Rev. Karl Baehr in Diabetes Forecast of Nov.-Dec 1983 very effectively asks the question "How long can you mope and pine after disaster? You have got to ultimately pick up your life and sing, "Singing in this case, includes, besides diet regulation, exercise.

Exercise helps the diabetics in many ways. It reduces the triglycerides and LDL in the blood. Secondly, exercise helps decrease excess fat and thereby increases the body’s cell sensitivity to insulin. Thirdly exercise increases the receptivity of muscles to insulin. Thirdly exercise increases the receptivity of muscles to insulin and greater amount of glucose will be transferred from to insulin and greater amount of glucose will be transferred from the blood stream to the muscles by the same amount of insulin. This is the greatest benefit of exercise to diabetics besides besides what good exercise does to an ordinary person. And do not forget that when you send oxygen to pancreas also and thus you stimulate your pancreas to function better.

Physical activity will burn blood sugar as fuel and lower its body level. If exercise is done for more than 25 minutes, your muscles are enabled to store glucose, and thereby lower the blood sugar level. With consistent physical activity the ability of cells to use insulin also increases. Exercise thus builds physical fitness.

In the human body, glucose cannot be metabolized without oxygen. Without oxygen, the level of glucose in the blood rises. Get oxygen by exercise. There is no other better way! But please note that exercise is not recommended when blood sugar level is very high. Moreover, if within four minutes after stopping exercise the pulse rate or breathing do not return to normal, it means you are over straining. Take it easy. Insulin dependent diabetics should also be encouraged to exercise. In their case exercise should glucose may be incorporated in their exercise programme. Generally, the effect of exercise in lowering blood sugar level, lasts for about four hours.

Exercise aerobically for a minimum of three days and normally for six days a week. Exercise should be done in open air with half naked body. Exercise be stopped about one hour before a major meal and started only after two hours of such a meal. There should always be a warming up period in the beginning and a cooling down period at the end. Exercises involving lifting of weights etc. are not recommended. Aerobic exercises like walking, cycling, swimming etc. are more useful. Avoid exercise in extreme heat and cold.

Walking is the best exercise. For exercise walk continuously for 20 minutes at a stretch at least. Walk briskly and vigorously, breathing deeply and rhythmically, in pollution free areas. Do not could then increase the distance, speed and duration gradually. While walking, both the arms should continue to move in a natural manner. This movement strengthens the muscles of heart, lung, chest and back. Morning walks are the best. Emerson says in his Journal of1836, "In the morning a man walks with his whole body, in the evening only with his legs."

The following two exercises are likely to help the pancreas:

Back exercise:
Lie flat on your back. Bring the feet nearer the thighs thus raising the knees, the feet remaing flatly on the ground, Now:-

Attempt Mula Bandha by contracting the region between the anus and the scrotum. Now press the portion between the first and the tenth vertebra against the ground. Keep it like that for about ten seconds. Then let go for five seconds. Repeat this five times.
Thereafter, while keeping the knees raised, raise the portion between the first and the tenth vertebra up from the ground in the form of a small concave, while keeping the rest of the body on the ground. Keep it up for about ten seconds. Then let go for five seconds. repeat this five times.
Do as at (I) above, then hold one leg at the knee (not at the calf) with both your hands and bring the knee up with thigh touching your chest. Keep it like that for about ten seconds. Then let it go. Hold the other leg at the knee and bring that knee up to touch the chest. Keep it like that for about ten seconds. Repeat once again for both the legs.
Repeat (II) above five times. Thereafter rest for about 30 seconds before getting up.

Heel-toe walk:
Draw a straight line on the floor. Stand erect with your left foot along that line. Tense your buttocks and abdomen. Hold out arms to aid in body balance. Walk 15 steps along that straight line, right foot should be so placed directly in front of the left foot that the right heel touches, the left big toe. Then place the left foot in front of the right, heel to toe. After 15 steps walk backwards toe to heel, along the same line up to the starting position. This exercise improves the balancing posture which in turn activates pancreas.

Deep breathing:
Shallow ineffective breathing is one of the causes of a disenchanted pancreas. Deep diaphragmatic breathing will set things right. Diaphragmatic breathing can be learnt from an infant in deep sleep. Its breathing has a rhythm and a melody. With every inhale the abdomen goes up and on exhale it goes down. Watch it for a few days, Then it will happen automatically because that is the natural method of breathing.

Skin brushing:
Brush the entire body vigorously at least once daily, either dry or at the time of bath with a medium to firm bristle/plastic body brush. Alternatively a small sponge stone or the inside of fibrous frame of dried gourd could be used for rubbing. It will open all pores for elimination of toxic matter and for intake of oxygen. It will provide blood circulation even to the minor blood vessels near the skin. This exercise gives disproportionately high dividends.Yoga asanas and pranayam which also exercise relevant parts of the body are dealt separately.