What is the Relationship Between Diabetes and Obesity from an Energy Perspective?

Abstract

If we review what is in the medical literature, most studies say that type 2 diabetes comes from hormonal and metabolic imbalances generated by the obese patient. According to the article written by Nguyen (2010) entitled Relationship Between Obesity and Diabetes in a US Adult Population: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 19992006, the prevalence of diabetes increases with high weight classes. But only half of the diabetes adults’ patients were considered obese. In this article, he is suggesting that weight loss is an important aim nowadays to reduce the impact of diabetes in the health care system [1]. The author will write this article according to Hippocrates (460 bce 375 bce), father of Medicine, who said that we should follow older medicines, before current medical practice. So, the doctor will explain this theme according to the teachings of traditional Chinese medicine [2]. If we look at the article written by Huang [3] entitled Why Are Diabetic Patients Still Having Hyperglycemia Despite Diet Regulation, Antiglycemic Medication and Insulin? and if we look at the energy alterations of obese patients, published by Huang [3] in an article entitled Energy Alterations in Obese Patients, if we look at it from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, which exists for more than 5,000 years, we can observe that what the two diseases have in common are energy imbalances or deficiencies in the five internal massive organs [4,5]. According to some studies presented by Huang at the Acupuncture Research Conference, that was held at the Harvard Medical School, in Boston, in 2015, the author demonstrates in her study that the treatment of the imbalance of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood energy (which are the basis of all traditional Chinese medicine reasoning), can treat all of the individual’s physical and emotional pathologies at the same time, even if the doctor does not know that the patient has such a symptom or illness [6].