Blood sugar

Evidence-graded topics and articles tagged Blood sugar.

Topics

• Alpha-Lipoic Acid — Alpha-lipoic acid may ease burning and tingling in diabetic nerve pain, and several meta-analyses show a small weight loss, but the strongest recent review fou…
• Anthocyanins — Anthocyanins are plant pigments found mainly in berries.
• Berberine — Berberine meaningfully lowers fasting blood sugar and HbA1c in type 2 diabetes, with modest reductions in body weight.
• Broccoli Sprouts and Sulforaphane — Small, early trials suggest broccoli sprouts may modestly lower blood sugar and ease some hay fever symptoms.
• Carnivore Diet — Small, uncontrolled studies suggest some people lose weight and improve their blood sugar on an all-meat, plant-free diet, at least in the short term.
• Cinnamon — Several meta-analyses report lower fasting blood sugar with cinnamon, mainly in type 2 diabetes.
• Hibiscus Tea — Hibiscus tea modestly lowers blood pressure, roughly 5-8 mmHg systolic and 3-4 mmHg diastolic across pooled trials, with bigger drops in people starting higher.
• Holy Basil — Holy basil extract may ease perceived stress: two small placebo-controlled trials found lower stress scores than placebo.
• Intermittent Fasting — Intermittent fasting helps adults with overweight or obesity lose weight: pooled trials show about 3 kg more loss than control groups, and it works about as we…
• Milk Thistle — Milk thistle may lower liver enzymes in fatty liver disease in pooled trials, but larger trials have not shown clear protection of the liver or a lower risk of…
• Resveratrol — Resveratrol may modestly lower blood pressure in people with type 2 diabetes and slightly raise bone density in postmenopausal women, but the trials are small…
• Walking — Walking after a meal lowers the post-meal blood sugar rise: pooled crossover trials found walking soon after eating cut glucose more than sitting or walking be…