Turmeric Curbs Type 2 Diabetes

By Author: Sushrut Ayurved
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Benefits of Turmeric in curbing TYPE 2 DIABETES

Turmeric, a staple spice found in every Indian kitchen, has always been known to us for it’s antiseptic and anti inflammatory value. It has been a handy home remedy through the ages, be it a knife cut or a bad throat. What is not yet well known is the role it can play in controlling diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes.

Increasingly research is showing that curcumin - the active ingredient in Turmeric, can play a valuable role in diabetes management. As long back as 2013, a paper published in a journal at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) reviewed the available literature on the applications of curcumin in diabetes treatment and concluded that curcumin could favorably affect most of the leading aspects of diabetes, including insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, beta cell function and in fact could prevent the deleterious complications of diabetes. Diabetes Care, a journal of the American Diabetes Association, published a finding in 2014 that curcumin intervention in a prediabetic population under study significantly ...
... lowered the number of individuals who went on to develop type 2 diabetes.

While it is important to remember that any treatment for diabetes necessarily requires a holistic approach that looks at the combined effects of nutrition, exercise and medicines, natural remedies like turmeric offer an alternative to those concerned about the side effects and potential long-term complications of available allopathic diabetes medicines.