KalenaSpire

Where Healing Your Gut Elevates Your Life

Triple Threat against Diabetes: ALA, Chromium & Vanadium

| Leave a Comment

If you have diabetes, you know there are multiple approaches to managing your health and improving how your body uses insulin. Talk with your holistic practitioner about employing nature’s own “triple threat” to diabetes – the supplements Alpha-lipoic acid, chromium, and vanadium.

If you have diabetes, there are multiple approaches to improving how your body uses insulin, including this natural "triple threat" against diabetes. | KalenaSpire

“Triple Threat” Against Diabetes: Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA)

Within the body, Alpha-lipoic acid is found in every cell, where it helps turn glucose into energy. People with Type-2 diabetes take ALA supplements to help their body use insulin more efficiently, as well as protect against cell damage and diabetic neuropathy.

Food sources include liver, lean red meat, spinach, broccoli, and potatoes.

 

“Triple Threat” Against Diabetes: Chromium

Chromium helps cells make efficient use of glucose. Without chromium, insulin’s action is blocked and glucose levels increase. Chromium deficiency may be a factor in the number of Americans who have diabetes.

A chromium supplement can lower fasting blood glucose levels, improve glucose tolerance, decrease insulin resistance, and decrease total cholesterol and triglyceride levels while increasing HDL-cholesterol levels. Food sources include meat, fish and fruits.

 

“Triple Threat” Against Diabetes: Vanadium

Vanadium supports the body’s use of carbohydrates by improving how cells respond to insulin.

Prior to the discovery of insulin in 1922, vanadium was used to control blood glucose. While modern conventional medicine does not recognize vanadium as an essential element in diabetes treatment, available studies suggest that the supplement does have a positive effect on blood glucose levels.

Holistic practitioners carefully monitor their patients who supplement with vanadium.

Food sources include mushrooms, shellfish, parsley, dill weed, unfiltered extra virgin olive oil, and grain products.

If you have diabetes, there are multiple approaches to improving how your body uses insulin, including this natural "triple threat" against diabetes. | KalenaSpire

 

Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. KalenaSpire only joins affiliate programs for products that Christine believes in and sincerely endorses for quality and efficacy.

 

Do you have any experience with the “triple threat” against diabetes? Share in the comments below!

 

References
  • Murray, M.T., “Diabetes Mellitus” in Pizzorno, Joseph E. (2013). Textbook of Natural Medicine. St. Louis, MO Elsevier. p. 898; 1340; (chapter 161), 1320-1348.
  • Heitzer T, Finckh B, Albers S, et al. “Beneficial effects of alpha-lipoic acid and ascorbic acid on endothelium- dependent, nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation in diabetic patients: relation to parameters of oxidative stress.” Free Radic Biol Med. (2001) 31: 53-61. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11425490
  • Dey, L. et al., “Alternative Therapies for Type-2 Diabetes.” Alternative Med Rev (2002), 7:1, 45-58. Accessed on 7 Sep 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20041210025451/http://www.thorne.com/pdf/journal/7-1/type_2_diabetes.pdf
  • University of Maryland Medical Center Complementary & Alternative Medicine Guide Online. “Alpha-lipoic acid.” Accessed 7 Sep 2016: http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/alphalipoic-acid
  • Ceriello A. “New insights on oxidative stress and diabetic complications may lead to a “causal” antioxidant therapy.” Diabetes Care. (2003) 26:5, p.1589-96.
  • Linus Pauling Institute Micronutrient Information Center. “Chromium.” Accessed 7 Sep 2016: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/minerals/chromium
  • University of Maryland Medical Center Complementary & Alternative Medicine Guide Online. “Vanadium” Accessed 7 Sep 2016: http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/vanadium
  • Weston A. Price Foundation. “Treating Diabetes: Practical Advice for Combatting a Modern Epidemic.” Accessed on 7 Sep 2016: http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-diseases/treating-diabetes-practical-advice-for-combatting-a-modern-epidemic/
Photo Credit
  • ratmaner/bigstockphoto.com

About Christine

Christine Cherpak is a Functional Nutrition & Wellness Expert, and the founder of KalenaSpire, a holistic health coaching and private yoga practice that specializes in freeing people from chronic digestive discomfort. Christine supports her clients in understanding the root cause of their digestive discomfort, creates a custom plan to put them on the road to healing, and shows them how to make sustainable lifestyle changes so they can finally enjoy and elevate their lives.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Alexandria Z., M.S.

Christine is my wellness goddess. Her amazing support, extraordinary expertise, and undeniable compassion invited me to a world of freedom from digestive discomfort that I didn’t know was possible. The whirlwind of bloating, constipation, brain fog, and digestive upheaval was consuming my life. Exhaustion and frustration were becoming my very existence. And then I met my health goddess! Christine’s astute listening and meticulously tailored guidance, transformed my thinking and whirlwind of digestive discomfort. She helped me achieve a state of equilibrium. The balance I now experience is the center of my wellness existence—the core of my life with digestive happiness.

 

Christine instilled in me the power to embrace the grace and strength of my very own body! She has taught me to internalize the boundless evidence of my body’s functionality to heal digestively. While working with Christine, my exhaustion, pain, and bloating were overshadowed with energy, digestive comfort, glowing skin, and knowledge. Her coaching raised my awareness of food sensitivities, and promoted better food choices, which led to better sleep, a stronger link to overall wellness, clarity in my thinking, and ultimately, more joy in my life.  Christine’s remarkable spirit of wellness will forever echo in my digestive wellness journey. I bestow upon Christine the well-deserved exceptional title, “my wellness goddess.”
2015-07-27T17:47:59-04:00
Christine is my wellness goddess. Her amazing support, extraordinary expertise, and undeniable compassion invited me to a world of freedom from digestive discomfort that I didn’t know was possible. The whirlwind of bloating, constipation, brain fog, and digestive upheaval was consuming my life. Exhaustion and frustration were becoming my very existence. And then I met my health goddess! Christine’s astute listening and meticulously tailored guidance, transformed my thinking and whirlwind of digestive discomfort. She helped me achieve a state of equilibrium. The balance I now experience is the center of my wellness existence—the core of my life with digestive happiness.   Christine instilled in me the power to embrace the grace and strength of my very own body! She has taught me to internalize the boundless evidence of my body’s functionality to heal digestively. While working with Christine, my exhaustion, pain, and bloating were overshadowed with energy, digestive comfort, glowing skin, and knowledge. Her coaching raised my awareness of food sensitivities, and promoted better food choices, which led to better sleep, a stronger link to overall wellness, clarity in my thinking, and ultimately, more joy in my life.  Christine’s remarkable spirit of wellness will forever echo in my digestive wellness journey. I bestow upon Christine the well-deserved exceptional title, “my wellness goddess.”