Listening to music lowers blood sugar?
Isn't it amazing?
The recently released Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Traditional Chinese Medicine suggest that music therapy can be tried to improve blood glucose levels [1].
Studies have found that music-assisted treatment of prediabetes can not only significantly improve blood glucose levels, insulin resistance, anxiety and depression, but also improve insulin sensitivity, cholesterol and triglyceride levels [1,2].
Sugar lovers who take alogliptin have better blood glucose and lipid profiles after listening to music than those who do not listen to music [3].
While these studies have their own limitations, they also give us some tips: listening to music can help lower blood sugar!
However, not all music has this effect.
So, what kind of music can help sugar friends lower blood sugar?
Studies have found that the following two tunes of music can help sugar friends lower blood sugar [1-4]:
1. Palace tune music
Representative musical instruments: Xun, Sheng, etc.
Recommended songs
(1) "Gong Tune 1, Gong Tune 2" in the series of "Traditional Chinese Five Elements Music: Positive Tune"
This series of repertoire is sponsored by the Chinese Medical Association and performed by the Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Orchestra, which can be searched on the Internet.
(2) Plum blossom three lanes
Recommended listening time: Choose a quiet, comfortable and relaxing environment for 30 minutes every day during meals or within 1 hour after eating.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that Gongyin is "earth-based music", with melodious and calm, solemn melody, generous and tolerant like "earth", which helps sugar friends stabilize their mood, alleviate depression, and improve blood sugar and blood lipid levels [1].
2. Horn music
Representative musical instruments: flute, bamboo flute, etc.
Recommended songs
(1) "Horn Tune 1 and Horn Tune 2" in the series "Chinese Traditional Five Elements Music: Positive Tone" [4]
(2) Jiangnan is good
Recommended listening time: 22:00-22:30 every night, close your eyes lightly, relax physically and mentally, and the volume should be comfortable and pleasant to the ears [4].
According to TCM, horn sound is "wood-based music", with a vibrant melody and a fresh and refreshing melody, which can relieve liver depression, help improve anxiety and depression in anxiety and thinking type 2 diabetes sufferers, and help reduce fasting blood glucose levels [2,4].
Music can also be a good helper for your sugar control, come and try it together!
Bibliography:
[1] Ni Qing, Pang Qing, Yang Yanan, et al.Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in traditional Chinese medicine[J/OL].Global Chinese Medicine:1-14[2024-04-08].
[2] Peng Sihan, Xie Ziyan, Xie Ju, et al.Clinical observation of 40 cases of prediabetes intervened by traditional Chinese medicine five-tone therapy[J].Liaoning Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2021,48(01):108-111.
[3] Li Meixin, Zheng Xin, Zhang Xiaoying, et al. Effect of music-assisted alogliptin on glucose and lipid metabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus[J].Chinese Journal of General Practice,2022,25(26):3275-3280.
[4] Zeng Lusi. Analysis of TCM sentiment in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with anxiety and depression and the intervention study of emotion winning method[D].Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2023.