How Diabetics Can Use Vitamin E to Ward Off Viruses

For diabetics, watching what you eat is an extremely important part of daily life. You have to carefully monitor your blood glucose levels and keep them balanced, otherwise you risk having levels that are too high or too low, which can lead to some serious health problems.

Diabetics are at higher risk when it comes to contracting viruses, so it’s important that they boost their immune systems while still keeping their blood sugar in check. One thing you’ll need to help boost your immune system is vitamin E.

The main draw of vitamin E is that it’s a really good antioxidant. Antioxidants essentially protect your cells from things that might cause cancer, such as UV radiation or second hand smoke.

Antioxidants also help reduce your chances of developing cardiovascular diseases, which are very dangerous. In addition to its antioxidant properties, vitamin E also provides your body with necessary resources that it needs to have a well-functioning immune system.

You can think of your immune system as a type of network spanning throughout your body. The cells all need to be able to communicate with each other in order to spot viruses early and converge on them quickly.

Without proper communication between cells, viruses can easily take hold in your body and start to spread. This leads to your body having a harder time getting rid of it, which can mean worse symptoms and a longer time spent being sick.

With a properly functioning immune system, your body should have a much better time eliminating the virus when it’s first spotted. In order to improve your vitamin E intake, you need to start eating certain foods, but if you’re diabetic, you need to be choosing ones that won’t interfere with your blood sugar levels.

For this, a great option to consider is walnuts. Walnuts give you a nice vitamin E boost that can help your immune system, but they’re low in carbs. One cup of them only contains about 4 grams of carbs.

They’re mostly comprised of protein and healthy fats, instead. You want to be sure you’re getting regular raw walnuts, though, because some can come with additional flavors and stuff on top of them.

Having some walnuts with your lunch or dinner can be a great way to get some additional immune boosting benefits while still staying well within your limits as a diabetic, allowing you to stay healthy in more ways than one.


Frequent Doctor’s Visits Put Diabetics at Risk with Their Weakened Immune System

If you have diabetes, you should know that your immune system is weaker due to your condition. Without a strong immune system, you’re going to be a lot more susceptible to getting sick, and when you do get sick, it’s going to hit you harder than it would someone else.

This is why you need to minimize your visits to the doctor if at all possible. Of course in cases of emergency you’re going to have to go to the doctor. When your blood sugar spikes too high, you need to see a medical professional to get the help you need.

However, you want to do everything you can to avoid that happening so that you don’t have to go to the doctor as much as you might normally. Doctor’s offices and hospitals are already houses for hotbeds for germs and diseases.

Despite their best efforts to sanitize them thoroughly, sick patients are still constantly walking in and out while spreading their disease around through surfaces or through the air.

The reason that diabetes affects your immune system has to do with the higher blood sugar levels. High blood sugar allows infections to spread and grow much faster than normal, making it much harder for your immune system to deal with, which leads to you getting sicker more often.

Another issue that diabetes poses for your immune system is the reduced blood flow and poor circulation throughout your body. Your white blood cells need to come in contact with the virus to detect it and to signal your body about it, but with poor blood flow, there’s a much lower chance of that happening.

This leads to viruses being able to take root and spread without your body even noticing until it’s too late. By the time it’s caught, the virus has already spread significantly, and it’ll be a much harder fight for your immune system because it hasn’t had time to prepare.

You may also know that diabetes impairs some of your nervous system, leading to more numbness in some areas. This numbness may cause a small injury to go unnoticed, such as a minor cut, which can then easily get infected all without you knowing.

By visiting doctor’s offices and hospitals frequently, you’re going to be exposing yourself to a lot of different diseases and infectious microbes that could all easily spread and get you sick, especially if you’re diabetic.


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Warren Tattersall has been a full time nutritional consultant for over 35 years and works with people all over the world to help them improve their health, increase their personal energy levels and to use supplements to assist with diet related health issues.

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