Foods Effective In Helping Reverse Insulin Resistance

By Aimee Schwartz


Diseases should be prevented at all cost. Especially if it is diabetes, people should take care of their body so that they do not suffer from the said disease. If they are already affected with it, then they should aim to reverse insulin resistance. If this is the case, there are foods that must be eaten to help fight off the disease. Here are some of those foods to eat.

First in the list is turmeric. This is one of the food items certainly effective in preventing diabetes from afflicting a person. In the turmeric, one can find the active compound curcumin. You can say that this is an ingredient that is more effective than prescription drugs when it comes to 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.

Berries. As one of the easiest food item that you can purchase, you should eat this everyday. You can have a variety of the said berries added to your diet. It might be strawberries, chokeberries, bilberries, blackberries, or lingonberries. You might also mix these berries together so that you can make the meal more delicious.

Black seeds, scientific name Nigella sativa. You are also required to have black seeds as a part of your diet since it has positive results against this disease. Normally, just taking two grams of the Nigella sativa is already enough to get your desired results for your fight against the disease so take it right.

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 can be just as good as any commercial drugs. You will find this more effective then the prescription diabetes drugs you have. The berberine is a bitter compound naturally found in the roots of a few plants such as barberry, goldenseal, and Oregon grape. You can compare its results with metformin.




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