Before we get started with tips to balance your blood sugar, I want to cover some basic blood sugar terms that I will be using in this discussion.

Blood sugar/blood glucose – Glucose is the form of sugar that is in our bloodstream. Glucose is the body’s preferred source of fuel.

Keeping blood sugar under control is key to good management of type 2 diabetes. Here’s how to navigate this sometimes complicated course of diabetes care. Life with type 2 diabetes can sometimes seem like an hourly or even minute-by-minute effort to stabilize your blood sugar.

All types of diabetes are treatable. Diabetes type 1 lasts a lifetime, there is no known cure. Type 2 usually lasts a lifetime, however, some people have managed to get rid of theirsymptoms without medication, through a combination of exercise, diet and body weight control.

Gastroparesis is a disorder affecting people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in which the stomach takes too long to empty its contents (delayed gastric emptying). The vagus nervecontrols the movement of food through the digestive tract. If the vagus nerve is damaged or stops working, the muscles of the stomach and intestines do not work normally, and the movement of food is slowed or stopped.