{"id":70052,"date":"2023-10-07T22:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/type-2-diabetes-isnt-a-life-sentence-tips-for-reversing-it\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:50:15","slug":"type-2-diabetes-isnt-a-life-sentence-tips-for-reversing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=70052","title":{"rendered":"Type 2 Diabetes Isn&#8217;t a Life Sentence. Tips for Reversing It."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-BAR-0000750101\">\n<p>Endocrinologist Shahrad Taheri put 70 people with Type 2 diabetes on a strict diet-and-exercise regimen for a year and 61% reversed their diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Taheri of Weill Cornell Medicine conducted the 2020 study in Qatar, a country with even higher levels of obesity and diabetes than the U.S. But he says the results, which were published in the Lancet medical journal, have applications around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>\u201cThe traditional view of Type 2 diabetes is that it\u2019s an irreversible disease, that it will be with the patient for the rest of their life,\u201d he says. His study, in which the average participant lost 26 pounds, confirmed his view that \u201cobesity is the key driver of diabetes.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more good news for Type 2 diabetics. The introduction of powerful new weight-loss drugs could help millions escape the ravages of their disease. But the new drugs are expensive and if you stop taking them, you are likely to regain the weight; some people won\u2019t tolerate their side effects; and diet and exercise will still be helpful even to people taking the drugs, doctors say.<\/p>\n<p>The new drugs \u201cabsolutely reduce insulin resistance and produce weight loss, exactly what you\u2019re trying to do with lifestyle intervention,\u201d Jordan Emily Perlman, an endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins. \u201cThe idea is you use these drugs to control your appetite while you\u2019re making lifestyle changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 37 million Americans have diabetes. Roughly 5% of them have Type 1 diabetes, meaning their pancreas has stopped, or largely stopped, producing insulin. Diet and exercise is important for them too, but they must take insulin for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>But the vast majority of diabetics have Type 2 diabetes, a different disease. Their pancreas is still producing insulin, an essential hormone that permits sugar to enter their cells where it is used for energy. But the cells of Type 2 diabetics have become insulin resistant, which means that their blood sugar levels don\u2019t drop normally after a meal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany things can contribute to insulin resistance including poor diet, lack of physical activity, obesity, particularly with fat around the belly,\u201d says endocrinologist Omar El Kawkgi of the Mayo Clinic. If left untreated, Type 2 diabetes damages the cardiovascular system and organs just as it does for Type 1 diabetics.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Type 2 diabetes, particularly if it is a recent onset, isn\u2019t necessarily a life sentence. Diet and exercise together work better to put Type 2 in remission than either one alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiet helps control blood sugar by controlling carbohydrate intake, while exercise improves how sensitive the body is to insulin to help reverse insulin resistance,\u201d El Kawkgi says.<\/p>\n<p>The positive effects of exercising last for up to three days, according to Sheri Colberg, an exercise physiologist who is an expert on exercise and diabetes. \u201cI always says that you\u2019re as good as your last bout of aerobic\/cardio exercise,\u201d Colberg says. She has Type 1 diabetes herself and exercises regularly to help control it.<\/p>\n<p>Weightlifting also helps. \u201cIt causes you to gain and retain muscle mass, which is where the body stores most dietary carbohydrates,\u201d Colberg says.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you reverse Type 2 diabetes, you aren\u2019t off the hook. You have to keep exercising and eating correctly, or your Type 2 diabetes will return just as bad as before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever people are able to successfully reverse their diabetes with diet and exercise, certainly we applaud them,\u201d says Perlman of Johns Hopkins. \u201cBut we tell them this is going to be an ongoing battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Write to Neal Templin at neal.templin@barrons.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/articles\/type-2-diabetes-isnt-a-life-sentence-tips-for-reversing-it-99585113?mod=investing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endocrinologist Shahrad Taheri put 70 people with Type 2 diabetes on a strict diet-and-exercise regimen for a year and 61% reversed their diabetes. Taheri of Weill Cornell Medicine conducted the 2020 study in Qatar, a country with even higher levels of obesity and diabetes than the U.S. But he says the results, which were published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-70052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","tag-featured","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Type 2 Diabetes Isn&#039;t a Life Sentence. Tips for Reversing It. | iFintechWorld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Endocrinologist Shahrad Taheri put 70 people with Type 2 diabetes on a strict diet-and-exercise regimen for a year and 61% reversed their diabetes. 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