Bitter Melon (Gourd) tea

[kokhongw]

Hi,
I have been drinking Bitter Melon (or Gourd) Tea for about a month and the results are great. I am also on the LCHF diet. I am VERY strict about my carb intake; preferably less than 20 grams per day, and I also eat lots of meat. Through diet alone, my readings are about 6.2 to 6.9 mmol two hours after a meal.

However, the tea basically takes a full mmol off my reading (e,g from 6.4 to 5.4). I drink a cup of the tea after a meal. It does not take long to start helping my readings, maybe half a day. Once it kicks in, my readings go down to the 5.2 to 5.9 range two hours after a meal.

The tea is cheap, about $AUD3.00 for a box of 20. The taste is not unpleasant, maybe a bit oily. Certainly drinkable, but you would not serve it for afternoon tea!

Enjoy

Peter

Besides Bitter Melon tea which has been used for decades in China/India for glucose control, there are also Mulberry Leaves, Tartary Buckwheat Tea and Raw Puer Tea. There is likely to be little to no research on these as big pharma cannot really patent it...

But for post meal glucose control, they don't require weeks to take effect...in fact most works within 2 hours. You won't really need these if you are on low carb high fats with intermittent fasting. But if you like to have an occasional high carbs meal, these drinks are certainly helpful in normalizing the glucose levels.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027280/
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-14-13