News Women With Severest Of Ptsd At High Risk For Type 2 Diabetes

[rightkindofme]

Sorry to ask what might be an obvious question, but is the lowered risk in the mother or the child?

For the mother. :) if you breast feed for 7 years you have a nearly 0% chance of getting diabetes and breast cancer. Bodies are awesome! (I only nursed for 4 years so I'm not totally covered...)

 

[RussH]

this is an in interesting study. I wish they would have included what kind of controls they had on the study, so the could isolate PTSD as the cause of type 2 Diabetes.
I wonder if they have also done a study on men?

 

[Queen Boudica]

if you breast feed for 7 years you have a nearly 0% chance of getting diabetes and breast cancer

Oh cool! That's me then. Wow definitely liquid gold. thank goodness for my persistent kids. But I still have the cortisol induced belly and I thought that meant I was definitely at high risk

 

[sun seeker]

if you breast feed for 7 years you have a nearly 0% chance of getting diabetes and breast cancer

Interesting! Darn, I only had the one child. Thanks for clarifying that.

 

[Queen Boudica]

Actually another thing about breastfeeding is induces serotonin production in you when you are doing it, so relaxes you (once you get past the broken up, cracked sore nibbles, mastitis, and thrush)

 

[HëllaBubz]

Yup, I use it to help me nap with bubs during the day! Wonder what other things I can do to help not be another statistic like this study!

 

[dnp]

It was my understanding that any type of prolonged stress or high cortisol levels can result in prolonged high blood sugar levels, even in people with below average (for the US) BMI.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes after taking Quetiapine and gaining weight. Then my blood sugars went up into the 600s all of the sudden. Two kinds of pills and 3 kinds of insulin. Then, without dieting or exercise, but lots of therapy and meditation, my blood sugars came way down. Now I'm on no insulin, 1 kind of pill, no processed food, and low carb diet. I want to get off the last pill and lose weight.