Doctor-approved drug lowers blood sugar AND improves gut health
When addressing health concerns, Dr. Marc Micozzi has always favored natural remedies over prescription drugs. But he makes an exception for one medication—metformin.
Metformin is a first-line Type II diabetes drug. But according to Dr. Micozzi, metformin behaves more like a botanical in the body than a prescription drug. In fact—unlike most mainstream diabetes drugs—metformin helps foster a healthy microbiome, which is key to safely lowering blood sugar.
Take this study for example…
Researchers discovered that after four months of treatment with metformin, diabetic participants showed marked benefits in the health of their gut microbiome. In fact, metformin seemed to increase the growth of several bacterial species linked to improved blood sugar metabolism.
Dr. Micozzi notes that the benefits were so strong, the researchers switched members of the placebo group over to the drug—and they also began to show similar benefits.
And in the second part of the study, researchers transferred fecal samples from the metformin-treated patients to mice bred to have no healthy bacteria in their gut. The mice went on to show dramatic improvements in blood sugar metabolism.
Bottom line: Metformin works as a sugar-blocker right in the gut, thus preventing the release of sugar into the bloodstream.
This sugar-blocking effect explains why metformin prevents all the dangerous, complications of Type II diabetes—like vision loss, heart disease, kidney disease, and nerve damage.
It also explains why studies have shown the drug can reduce the risk of cancer—because cancer cells use sugar as fuel. It explains, too, why metformin seems to help people maintain a healthy weight—because it keeps sugar from being absorbed in the blood in the first place.
However, Dr. Micozzi says there is one small caveat with metformin: It can reduce your absorption of vitamin B12. So, if you take metformin, he recommends you supplement daily with a good vitamin B complex that contains at least…
- 55 mg of B2 (riboflavin)
- 50 mg of B3 (niacin)
- 12 mcg of B12
The main takeaway here is that diabetes can be triggered by an unbalanced microbiome—which means that achieving balance in your gut is a great way to lower blood sugar—and metformin does just that.
Dr. Micozzi offers several other safe and effective solutions for lowering blood sugar—and controlling chronic inflammation in his Inflammation Fighting Protocol. Click here to enroll in this valuable learning tool today.