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Blood sugar, bone, iron, thyroid, weight
Blood sugar, bone, iron, vitamin D and weight. This is the section where the U-curve recurs: correcting a genuine deficiency helps, and exceeding sufficiency is sometimes actively harmful — high intermittent vitamin D dosing increased falls and fractures in trials. Type 2 diabetes responds to weight, diet and exercise far more than to any supplement, and the chromium and cinnamon literature is weaker than it is sold as.
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Bone health: calcium, vitamin D, and what actually prevents a fracture
Bone density responds to load and to sufficiency, not to excess. Falls prevention is half the fracture equation.
remedyIron deficiency: the right way to take iron, and the reason it may not be a supplement problem
Absorption is dose-dependent in the wrong direction, so a smaller dose more often beats a bigger one. And the cause matters more than the iron.
remedyType 2 diabetes: the herbs with glycaemic trials, and the one that is nearly a drug
Berberine, cinnamon and fenugreek all lower blood sugar modestly. Berberine does it as a drug.
remedyVitamin D: the supplement, the sun, and the U-curve
Correct a deficiency. Do not mega-dose, because high intermittent dosing increased falls and fractures.
remedyWeight and metabolic syndrome: what has evidence, and what is sold
Green tea and fibre produce small effects. The interventions with the largest effects are not sold as supplements.
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