Drinking kombucha may reduce blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, pilot trial suggests (From an average of 164 to 116 milligrams per deciliter)

Medical Xpress / Georgetown University Medical Center / Frontiers in Nutrition ^ | Aug. 1, 2023 | Chagai Mendelson et al

[ConservativeMind]

Kombucha is commonly available and you can make it at home with a starter mix.

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.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Veto!]

I don’t have blood sugar problem, but drink kombucha every day. Mohita flavor, like a mojito. Delish.

[TChad]

164 to 116 milligrams per deciliter

Great result, now need a much larger trial.

[BipolarBob]

What brand? What store? I drink Kombucha but haven’t seen Mojito flavor.

[Veto!]

Kevita brand. I buy ay Safeway, but other local; stores have it too.

https://www.kevita.com

[peggybac]

Where do you purchase a starter kit and what exactly is it?
Thanks.

[ClearCase_guy]

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

[peggybac]

Thank you.

[Mount Athos]

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

[Irenic]

You can get a skin off Amazon. (kombucha scobies and starter tea) I like the water Kefir, delish! The Kombucha is harder for me to get down. It's fermented tea, the scobie is the skin/mold that grows on top.

[whitney69]

“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

[BipolarBob]

Thanks, I’ll try and find it.

[sauropod]

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[gitmo]

Mookbark

[Bullish]

As a rule, I never drink anything I can’t pronounce.

[ConservativeMind]

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.

[vrwc1]

I’d rather die.

[cherry]

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...

[Gene Eric]

Well that’s nice, but all the typical prohibitions remain.