Diabetes can be a devastating disease. Tragically, these days the number of adults and children with diabetes is going up on a yearly basis. A lot of people don’t realise that they are prediabetic for years which can cause damage years before its noticed.
Reversible forms of diabetes include pre-diabetes (which can progress to type-2 diabetes), in which your blood glucose levels are elevated, but not high enough to be and gestational diabetes, which occurs during pregnancy.
Left untreated, diabetes can result in many serious complications including vascular disease, kidney damage, stroke, nerve damage, blindness and an increased risk of osteoporosis. It can also cause peripheral neuropathy, the need to urinate often, being thirsty or hungry all the time.
Risk Factors
- Weight
- Sedendary Lifestyle
- Iron overload
- PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome.)
- Age
- High blood pressure
- Nutrient Defiency
- triglyceride levels
Common Symptoms.
- Increased thirst
- Frequent urination
- Extreme hunger
- Fatigue
- Frequent infections
- Blurred vision
- Slow healing
- Irritability
TREATMENT
There is now clear research and evidence that diabetes can be prevented and reversed, even when you’ve had it for many years. By putting diabetes into remission, it means your blood sugar will consistently be in the normal range and you can reduce or get off all medications entirely.
At the Dublin Centre for Functional Medicine, our approach to treating type 2 diabetes can include
- Identify and address underlying factors in your diet and lifestyle (e.g., weight management, lack of exercise/sedentary lifestyle, stress) or other contributing health conditons e.g., pcos that may be contributing to the disease
- Increase sensitivity of cells to insulin using using diet, targeted supplements and increasing exercise.
- Prevent potential complications of diabetes including osteoporsis high cholesterol, joint pain using a combination of nutritional supplements and introducing lifestyle changes.
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Why Choose the Dublin Centre for Functional Medicine?
Support
Once you start the process, we will guide our collaborative process with a practitioner, We will gather the required information we through detailed intake forms so we can understand you better and help support and motivate you through the process.
Personalized Approach
Every one of us is unique and has a set of circumstances. Everything about you including symptoms, lifestyle, diet, genetics and capacity to heal is different and will require a personalized approach.
Experience
Our practitioners have years of experience dealing with multiple conditions. The functional medicine approach focuses on the route cause and addresses the imbalance.