Diabetes, reversibility even at old age

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In a previous post a part of which is appended at the end of this

post, author had made a bold statement that modern medicine wanted to

make "Diabetes" as perpetual patient machine. Academic researchers,

however, have now realised that diabetes can indeed be cured without

medicine. Recent research is the indicator. What is known to Indian

ayurvedic philosophy is now being proven with statistical theories.

 

A three-week diet combined with daily exercise may be effective in

reversing the conditions of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

Metabolic syndrome is a set of metabolic risk factors for a heart

attack, which include central obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension

and insulin resistance, a blood-sugar disorder that can lead to type

2 diabetes. Some people have a cluster of these symptoms, increasing

their risk of heart attack by 4 to 20 times.

 

Researchers from the University of California recently conducted a

small, all-male study of 31 participants ranging from 46 to 76 years

old. Fifteen of the participants had metabolic syndrome and 13 of the

participants had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. There was some

overlap between these two groups, and several of the 31 participants

had neither metabolic syndrome nor diabetes, but were overweight or

obese.

 

All of the participants in the study were placed on a high-fiber, low-

fat diet that did not limit the number of calories they could

consume. Every day, the participants also participated in 45 to 60

minutes of aerobic exercise. The diet and exercise regimen lasted for

21 days.

 

While the study's participants did not experience weight loss beyond

an average of a few pounds per person, the regimen did result in a

reversal of diagnosis in about half of the participants with

metabolic syndrome or diabetes. It is still unclear how the regimen

brought about such a reversal.

 

The study's lead researcher Christian Roberts explained in a recent

press that the regimen may not have reversed existing damage, such as

plaque buildup in the arteries.

"However, if type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome continue to be

controlled, further damage would likely be minimized and it's

plausible that continuing to follow the program long-term may result

in reversal of atherosclerosis," he said. [email: croberts]

Published in Journal of Appl Physiology, Dec. 2005

 

Similarly the researchers at Case Western Reserve University, School

of Medicine also conducted a long term study on elderlies. According

to them, exercise improves glucose metabolism and delays the onset

and/or reverses insulin resistance in the elderly by an unknown

mechanism. In the present study we examined the effects of exercise

training on glucose metabolism, abdominal adiposity and

adipocytokines in obese elderly. Sixteen obese men and women (Age=63

± 1 years, BMI=33.2 ± 1.4 kg/m2) participated in a 12-week supervised

exercise program (5 d/wk, 60 min/day, treadmill/cycle ergometry @ 85%

of heart rate max). Visceral fat (VF), subcutaneous fat (SCF) and

total abdominal fat (AF) were measured by computed tomography (CT).

Fat mass (FM) and fat-free-mass (FFM) were assessed by hydrostatic

weighing. An oral glucose tolerance test was used to determine

changes in insulin resistance. Exercise training increased VO2max

(21.3 ± 0.8 vs 24.3 ± 1.0 ml.kg.min-1, P<0.0001), decreased body

weight (P<0.0001) and FM (P<0.001), while FFM was not altered

(P>0.05). VF (176 ± 20 vs 136 ± 17 cm2, P<0.0001), SCF (351 ± 34 vs

305 ± 28 cm2, P<0.03) and AF (525 ± 40 vs 443 ± 34 cm2, P<0.003) were

reduced through training. Circulating leptin was lower (P<0.003)

after training, but total adiponectin and TNF- remained unchanged.

Insulin resistance was reversed by exercise (40.1 ± 7.7 vs 27.6 ± 5.6

units, P<0.01) and correlated with changes in VF (r=0.66, P<0.01) and

VO2max (r=-0.48, P<0.05), but not adipocytokines. Visceral fat loss

after aerobic exercise training improves glucose metabolism and is

associated with the reversal of insulin resistance in older obese men

and women.

J Appl Physiol (December 15, 2005).

doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01292.2005

 

The exercise using aerobics or trade mills etc is a costly affair.

Average Indians can afford only walking. Due to poor public transport

and affordability of private transport, favours walking only. Hence,

diabetes is a disease prevalent in Cities. Villages make medicines

for diabetes. 6 km walk in the morning (with copper water only in stomach) has

been known to keep diabetes at least 6 km away, as known by anecdotal cases.

 

Dr. Bhate

 

 

 

ayurveda, "Shirish Bhate"

<shirishbhate wrote:

>

> Diabetes (Type II) is not understood properly by modern science. On

> the other hand, it is being made into a perpetual disease, so

> that "insurancehospitals" and "practice" wheels remain well

oiled.