How to Lower High Glucose

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Kayti Brosnan. I'm a registered nurse here in Austin, Texas, and the question is: How to lower high glucose. This is a tricky question, and there's no right answer for everybody. Everybody's bodies react different and the disease process of diabetes is affecting people different as it progresses. So this is something that I've been really trying to get to the bottom of. My boyfriend has diabetes, and he will have spikes in blood sugar. And being a nurse, I'm always trying to get his blood sugar lower. So there are some basic ways that you can do it. If you're on insulin, then you want to use a maintenance dose according to what your doctor has diagnosed. If you're taking oral medications and your blood sugar is higher around meals, then you might want to use whatever the range they've given you, you might want to take an extra... It's one of the fast-acting tablets or oral anti-diabetic medications. And then there are other ways. There's, like...there's home remedies. Cinnamon lowers your blood sugar. There are certain aloe plants. Turmeric. What else? Oh, there are so many things. Sometimes you just need to hydrate your body -- that you haven't had enough water, and so there's an offset of the balance of sugar and fluid and electrolytes in your body, and so your muscles and your cells aren't actually receiving and giving the way that they normally need to. So if you hydrate, you can see a result in the blood sugar and coming down. Exercise is always a good thing. You should be exercising at least 30 minutes a day four or five times a week, and that's going to...that's going to naturally continue to bring down your blood sugar because you're actually using up the blood sugar and the carbohydrates that you've been taking in. So there's a lot of ways. I just want to reiterate: These are going to be different for everyone, and this is something that would be really good to discuss with your doctor. What are the best ways that your doctor has seen? If you are in some sort of a support group, discuss ways that they have seen that will lower the blood sugar. And getting your body in a healthy routine -- eating a good diet -- is a really good start and a good way to head...what good direction to head in. So those are some options for you out there."