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I have a Chinese Herbal doc. Used to walk with a cane due to arthritic right knee. After three batches of his herbs, brewed into tea,,,,,,well it’s been years since I had any trouble. Don’t even know where my cane is! And, he does not believe in acupuncture, which I had tried previously with no success.
If you’re in the Cleveland area, PR me if you like contact info. He’s very good. Used to run a trad medicine hospital in China.
i guess now that science has decided it works, it works. i’ve been using herbs for decades and science folks and doctors didn’t care about my results. they scoff at studies already done.
the best docs go on and do naturopathy and learn about this stuff. far and few between, sadly.
The greatest newest science to instantly help diabetics is RESISTANT STARCH. You can see the marvelous results of this still this weekend, if you have a blood glucose monitor.
The easiest most concentrated form of resistant starch to eat is unmodified potato starch, found at any health food store, usually made by Bobs Red Mill. Try the experiment yourself: test your BG before and after a carby food, like a baked potato. Try every hour after for three hours. Then, the next day eat 1 tbsp potato starch in water (has no taste, can put it in plain yogurt or something else with sweetener) an hour before eating the same baked potato. Anything you want on the potato, just the same as the previous. Test your BG the same. Prepare to be amazed, as the resistant starch will slow your rise in glucose and bring it down fast and keep it down.
This is because cold resistant starch gets past the small intestine into the large, and is a delightful treat for the gut bacteria therein. When we feed our gut bugs, who have more DNA in our body than we do, our immune system and apparently our whole metabolism is strengthened.
There are other forms of resistant starch, and there is so much more fascinating info on this subject. If you know a diabetic, get them started on this exciting research. No big money, no big Pharma, just some curious thinkers online and now a whole bunch of followers learning together.
And your doc doesn’t have a bleeping CLUE.
http://freetheanimal.com/tag/resistant-starch
If you want to control blood sugar levels, all it takes is 1/4 tsp (cassia, common) cinnamon a day. It contains a rather bland ingredient that does this quite effectively. It’s a modest effect of about 3 to 5 percent. This is about the level of reduction found in the older generation of diabetes drugs. Not bad at all for the pre-diabetic.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Davis+Yokoyama+Cinnamon
Importantly, the effect peaks at about 1/4 tsp, so more is not better.
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