We all know bitter melon as a vegetable but it is also known as a traditional Chinese medicine. Scientists recently discovered that the therapeutic properties in bitter melon can be a powerful treatment for type 2 diabetes.
Researchers pulped about a ton of fresh bitter melon and extracted four very promising bioactive components. All of these four compounds appear to activate the enzyme AMPK, a protein that is well known for regulating the fuel metabolism and enabling glucose uptake.
Type 2 diabetics have impaired ability to convert the sugar in their blood into energy in their muscles. This is partly due to not producing enough insulin, and partly because of their fat and muscle cells not using insulin effectively, a condition known as ‘insulin resistance’.
Exercise can activate AMPK in muscle, which then mediates the movement of glucose transporters to the cell surface, a very important step in the uptake of glucose from the circulation into tissues in the body. This is the single biggest reason for which exercise is recommended as part of the normal treatment program for someone with Type 2 diabetes. Four compounds extracted from bitter melon perform a very similar action to that of exercise, in that they activate AMPK.
There are diabetes drugs on the market that can activate AMPK but can have side effects. The advantage of this traditional Chinese medicine bitter melon is that there are no known side effects. Practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine have used it for hundreds of years to good effect.
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