The majority of articles and
studies on diabetic cat diet point to the low carbohydrate diet as being the first to try.
Dr. Barnard has
studies on diabetics where he only changed their diet.
Several
studies on diabetics have confirmed that they have higher blood selenium levels than average.
Not exact matches
Another
study looked at the effects of millet
on blood sugar levels in six
diabetic patients.
In a
study at the University of the Philippines, researchers used a randomized cross-over design to compare the effects
on blood glucose of brown rice and white rice
on 10 healthy and nine Type 2
diabetic volunteers.
However, recent
studies on laboratory animals have shown the ability of ground pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed extracts, and pumpkin seed oil to improve insulin regulation in
diabetic animals and to prevent some unwanted consequences of diabetes
on kidney function.
Although I have never been
diabetic and didn't appear to have any insulin problems, I decided to give it a try based
on how safe the
studies are
on women with PCOS.
Sixty - one articles were excluded: 18 were review articles or letters, 4
studies duplicated data in other reports, 15 did not compare
diabetic status or precursors for diabetes among those formula and breastfed, 14 did not compare formula and breastfed groups, 5 considered Type 1 diabetes, and 5 considered the effects of maternal diabetes during pregnancy
on breastfeeding (Figure 1).
Studies reveal that wounds
on diabetic mice pack abnormally weak electrical currents.
«This is the first
study that has associated a decline in cognitive function with gestational diabetes mellitus, which is an early
diabetic state that raises the risk of Type 2 diabetes later
on,» Keskin said.
Yonju Ha, a lead author of this article, said that further
studies on this receptor and its role in white blood cell recruitment following tissue injury may aid in the development of new interventions for diseases associated with nerve injury, such as TON, stroke,
diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.
«We were surprised to find so many similarities between these two diseases, but most striking was that some of these common signatures are shared with other conditions like
diabetic retinopathy and age - related macular degeneration,» said William A. Beltran, senior author
on the
study, an associate professor of ophthalmology in Penn Vet's Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine and director of the Division of Experimental Retinal Therapies.
With the rate of diabetes increasing dramatically worldwide, many individuals will be at risk for vision loss from
diabetic eye complications and DME is a major global health concern,» says Jennifer K. Sun, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the
study research team and writing committee, and an Investigator in the Section
on Vascular Biology, an ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
The longitudinal
study found that at a follow - up appointment,
on average 43 months later, the patients with OSA (18.4 %) were more likely to develop moderate to severe
diabetic retinopathy compared to those without OSA (6.1 %).
And in another Penn project, researchers are
studying the potential benefits for some patients to accept kidney transplants from deceased
diabetic donors, rather than remaining
on the organ transplant list for a «lower risk» transplant.
«Although in 2010, the International Diabetes Federation recommended surgery for
diabetic patients with mild obesity if clinical treatment is not successful, few related
studies on this topic have been published,» Soggia said.
Imaging of the coronary arteries with computed tomography (CT) angiography provides an accurate assessment of arterial plaque and could have a dramatic impact
on the management of
diabetic patients who face a high risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new multicenter
study published online in the journal Radiology.
Other authors
on the
diabetic retinopathy
study are Stephen A. Burns, professor in the IU School of Optometry, and John Gens, assistant scientist, and Xiao Fu, graduate student, of the IU Biocomplexity Institute.
Natarajan has been at the forefront of research
on the complications of diabetes and the first to
study epigenetic changes in
diabetic vascular complications and metabolic memory.
In this
study, the authors examined the effects of sex hormones
on systematic and renal hemodynamic parameters, mean arterial pressure, renal cortical flow and renal medullary blood flow in castrated male and spayed female
diabetic rats, compared with sham - operated animals.
Diabetic women,
on the other hand, are more obese than
diabetic men in most
studies and show a stronger association between increase of BMI and diabetes risk, despite similar curvilinear associations between increasing BMI and diabetes risk in both sexes (15).
In this
study, women featured increased NO availability and reduced renal oxidative stress than their male counterparts, which might have protective effects
on progression of
diabetic renal impairment (332).
«This is the first
study conducted
on the
diabetic mouse model that supports the LYP gain - of - function hypothesis,» says Dr. Kissler.
Research: Oncologist Michael Pollak set out to
study metformin in his McGill lab eight years ago because he didn't believe U.K.
studies that found
diabetics on the drug had a lower risk of dying from cancer.
