Original Sea Buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides · from Ladakh

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Sea buckthorn for blood sugar

Research interest is early. Nobody managing diabetes should change medication or monitoring on the strength of it — talk to your doctor.

Research interest is early. Nobody managing diabetes should change medication or monitoring on the strength of it — talk to your doctor.

Where the research actually is

There is early research interest in sea buckthorn and glucose metabolism. It is early. The studies are small, several are preclinical, and nothing in that literature supports treating a juice as a diabetes intervention.

Do not change your medication or your monitoring. If you have diabetes and want to add any of these, tell your doctor, keep testing as you were, and treat the product as a food you have added to your diet — because that is what it is.

What the formulations contain

Diabo pairs the berry with karela (bitter gourd), jamun and punarnava. Diabosash, the capsule, is built differently again and includes shilajit. All of these have a long Ayurvedic record in this area. Note also that the plain juice carries no added sugar at all — the panel reads 0 g — which is why it is sour.

The preclinical study

Diabo has a published preclinical study behind it, reporting reductions in blood glucose and HbA1c in an animal model. It is animal work, and it changes nothing about the advice above. The findings, and their limits →