"Diabetes mellitus" is a group of diseases wherein sufferers have high levels of blood glucose from problems in insulin production, insulin action or both.
Type 1 The body's doesn't produce insulin. Approximately, 10% of diabetics have type 1 diabetes.
Type 2 Insulin resistant - the body doesn't properly use insulin. There is usually some insulin deficiency. Most diabetics have type 2 diabetes.
Gestational Occurs in 4% of all pregnant women, over 100,000 cases in the U.S.
Pre-diabetes Glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. There are approximately 54 million Americans who have prediabetes and 20.8 million with diabetes.
It is at this stage that insulin problems may result from dehydration diabetes and are quite treatable by drinking water and common sense lifestyle changes.
Symptoms of diabetes
Frequent urination
Extreme thirst (A sure sign of dehydration diabetes)
Excessive hunger (A misperception of thirst caused by dehydration diabetes
Large weight loss
Fatigue
Irritability
Blurry vision
Nausea
Vomiting
Sweet smelling breath (Unusual to those suffering from dehydration diabetes)
Causes (cause) of diabetes
Heredity appears to play a major role as diabetes runs in families
Diet can help cause diabetes. Especially, eating too many carbohydrates that the body can't process well
Obesity is a major factors causing diabetes
Virus infection can also lead to diabetes. Certain viruses like Coxsackie B may lead to series of events resulting in diabetes
Inactivity: the less active a person is, the greater is the risk of developing diabetes
Age is a common "risk" factor for diabetes. As one grows older, particularly above 45 years of age, the chances of developing diabetes increase
Emotional stress can also lead to diabetes
Smoking is a risk factor
Certain races like Hispanic, Native American, and African American, Asian American, or Pacific Island descent are at the major risk factor to develop diabetes mellitus.
Dehydration level may have causal role and/or effect in diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus prevention
Healthy diet - aim for balance of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
Exercise is essential to maintaining a healthy weight, keeping your muscles toned, which helps muscles assist internal organs in performing their tasks.
Stress management or learning how to deal with stress helps your brain and nervous system to work with other parts of your body to perform the tasks needed to sustain life.
Avoiding dehydration - as discussed below, hydration plays a role in the development of diabetes. Furthermore, the mild or prediabetic phase is most likely to be correctable with water.
Diabetes cure and management
Create a treatment plan with your doctor and discuss what is and is not working.
Exercise is an important part of diabetic treatment. Physical activity burns blood sugar, strengthens your heart and muscles and builds endurance. Tip: If you don''t know where to start, start walking. Aim for 2 walks per day, increasing the duration gradually. Your end goal is at least 2, one hour walks per day.
Diet, a sensible lifetime eating plan.
Along with exercise, diet helps you lose weight, making it easier for your body to use insulin and regulate blood sugar. These lifestyle changes can prevent or delay the development of type 2 diabetes, or reduce the amount of medication needed if you already have diabetes.
Insulin - Type 1 diabetics and some people with type 2 diabetes should take insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar. If you need to take insulin, discuss the many varieties and administration methods available with your doctor and choose the best fit.
Transplant of a pancreas or islet cells (the part of the pancreas that makes insulin) is another treatment for diabetes.
Medication - Many type 2 diabetics are prescribed oral medications
Water - See following for explanation and correctives on breaking dehydration - diabetes connection.
Dehydration - diabetes connection
Diabetes may result from the brain's lack of water. Here's how.
When the brain is lacking water, it needs more sugar because the present sugar cannot be effectively used without water.
Notice how when you haven't consumed water or carbohydrates for a long while, you often experience the same symptom, a kind of light-headedness. That's because your brain needs both to work well.
The brain desperately tries to correct this situation by summoning fluid, sugar and salt (which has a vital role in every physical process). As there is less water available than needed, the sugar level or percentage, rises.
This is especially so in the prediabetic condition.
Just because dehydration is involved in diabetes, this doesn't discount other factors playing a role at the same time.
For example, the lack of water may harm genetic "material" (DNA and RNA) and that in turn can lead to what seems to be a genetic cause of diabetes. However, it is the lack of water that started the ball rolling.
Diabetes caused by dehydration is easier to reverse in adults because they are physically "set" and have a reserve of necessary nutrients.
Children are in constant change due to growth. Growth drains reserves and places children in constant state of need. This makes reversal of diabetes that is caused by dehydration more difficult in children.
In insulin-independent (Type 2) diabetes there is a prevention of insulin secretion from manufacturing centers. Since the pancreas is manufacturing insulin, this form of diabetes is reversible.
Medication can be effective in managing this condition, especially for the elderly. But medication can have serious side effects.
In fact, proper hydration may lead to a reduction or reversal of condition. (See below)
In insulin-dependent diabetes,(Type 2)the insulin producing cells are destroyed at their center (nuclei). Chronic dehydration, leading to damage to DNA and RNA, may be the cause of their destruction.
As damage to DNA and RNA increases, it may lead to devastating effects of diabetes including leg shrink, brain cysts and blindness.
Correctives
Especially, for mild or prediabetics, proper hydration may be all that is needed to reverse diabetes.
To help the body release insulin, be sure to drink 2 quarts of water, spaced out daily.
Try to drink in 1 - 2 glass increments especially on an empty stomach. Add 1 quarter tsp of sea salt to each quart of water.
For children include water along with juices and milk.
Too much juice can be harmful. Note, juice is not really "natural" because nature does not present us with ready to drink juice. We unnaturally extract it out and leave behind many parts of the edible that are necessary.
Be especially careful about overdosing children on high potassium juices like orange juice because too much potassium can lead to chronic dehydration.
Note: It may take days or weeks the beneficial effects of water to break the link between dehydration diabetes. Be patient and keep drinking water.
Create a treatment plan with your doctor and discuss what is and is not working.