Chromium, Diabetes and Metabolism
We have heard “You Are What You Eat.” However, most of the time we don’t really know what is in what we are eating. Recent research indicates that what you do or don’t eat can affect every cell in your body, even your DNA. Research indicates that if your food and drink is optimal, your bodies DNA, genes and epigenetics will be able to function fully and may even be able to repair themselves to some degree.
The following is information regarding botanical Chromium. If you have a low metabolism or diabetes, a supplement that has been advocated is Chromium. Many people blindly believe that if you swallow a Chromium pill that you’ll get your Chromium. This is true but only if the chromium has been gathered and optimized by a beneficial plant.
Plant absorption is the most effective way to get chromium or any other mineral in a useable form into your body so your cells can utilize it. No mineral, of course, is found or functions alone. They always are part of a team and plants put the best teams together.
Here are the Top Ten plants that contain the highest amount of Chromium. If you do further research on each item, you will find that many of these plants have quite a few beneficial properties. For example, the Roselle or hibiscus tea was a staple used by ancient Egyptian pharaohs. The properties listed below are just a small taste of what these plants can do for us. This information is a big secret to most people.
- Roselle (hibiscus) flower – reduce high blood pressure and a diuretic.
- Dandilion leaf – normalize blood sugar
- Oats – (the plant not the seed) – many benefits
- Stevia leaf – natural sweetener – insulin production and hypertension
- Lemongrass – induces programmed cell death in the cancerous cells.
- Peach Bark – improves blood, postpartum abdominal pain and swelling, diarrhea.
- Juniper berries – Western tribes combined the berries and root bark to treat diabetes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus_communis
- Cowgrass – fever, flu, pneumonia, pleurisy and fatigue
- Safflower flower – joint discomfort of arthritis, general reduction of pain and inflammation.
- Barley stem – minor pain and inflammation reduction, heartburn and gas reduction.
There are many more plants with good amounts of Chromium but those are the top 10 with the most useable Chromium.
Now, if those plants have been grown in a fully balanced soil, they contain greater potency as well as taste.
The father of Western Medicine, Hippocrates, instructed us to let medicine be our food and food be our medicine.
If you eat great things prepared correctly your cells strengths will increase and their weaknesses will be suppressed or possibly repaired.