Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Diabetes, Autoimmune

Diabetes can be cured. The key lies in not forcing the body to make autoimmune responses, but letting the body make these when needed, and in limiting the amount of oxidative damage from the body's immune system as much as possible.

Approximately 9 million Americans are living in the United States with diabetes. Among adults with diabetes, more than 16 million have autoimmune disease. The number of adults living with diabetes and autoimmune disease is expected to rise to 21 million a year by 2022.

This article highlights several ways both inpatient and outpatient care can be provided to patients with chronic disorders such as chronic infection, type 1 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes. A multidisciplinary approach is encouraged to address the complex problems these patients face. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

In contrast to the common assumption, diabetes, autoimmunity, and aging are not the sole risk factors for development of diabetes. On the contrary, they are part of a complex mixture of genetic, psychological, environmental and metabolic factors of which the individual variability of their severity and speed of development is the ultimate determinant.

Diabetes is a serious condition that is due to excessive use of glucose in the body. It is a chronic disease that is highly disabling and that affects people aged 20 to 75 years in a way that is similar to arthritis. It should be considered while evaluating the cause of arthritis.

Signs of diabetes, such as excessive thirst, frequent urination, foot swelling and other diabetic foot complications are uncommon in women. However, women with diabetes may present with a range of clinical presentations. These women may present with pain in the legs, skin, joints or foot that is unrelated to the diabetes.

The majority of adverse side effects reported in MBM studies are not uncommon in any of the domains studied and include symptoms of physical discomfort, pain, fatigue, and insomnia. Results from a recent clinical trial underscore the importance of a critical appraisal of the quality of the study methodology and outcome assessments and should not be used to undermine self-help approaches to health promotion.

MBSR intervention appears to be an acceptable and feasible intervention for improving QoL among persons with diabetes and associated autoimmune conditions. Further research is needed to determine if improvements in QoL persist over 12 months.

There have been many new discoveries in the area of diabetes treatment in the last few years due to the growing number of studies and journals. The most commonly used type of diabetes treatments are oral or injectable medications. However, there is still a great need for new and innovative treatments to treat diabetes. Currently the most researched types of diabetic medications are GLP-1 agonists. This is because the Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an important molecule in controlling blood glucose levels because it inhibits the hormone insulin. This leads to an increase in glucagon levels. These types of treatments are effective at reducing the level of blood sugar in diabetic patients.

The association of diabetes with autoimmune disease, either in the presence or absence of diabetes, was very similar to the association of the autoimmune condition with diabetes itself. Identifying family members with diabetes or autoimmune disease will usually lead to the discovery of a new gene or gene locus.

[Researchers are doing good work for understanding and treating diabetes, autoimmune disease in the future: there has been a lot of new research happening on these topics (published in [PLoS ONE]]) and it will be interesting to see what is going to happen next in diabetes and autoimmunity research. For any patient that has had [diabetes or autoimmune disease] go to {withpower.com/bio/health/diabetes-or-autoimmune-disease-clinical-trials-pdq), and ask your practitioner for clinical trials that you might be suitable for. (http://www.powerbio.