Alternative Therapy: Yoga in Reduced Blood Glucose Levels in Gestational Diabetes and Improved Pregnancy Outcome

Kyle J. Norton 

Yoga intervention may have a profound and positive impact in reduced risk and treatment on blood sugar levels among pregnant women, the Prince of Songkla University study suggested.

Yoga, the ancient technique for harmonized external and internal body well beings, through breath control, meditation, bodily movement and gesture..... has been best known for people in Western world and some parts in Asia due to health benefits reported by various respectable institutes' research and supported by health advocates.

In a randomized controlled trial carried out to measure the capillary fasting plasma glucose, 2-h postprandial blood glucose, and hemoglobin A1c, among pregnant women with GDM, after accounting to other co founders, researchers indicated that fasting plasma glucose and 2-h postprandial blood glucose significantly reduced and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), accepted as an indicator for evaluation of the glucose control in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients also decreased substantially.

In deed, yoga mindfulness program created a self consciousness between body and mind, by bring back the presence and dealing the event positive way. In pregnant women the exercise induced attention of eating control such as when the stomach is full and what portion is needed. The breathing exercises relaxed the central nervous system, thus ameliorating stress expression in stimulated production of hormone epinephrine which is found to associate to blood sugar levels by converting glycogen from glucose stored in muscle cells and liver.

Prolonged stress may induce failure of the adrenal gland leading to over production of stress hormone in induction of abnormal high blood glucose.

Dr. Youngwanichsetha S, the led researcher said, "Mindfulness eating and yoga exercise had health benefits on glycemic control in pregnant women with GDM".

Additionally, in the support of the above differentiation, researchers at the SVYASA University conducted a study of 68 high-risk pregnant women recruited from two maternity hospitals in Bengaluru, India and randomized into yoga and control groups. with the yoga group (n=30) received standard care plus one-hour yoga sessions, three times a week, from the 12th to the 28th week of gestation and control group (n=38) received standard care plus conventional antenatal exercises (walking) in the same period, researchers found that yoga group expressed a significantly fewer pregnancy induced gestational diabetes (GDM) and cases in compared to control and induced  less complications in yoga group, including small for gestational age (SGA) babies and newborns with low APGAR scores.

Truly, breathing and meditation practice in yoga were found to induce a strong implication of relaxation and oxygenation to the pancreas, thus increasing the pancreas function in regulation of blood glucose through insulin secretion.

Some yoga instructors also suggested that mindfulness in yoga lesson also improved blood sugar levels by bring back the natural state of self conscientiousness of present experience of more aware of hunger and satiety cues, and emotional impact on hunger, particularly enhanced more positive relationship and feeling to food.

After examining other risk factors, the study concluded, yoga only can reduced risk of unfavorable complications, including gestational diabetes mellitus  in this group of women but also demonstrated significantly improvement of pregnancy outcome.

More importantly, in the searching of the data base from PubMed, eight studies (10 reports) satisfied the criteria included in the final analysis, researcher postulated that yoga intervention not only reduced risk of gestational diabetes mellitus, also improved pregnancy related complications, such as hypertension, and intrauterine growth restriction, particularly, decrease in perceived stress levels.

Taking altogether, Yoga therapy not only reduced risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in healthy women and improved glucose levels in women with gestational diabetes mellitus but also enhanced pregnancy outcome.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) The effects of mindfulness eating and yoga exercise on blood sugar levels of pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus by Youngwanichsetha S1, Phumdoung S2, Ingkathawornwong T3.(PubMed)
(2) The effects of yoga in prevention of pregnancy complications in high-risk pregnancies: a randomized controlled trial by Rakhshani A1, Nagarathna R, Mhaskar R, Mhaskar A, Thomas A, Gunasheela S.(PubMed)