Cost of Stress

[Meadbh]

I knew stress could be detrimental to your health but I have never heard it may affect diabetes. Diabetes runs strong in my family and I have had no indications of a problem in my checkups (infrequent) but I live a healthier lifestyle than everyone in my family so I assumed I wouldn't need to be concerned about it. I have plenty of stress to contend with so I will keep that in mind.

Thanks for sharing this sad story.

Actually stress and diabetes have been linked through inflammatory mediators (which are not annoying lobbyists, but chemicals released in the body). Here are some research studies if you want to read about it.

http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=...a=X&ei=s7XDUcv1E6eCiwKCqIGoBg&ved=0CCkQgQMwAA