Re: Lifestyle Changes Regenerate Nerve Fibers in Prediabetics

Kurt <kurtwheeling1965@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Roger Zoul wrote:
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3630

In patients with diabetes, nerve fiber damage that causes diabetic
neuropathy is irreversible.

Now, in a new study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health,
researchers have found that with weight loss and exercise in patients with
impaired glucose tolerance neuropathy -- so-called prediabetes -- the
affected nerve fibers can be reinervated, causing a reduction in the
patients' pain.
Dr. A Gordon Smith stated that, "It's been clear that aggressive control of
blood glucose levels slows the risk of neuropathy, but no treatment has ever
before resulted in improved neuropathy. "We certainly never thought that
reinvervation would be possible at the prediabetic state."

[...]

"If you see a patient with symptoms of neuropathy - numbness, tingling pain,
or absence of sensation -- you should conduct an oral glucose tolerance test
and confirm nerve fiber loss by such measures as nerve conduction testing,
quantitative sensory testing, and quantitative sudomotor axon reflex
testing," Dr. Smith advised

"If they turn out to be glucose intolerant with peripheral neuropathy, you
should treat them as aggressively as possible with diet and exercise," Dr.
Smith concluded. " Simply treating them with antihyperglycemic drugs appears
to not allow damaged nerve fibers to recover," he added.
Presented at the American Academy of Neurology 58th Annual Meeting in San
Diego.

One more good reason for people in general to start paying attention to
their health, start exercising, and lose weight if necessary.

And one more good reason for people to pay attention to the postings
here. There is a population here of aggressive diet-&-exercisers who
have discovered more about recovering from neuropathic damage than
those doing this research study know, both by wide reading of the
research literature and shared personal experience.

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