Retailers can do a great service for the younger generations by suggesting they add a sound blood-sugar health supplement. Practitioner and author James B. LaValle, RPh, CCN, has some suggestions:
1. Blood sugar awareness prevention of blood sugar insufficiencies is best started while young.
2. Everyone, even people in their 20s, should start monitoring their blood glucose levels. If the level is 90 or up, that person should start taking measures to get it down to the optimal range (80 – 85). First steps are diet improvements, with special attention to reducing glycemic load, and increasing physical activity.
3. If diet and exercise don’t work, or do very little to lower levels, it is usually because people are missing key blood glucose nutrients, like magnesium and chromium. In this instance, people should look for one of the many good combination products that contain these plus other effective herbal extracts and spices, such as cinnamon, fenugreek, bitter melon, holy basil and Gymnema sylvestre, to name a few.
