Research shows that most cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented by lifestyle interventions. Experts claim that this condition can be reversed and if we have already been diagnosed with it.
Type 2 diabetes is increasing worldwide photo: Archive
Around 830 million people around the world have diabetes, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the most common diabetes is usually. It usually occurs in adults, when the body becomes insulin resistant or does not produce enough insulin. Due to the concomitant increase in the prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes is growing worldwide.
Experts support in a reference study, which was previously published in Diabetes magazine, that this condition can be reversed even if we already have it, according to news.ro. This information was confirmed by Dr. Gerald I. Shulman, a medical teacher in the specialty of endocrinology and cellular and molecular physiology at the Faculty of Medicine Yale (YSM), as well as director of the Center for Diabetes Research.
Insulin resistance determines type 2 diabetes, explains Dr. Shulman. “If we reverse insulin resistance, we reverse type 2 diabetes“Says the doctor.
Dr. Shulman and Dr. Kitt Petersen, a medical teacher (endocrinology), showed that a modest weight reduction, even 10%, does exactly this. The study, said Shulman, has been reproduced several times in large groups of people.
However, many people who initially manage to lose weight then regain. The new GLP-1 anti-Obesity drugs can play an important role in helping people maintain this long-term weight loss to treat diabetes and other diseases, says the doctor.
“The best way to reverse type 2 diabetes is to reduce the body’s resistance to insulin actions produced by pancreas“, Dr. Patricia Peter, assistant professor of medicine (endocrinology) at YSM, added. The doctor emphasizes the importance of approaching insulin resistance: “For most people, this means trying to reach a healthy weight, exercise regularly and minimize sugars and excess carbohydrates in diet.”.
Specialists say that the disease approach has significant implications for general health.
“Over time, high blood sugar levels can affect the vision, nerves, heart and renal function“, Stated Dr. Peter. Thus, the faster the blood sugar is restored in the normal interval by approaching or reversing the diabetes, the less damage can do the high blood sugar.
Dr. Shulman referred to studies that show a decrease in well -established complications of diabetes, such as blindness, terminal renal disease and non -traumatic loss when diabetes is treated.
Even better than treating type 2 diabetes is to “We focus on what determines it‘, added Dr. Shulman.
“By reversing insulin resistance, not only do we reverse type 2 diabetes, but we also prevent heart disease, fatty liver disease, obesity -associated cancers and Alzheimer’s disease, among many other problems that lead to insulin resistance“, The doctor said.
