While many modern medicine practices would have diabetes patients believe that there is no cure, these maxims avoid the truth about diabetes. Natural healing can provide relief for those who suffer from the disease, avoiding many of the risks that accompany more modern approaches to fighting the disease, while at the same time promoting a more healthy overall lifestyle and teaching people how to maintain well-rounded bodies and minds.

Diabetes affects the body’s production of insulin, a hormone necessary in cells’ absorption of glucose. In some cases, no insulin or not enough insulin is produced to allow the glucose to be properly absorbed by the body’s cells. In other diabetes cases, enough insulin may be produced by the pancreas, but the body’s cells are resisant to its effects, producing the same result as if they were producing no insulin at all.

A common modern-day approach to diabetes is in the …