Scientific Proof to How your Body react to Acupuncture - Diabetes
Frequent sessions of Acupuncture will stabilize blood sugar levels and treat diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease which severely threatens the health and even the survival of humankind. Chronic hyperglycaemia or high blood sugar is very likely to result in vascular damage, which will lead to a series of diabetic complications in heart, liver, stomach, kidney, muscle, peripheral nerve, etc.
Acupuncture has been shown to have therapeutic effects on DM symptoms, to reduce hyperglycemia, increase insulin sensitivity, and improve lipid metabolism in animals and humans with T2DM. A potential mechanism underlying the effect of acupuncture on insulin resistance is upregulation of the production of adipo-myokines. The latter are secreted by skeletal muscle and adipose tissue during regular exercise, and have a role in mediating insulin resistance in DM pathogenesis. Acupuncture is an "insulin sensitizer" and can improve insulin sensitivity possibly by reducing body weight and inflammation, and improving lipid metabolism and adipokine expression.
Scientific evidence to how Acupuncture aids in treating Diabetes is found below! As I always said, even Science supports TCM/Acupuncture, do you dare say TCM/Acupuncture is unscientific?
Conclusion: This systematic review establishes high-quality evidence of the efficacy and safety of acupuncture and related techniques for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus to facilitate the clinical practice and guideline development.
Conclusion: Our study revealed that acupuncture (as a type of Chinese therapy) combined with metformin (as a conventional hypoglycemic medication) had a greater effect on glycemic control than that elicited in the placebo control group. Consequently, acupuncture could be used as adjuvant therapy among patients with T2DM.
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