Type II Diabetes and COVID-19

We’re currently living in a world where no nation has been spared from COVID-19. Do you know the impact having type 2 Diabetes has on your risk factors?

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A trickle of COVID-19 cases has become a worldwide flood. Quarantines and lock-downs have become reality, even then the number of confirmed cases are rising. At the moment, it feels impossible to predict what the world will look like next week, let alone next year, bringing uncertainty to many.

The newly discovered virus, coupled with the reaction of the media, inevitably drives misinformation to circulate. This leaves many vulnerable, as the containment of any disease is highly dependent on actions taken by individuals. (2)

People susceptible to getting sick need reliable, factual information to make good decisions.

It is no secret that those with the highest risk of hospitalization, intubation, and death from COVID-19 are those with chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes mellitus. (1) In some circumstances, the immune system’s reaction to a virus, bacteria, or other pathogen can cause greater harm to the infected individual than the pathogen itself.(2)

Type II diabetes is a deadly example of this circumstance. With millions of cases around the world, type II diabetes continues to pose a great threat to the world we live in today.

While this does not diminish the effect that COVID-19 has had on our society, it helps us to remember that type II diabetes and other chronic diseases are still factors we should not ignore.

Threats like type II diabetes are long-standing and demand our attention.

According to the CDC, in 2018 alone, 8.2% of the US population had been diagnosed with

Type II diabetes, 34.5% of the adult US population were diagnosed with prediabetes, and an estimated 21.4% of the US population are undiagnosed with the disease.(2) The number of people affected by type II diabetes is several times more than COVID-19, and while COVID-19 is a seasonal illness like the flu, diabetes happens all year long and has been established as the seventh leading cause of death in the US. (3)

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2016, an estimated 1.6 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes and in 2012, another 2.2 million deaths were attributable to high blood glucose and the numbers have continued to grow.5 Every year, more and more people are diagnosed with type II diabetes along with increasing estimates of those with the disease yet undiagnosed. A whopping 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year.(3)

As the severity of type II diabetes continues to increase globally, the fight against this chronic lifestyle related disease continues.

You can prevent or even reverse type II diabetes. Many people don’t know that Lifestyle Therapy has succeeded where other approaches have failed.

It is possible to prevent and even reverse type II diabetes, but it requires the synergistic combination of healthy eating, regular physical exercise, and reducing stress found through Lifestyle Therapy. Free yourself from type II diabetes and the horrible complications that come with it through Lifestyle Therapy.