Yoga therapy as a complementary therapy for type 2 diabetes

Professional journal of the month of diabetes therapeutics (electronic version), yoga (yoga) is clinical research that showed the type 2 diabetes improvement action by therapy, it has been reported from India of the group (Srinivas Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre) It was. (Diabetes Care. 2011 Aug 11) Yoga (yoga) is, breathing and meditation, is India's traditional medicine consisting of a movement such as. (It is known as the oldest traditional medicine in the world.) In Japan, yoga is considered as health law, but the prevention and improvement of lifestyle-related diseases have been reported, it can also be regarded as one of the complementary and alternative medicine. Well, in this study, in type 2 diabetes, body composition, body type by yoga therapy, blood pressure, blood sugar level, effect on oxidative stress has been verified. Specifically, the target type 2 diabetic patients 123 patients, Standard treatment alone enforcement group Standard therapy + yoga combination group Intervention trial of three months have been made in two groups. (Subjects, microvascular disease complications, large vascular disease complications, considering the presence or absence of such as peripheral neuropathy, have been divided into groups and yoga combination group of standard treatment only.) As a result of the analysis, compared to standard treatment alone enforcement group, the yoga therapy combination group, BMI, glycemic control, MDA is significantly reduced (improved), and Glutathione and vitamin C is that it has increased. In addition, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, blood pressure, vitamin E, not found the difference in the SOD between the two groups. These data, Yoga therapy, reduce oxidative stress disorders in patients with type 2 diabetes, it is suggested to be useful in improving and improving glycemic control in BMI. Yoga therapy, safety also because it is also high interventions cost-effective, are expected to be widely used in the prevention and improvement of lifestyle-related diseases. In Japan, such as Japan Yoga Therapy Society strives to spread.