Posted on 08/04/2023 6:15:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
People with type 2 diabetes who drank the fermented tea drink kombucha for four weeks had lower fasting blood glucose levels compared to when they consumed a similar-tasting placebo beverage, according to results from a clinical trial.
This finding, from a pilot 12-person feasibility trial, points to the potential for a dietary intervention that could help lower blood sugar levels in people with diabetes and also establishes the basis for a larger trial to confirm and expand upon these results.
Kombucha is a tea fermented with bacteria and yeasts and was consumed as early as 200 B.C. in China, but it did not become popular in the U.S. until the 1990s. Its popularity has been bolstered by anecdotal claims of improved immunity and energy and reductions in food cravings and inflammation, but proof of these benefits has been limited.
The crossover design had one group of people drinking about eight ounces of kombucha or placebo beverage daily for four weeks and then after a two-month period to "wash out" the biological effects of the beverages, the kombucha and placebo were swapped between groups with another four weeks of drinking the beverages.
Kombucha appeared to lower average fasting blood glucose levels after four weeks from 164 to 116 milligrams per deciliter while the difference after four weeks with the placebo was not statistically significant. Guidelines from the American Diabetes Association recommended blood sugar levels before meals should be between 70 to 130 milligrams per deciliter.
The researchers also looked at the makeup of fermenting micro-organisms in kombucha to determine which ingredients might be the most active. They found that the beverage was mainly comprised of lactic acid bacteria, acetic acid bacteria, and a form of yeast called Dekkera, with each microbe present in about equal measure.
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A drop of 166 to 116 mg/dl is amazing, especially since most kombuchas have at least some sugar in it, to help it ferment.
I don’t have blood sugar problem, but drink kombucha every day. Mohita flavor, like a mojito. Delish.
Great result, now need a much larger trial.
What brand? What store? I drink Kombucha but haven’t seen Mojito flavor.
Where do you purchase a starter kit and what exactly is it?
Thanks.
You really just need a SCOBY. That’s a Symbiotic Colony Of Bactria and Yeast. It’s like a floating disk that ferments your tea into Kombucha. Lots of helpful videos on Youtube. You can buy a SCOBY or you can make one from scratch using a bottle of store-bought Kombucha:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqvSz4p3fw
Thank you.
Most commercial kambuchas have a LOT of sugar.
The popular brand with ginger has as much as Pepsi.
The home made ones without a lot of sugar can be very challenging to drink. A friend’s wife used to offer me one made with kale, explaining it would give me long life.
I told her if long life tastes like that I’m happy to die early
“Delish.”
Maybe, but kombucha naturally contains alcohol. According to the American Diabetes Association when drinking alcohol is combined with the medications most often used to treat diabetes—particularly insulin and sulfonylureas, low blood sugar can result. Also, one of the illness attached to diabetes is heart failure and some of the drugs used to combat that like blood thinners do the same thing as alcohol so it can overkill the required blood thinner actions.
When they told me that, I asked if I could opt out of the blood thinners and just drink. Got some bad looks with that one.
wy69
Thanks, I’ll try and find it.
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Mookbark
As a rule, I never drink anything I can’t pronounce.
Or, just try it yourself, if you aren’t using it, now.
It’s a cheap experiment that should have no real downside. Substitute it for soda.
And you might have great outcomes.
I’d rather die.
yeah, I’m trying to switch back to green tea from black and its difficult to get to like it again....kombucha?...don’t think I could handle it...
Well that’s nice, but all the typical prohibitions remain.
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