What supplements actually help with diabetes management?
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In today’s podcast episode, we are joined by Constance Brown-Riggs, an award-winning registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator. Constance shares her extensive knowledge on the effectiveness, dosages, and potential side effects of popular supplements like cinnamon, bitter melon, chromium, alpha lipoic acid, and apple cider vinegar for managing diabetes. She also reveals which supplements to avoid and offers her top multivitamin brand recommendation, providing listeners with practical, evidence-based insights on safely incorporating supplements into their diabetes care regimen.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- The effectiveness of popular supplements like cinnamon, bitter melon, chromium, alpha lipoic acid, and apple cider vinegar for managing diabetes
- The mechanisms of action for these supplements and how they work in the body
- Recommended dosages for each supplement and the importance of starting with a low dose
- Potential side effects of these supplements, including liver damage and gastrointestinal issues
- The importance of consulting with a healthcare provider before starting any supplement regimen
- Specific recommendations for multivitamin brands and why they are favored
- The dangers of taking certain supplements for people with diabetes
- The role of omega-3 fatty acids and magnesium in overall health and diabetes management
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| 0:57.3 | Diabetes Digital podcast. Today we're talking all about supplements. And this is a topic that we get |
| 1:03.6 | asked about all the time, especially for people with diabetes. There are so many supplements out |
| 1:08.3 | there that people talk about in the context of helping lower their |
| 1:11.4 | blood sugar, including cinnamon, bitter melon, chromium, alpha-lapoic acid. And today we're going |
| 1:17.7 | into all of the science behind these supplements, whether or not they actually work, what they're |
| 1:23.2 | doing in the body, like the mechanism of action that we call it. And if they are effective, |
| 1:29.0 | what dose you should take it at? We'll even get into the potential side effects. And the surprising |
| 1:34.5 | thing is most of these supplements do have side effects. Some of them are more minor and others |
| 1:38.8 | are more serious like the potential for liver damage. So definitely going to want to know all those |
| 1:43.5 | details. We'll even get |
| 1:45.0 | into apple cider vinegar because we can't talk about supplements without talking about that and whether |
| 1:49.9 | or not there's research to support it. And I think the most important part of this episode is the one |
| 1:55.1 | supplement that our guest definitely does not recommend for people with diabetes. In other words, what is the one supplement |
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