Could this ‘garden trick’ make managing diabetes a SMOOTHER ride?
When you’re struggling to control your type 2 diabetes, you’re not asking for much.
You just want to keep your blood sugar from spiking…
Without doing anything that’ll make it dip too low.
But based on the blood sugar rollercoaster that many diabetics find themselves on, such a simple request seems to be TOO MUCH to ask for!
It can make you feel like you’re walking on a tightrope – with NOTHING to hold onto, and NOTHING to catch you if you fall.
And let’s be honest. It’s EXHAUSTING.
That’s why some diabetics are turning to herbal remedies to manage their disease.
You’ve got a lot of choices out there when it comes to controlling your diabetes naturally…
But here’s one “seed trick” I GUARANTEE you’ve never heard of before.
A household herbal hero
Garden cress (Lepidium sativum) may be considered a “salad green” in the mustard family…
But it’s not the leaves that were TREASURED by practitioners of ancient medicine AGES ago.
It’s the seeds!
And that’s where you can find the highest concentration of plant chemicals to help beat back diabetes.
So why has it been FORGOTTEN… and NEGLECTED, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations?
Your guess is as good as mine.
But it appears as though garden cress is yet another one of those time-tested herbal remedies that’s gotten DISMISSED as a mere “folk cure”…
As though THOUSANDS of years of use by REAL PEOPLE means NOTHING!
Garden cress seed extract hasn’t been studied by modern scientists as much as it should be…
But the research that’s out there is promising.
And experts across the board seem to agree that it can beat back blood sugar spikes.
Plenty of animal studies have shown that garden cress seed extract can NORMALIZE blood glucose levels in rats that have been induced to develop diabetes.
But for some reason, researchers have been DRAGGING THEIR FEET… and not taking the next, natural step…
Human studies!
What they’ve learned so far is that garden cress demonstrates antioxidant activity – namely, in reducing oxidative damage.
That may be because of how it RAMPS UP the activity of the detoxifying enzyme glutathione S-transferase.
Its anti-inflammatory action could also be key for diabetics, since a hallmark of the disease is often excessive inflammation.
But when you get into the nitty-gritty of it, garden cress has got 2 other neat tricks up its sleeve, including…
- INHIBITING the conversion of starches into sugar by BLOCKING the enzyme alpha-glucosidase – a target it shares with some diabetes prescription meds.
- STIMULATING the secretion of insulin from beta cells in the pancreas.
And as you know, controlling your type 2 is all about striking the right BALANCE of glucose… which you need SOME of for energy… and insulin, which you can DEFINITELY have too much or too little of!
So, what else could researchers find out if they actually tested garden cress seed extract on PEOPLE… in “gold standard” (double-blind, placebo-controlled) clinical trials?
I hope we get to find out sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, you can buy garden cress seeds in bulk at your local Indian or Middle Eastern specialty store or online.
In Ayurveda, it’s known by its Hindi name, “chandrashoor.”
And if you’re already on diabetes meds, check with your doc before trying anything else that might lower your blood sugar further.
To a blood sugar balancing act,
Melissa Young
