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Foods Which Can Help You Reverse Insulin Resistance

By Aimee Schwartz


Preventing diabetes is a given if you do not want to endanger your life. That is why you have to eat the right food that can help reverse insulin resistance. There should be a a variety of foods you can have for the sake of that. Here are those important food items that you should have to avoid getting diabetes.

Turmeric. The said food is deemed to be very effective when you are fighting off this particular disease. The said turmeric is found to contain an active compound that is very effective in fighting off the disease and that would be curcumin. The said compound is extremely effective in activating the glucose uptake of a person.

You can also have ginger. Ginger can be eaten raw or you can use it as one of the ingredients in the dish you are cooking. It is possible for ginger to significantly lower fasting blood glucose. If ginger is consumed at an appropriate amount during a specific period of time, the fasting blood sugar of a diabetic will surely reduce significantly.

Cinnamon. As one of the most popular and oldest spices available in the market, you can say that cinnamon has been deemed valuable because of its medical and flavoring qualities. You can also find some good results out of this ingredient when you are fighting off the said disease. You just need to take an amount not more than one-half tsp per day.

Olive leaf extract. Not all people store olive leaf extract in their cupboard. However, this is a necessary food item that all diabetics must have. You should have this as one of the supplements you take after meal. When you do that, you can get positive results against the disease, one similar to what you would experience in common diabetic therapeutics like metformin.

It will also significant reduce your need to take insulin for the sake of sugar balance after meals when you add berries into your diet. There is a wide variety of berries you can have for this. You can have bilberries, chokeberries, strawberries, lingonberries, blackberries, and the likes. You can mix them together to get the best results against this illness.

Black seeds, otherwise known as Nigella sativa, can also help you with this task. You just need to have at least two grams of the black seed to get the results that you are looking for. One gram is not enough and three grams is too much so make sure to have the right dosage a day to get your best results.

Spirulina is another one that you should take advantage of when you are diabetic. In recent studies, having spirulina a day can increase your sensitivity to more than twice the usual effect of other options. The study used 19 grams of the spirulina. It is fine to take advantage of this ingredient.

Berberine should be included in the diet as well. You can find this just as effective as most of the prescribed diabetes drugs you can buy off the pharmacy. Berberine is the bitter compound that you will most likely found in the roots of plants like Oregon grape, goldenseal, and barberry. Its results can be comparable with metformin.




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