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 What is Diabetes?

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There are 3 main types of Diabetes:
Type 1 Juvenile or Insulin dependant
Type 2 Adult onset or Non-Insulin dependant
Gestational diabetes, which can occur during a woman’s pregnancy

Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or cannot use the pancreatic hormone insulin. This leads to a build up of glucose in the bloodstream and the cells do not utilize glucose. The cells need glucose to produce energy.

Diabetics have a greatly increased risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and loss of nerve function. 2 Monitoring blood sugar levels is a key component in treatment and management of the disease.

Magnesium and Diabetes
It is well established that diabetics often suffer from magnesium deficiency.  More recent studies have shown that magnesium supplementation of diabetics will not only correct for the loss of magnesium that occurs in the urine, but may also help with reducing plasma fasting glucose levels  and increase HDL cholesterol  (3).  It has been suggested that diabetics have a magnesium-binding defect, which may cause the insulin resistance and reduced insulin secretion associated with this disease.  It is thought that this defect can be addressed with magnesium supplementation (4).

References

1.Canadian Diabetes Association ;www.diabetes.ca

2. Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements ;Michael T. Murray,Three Rivers Press 1996

3. Song Y., et al. (2006) Effects of oral magnesium supplementation on glycaemic control in Type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of randomized double-blind controlled trials.  Diabet Med. 23(10):1050-6.

4.  Wells I.C. (2008)  Evidence that the etiology of the syndrome containing type 2 diabetes mellitus results from abnormal magnesium metabolism.  Can J Physiol Pharmacol.  86(1-2):16-24.

 

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