Diabetics And The Dead Sea

This post first appeared as «Diabetic?Try a Therapeutic Dip in the Dead Sea» on The Shmooze blog of the Forward.

For many, going down to the Dead Sea to bathe in its mineral-rich waters is a sweet treat.Now, researchers are finding that just the opposite is true for diabetics which is a good thing.AВ preliminary studyВ has shown that diabetics who immersed themselves in the uniquely salty water were able to significantly reduce their blood sugar levels.

While it is too early to say that Type 2 diabetics will be able to replace their insulin shots or medications with relaxing dips in the Dead Sea, the researchers from Ben-Gurion University and Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva are pleased with their findings thus far.

They used a sample of 14 individuals of varying ages with Type 2 diabetes and had them each take a 20-minute dip in a pool filled with water taken from the Dead Sea.The scientists found that the diabetics’ blood glucose levels dropped by 13.5 percent when they were tested immediately upon leaving the water.An hour later, the subjects’ blood sugar levels went down even more.

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