Diabetes Type -2  is a metabolic disorder that begins with simple metabolic alterations and leads to a full-blown disease. Understanding your risk factors, modifying your lifestyle, and becoming an active component in your metabolic health, can greatly reduce your risk of the development of this dreadful disease. Proper nutrition and exercise is the mainstay in prevention, and knowing your risk is extremely beneficial in prescribing lifestyle modification .

These are not small issues, and personally if I can prevent them, I am willing to put a little work into it.

So what kind of “work” is required?

Stress Management

Excessive stress works against diabetes management by increasing blood glucose the main sugar found in the blood and the body’s main source of energy. Therefore stress management is by far the most important step of treatment with functional Medicine, when its comes to deal the patient with diabetes type -2.

Exercise
Studies show that for every 500 calories burned per week through exercise there is a 6% decrease in relative risk for developing diabetes. The effect is greater for those who were heavier at the start of the study.

Weight Loss
Weight loss can improve insulin sensitivity, improve blood sugar control, and delay or even prevent progression to Type 2 diabetes. It should be noted that when exercise and weight loss are combined, the benefits increase significantly

Dietary changes
Reduce or eliminate your intake of sugar. Be a label reader. Check for sugar content in things you consume. You would be surprised how much sugar is added to commercial or processed foods.

Lower your intake of carbohydrates (starches)

These are just sugar in a different form.

Increase your fiber intake.
Having more fiber in your diet helps stabilize blood sugars, and increases the feeling of fullness so you eat less.

Eat a good breakfast
It containing protein and fiber as this will help stabilize blood sugar and insulin levels throughout your day.

Eat small meals on a regular basis.
Skipping meals (especially breakfast) increases insulin resistance.In contrast taking 5-6 small meals on regular basis can be greatly helpful to maintain your normal blood sugar ,if customized with specific nutritional  food plan designed for Diabetes type-2.

Balance your hormones
Hormone imbalance can contribute to insulin resistance and weight gain.

Check your numbers
Talk to your health care provider about getting testing to see if you are at risk for developing diabetes. These tests should include fasting blood sugar, insulin, hemoglobin A1C, or a more comprehensive and predictive test such as the Pre-Dx test.

Final thoughts

So in essence, this really is a case where “prevention is the best medicine”. that is the mantra of Functional Medicine.

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