Reducing Stress Proven to Lower Blood Sugar

February 12, 2010

Stress triggers hormones that raise blood sugar. Reducing chronic stress switches this process off. Research from the Medical University of Ohio has proven that learning to melt your stress away may coax blood sugar down to healthy levels.

The experiment followed 30 people with diabetes, half of whom practiced daily tension-reducing exercises, such as muscle relaxation, and had their techniques monitored with weekly 45-minute biofeedback sessions. The others took diabetes education classes.

After ten weeks, those who relaxed saw about a 10% drop in fasting blood sugar and in the level of HbA1c — a sign that their glucose had stayed lower around the clock for the previous couple of months.

Such results mean lower risk of diabetic complications, like heart disease, blindness and nerve damage. Meanwhile, the education group’s blood sugar and HbA1c levels actually rose slightly.

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