Yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness practices may help people with Type 2 diabetes lower their blood sugar—nearly to the degree that standard medications like metformin do, a new analysis suggests.
That does not mean people should swap their medication for meditation. The trials in the analysis all tested body-mind practices as an addition to standard diabetes treatment—not as a replacement for it.
That caveat made, the researchers said mindfulness is worth a try.
“We could use all the tools we can get for [managing] Type 2 diabetes,” said researcher Fatimata Sanogo, a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, in Los Angeles….