So you’ve been managing your diabetes for a while. It’s going OK most of the time. Sometimes you know you have too much stress in your life and that can throw you right off balance. Sometimes you wished you’d eat better and say NO to a snack of chips or chocolate bar.
You have growing concerns that you want to be around and healthy to see your children grow up, see them graduate or spoil your grandchildren. You want to live a healthy life and the outcome for some of your family who had diabetes wasn’t great.
You’ve got another alternative that you may not have considered. 
Recent advances in brain research indicate that the brain isn’t like you learned in high school, with different areas doing specific tasks. Instead, the brain is plastic throughout life: our brains can reshape themselves, so that when one area is damaged or stops working, other areas can take over the tasks of that part.
The physical damage caused by diabetes is undeniable — the impact of year after year of balancing the insulin needs of your body by external means starts to show up. Early warning locations include eyesight and feeling in fingers and toes. These symptoms are signs that your brain doesn’t know how to or isn’t sending out the right signals to your body.
Brains are resilient and you can train your brain to remap itself — in effect, using your undamaged tissue to take up the slack from the damaged bits.
It’s not as fast and easy as taking a pill, but it’s also safer (non-intrusive) and you’re in control. You can get back your life. The process is similar to the way you’d train for a marathon or how you’d practice if you were a serious amateur musician preparing for a big concert or recital. Except you’re not in training for a triathlon, you’re in training for your life.
Your doctor probably didn’t suggest this approach because this kind of program isn’t widespread or well known. Practices that take time and effort aren’t always part of their repertoire because they don’t have time to supervise and patients are most accustomed to prescriptions rather than activities.
If this sounds like an approach that you are ready to consider, here’s what you can do.