A long and healthy life is the desire of all people, and people with diabetes are no exception. In the earliest days, diabetes was an incurable disease, and having it was a death sentence. However, with the improvement of medical science, especially after the emergence of insulin, people reached a new level of understanding and treatment of diabetes. The first patient to receive insulin injections was a child who lived to the age of 27. And now, patients who live beyond 70 or 80 years of age abound. Diabetic health 20% depends on medical treatment, 80% lies in self-management, because the five carriage of diabetes treatment in diet therapy, exercise therapy and drug therapy, monitoring, which has four cars, 20% from the doctor’s guidance, 80% need to be completed by the patient himself, the last car is diabetes education, meaning that diabetic patients should not learn knowledge, because through education to learn knowledge and self-management methods, in order to better cooperate with doctors and improve the effectiveness of treatment. To live a long life, in addition to applying the treatment of professional doctors in specialized hospitals or tertiary hospitals, patients should first pay attention to the early stages of diabetes treatment. When diabetes is first diagnosed, the patient’s condition is often mild, which is the golden period of diabetes treatment. If treated in a timely manner, it is very beneficial in delaying the development of complications and prolonging the life span of the patient. Patients should strengthen their self-management, of course, starting with learning knowledge. Some diabetic patients do well in self-management, frequently monitor their blood sugar, and actively learn about diabetes and cooperate actively with their doctors’ treatment plans. These patients have good glycemic control and glycosylated hemoglobin levels, complications appear later, and they live longer. It can be seen that the life expectancy of diabetic patients is in their own hands, and improving compliance is the key, and strengthening diabetes education is an important way to improve patients’ compliance. Through knowledge and change of mind, the compliance of diabetic patients to prevention and treatment is improved, so that they can better control their diabetes and delay the occurrence of complications. How can diabetic patients live longer? The greatest threat to the life expectancy of diabetic patients is not diabetes itself, but the complications of diabetes, such as: atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease (angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, etc.), cerebrovascular disorders (cerebral thrombosis, cerebral hemorrhage, etc.), retinopathy, nephropathy, nerve damage, ketoacidosis, etc. As long as the patient’s condition is satisfactorily controlled so that complications do not occur or remain at a mild level and do not progress forward, diabetic patients can enjoy essentially the same life expectancy as non-diabetics. And if the insurance does? to several important points: 1, the correct treatment of diabetes, maintain an optimistic, open-minded attitude. 2, long-term adherence to the correct diet, exercise, and treatment, so that weight, blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipids to maintain a basic normal level, and actively prevent and treat various complications of diabetes. 3.Systematic monitoring of diabetes, if there are complications that cannot be controlled, to be able to effectively treat them in a timely manner. 4. Actively treat complications, do not wait until symptoms appear, but treat them “half a beat faster” and use Chinese herbal medicines that are effective against complications as early as possible to inhibit the progress of the disease.