In this
study the team tested the patch
on both pig skin, where they showed it could accurately track glucose levels across the range seen in
diabetic human patients, and
on healthy human volunteers, where again the patch was able to track blood sugar variations throughout the day.
In a
study published in Nutrition & Metabolism, researchers noted that
diabetics who ate low - carbohydrate ketogenic diets were able to significantly reduce their dependency
on diabetes medication, and may even reverse it eventually.3
Five
studies on cinnamon and
diabetic subjects and 3
on non-
diabetic subjects were all analysed.
The
study worked
on the premise that drinking wine may be harmful to
diabetics because alcohol can elevate blood sugar levels.
There have been no clinical
studies done
on its safety for
diabetics.
Some important
studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet
on hyperglycemic
diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent
diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention
on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)
There are some pilot
studies going
on right now using near infrared light to treat
diabetic retinopathy where they're literally shining the near infrared light right into the eye.
It also has very little effect
on your blood glucose levels and
studies have shown it's a good choice for
diabetics.
A
study on Alzheimer's patients found that administering 40 ml of extra virgin coconut oil per day led to improvements in cognitive performance — particularly in women and type II
diabetics.
These
studies include a report published in the journal Andrologia in 2012, in which tests
on diabetic rats determined that Butea superba may help improve erectile function by stimulating circulation.
In one
study of overweight type 2
diabetic adults who consumed a diet restricted to less than 20 grams of carbs daily, TSH levels decreased from 1.6 to 1.4 mIU / L,
on average.
Very interesting case
study on using an extract of Hypericum flowers and neem oil to help foot wounds in a
diabetic patient.
Glycaemic index of parboiled rice depends
on the severity of processing:
study in type 2
diabetic subjects
In a
study by Hollander
on type II
diabetics, the synthetic amylin analog pramlintide was tested (Hollander et al., 2003).
In this
study, 708
diabetics on oral medications got insulin added to their treatment.
Studies show that inulin has a beneficial effect
on blood sugar and it one of the best sugar alternatives for
diabetics and those
on a low - carb diet.
In this prospective, open and non-randomized
study, the effect of alpha - lipoic acid
on the progression of endothelial cell damage and the course of
diabetic nephropathy, as assessed by measurement of plasma thrombomodulin and urinary albumin concentration (UAC), was evaluated in 84 patients with diabetes mellitus over 18 months.
This
study has examined the effect of alpha - lipoic acid
on glucose uptake by cultured L6 muscle cells and different types of skeletal muscles in normal lean (+ / +) and severely insulin - resistant, obese -
diabetic (ob / ob) mice.
Effect of Alpha - lipoic Acid
on the Progression of Endothelial Cell Damage and Albuminuria in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: An Exploratory
Study Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2001 (Jun); 52 (3): 175 — 183 Oxidative stress plays a central role in the pathogenesis and progression of late microangiopathic complications (
diabetic nephropathy) in diabetes mellitus.
3 grams of ginger decreased fasting blood sugar by 10.5 % in this 8 week
study on 88
diabetic patients.
Early
studies showed that starchy carbohydrate foods have very different effects
on blood glucose and insulin responses in healthy and
diabetic subjects, depending
on the rate of digestion.
This data suggests a different effect of ketosis
on glucose homeostasis in
diabetic and non-
diabetic individuals.21 Other
studies support the long - term efficacy of ketogenic diets in managing complications of T2D.36, 37 Although significant reductions in fat mass often results when individuals restrict carbohydrate, the improvements in glycaemic control, haemoglobin A1c and lipid markers, as well as reduced use or withdrawal of insulin and other medications in many cases, occurs before significant weight loss occurs.
A result of the
study of effects of Aloe Vera
on diabetic rat models suggests that it is useful in the treatment of diabetes.
Acute feeding
studies indicate that nuts have minimal effects
on rising postprandial blood glucose levels when eaten alone, and diminish the postprandial glycaemic response when consumed with high - glycaemic index carbohydrate foods in both normoglycaemic and type 2
diabetic individuals.
If you scour veterinary literature, you won't find many double - blind clinical
studies on therapy lasers; however, if you search PubMed for clinical evidence
on the efficacy of laser therapy, you'll be inundated with thousands of articles
on its various applications — ranging from its basic usages to the vastly more extreme and bizarre: things like treating
diabetic ulcers, traumatic brain injuries, peripheral nervous system failures, mal - union fractures, and more.
While this
study was designed to measure the impact of treatment for diabetes
on cats, nine of the top ten factors impacting quality of life impacted the humans rather than the
diabetic cats.