Help Your Body Manage Glucose

(Newswire.net — August 14, 2018) Cheyenne, Wyoming — While diabetes has some connection to be hereditary in terms of being predisposed to developing, it’s also a triggered and controllable factor, namely by one’s diet. What one chooses to eat and drink plays a big role when it comes to diabetes, of course exercise or the lack thereof affects things as well. If diabetes is developed then it’s important to steer clear of a spin off disease known as ketoacidiosis. 

“The condition [ketoacidosis] develops when your body can’t produce enough insulin,” informs Mayo Clinic. “Insulin normally plays a key role in helping sugar (glucose) — a major source of energy for your muscles and other tissues — enter your cells. Without enough insulin, your body begins to break down fat as fuel. This process produces a buildup of acids in the bloodstream called ketones, eventually leading to diabetic ketoacidosis if untreated.” 

To avoid ketoacidiosis, it’s critical for diabetics to avoid low carb/high protein diets like the now trendy keto diet. This isn’t to say ketones are bad, they aren’t, it just isn’t appropriate for diabetics since the way their body handles carbs/sugar is very different. 

“If a high level of ketones is produced, this can cause the blood to become acidic which can lead to illness and even potential danger to organs if not treated in time,” explains Diabetes.co.uk. “Ketone testing is a key part of type 1 diabetes management as it helps to prevent a dangerous short term complication, ketoacidosis, from occurring. Ketone testing may also be useful in people with other types of diabetes that are dependent upon insulin.” 

Diabetics have to be very diligent about how they eat and monitor ketone levels in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Just as importantly, doing regular check-ups on one’s ketone levels is essential and the Complete 10 Parameter Urinalysis Reagent by HealthyWiser™ is ideal since it detects ketones, glucose, protein ph, leukocytes, nitrites, bilirubin, blood, urobilinogen and specific gravity. 

“I have fluctuation kidney function, so I like these to keep track of protein in particular,” explains a verified HealthyWiser™ Complete 10 Parameter Urinalysis Reagent Strips customer on Amazon. “I’m also diabetic so ketones are nice to have- and if I think I have a bladder infection, I can do one of the sticks, and if it shows up for some of the other parameters, I can email my doc and let her know.” 

It’s always a comfort to know definitively what’s happening within and the HealthyWiser™ Complete 10 Parameter Urinalysis Reagent Strips certainly provide all the information one would need to decide if a professional medical check-up is needed or if all that’s needed are a few dietary adjustments to be back on track.