Diabetes can be a chronic disease that forces you to change everything about your life.
Patients with this condition must take medication, or insulin, as well as watch their diets and
maintain exercise just to prevent diabetes from damaging their hearts, livers, kidneys, and pancreas.
The good news is diabetes can, in some cases, be reversed.
Why It Happens
According to doctors, those patients who attack their diabetes aggressively and early with medications and lifestyle changes could reach a moment where their blood sugars are normal all on their own.
Those with Type 2 diabetes stand a better chance at reversal than those with Type 1.
The effect is relatively unexplained except that doctors state there are cases where patients work hard at controlling their diabetes that they reach the point where their body begins to heal itself.
The cells responsible for creating and dispersing insulin, thought to be dead, start working again.
It is a moment where the doctor states they no longer need medicine or insulin.
It’s Not a Cure
Reversing diabetes isn’t equivalent to a cure. Diabetes is a lifelong medical condition.
Doctors will often refer to reversing diabetes as remission.
Being in remission, or reversing diabetes, means your blood sugars are maintaining normal levels for a long time without the need for medication or insulin.
Just because your diabetes is in a better condition doesn’t mean you can go back to your old lifestyle of food or a lack of exercise.
It was a proper diet and regular exercise that helped you achieve this health marker and it will be those two things that will help you stay in remission.
Remember to keep the weight down too.
Weight is one factor that leads to diabetes so keeping to your goals of weight loss will also help you stay in remission.
Conclusion
It is great news when the doctor tells you that your diabetes has reversed.
Understand that this may ease your stress, worry and help you gain some freedom from medications but that doesn’t mean you can do anything you want.
This diabetic remission is yours to keep.
