Herbal Bilberry, the Best in the Prevention and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

By Kyle J. Norton

On seeking natural therapy with no side effects, scientists may have a whole berry for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, according to studies.

Type 2 diabetes is a medical condition caused by not enough insulin entering the bloodstream to convert blood glucose into energy. Insulin resistance is a hallmark of patients with the disease.

Insulin is a hormone with a function to regulate the movement of sugar into your cells. In other words, insulin converts sugar to energy to fuel the body needs.

Most cases of type 2 diabetes is a result of not enough insulin produced by the pancreas due to reduced numbers of healthy beta cells or the insulin produced was not used properly due to the clogged up of the insulin receptor sites.

 Type 2 diabetes is an acquired disease in adulthood. In the Western world, most cases of type 2 diabetes are associated with obesity induced by a long-term poor diet and lack of exercise.

Truly enough, over 68% of the population in the US are either overweight or obese.

According to the statistics in the US, in 2015, 30.3 million Americans or 9.4 percent of the U.S. population and another 84.1 million had confirmed diabetes and prediabetes, respectively.

Sadly, the majority of people with prediabetes don't know they had it.

Therefore, losing weight, eating well and moderate exercise daily can help to manage the disease against the onset of hyperglycemia, a major cause of the diabetic complication.

People with type 2 diabetes who can not manage the disease through weight loss, healthy diet and exercise are commonly treated with medications or insulin therapy.

Please make sure you know all the side effects if you are currently taking any form of therapies for diabetic treatment.

Most common symptoms of type 2 diabetes depending on the severity of the stages include increased thirst, frequent urination, unintended weight loss, and fatigue,

In severe cases, patients may also experience symptoms wound that does heal, blurred vision and frequent infections and areas of darkened skin.

Bilberry is a species of low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium, belonging to the family Ericaceae, native to Northern Europe.

The plant has been used as herbs in traditional medicine for the treatment of acute and chronic diarrhea, gastritis, gastric ulcer, and duodenal ulcer, enterocolitis, ulcerative colitis, anemia, cystitis, kidney disease, and psoriasis, diabetes, etc.

On finding potential ingredients from the treatment of type 2 diabetes, researchers examined the bilberry content of anthocyanins and polyphenols which have been proven to process antidiabetic activity in several studies.

Injection of anthocyanins and polyphenols exhibited an increase in insulin secretion (anthocyanin pelargonidin), reduction of insulin resistance (anthocyanin cyanidin-3-glucoside), and glucose resorption from the GIT (polyphenols) and enhancement of beta-cells regeneration associated with the diabetics.

In the examination of the single ingredient anthocyanins, researchers found the compounds also contribute to the improvement of the lipid spectrum compared to that of acarbose and atorvastatin, according to many preclinical and clinical studies.

Furthermore, the compound derivatives anthocyanin cyanidin-3-galactoside also have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective activities.

In order to reveal more information about bilberry antidiabetic effects, researchers at the joint study led by the University of Eastern Finland differentiated the serum hippuric acid changes after intake of bilberry.

In a total of 47 individuals with features of the metabolic syndrome, randomly assigned to either a BB diet (n = 15), an SRC diet (n = 20) or a control diet (n = 12).comapred to from fasting serum samples at baseline and after an 8-week intervention, researchers showed that fasting serum hippuric acid increased significantly (3.5-fold) only in the BB group and correlated with changes in fasting plasma glucose concentration and insulin secretion.

These results suggested bilberry anti-diabetic property not only confirms the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study but also improves glycemic control and pancreas β-cell function which is reduced in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Dr. the lead scientist wrote after taking into account co and confounders in the final report, "Fasting serum hippuric acid is increased after consumption of anthocyanin-rich bilberries, and may contribute to the beneficial effect of bilberry consumption through its associations with better glycemic control and β-cell function".

Taken altogether, bilberry processed abundantly bioactive compound anthocyanin may be considered a function remedy for the treatment of type 2 diabetes with no side effects, pending to the validation of larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

References
(1) Fasting serum hippuric acid is elevated after bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) consumption and associates with improvement of fasting glucose levels and insulin secretion in persons at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes by de Mello VD1, Lankinen MA1, Lindström J2, Puupponen-Pimiä R3, Laaksonen DE4, Pihlajamäki J1,5, Lehtonen M6,7, Uusitupa M1,8, Tuomilehto J2,9,10, Kolehmainen M1, Törrönen R1, Hanhineva K. (PubMed)
(2) [Effectiveness of phytotherapy in supportive treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitusBillberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)].[Article in Czech] by Koupý D, Kotolová H, Kučerová J. (PubMed)