“Can yoga be used to treat diabetes?”

Diabetes mellitus reflects a disturbance in body rhythm which expresses itself in abnormal blood glucose fluctuation. Yoga emphasizes coordination of breathing and movement in its exercises with harmonic background sound. As such it establishes rhythm in our chaotic lifestyle and relaxes mind and body. Our metabolism benefits from such harmony. This form of exercise benefits the patient with diabetes and may serve to improve their glucose profile. Like with any exercise it is important to have expert guidance to select the most appropriate style of yoga, that does not strain the body excessively.

Yes and no. Yoga is not better than any exercise however any exercise is great. So as much activity as possible is terrific. I find the atheletes do well with their diabetes if than stay on top of the medications and monitoring.
If he hasn't been a yoga person, it is rare for someone over 35 to join it, but not impossible. So if he has an activity he likes, stick with that .

Exercise in general, including yoga, helps muscles burn sugar as fuel. Therefore, yes, yoga would be an excellent addition to your husband’s diabetes care plan, along with a low-starch diet and whatever meds his doctor prescribes.

Yoga helps burn Calories..that would help slow down progression of DM

Yes yoga can be of benefit to people with diabetes. There are many articles in the literature touting its benefits though few have undergone critical scientific research. In my opinion the benefits are two fold-1) exercise is always a benefit to people with diabetes & should be encouraged and though yoga is more contemplative than exercise, there is some exercise involved 2) mental-diabetes is a hard disease to live with (I know-I have had it for 25 yrs.) and the mental burden of having a disease that never leaves you even when you sleep is hard to bear. The mental & physical exercises of yoga can help create a better coping mechanism and a better life with diabetes.