My Experiments With Diabetes

By Alevoor Rajagopal

You can ask me why experiment when every thing was clear and on the board. With diabetes you never know. But with me you will never ever know. I had heard of experiences people advised me with. But all of them went round around neutralizing glucose with eating hot, spicey or flushing out glucose drinking lots of water.

Yak...Unscientific! Drinking water may help to certain extent but not the neutralizing theory definetely. At best it could reduce the proportion of glucose in your blood but not by removing it. So here are some interesting things I did with my diabetes.

I took up the advice of drinking water. I knew about 1.5 leters of it would wash out toxins from the blood. But what about glucose? How much more or less of it should I be drinking? One thing was sure, water was a universal solvent. So it took away glucose from my body when ever I urinated, may be a lots of them.

But how does it help? Infact it actually exposed me to dangers of conduiting more glucose through my kidneies which should not have been. More over it did not reduce the glucose by a bit too. I just had the relief that it prevented glucose damaging my heart, eyes and arteries.

I stopped eating sweets and sugar in tea and coffee. From childhood I had an aversion to sweet dishes and that when I discovered diabetes, it did not really hurt me to give up sweets. But what about coffee that I was fond of sipping only with a tinge of sugar? Believe me, now it is 2 years since and I feel like running away from coffee with sugar.

The most important of my experiments with diabetes is switching over to calculated, balanced food. I was aware of nutritional values of most of them. I gave up meat eating as a first step. The only reason was, I knew how to compensate for it with vegetables. There are foods that digest slow releasing glucose slow in the process and there are foods that have low proportions of glucose (carbohydrates). It always helps to have just about enough glucose levels in diabetes than you could assimilate.

My family was up in arms on all these. My wife believed diabetes was nothing short of a killer. She did not like a bit of my experiments. But look here, I never ventured out of a physician's advice. Whatever I did was to help my diabetes come to terms with my physiology (frail body) and contain that in a more natural way. My phylosophy was, if it helped with least of medications, so be it.

It showed by two months of my persistance. FPS and PPBS quite under control.

I will write how the doctor and my wife reacted to my experiments in the next posting.

keywords used: diabetes, glucose, nutritional