Alpha Liopic Acid, Coffee Berries & Cinnamon

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone,

I read from LEF.org that Alpha Liopic Acid, Coffee Berries and Cinnamon

are good to take for diabetes.

Has anyone here used this long term and seen benefits.

It might be something worth trying once you get your bg down low enough

as many of the products are natural and probably better tolerated by

the body.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

S

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I read from LEF.org that Alpha Liopic Acid, Coffee Berries and

Cinnamon

> are good to take for diabetes.

>

> Has anyone here used this long term and seen benefits.

>

> It might be something worth trying once you get your bg down low

enough

> as many of the products are natural and probably better tolerated by

> the body.

>

Alpha lipoic acid has been well documented to lower insulin

resistence, although the effect is probably fairly mild. There have

been at least 2 people I know of who seem to have the opposite effect -

a rise in blood sugar. It also can improve diabetic neuropathy. It

has no toxicity in reasonable (100-600 mg./day)doses except occasional

heartburn, easily controlled with antacids.

Here's what I found on a quick search of coffee and diabetes. This is

from Reader's Digest MD Net:

" There's both good and bad news for java junkies. Recent research

suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee seem to have a lower

risk of developing diabetes. In fact, data on 42,000 men and 84,000

women showed that men who drank at least six cups of coffee daily had

less than half the diabetes risk of men who drank none. But caffeine's

not the " good guy " in this somewhat twisted plot. In fact, if you

already have diabetes, you'd be smart to switch to decaf. That's

because Canadian researchers just showed that caffeine actually

reduced insulin sensitivity in a group of men by as much as 37

percent.

So why would coffee protect against diabetes? It contains potassium,

niacin, magnesium, and antioxidants that may improve glucose

metabolism (the way the body uses blood sugar) and lower insulin

resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. It also contains a

chemical called chlorogenic acid, which may disrupt an enzyme that

regulates the release of glucose from the liver. "

Cinnamon is widely reputed to lower blood sugar. However, the only

real documentation of that is a study from Pakistan several years ago

in which 3 different doses of cinnamon were given to 10 diabetics each

and 30 were were given placebo. The ones receiving cinnamon had lower

blood sugars. It's a very, very small study and technically flawed,

but hopefully will generate a larger and better designed study.

However, if you like cinnamon....

BTW, " natural " products are not neccessarily better tolerated by the

body. You wouldn't care for a nice plate of sauteed poison ivy, would

you? Or perhaps mushroom randomly gathered in the woods?

Ron

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I read from LEF.org that Alpha Liopic Acid, Coffee Berries and

Cinnamon

> are good to take for diabetes.

>

> Has anyone here used this long term and seen benefits.

>

> It might be something worth trying once you get your bg down low

enough

> as many of the products are natural and probably better tolerated by

> the body.

>

Alpha lipoic acid has been well documented to lower insulin

resistence, although the effect is probably fairly mild. There have

been at least 2 people I know of who seem to have the opposite effect -

a rise in blood sugar. It also can improve diabetic neuropathy. It

has no toxicity in reasonable (100-600 mg./day)doses except occasional

heartburn, easily controlled with antacids.

Here's what I found on a quick search of coffee and diabetes. This is

from Reader's Digest MD Net:

" There's both good and bad news for java junkies. Recent research

suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee seem to have a lower

risk of developing diabetes. In fact, data on 42,000 men and 84,000

women showed that men who drank at least six cups of coffee daily had

less than half the diabetes risk of men who drank none. But caffeine's

not the " good guy " in this somewhat twisted plot. In fact, if you

already have diabetes, you'd be smart to switch to decaf. That's

because Canadian researchers just showed that caffeine actually

reduced insulin sensitivity in a group of men by as much as 37

percent.

