How to Naturally Lower Your Blood Sugar
- 1). Exercise vigorously for up to 20 minutes daily and if possible take short walks after each meal. To maximize glucose burning effect, choose exercises that utilize every muscle group in your body like calisthenics or body weight exercises. Building bigger and stronger muscles helps to lower blood sugar. It is like building a bigger, stronger engine which will require burning more fuel.
- 2). Eat more of following foods: Dark green leafy vegetables like kale, collard greens and spinach. If possible try to eat them raw, as a salad or blended as in "green smoothie". Cooking destroys some valueable nutrients. Drink purified water. Also try to eat proteins and healthy fats: salmon, sardines, tuna, eggs, fish oil, hemp oil, olive oil and coconut oil.
- 3). Also you can lower your blood sugar by avoiding eating grains and grain products, starches (potatoes), hydrogenated fats like margarine or shortening. Avoid soft drinks, even the diet ones have negative effect on your health.
- 4). Consider taking following supplements: chromium picolinate, cinnamon, bitter melon, magnesium, alpha lipoic acid, ginseng and gymnema sylvestre.