Gestational Diabetes (GDM)
Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar first found during pregnancy. Pregnancy hormones make the body resist insulin. Blood sugar climbs when the pancreas cannot keep up.
This insulin resistance comes from the placenta. In some women a metabolic tendency was already there before pregnancy. Risk of type 2 diabetes later runs close to ten times higher than after a pregnancy with normal blood sugar.1 Restorative care looks at metabolic health before pregnancy, since the same insulin problem upsets the cycle.
In two randomized trials of pregnant women carrying extra weight, myo-inositol cut the rate of this condition.23
Cited in this entry
- Vounzoulaki E, Khunti K, Abner SC, Tan BK, Davies MJ, Gillies CL. Progression to type 2 diabetes in women with a known history of gestational diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ. 2020. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32404325/
- D'Anna R, Scilipoti A, Santamaria A, Interdonato ML, Petrella E, Neri I, Pintaudi B, Corrado F, Facchinetti F, Di Benedetto A. Myo-inositol Supplementation for Prevention of Gestational Diabetes in Obese Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2015. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26241420/
- Vitale SG, Corrado F, Caruso S, Giunta L, Cianci A, D'Anna R, Di Benedetto A. Myo-inositol supplementation to prevent gestational diabetes in overweight non-obese women: bioelectrical impedance analysis, metabolic aspects, obstetric and neonatal outcomes - a randomized and open-label, placebo-controlled clinical trial. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 2021. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33238798/
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