The Health Bulletin

Insulin levels can start to climb before your doctor even notices an increase in your fasting blood sugar levels. For this reason getting an insulin level test may be smart. For instance, if you were to be tested and found to have high levels of insulin despite normal levels of blood sugar you could speculate that your risk factors for insulin resistance and diabetes may be climbing.

The next logical question is how to reduce insulin levels in the event that blood testing shows them to be elevated. The answer to this question, at the most basic level, is probably to lose weight, start exercising, and eat better but what exactly is eating better?

Eating a diet to reverse insulin resistance is a good start and controlling insulin levels and decreasing risks for diabetes. More specifically research has shown that supplementing your diet with citrus peel extract can be an excellent way to help control insulin levels because the flavones in citrus peel were shown to help significantly with the improvement of insulin sensitivity in patients at risk for developing diabetes.

Basically without doing anything else eating citrus peel extract caused the body to either require less insulin to lower blood sugar levels or to respond quicker and more efficiently to the insulin levels already in the blood. This results in better control of blood sugar and lessens the risk for damaging the body and developing diabetes.

Citrus peel extract can obviously be found in the citrus peel zest of many citrus fruits but it can also be found in supplementation form in various health food stores. If you are looking for a new way to reduce insulin levels naturally then this may be an excellent option for you and your family. Just make sure that you don’t consider it to be a magic pill. Stay healthy by exercising more and keep the rest of your diet in line and you should be on the path to better health and nutrition.