So why would coffee protect against diabetes? It contains potassium,

niacin, magnesium, and antioxidants that may improve glucose

metabolism (the way the body uses blood sugar) and lower insulin

resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. It also contains a

chemical called chlorogenic acid, which may disrupt an enzyme that

regulates the release of glucose from the liver. "

Cinnamon is widely reputed to lower blood sugar. However, the only

real documentation of that is a study from Pakistan several years ago

in which 3 different doses of cinnamon were given to 10 diabetics each

and 30 were were given placebo. The ones receiving cinnamon had lower

blood sugars. It's a very, very small study and technically flawed,

but hopefully will generate a larger and better designed study.

However, if you like cinnamon....

BTW, " natural " products are not neccessarily better tolerated by the

body. You wouldn't care for a nice plate of sauteed poison ivy, would

you? Or perhaps mushroom randomly gathered in the woods?

Ron

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I read from LEF.org that Alpha Liopic Acid, Coffee Berries and

Cinnamon

> are good to take for diabetes.

>

> Has anyone here used this long term and seen benefits.

>

> It might be something worth trying once you get your bg down low

enough

> as many of the products are natural and probably better tolerated by

> the body.

>

Alpha lipoic acid has been well documented to lower insulin

resistence, although the effect is probably fairly mild. There have

been at least 2 people I know of who seem to have the opposite effect -

a rise in blood sugar. It also can improve diabetic neuropathy. It

has no toxicity in reasonable (100-600 mg./day)doses except occasional

heartburn, easily controlled with antacids.

Here's what I found on a quick search of coffee and diabetes. This is

from Reader's Digest MD Net:

" There's both good and bad news for java junkies. Recent research

suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee seem to have a lower

risk of developing diabetes. In fact, data on 42,000 men and 84,000

women showed that men who drank at least six cups of coffee daily had

less than half the diabetes risk of men who drank none. But caffeine's

not the " good guy " in this somewhat twisted plot. In fact, if you

already have diabetes, you'd be smart to switch to decaf. That's

because Canadian researchers just showed that caffeine actually

reduced insulin sensitivity in a group of men by as much as 37

percent.

So why would coffee protect against diabetes? It contains potassium,

niacin, magnesium, and antioxidants that may improve glucose

metabolism (the way the body uses blood sugar) and lower insulin

resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. It also contains a

chemical called chlorogenic acid, which may disrupt an enzyme that

regulates the release of glucose from the liver. "

Cinnamon is widely reputed to lower blood sugar. However, the only

real documentation of that is a study from Pakistan several years ago

in which 3 different doses of cinnamon were given to 10 diabetics each

and 30 were were given placebo. The ones receiving cinnamon had lower

blood sugars. It's a very, very small study and technically flawed,

but hopefully will generate a larger and better designed study.

However, if you like cinnamon....

BTW, " natural " products are not neccessarily better tolerated by the

body. You wouldn't care for a nice plate of sauteed poison ivy, would

you? Or perhaps mushroom randomly gathered in the woods?

Ron

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I read from LEF.org that Alpha Liopic Acid, Coffee Berries and

Cinnamon

> are good to take for diabetes.

>

> Has anyone here used this long term and seen benefits.

>

> It might be something worth trying once you get your bg down low

enough

> as many of the products are natural and probably better tolerated by

> the body.

>

Alpha lipoic acid has been well documented to lower insulin

resistence, although the effect is probably fairly mild. There have

been at least 2 people I know of who seem to have the opposite effect -

a rise in blood sugar. It also can improve diabetic neuropathy. It

has no toxicity in reasonable (100-600 mg./day)doses except occasional

heartburn, easily controlled with antacids.

Here's what I found on a quick search of coffee and diabetes. This is

from Reader's Digest MD Net:

" There's both good and bad news for java junkies. Recent research

suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee seem to have a lower

risk of developing diabetes. In fact, data on 42,000 men and 84,000

women showed that men who drank at least six cups of coffee daily had

less than half the diabetes risk of men who drank none. But caffeine's

not the " good guy " in this somewhat twisted plot. In fact, if you

already have diabetes, you'd be smart to switch to decaf. That's

because Canadian researchers just showed that caffeine actually

reduced insulin sensitivity in a group of men by as much as 37

percent.

