Chromium
Controls Hazardous Insulin: Chromium increases the power of insulin to process sugar, so you need less insulin to do the job, and blood levels drop. If chromium is low you need about ten times more insulin to process sugar, says Dr. Anderson. Thus, with adequate chromium, much less insulin circulates in the blood to attack artery walls, precipitating atherosclerosis, and possibly plunging you into adult-onset (Type II) diabetes. Be reactivating insulin, chromium alleviates some of the danger of "insulin resistance" that comes on with age. Chromium can even improve insulin resistance in diabetics, according to several studies. A daily 200 micrograms of chromium improved insulin resistance in 62 percent of women with Type II diabetes and 50 percent of men with the disorder within ten days, according to Israeli research.
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