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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / May 2008Mulberry leaves
Does anyone have any experience with them? Supposedly good for diabetes and cholesterol. "Ille salubris aestates peraget, qui nigris prandia moris finiet." — Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE), Satires (Epistles), 35 B.C.  SignatureNick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! I've known US vets who served as far back as the Spanish American War. They are all my heroes! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ~Semper Fi~ > Does anyone have any experience with them? Supposedly good for diabetes and > cholesterol. Good for silkworms, I hear. > "Ille salubris aestates peraget, qui nigris prandia moris finiet." > — Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE), Satires (Epistles), 35 B.C. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > are all my heroes! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not > forgotten. Thanks ! ! ~Semper Fi~ >Does anyone have any experience with them? Supposedly good for diabetes and >cholesterol. > >"Ille salubris aestates peraget, qui nigris prandia moris finiet." >— Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE), Satires (Epistles), 35 B.C. Well, the page your quote led me to (via a little googling) was fascinating. http://www.life-enhancement.com/article_template.asp?ID=992 However, the only thing I know that mulberry leaves benefited were the silkworms I bred as a kid and the delicious mulberries that grew on the bush in our backyard. Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia. d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter. -- http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com Latest:What to Eat Until You Get Your Meter. Angkor Wat http://loraltravel.blogspot.com > <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > benefited were the silkworms I bred as a kid and the > delicious mulberries that grew on the bush in our backyard. Jun brought home some cuttings, which were loaded with fruit (no silkworms). They sure were good! Didn't seem to spike me, either. SignatureNick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! I've known US vets who served as far back as the Spanish American War. They are all my heroes! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ~Semper Fi~ >> <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Jun brought home some cuttings, which were loaded with fruit (no > silkworms). They sure were good! Didn't seem to spike me, either. OMG, memories of mulberries in warm, thick custard! Maybe these days I could try mulberries with whipped cream sweetened with Splenda :) >Does anyone have any experience with them? Supposedly good for diabetes and >cholesterol. > >"Ille salubris aestates peraget, qui nigris prandia moris finiet." > Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 658 BCE), Satires (Epistles), 35 B.C. My SIL gave me a booklet the other day extolling the benefits of very expensive olive leaf extract for diabetics, amongst others. I would hazard a guess that with a degree of effort one can find a scientific paper published in an obscure country and in an equally obscure language, that will claim benefits for almost any leaf on almost any disease, based on a few experiments with Outer Mongolian hamsters or whatever, especially if that obscure country has an excess of those leaves. The problem with these sorts of claims is (1) they are mostly done on animals, probably mice and definitely not humans (humans can respond very differently), and only a few animals at that, i.e. they're far from proven. (2) because it is a natural product it's not patentable, so the big drug companies wouldn't make any money out of it so aren't prepared to do the research necessary to confirm the benefits, or not, as the case may be. (The ray of hope here is that diabetes is becoming increasingly common, and if an extract of mulberry leaf or olive leaf did have some merit, they might be able to improve on it, and that _would_ be patentable). (3) The concentration of the active ingredient is so small that you have to eat half a ton of leaves per day to get any benefit. Why don't you try it and let us know what happens? SignatureChris T2 DX'd 2002, D&E, HbA1c 5.7,BMI 21 Lipids:Tot 4.2 HDL 1.4 LDL 2.5 Tri 0.6 E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net > On 17 May 2008 17:24:00 GMT, Nick Cramer <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> [ . . . ] > Why don't you try it and let us know what happens? Thanks for your informative and insightful post, Chris. I'll let you know what happens. SignatureNick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! I've known US vets who served as far back as the Spanish American War. They are all my heroes! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ~Semper Fi~ |
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