So why would coffee protect against diabetes? It contains potassium,

niacin, magnesium, and antioxidants that may improve glucose

metabolism (the way the body uses blood sugar) and lower insulin

resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. It also contains a

chemical called chlorogenic acid, which may disrupt an enzyme that

regulates the release of glucose from the liver. "

Cinnamon is widely reputed to lower blood sugar. However, the only

real documentation of that is a study from Pakistan several years ago

in which 3 different doses of cinnamon were given to 10 diabetics each

and 30 were were given placebo. The ones receiving cinnamon had lower

blood sugars. It's a very, very small study and technically flawed,

but hopefully will generate a larger and better designed study.

However, if you like cinnamon....

BTW, " natural " products are not neccessarily better tolerated by the

body. You wouldn't care for a nice plate of sauteed poison ivy, would

you? Or perhaps mushroom randomly gathered in the woods?

Ron

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I read from LEF.org that Alpha Liopic Acid, Coffee Berries and

Cinnamon

> are good to take for diabetes.

>

> Has anyone here used this long term and seen benefits.

>

> It might be something worth trying once you get your bg down low

enough

> as many of the products are natural and probably better tolerated by

> the body.

>

Alpha lipoic acid has been well documented to lower insulin

resistence, although the effect is probably fairly mild. There have

been at least 2 people I know of who seem to have the opposite effect -

a rise in blood sugar. It also can improve diabetic neuropathy. It

has no toxicity in reasonable (100-600 mg./day)doses except occasional

heartburn, easily controlled with antacids.

Here's what I found on a quick search of coffee and diabetes. This is

from Reader's Digest MD Net:

" There's both good and bad news for java junkies. Recent research

suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee seem to have a lower

risk of developing diabetes. In fact, data on 42,000 men and 84,000

women showed that men who drank at least six cups of coffee daily had

less than half the diabetes risk of men who drank none. But caffeine's

not the " good guy " in this somewhat twisted plot. In fact, if you

already have diabetes, you'd be smart to switch to decaf. That's

because Canadian researchers just showed that caffeine actually

reduced insulin sensitivity in a group of men by as much as 37

percent.

So why would coffee protect against diabetes? It contains potassium,

niacin, magnesium, and antioxidants that may improve glucose

metabolism (the way the body uses blood sugar) and lower insulin

resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. It also contains a

chemical called chlorogenic acid, which may disrupt an enzyme that

regulates the release of glucose from the liver. "

Cinnamon is widely reputed to lower blood sugar. However, the only

real documentation of that is a study from Pakistan several years ago

in which 3 different doses of cinnamon were given to 10 diabetics each

and 30 were were given placebo. The ones receiving cinnamon had lower

blood sugars. It's a very, very small study and technically flawed,

but hopefully will generate a larger and better designed study.

However, if you like cinnamon....

BTW, " natural " products are not neccessarily better tolerated by the

body. You wouldn't care for a nice plate of sauteed poison ivy, would

you? Or perhaps mushroom randomly gathered in the woods?

Ron

[Guest guest]

Thanks Ron, for the information, I never knew that abt Coffee I guess

LEF.org may of just been trying to sell their product.

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

>

> Thanks Ron, for the information, I never knew that abt Coffee I

guess

> LEF.org may of just been trying to sell their product.

>

> Thanks!

>

I didn't know that either. I'll check it out further but I may just

switch to decaf. It's really my wife who needs the caffeine.

Any time a web site is selling a product, I have to view what they say

with a very skeptical eye. It's worth your time trying to find

unbiased information. With Google, WebMD, and PubMed it's not that

difficult.

Ron

[Guest guest]

>

> Thanks Ron, for the information, I never knew that abt Coffee I

guess

> LEF.org may of just been trying to sell their product.

>

> Thanks!

>

I didn't know that either. I'll check it out further but I may just

switch to decaf. It's really my wife who needs the caffeine.

Any time a web site is selling a product, I have to view what they say

with a very skeptical eye. It's worth your time trying to find

unbiased information. With Google, WebMD, and PubMed it's not that

difficult.

Ron