Over the years a taboo has been done about the relationship between diabetes and a serious scare or a very strong emotion.
Over time the idea has been created that a person became ill of diabetes because of a surprise, scare or a feeling that altered his body.
Ensuring or believing that a scare can cause a person to be nurse from type 2 diabetes is one of the most widespread myths about this disease which has remained in force until our times.
A scare does not give you diabetes
Diabetes mellitus is a gradual disease that progresses progressively over time and is divided into different stages.
This means that no one has diabetes for the simple of making a strong courage or having scared;For a person to have this disease it is necessary to have passed a series of stages.
Why the relationship of scares with diabetes?
The answer to this question was found half a century ago and this is found in hormones, particularly cortisol.
Cortisol is one of the hormones that our body has and secret in situations of great stress such as courage, a strong impression or a scare.
This hormone causes glucose to rise in the bloodstream thus causing a great alteration in the body and with it the relationship between the two can be explained.
This means that a healthy person who suffers a great scare will raise his blood glucose levels due to cortisol, but will not get sick with diabetes.And a person who has diabetes beginnings, a scare can cause the disease to reveal.
Diabetes is one of the main causes of death in Mexico and to avoid it it is necessary to have a healthy life accompanied by a constant review with a doctor.