Mindfulness and Diabetes Management

Nisarg Joshi

Diabetes, Meditation

meditation-and-diabetes

It is all mental. Your mind is the controlling sheath. We hardly care to nurture and strengthen mind. 🙂 On the other hand, we actually kill our mind daily. We keep it in wavering state forever. Forever fatigue.

In reality, mind or मन is a gifted magic wand, if you know how to use it. Controlling Glucose level is child’s play for mature and strong mind. So much powerful that even poison is ineffective.


Research


Brown University research: “Researchers investigating how mindfulness may affect cardiovascular health have measured a significant association between a high degree of ‘everyday’ mindfulness and a higher likelihood of having normal, healthy glucose levels. Their analysis showed that a lower risk of obesity and greater sense of control among more mindful people may play mediating roles.”

Associations of Mindfulness with Glucose Regulation and Diabetes

Abstract:

Objective: To evaluate whether dispositional mindfulness is associated with glucose regulation and type 2 diabetes. Methods: Study participants (N = 399) were from the New England Family Study, a prospective birth cohort, with median age 47 years. Dispositional mindfulness was assessed using the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). Type 2 diabetes and “normal plasma glucose” were defined using American Diabetes Association criteria. Results: Multivariable-adjusted regression analyses demonstrated that participants with high versus low MAAS scores were significantly more likely to have normal plasma glucose levels (prevalence ratio = 1.35 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08,1.87)), and were not significantly associated with type 2 diabetes (prevalence ratio = 0.83, 95% CI: 0.38,1.79), adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, family history of diabetes and childhood socioeconomic status. Mediation analyses provided evidence of mediation via obesity and sense of control, where indirect effects were prevalence ratios (95% CI) of 1.03 (1.00,1.10) and 1.08 (1.00,1.21), respectively. Conclusions: Dispositional mindfulness may be associated with better glucose regulation, in part because of a lower likelihood of obesity and greater sense of control among participants with higher levels of mindfulness. These findings need to be replicated by prospective studies to establish causality and to evaluate potential implications for mindfulness-based interventions to reduce risk of type 2 diabetes.

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