Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Yoga: An alternative

I have many topics to write about this year and as I said in January I'm going to make my best effort this year to write more frequently. Today I'd like to start with my own health and some of the research I've looked into regarding alternative healing methods towards things such as anxiety, depression and diabetes.

I've had anxiety for quite some time and I have recently been diagnosed with diabetes over the holidays. The pill I'm on , Metformin, is one that is commonly used to treat the disease. I have type 2 diabetes which means that my body over time has gotten used to high sugar levels and is not responding to the insulin that my body makes and therefore does not recognize that my body is even making it. This is caused by my eating habits, lack of exercise and basically stress and sitting at my job all day long. My job is something that I will touch on in later posts as working in a call center sitting all day has many disadvantages health wise and as I've touched on before, sitting is a silent killer and is now considered as bad as smoking/second hand smoke.