NUTRIENTS TO STABILIZE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR
For some people, no matter how clean they eat, this just doesn’t seem to happen. A few possible reasons for this might be deficiency in some critical nutrients.
Zinc. This common mineral deficiency is required for insulin processing, storage, secretion, and action. It also helps to facilitate glucose uptake from the bloodstream into the cells.
Even if you’re not overtly low in some of these nutrients, the addition of them into your clean eating lifestyle can go a long way to stabilizing and lowering blood sugar.
Nutrients That Stabilize Blood Sugar
Zinc. This common mineral deficiency is required for insulin processing, storage, secretion, and action. It also helps to facilitate glucose uptake from the bloodstream into the cells.
Chromium. This also common mineral deficiency enhances insulin activity and therefore improves glucose control.
Magnesium. This exceedingly common mineral deficiency acts as a second messenger for insulin(meaning insulin sends it to do the next step in the process of bringing glucose from the bloodstream into the cells). So without magnesium, insulin can’t do its job properly.
Potassium. This electrolyte also helps lower glucose levels. This study shows that even as weight increases, serum glucose does not, with potassium supplementation.
Vanadium. This trace mineral improves glucose utilization, though apparently we’re not totally clear on its mechanism of action.
Vanadium. This trace mineral improves glucose utilization, though apparently we’re not totally clear on its mechanism of action.
Essential Fatty Acids. These are fatty acids that your body cannot produce on its own—hence the “essential” in their names: you have to consume them in the form of food or supplementation. They are critically important for maintaining the function of cell walls throughout the body—and healthy cell walls means healthy responses to external signaling, including insulin.
Alpha-Lipoic Acid. ALA, a fantastic antioxidant, can be helpful in both protecting against any oxidative damage associated with increased blood glucose, as well as lowering fasting blood glucose itself.
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