Master Your Diabetes by Mona Morstein

Author:Mona Morstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2017-09-25T13:58:26+00:00

Working on decreasing stress is important in a comprehensive regimen to control diabetes. Each office visit with your physician should include checking in about life stresses and finding out if any stress is interfering with good compliance of the entirety of a diabetic protocol. The medical practitioner must provide support and validation, allowing a patient to feel safe sharing her struggles. Then it’s important for a brainstorming and troubleshooting session to occur, to help the patient move forward out of the stress and find solutions.

I often talk to patients about calling stressful situations “problems,” which are solvable, instead of “issues,” which are more amorphous and are hard to encompass and fix. Words have power. My aim is to help a diabetic patient heal a life problem, so they can move forward into a life full of happiness and hope.

The key to stress is to not give up. It may take a consistent effort to retrain your mind and emotions, but like everything else about the human experience, change can occur, and you were made for healing and health. Working with an integrative physician who is always on your side, who does not rush through your visits, who has time to sit and listen to you and your life story will be a great boon to you and all patients.

Supporting the Microbiome

The term microbiome refers to the comprehensive collection of thousands of species of bacteria, archae, fungi, and viruses that live in our intestinal tracts, both the ones that are normal and nonharmful to our intestines (those that live in symbiosis with it) and those that are (at least potentially) pathogenic. There is 1.3 times the amount of bacteria in our intestines than there are cells in the whole rest of our body. In fact, 60 percent of the dry mass of your stool is made up of gut microorganisms.

Our gut microbiome is established by the time we are two years old. It consists of between five hundred and one thousand different species, though the vast majority belong to thirty or forty species. The most common bacteria in our intestines include Bacteriodes, Clostridium, Eneterococcus, Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, Escherichia, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus, and Pseudomonas. The most common fungi are Candida, Saccharomyces, Aspergillus, Penicillin, Rhodotorula, Trametes, and Pleospora.

The intestinal microbiome fosters an incredible amount of health benefits: It acquires nutrients from our food; decreases our toxic and carcinogenic burden by catabolizing them, and even makes nutrients and helps the absorption of nutrients. When the microbiome is normal and balanced it also keeps the lining of our intestines healthy and functional. A good microbiome helps regulate our immune system, both the part that fights infections and the part that can become autoimmune and attack our own cells. Good bacteria also increase levels of interleukin-10, a protein that reduces inflammation and reduces the development of autoimmunity. A healthy microbiome regulates how much energy we absorb from our food, setting our glucose metabolism and our weight. It can affect our moods, whether we are happier or more anxious and depressed.

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