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[Jill]

Hi,

Does anyone know if it's true that drinking lots of water can lower blood glucose? If it is true, about how long would it take to have the desired effect?

Thanks.

Jill

 

[DeusXM]

It's not true. Water can help marginally in extreme circumstances - ie. if your BG is quite high and your kidneys have to filter out excess glucose. However, really in this situation you are drinking water to avoid dehydration rather than specifically flushing out glucose.

If you're at a point where your kidneys are having to clear glucose, you're in trouble and need medication. Under normal circumstances, your kidneys shouldn't have to filter out glucose from your blood.

 

[Steff]

Wish it was I go through 3 litres a day 🙄

 

[LeeLee]

Just think how hacked off the drug companies would be if it were true!

 

[Caroline]

and there comes a point if you drink too much water you blood becomes too diluted and other essential things become depleted too.

 

[Northerner]

and there comes a point if you drink too much water you blood becomes too diluted and other essential things become depleted too.

Indeed, there is a condition called hyponatremia, which is a lack of salt and can be fatal. I once came across a diabetes 'cure' that was based on drinking water:

Yet another ‘miracle cure’ for diabetes, this time consisting of drinking plain old water. The catch with this one though, is the quantity you have to consume – half your body weight in ounces per day! Now, I’m not sure that that means if you weigh 200 pounds you drink 100 ounces, or that you drink 100 pounds in one ounce gulps. Given the nature of these miracle cures, let’s assume the latter…in which case I have only one thing to say – hyponatremia!

Who’s next please? Come up here, and stand on the scales
For the guaranteed cure that, to date, never fails!
Most doctors dismiss this, as daft as that sounds –
Ah! I see you weigh in at just four hundred pounds!

That’s 180 kilos (sounds much less, don’t you think?)
So that’s just 90 litres a day you must drink!
If you start in the morning and imbibe all day long,
You’ll be cured in a fortnight – what on earth could go wrong?

I’ll admit there’s a chance that you may get confused,
And your brain cells might swell – but it’s not like they’re used!
For most people who come here and believe in this cure
Wouldn’t notice if they left with a few billion fewer!

And you may lose your appetite and become very sick,
And the headaches and convulsions may come on very quick,
And you may feel quite dizzy, or become comatose –
But it’s over a week since we’ve had one of those!

(c) Northerner 2011-2013

 

[mcdonagh47]

Hi,

Does anyone know if it's true that drinking lots of water can lower blood glucose? If it is true, about how long would it take to have the desired effect?

Thanks.

Jill

The video talk in this link suggests walking and drinking water are a good way to bring bgs down if you are not on insulin. The water helps the kidneys remove glucose from the bloodstream.....
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/how-to/bring-down-high-blood-sugar-levels.html

Vasopressin, the hormone that deals with water in the body, is also connected to diabetes in an unknown way. A French study found that those who drank plenty of water and kept hydrated had a far better chance of avoiding T2 diabetes in the first place.

 

[Jill]

Thank you all for this information. I've read a few blogs where drinking water is recommended to lower blood glucose. As I'm not on insulin or any medication it would seem that water might help but not in excess and coupled with exercise.

Enjoyed the poem Northener and certainly got the message.

 

[Lauras87]

and there comes a point if you drink too much water you blood becomes too diluted and other essential things become depleted too.

Damn I drink loads of water