In mice fed a high-fat diet for 13 weeks, piperine at 50 mg/kg raised plasma adiponectin and reversed the diet-induced rises in insulin, blood sugar and liver lipids, a Food Chemistry study reports. Body weight and other markers were unchanged. Piperine gives black pepper its pungency.
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Herbal remedies and botanicals, from turmeric to green tea.
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Jiao Tai Wan Attenuates Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
A study abstract reporting that Jiao Tai Wan, a Chinese herbal formula of Rhizoma Coptidis and Cortex Cinnamomi, improved hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and hepatic lipid accumulation in diabetic rats, with diabetic patients also showing lower hepatic triglyceride content.
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Chinese medicine mediated hot bath helps chronic renal failure
Nanchang University researchers reviewing the literature in Renal Failure found that thermal sweating therapy combining Chinese herbal medicine with a hot bath reduced interdialytic weight gain, improved blood pressure and relieved skin problems in chronic renal failure patients.
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Green tea helps fight diabetes mellitus
In a 14-week trial, drinking three cups of green tea a day kept waist-hip ratio from rising in women, cut ALT by 13 percent in women and raised antioxidant potency in both sexes. The authors say the trial was too short to show effects on fasting glucose or HbA1c.
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Is weight loss supplement Garcinia cambogia or Hydroxycitric Acid safe to use?
A review reports most studies found Garcinia cambogia and its active ingredient hydroxycitric acid prevented obesity or induced weight loss without toxicity or serious side effects. Toxicity reports on diet supplements were not traced to Garcinia, since products often mix several herbs.
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Herbal supplement helps weight loss
In a small trial in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 53 patients took either placebo or a supplement of Scutellariae Radix and Platycodi Radix for two months. Those on the supplement lost an average of 2.5 pounds, a statistically significant difference.
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Herbal therapies for type 2 diabetes mellitus - review
This review selects blood glucose-lowering medicinal herbs that act on insulin resistance, beta-cell function, GLP-1 or glucose absorption, and summarizes their phytochemistry and likely mechanisms. More than 1,200 plants have been claimed to have antidiabetic properties.
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Traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Indian medicine for Type 2 diabetes mellitus - review
A review of in vitro, in vivo and clinical evidence for herbs used against type 2 diabetes in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine, and of the obstacles to folding them into Western therapy. The WHO counted roughly 364 million people with diabetes worldwide in 2011.
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Cinnamon helps fight but may not cure type 2 diabetes mellitus
A review in Annals of Family Medicine found people with type 2 diabetes who took 120 mg to 6 grams of cinnamon daily for four to 18 weeks lowered fasting glucose, total and LDL cholesterol and triglycerides and raised HDL, but saw no significant change in hemoglobin A1c.
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The Power of Peppermint: 21 Health Benefits Revealed
A Mercola roundup of 21 uses for peppermint leaves and oil, citing research on irritable bowel syndrome, where peppermint oil capsules have been called a drug of first choice, along with colonic spasm and gas, gastric emptying and functional dyspepsia.
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Omega-3 fatty acids, alpha lipoic acid, vitamin E all help type 2 diabetes mellitus
In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 104 patients with type 2 diabetes, 90 days of alpha lipoic acid, omega-3 fatty acids or vitamin E each significantly lowered HbA1c, with smaller drops in fasting blood sugar. The authors propose them as add-on therapy.
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Curcumin dietary supplements help fight Alzheimer's disease
A study in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine reports that curcumin, the yellow compound in turmeric, improved spatial memory and altered GFAP expression in animals with a disease resembling Alzheimer's. Earlier work has tied curcumin to protection against cancer and type 2 diabetes.
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Gynostemma pentaphyllum Tea Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Type 2 Diabetic Patients
In a crossover trial, drug-naive type 2 diabetes patients drank 6 g of Gynostemma pentaphyllum tea or placebo daily for four weeks. Fasting and steady-state plasma glucose fell on the tea without changes in circulating insulin, suggesting improved insulin sensitivity.
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Ashwagandha/Withania somnifera fights fatigue in breast cancer patients
In a trial of 100 breast cancer patients, 2 grams of Withania somnifera every 8 hours alongside chemotherapy relieved fatigue, improved quality-of-life scores and improved 2-year survival odds compared with chemotherapy alone. Reported in Integrative & Complementary Medicine.
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Herbal Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - part 2
Part two of a review of herbal treatments for type 2 diabetes covers berberine, which lowered blood sugar and spurred pancreatic cell regeneration in mice but showed no glycemic control on its own in a human meta-analysis, along with bitter melon and a kelp compound tested in diabetic mice.
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Review: Herbal Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
A review abstract: more than 1,200 flowering plants have been claimed to have antidiabetic properties, and about a third have been studied scientifically. The authors discuss glucose-lowering herbs acting on insulin resistance, beta-cell function, GLP-1 and glucose absorption.
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No cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but curcumin may help
Pamela E. Potter writes in the Journal of Experimental Pharmacology that people eating curcumin-rich diets showed lower Alzheimer's risk in epidemiological studies and that animal work points to reduced beta-amyloid, though trials have not shown it treats the disease.
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Traditional Chinese medicine can help Alzheimer's disease
A review of Chinese herbal medicine reports ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761 moderately improved cognition in a 24-week trial in dementia patients, and that a PLOS One study of 589 long-term users found slower cognitive decline than in 2,874 non-users over 20 years.
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