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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / August 2007Salacia oblonga for glucose control
Hello again, Friends. Another study featured in the current issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition seems to suggest that the use of herbal Salacia oblonga may be of benefit for T2 diabetics in glucose control after meals.... I found this one to be of interest, because as we know, many of the so called herbal remedies are of dubious efficacy. Here is a link to the abstract of the article.... http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/86/1/124 I don' t think I am going to be queuing up at the health food store just yet, though. Will, T2 Would be nice to know the details of the "high carb" meal and the test subjects. In the cinnamon study from Pakistan some years ago, the test subjects were mostly poorly controlled type II's with high post prandial readings after eating high carb meals. Cinnamon gave them modest improvements in their blood sugar readings. One wonders if these herbal supplements can only be expected to make modest improvements for those type II's who are poorly controlled and eating high carb? And further, if one is already improving IR with Metformin, for example, can the herbal supplement be expected to improve the situation further? The dismal results of cinnamon reported here among the mostly motivated, well-controlled Type II's on ASD would suggest that herbs are not likely to be of much benefit for diabetics who work on their problem. > Hello again, Friends. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Will, T2 > Hello again, Friends. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I don' t think I am going to be queuing up at the health food store > just yet, though. Interesting. Says it lowers BG after a high carb meal. > Another study featured in the current issue of the American Journal of >> Clinical Nutrition seems to suggest that the use of herbal Salacia [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Interesting. Says it lowers BG after a high carb meal. Another interesting aspect is that it reduces insulin secretion at the same time as reducing glucose output into the bloodstreaml.... The idea would be that if a person were taking steps to reduce IR.... as part of an overall plan of attack, it might be beneficial to use Salacia oblonga. To be sure, more focused research remains to be done, and I am not prepared to shell out the bucks to get this stuff at the present time. Will, T2 >Another interesting aspect is that it reduces insulin secretion at the >same time as reducing glucose output into the bloodstreaml.... The [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >and I am not prepared to shell out the bucks to get this stuff at the >present time. Mendosa's supicious, too: http://www.mendosa.com/diabetes_update_81.htm Nicky. T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid D&E, 100ug thyroxine Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25 |
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