Chinese herbs show promise for diabetes prevention

[Kadie]

Chinese herbs show promise for diabetes prevention

By Amy Norton Amy Norton – Wed Oct 14, 10:29 am ET

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A number of traditional Chinese herbs may help control blood sugar levels in people at high risk of diabetes, a new research review suggests.

The review, which examined 16 clinical trials of 15 different herbal formulations, found that the herbs generally helped lower blood sugar levels in people with "pre-diabetes" -- those with impaired blood-sugar control that can progress to full-blown type 2 diabetes.

When the researchers pooled data from eight of the studies, they found that adding an herbal remedy to lifestyle changes doubled the likelihood of participants' blood sugar levels returning to normal.

What's more, people using the remedies were two-thirds less likely to progress to diabetes during the studies, which ran for an average of nine months.

The findings appear in the Cochrane Library, which is published by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research.

The results, say the researchers, are "quite promising." However, they also stress that the studies had shortcomings in their methods that make it hard to draw firm conclusions.


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[alfredo]

1. Most of us prefer a "Mexican" herb.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Seriously, it's a damn shame that nobody has truly researched that.

The phenomenon known as "the munchies" is, in fact, lowered blood sugar telling your body to eat carbs.

Unless you eat the brownies rather than smoking.... then you take care of it all at once.

[alfredo]

5. Munchies could be mistaking thirst for hunger. I can't afford to smoke the

stuff, much less make brownies with it. Poverty has made me a law abiding man.

[JuniperLea]

7. Holy cowbell!

I never knew that! I know several people who either have HIV or are going through chemo who use it to give them an appetite, but I never knew it actually lowered blood sugar!

I do know that it lowers blood pressure.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. You probably haven't heard it because he's making it up.

The 'munchies' are caused by pot activating the hunger centers in the hypothymus.

[JuniperLea]

4. But it gives you the munchies...

And if you have a sweet tooth... oy!

[alfredo]

9. Eat apple sauce or walnuts.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Countdown to pharma shills disrupting this thread..... 4...3....2.......1

:popcorn:

[The Straight Story]

6. If you don't make it in a lab, have stock in it, and can't keep people from growing it themselves

Then it cannot possibly be something good for them.

[JuniperLea]

8. The Devil made you say that!

No profit, it's of the Devil!