I will not waste my breathe asking you to change your diet as that is so obvious that only a sugar addition will keep you from taking action.
The big news is that turmeric is powerful in postponing the effects. Thus a turmeric tea concoction is well worth entertaining and i do observe that a local coffee shop has launched just such a tea.
I do use a blend of turmeric, ginger and black pepper but that is hardly more than a private concoction. Yet i do find so much of which i jump on soon shows up in the market so i am certainly not the only chap out there. .
Why All Diabetics Should Know About Turmeric
April 19th, 2018
By Sayer Ji
https://wakeup-world.com/2018/04/19/why-all-diabetics-should-know-about-turmeric/?
Many diabetics already know about the benefits of a low-glycemic diet and
the need for regular exercise, but why haven’t they heard about
turmeric, one of the world’s most extensively researched anti-diabetic
plants?
A recent literature review published in the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, titled “Anti-Hyperglycemic Effect and Insulin Sensitizing Effects of Turmeric and Its Principle Constituent Curcumin,” adds promising new support to the notion that the ancient Indian spice turmeric may provide an ideal drug alternative to treating and perhaps even preventing type 2 diabetes, which has become of the world’s most prevalent diagnoses.
The study reviewed research published between 1998 to 2013 that indicates the active polyphenol in turmeric known as curcumin may
provide an ideal intervention for type 2 diabetes, capable of
mitigating characteristic pathophysiological hallmarks of the disease
such as elevated blood sugar (hyperglycemia) and insulin resistance.
Nineteen of the studies reviewed were
cell (in vitro) and animal (in vivo), all which showed beneficial
effects. Five of the studies were human clinical trials using turmeric
or curcumin, three of which were performed in those with either diabetes
or prediabetes.
Amazingly, the animal and cell research
literature review concluded that curcumin could improve the type 2
diabetic state through 10 distinctly different mechanisms, such as:
- Reduction in liver glucose production
- Reduction in liver glycogen production
- Stimulation of increased glucose uptake (by increasing GLUT4, GLUT2 and GLUT3 gene expressions)
- Increasing the activation of AMP kinase
- Promoting PPAR ? ligand- binding activity
- Suppressing hyperglycemia-induced inflammatory state
- Stimulating insulin secretion from pancreatic tissues
- Improvement in pancreatic cell function,
- Increasing phosphorylation of AKT
- Increasing insulin receptor ? and reduction of insulin resistance
The human clinical research conducted on
diabetic and pre-diabetic patients revealed that curcumin had the
following beneficial effects:
- Glucose lowering effect
- Improved beta cell function
- Improved fatty acid oxidation and utilization
One of these studies is especially worth
highlighting, as it found a turmeric extract was highly effective in
preventing the development of diabetes within pre-diabetic subjects. The
study published in 2012 in the American Diabetic Association’s own
journal, Diabetes Care, and titled “Curcumin extract for the prevention of type 2 diabetes,”
found that the administration of six capsules containing 250 mg of
curcumin daily for 9 months was 100% effective at preventing the
development of type 2 diabetes in prediabetics; more specifically:
“16.4% of the subjects in the placebo group were diagnosed with T2DM,
whereas none were diagnosed with T2DM.”
Observed effects like these are
extremely promising when viewed within the context of the highly dismal
pharmaceutically-based standard of care. For instance, oral
anti-diabetic drugs like metformin are notorious for their serious side
effects. They often lower blood sugar, generating the surface appearance
of physiological normality, e.g. blood sugar within range, but actually increase morbidity and mortality.
With the possibility of deadly side effects, we need natural, safe,
affordable and easily accessible alternatives like turmeric now more
than ever.
Moreover, despite the well known problem
of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes, recombinant or genetically
modified insulin is often used in these patients – a highly illogical
and irresponsible approach, and which is endemic to a medical paradigm
that does not seek to identity for resolve root causes of disease. A
small, but highly concerning recent clinical study found that insulin accelerated the progression of type 2 diabetes, as well as caused type 1 diabetes, or “double diabetes.”
Diabetes is, of course, driven by a dietary pattern that reflects evolutionary mismatch, i.e. the Western diet is a lethal disease vector that
has no resemblance to the traditional diet humans consumed for
thousands of years, and upon which it still depends for good health.
Turmeric, therefore, while an amazing alternative to diabetic drugs,
should not be considered a “natural cure”; rather, it is something of a
palliative counter-balance to a biologically inappropriate diet, which
while far better than pharmaceuticals (learn more by reading: Science Confirms Turmeric As Effective As 14 Drugs),
still needs to be part of a broader, more holistic plan that takes into
account diet, exercise, toxicant exposure, and mind-body/emotional
factors that underpin well-being and contribute significantly to most
dis-eases.
For more information on the therapeutic
value of turmeric/curcumin for diabetes, read GreenMedInfo’s previous
articles on the topic:
Learn even more by viewing the firsthand research on the anti-type 2 diabetic effects of turmeric by viewing these 23 studies, as well as visiting GreenMedInfo’s Blood Sugar Disorder research page, which covers natural health information on both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
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