What is Fasting Insulin? How it is significant in the early detection of Diabetes?

Why we are being bombarded these days about Ayurveda?

Ayurveda is "Veda about herbs" It means "Ayushman bhava with knowledge of herbs, meaning thereby, a book that helps you to live longer, in a healthier style.

When other medicines are available for quick and fast recovery?

Most important to understand is that Ayurveda uses extracts from natural herbs and nature has a cure for everything. Due to urbanization, humans have got distant from nature and so have developed many new diseases. And when we take herbs we are getting closer to nature, which has very rare side effects but it ensures our body becomes healthier and immune to diseases.

Earlier in India, people use to eat jaggery, made from sugarcane, and now sugar is made from sugarcane extracted in factories and cleaned with chemicals to make it look white. The difference it makes while the transition from field to factory-made food products has even made us consume sugar-laced food products with the remains of chemicals still on them. And the advent of soft drinks and fast food further deteriorated the situation, as it took the whole generations away from the natural juices, and fibrous natural foods. These drinks are full of sugar and that too unnatural which, when consumed by humans, mixes in the digestive juices of the body and reaches our blood increasing the sugar levels.

Today every 2nd person is suffering from diabetes. What is more alarming is that it considers no age to strike anyone. And it is a silent killer, as it has no signs in the initial stage, which leads to various other diseases coming alongside, and body system failure is the final result.

For a healthy body blood sugar Fasting Insulin levels are100miligram/deciliter, when checked for fasting sugar.

Fasting insulin levels are primarily used to assess insulin sensitivity. This was designed to stop using other testing methods to test sugar levels as they were invasive methods. Elevated fasting insulin is a compensatory mechanism to prevent glucose intolerance diabetes. Insulin resistance is defined as an impaired ability to promote peripheral glucose disposal and suppress hepatic glucose production. The primary site of glucose disposal is skeletal muscle.

Insulin, is one of the most powerful hormones in the human body, and is responsible for maintaining blood sugar levels to a normal range. Also, this absorbs the sugar from carbohydrates in foods we eat, either to use it as energy or store as glucose for future use.

So if these levels are too high or too low. It hinders the body systems in various ways.

High insulin means blood sugar will fall, leading to hypoglycemia and too low insulin means sugar level in the body will increase beyond the comfortable level of the kidneys to process them, and it is called hyperglycemia.

Symptoms:

The tragedy is that symptoms only show up in the second stage when the problem has aggravated.

• Lethargy
• Hunger
• Problem in concentrating
• Weight gain
• High BP

What can lead to this in your body, you wonder:

Various factors are said to contribute to the problem:

• Couch potato (sedentary lifestyle).
• Overweight.
• Bad eating habits food full of carbohydrates and sugar.
• Stress.
• POD in females.

Various other causes may contribute to which fiddle with hormone imbalance in the body.

To treat the body and bring back insulin resistance, change in lifestyle and eating habits plays a major role. Exercise, lose weight and eat a fibrous low calories diet. The tragedy is to combat stress, the body craves for sugar diet but your body needs just the opposite, here the best way to go for it is the herbal way. And for this, it is important that herbs be taken in the right amount at the right time and rightly mixed. An expert of herbs earlier was called a Vaid and in the present times an Ayurveda doctor, when consulted will take note of your signs and symptoms, and then recommend a lifestyle change along with the herbal mixture. To balance the blood sugar level it is important that the digestive juices in our body are secreted in the right quantity so that the sugar in food is broken down for energy to do daily chores. For this, our stomach needs to be really strong.

Ayurvedic Herbs for Diabetic Patients

Ayurvedic Treatment for Diabetes recommended by Planet Ayurveda has a mix of herbs such as Gurmaar, karela, saptarangi, and Vijay Saar. These herbs, when mixed and taken on a daily basis, balance the sugar levels. It combats any risk of sudden rise or fall in sugar, and hence allows one to maintain a healthy lifestyle. When one has a balanced energy level, you feel energetic to do exercise and crave less sugary food and it improves your health.

Since ancient times karela has been part of each Indian meal in different forms. Also, it is famous to drink karela juice on an empty stomach to ensure a healthy gut. As it purifies the blood and healthy blood ensures a good immune system, the consequences are that your overall health remains good.