Are We Treating Diabetes All Wrong?

Copyright © 2014 LifeWorks Integrative health If you are overweight, a diabetic, suffer from insulin resistance, or suffer from metabolic syndrome, we have news to share with you regarding conventional medicine and diabetes. Conventional medicine just may be making your condition worse. In fact, lowering your blood sugar may actually increase your risk of death. Findings in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates that treatment with conventional medicine for your elevated blood sugar levels may be doing you more harm than good. Conventional Medicine and Diabetes: The ACCORD StudyIn 2008, a study known as the ACCORD Study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine and this study continues to revolutionize our understanding of diabesity. This published study is one of the most profound pieces of literature on why conventional treatments for diabetes simply are not doing their job.In this study, 10,000 patients with diabetes were assigned to receive either intensive or regular therapies to help lower their blood sugar levels. These patients were monitored and their risks of stroke, heart attack and death became more elevated. In fact, the patients who had successfully lowered their blood sugar levels actually had increased their risk of death the most. Yes, the sounds confusing if not entirely backwards from everything you may have been taught. Let’s repeat: the patients, who had successfully lowered their blood sugar levels, had the higher risk of death. You are probably wondering: how is this possible? This goes against everything you may have been taught. The goal of conventional medicine and diabetes is to lower blood sugar levels. We’ve always believed that elevated blood sugar levels were the problem when it comes to diabetes. Chances are, most of your are wondering why would lowering your blood sugar levels actually lead to an increased risk of death.It may or may not come to as a surprise to you, but this study had to be stopped after just three and a half years. Why? It was evident that aggressively lowering blood sugar levels led to more heart attacks and more death. This study completely goes against everything […]