REMEDIES: Herbal diabetes discovery: Chinese herb slashes blood sugar by 50 percent in 3 weeks (HERBS, HEALTH, DIET)

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Herbal diabetes discovery: Chinese herb slashes blood sugar by 50

percent in three weeks

August 01, 2006

 

(NewsTarget) Researchers at Sydney's Garvan Institute have discovered

that berberine, a Chinese herb, can significantly lower blood sugar

levels in diabetics.

 

Chinese, Korean and Australian scientists administered the herb --

traditionally used to treat diarrhea and heal wounds -- to rats and

found that after three weeks, the rats' blood sugar levels had dropped

by 50 percent.

 

Diabetes is largely brought on by poor lifestyle choices that result in

too much glucose in the blood which prevents insulin, the hormone that

regulates blood sugar, from properly doing its job. The researchers'

study, published in the journal Diabetes, says that berberine helps

insulin work more efficiently so that it can successfully lower levels

of blood sugar.

 

Conventional medical doctors usually treat the disease with

pharmaceuticals such as metformin and thiazolidinedione, which can have

harmful side effects. Professor David James, head of Garvan's diabetes

and obesity research program, says drug firms and the medical community

recognize the need for safer alternatives to traditional diabetes drugs.

 

" There's a tremendous need for new therapies and here we are with a new

one on the table, " says James. " This is very exciting because clearly

(diabetes is) a growing problem and now we're looking at a new weapon in

our armory in the fight against it. "

 

" Type 2 diabetes is easily managed or even outright cured with natural

medicine, " added Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate. " Berberine is

only the latest in a long line of herbs with documented blood sugar

lowering effects, including cinnamon, gymnema, banaba, bitter melon and

many others. "

 

http://www.NewsTarget.com/019833.html

 

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Diabetes is largely brought on by poor lifestyle choices

 

Yes like living on this planet and eating the food supplied by industry and on

and on. Try being more specific....diabetes is caused mostly by two forces

converging...chemcial poisoning and dietary deficiencies....starting with big

time magnesium deficiencies.

 

Mark

 

 

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