Does Milk Thistle can help with blood sugar. yes it does and in this milk thistle review we will discuss some of the mechanisms of how it works and the clinical trials that have been done on milk thistle. This should help you better understand how you might use milk thistle to lower your blood sugar.
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Does milk thistle will help blood sugar, if so how does it help? This is a question submitted by a youtube viewer, I wanted to give a little detail on how exactly it works. Before we get into how milk thistle can help blood sugar, I want to emphasize the importance of diet for lowering your blood sugar. Diet is much more important and will have a deeper effect on lowering blood sugar issues. Diet is better than any single herb and even in some cases better than medications. So make sure you put in the effort into understanding the role of diet. Let's look at some diet specifics. So once you get the dietary part down you might be asking, "what else can I do to lower the excess glucose." In our debt analogy that we're using, herbs like milk thistle will help you get out glucose debt. Below we will look at some specifics on how it can help. It's not like it's going to wipe away all your blood sugar issues, however. How much it helps will really depend on how bad your blood sugar is. You could think of milk thistle in the debt scenario analogy like a side job. It's helping out in your body's metabolism and getting rid of some of the excess glucose. Even better way to look at it (in this analogy) is as refinancing. Similar to refinancing the milk thistle is delaying the time it takes for the tissues to be affected. It is preserving some of your body's mechanisms and helping to lower the overall blood sugar level.
Even with taking milk thistle the problem of too much blood glucose in your system is really still there. Until you rebalance your energetic stores and your metabolism, the milk thistle will only help preserve some of the normal functioning of your body and keep the blood glucose levels in a better range. Enough of the analogy, let's look at some of the effects of milk thistle and the clinical trials have shown about its effect on blood sugar. Milk Thistle is mainly known for its antioxidants and has a very protective effect in the liver. It was initially discovered for its ability to prevent against mushroom toxicity from very poisonous mushrooms. When you take milk thistle it blocks some mushrooms from poisoning the body. Part of that effect is tied in with milk thistle's ability to up-regulate or increase the body's production of glutathione. Glutathione is the main antioxidant and one of the detoxification processes in the body. So that's how I think about one of the main roles of milk thistle in the body. More recently, in the last five years or so, there has been some emerging interest in the use of milk thistle for blood sugar. In 2016 (www.ncbi.nlm.n...) there was a meta-analysis that looked at several randomized controlled trials. The analysis found that milk thistle compared to placebo improved hemoglobin A1C by about one percent and blood sugar by about twenty five points. Overall the studies were small and through combining all the studies in the analysis, it brought the total to two hundred seventy people. The analysis combined four or five studies that they pushed together to come up with the statistics. Because they are different studies the groups are not all the same. They had varying degrees of blood sugar issues. Because of this and the small size the results can not be extrapolated to the whole population. Still it does point to some favorable outcomes.
A 2019 similar met-analysis on milk thistle and blood sugar looked at the effect of combining milk thistle with berberine. Berberine is an extract from different plants. It is an herbal extract that definitely does have positive effects on blood sugar. Combining the two together seem to have some favorable effects where the participants did not have to take as much of the berberine to get the beneficial outcomes. Berberine can have some side effects. The studies found that combining the two (at lower doses of berberine) still gave the positive outcomes of blood sugar and didn't have any side effects. Let's look at some of the proposed mechanisms of how milk thistle might be exerting its blood sugar reduction ability. There are two main ways that medications and therapeutics improve blood sugar control. One way is through increasing insulin output and the other is through increasing insulin sensitivity. Milk thistle lowers blood sugar by having an effect on both of these areas.
27 авг 2024
