Yoga Helps Alleviate Diabetes

Among a majority of regular practitioners of yoga who have been diagnosed as diabetic, their blood sugar levels have dropped from as much as over 400 to less than 160 over a fortnight. Even in case of less committed diabetic yoga practitioners significant improvement has been noticed.

This does not come to me as a surprise as the diabetics who have responded to yoga perhaps make for the largest category of chronic patients.

It is established beyond doubt that this system of breathing and mental exercises (pranayama) and simple diet have returned even the worst cases of diabetes back to normal life.

Pankaj Mehrotra was on dialysis when he joined a yoga camp two years back. He was a diabetic for more than 25 years. And he was just 45 when he took to pranayama and other exercises. He was unable to pay up the high cost of dialysis when a friend of his introduced him to the camp.

I remember him breaking down with grief often, as he expected to die at any time.

There was one positive thing about his condition though. LIke many people undergoing dialysis, he was on too frugal a diet to avoid build up of creatinine in his body. Yoga turned his condition around in less than two months. The creatinine levels came down significantly and he stopped attending dialysis.

He achieved a new lease of life without incurring high expense through th epower of yoga.

Suman Aggarwal was an overweight diabetic with heart disease and asthma. Arthritis had also started to affect her knees. She was put on a strict yoga regime which she could not take for too long. “I could not have given up on Chinese fast food and lot of sweets every day, so I gave up yoga. Before long, I was admitted to a hospital with a heart attack,” she recalls.

Suman survived but she lay on the bed for five months before she resumed pranayama just lying on the bed. After six months of yoga, Suman suddenly realized that she was healthy and spirited enough to pursue her childhood hobby – pottery.

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