This is a follow up episode to the show titled 'Controlling Blood Sugar - Diet.'
Instead of focusing on my personal experience, we cover the science of how berberine is supposed to help with blood sugar levels.
Clarifications:
I state that a possible benefit of berberine is to inhibit (stop) gluconeogenesis.
I believe I interpreted the literature wrong. It used the term inhibit, but in this case inhibit means to hinder.
So by downregulating (which I also got the definition wrong) gluconeogenic enzymes, gluconeogenesis is reduced.
Downregulation in this context is to diminish the stimulus response of the enzymes on the liver.
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Resources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5839379/
https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/hypothalamus#anatomy-and-function
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855276/
https://examine.com/supplements/berberine/research/#pharmacology_absorption
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12489979/
https://examine.com/supplements/berberine/research/#safety-and-toxicology_general
