How Can I Lower My Blood Sugar Quickly? (2024)

Yes, it’s possible to lower your blood sugar quickly! Not everyone’s blood sugar (glucose) levels will tumble in 3 days, but scientific evidence strongly points to the use of a healthy lifestyle (good food, daily exercise, and a positive mindset) can help you reverse diabetes in as quickly as two to three weeks. Nearly 10% of the U.S. population has diabetes. Are you ready to make a change? Here’s how you can lower your blood sugar quickly.

How do you feel when your blood sugar is too high?

The symptoms can be subtle – the increase in thirst, or more frequent urination. So many people do not even realize that they need to lower your blood sugar level. If you don’t, you are at a greater risk of developing diabetes. It can take up to 12 years for diabetes to develop. Evidence shows the ability to reverse diabetes is greater when a healthy lifestyle is emphasized early.

How to lower your blood sugar naturally

Nearly 10% of the U.S. population has diabetes, and globally rates are expected to double by 2030. Significant evidence shows you can lower your blood sugar quickly, and even reverse diabetes by adopting a healthy lifestyle:

• In the United Kingdom, researchers successfully lowered blood sugar and reverse diabetes by implementing a combination of a lifestyle change and weight loss.
• In urban locations in Africa, scientists have found educational programs help prediabetic adults alter their lifestyle to effectively lower blood sugar levels.
• The most extensive study was completed in the United States and was called the Diabetes Prevention Program Randomized Trail. The study observed 3,234 men and women with pre-diabetes over a three-year period. The researchers found a healthy lifestyle wasmoreeffective than medication in preventing the onset of type 2 diabetes. One third of the adults took a placebo, another took metformin (a medication for diabetes), while the final third of the adults adopted lifestyle changes that were similar to the Pritikin Program (daily healthy eating of low-calorie dense foods, and daily exercise of at least 30 minutes five days a week). Adults who adopted a lifestyle change were twice as likely to reduce the progression of their pre-diabetes into type 2 diabetes than the control group.

Adopting a healthy lifestyle, such as the Pritikin lifestyle, is twice as effective as medication in preventing the onset of type 2 diabetes.

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How fast can I lower my blood sugar?

It may be faster than you think! Researchers at UCLAtracked over 650 men and women with type 2 diabetes who had attended the Pritikin Longevity Center to determine the effects of the healthy lifestyle change on their health. They found that in you can lower your blood sugar quickly. Of the adults who were new diabetics, their blood sugar levels fell from an average of 164mg/dL to 124 mg/dL within 3 weeks.

Better yet, many cases, adopting a healthy lifestyle is effective at reversing diabetes! The majority (71%) of the diabetics taking oral medication lowered their blood sugar to a point in which mediation was no longer needed. Those with advanced stages of diabetes noticed improvements as well. At the Pritikin Center, trained experts, including board certified physicians, registered dieticians and exercise physiologists, work with the adults to help them better understand their health, and how to eat, move, and live healthier.

What is a dangerous level of blood sugar?

Pre-diabetes is defined as having a fasting glucose between 100 and 125. Diabetes is a fasting glucose of 126 or higher. There is significant scientific evidence showing that a healthy lifestyle, such as the Pritikin Plan, can prevent pre-diabetes from developing into full-blown diabetes.

Can you avoid diabetes if it runs in your family?

Yes, your genes don’t have to define you! There are genetic factors that can predispose some people to be heavier than others. Yet, your heredity doesn’t define your health. Your health is determined by your environment. And, you can control your environment. For example, researchers have noticed stark differences between Pima Indians living in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico eating a traditional diet, and those living in urban areas of Arizona eating a traditional Western diet. The Pima Indians of Arizona are among the most obese groups of people in the world and have a diabetes rate that is 8 times greater than the national average. Their lifestyle is mostly sedentary, and their diet is a typical American diet (rich in saturated fat, sugars and refined foods). Meanwhile, despite their genetic similarities, the Pima Indians of Mexico, weigh an average of 65 pounds less than their Arizona counterparts, and fewer than 4% have type 2 diabetes. The reason is in the stark differences of their lifestyles: the Pima Indians live an active lifestyle working their farms, and eat a diet rich in the whole foods (beans, potatoes, corn, vegetables, garlic, fruit). It is clear that lifestyle has an extremely powerful influence on health. You can adopt a healthy lifestyle, and enjoy a healthy body, irrespective of your genetic heritage.

Foods that Lower Blood Sugar

You can quickly lower your blood sugar with the help of eating lots of delicious foods. You don’t have to miss out on fun or taste. The Pritikin Eating Plan focuses on eating a lot of food, particularly whole foods that are naturally rich in fiber and naturally low in fats, sugars, and refined foods.

Guests at the Pritikin Center experience how delicious these whole foods can be as the extraordinary chefs serve up sensational culinary creations. Plus, guests can learn how to prepare these healthy foods, as well as shop for them. At Pritikin, you learn which foods are best for reversing diabetes in seminars, such as the Diabetic Luncheon with the helpful dietitians.

Switching to a healthier lifestyle did more than reverse Jeff’s diabetes. “I felt as good as I did when I was in high school. And all this without taking any medications… just eating healthy and exercising. That’s all it was!” Jeff is just one of thousands of people who have come to Pritikin and found changes to their lifestyle transformed their health. The reason Pritikin has worked so well for so many is because of the science behind it. Food can treat high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol and weight management.

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