It is an indisputable fact that diabetes can be cured. The cure here is called clinical cure when blood sugar is satisfactorily controlled and symptoms disappear through reasonable and active treatment to improve the influencing factors of diabetes. Because diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease, the cause of the disease is not easy to remove, and the so-called complete cure of the root cause of the disease is not yet possible.
Insulin is an important hormone that regulates the absorption and utilization of nutrients in the body and is the only hormone that can lower blood glucose, and if problems occur it can raise blood glucose and produce diabetes. There are two main causes of diabetes, one is damage to the insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells caused by various reasons, which cannot secrete enough insulin, commonly seen in type 1 diabetes. In the case of type 2 diabetes, in addition to impaired islet function, widespread insulin resistance is another important causative factor. These people do not produce a lot of insulin, but they cannot perform their physiological role properly, which is called “insulin resistance” in medical science. It is also believed that insulin resistance is a common causative factor for obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia and fatty liver, all of which eventually lead to the acceleration of atherosclerosis.
The famous clinical study on new-onset type 2 diabetes UKPDS reveals that islet function is already more than half impaired when blood glucose reaches the diagnosis of diabetes, and insulin resistance has also existed for years, and atherosclerosis is quietly developing throughout the body. Our 23-year observation data in Daqing confirmed that the average life expectancy of people with diabetes is 10 years less than that of people with normal blood sugar due to cardiovascular disease caused by atherosclerosis. Therefore, the treatment of diabetes is never a mere issue of lowering blood sugar, no matter how high or low blood sugar is, it is a warning to people that “the risk of cardiovascular atherosclerosis has come”. Therefore, elevated blood sugar should be treated, and the factors that cause elevated blood sugar must also be intervened.