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Cogent db
About Cogent db
Cogent db plus
Is suitable as a natural dietary supplement for: The health conscious who are concerned about the glycaemic index (GI)
Those who find they are simply low in energy, particularly after eating carbohydrate-rich meals
Those who have diets high in carbohydrates
The Atkins customer who is having trouble giving up their delicious and satisfying carbohydrates
Those who have a condition known as Syndrome X (metabolic syndrome).
Research
How did one type 2 go from 20 units of insulin per day to none, and no blood sugar level above 185? He took Cogent DB, an Indian type 2 medication made from several herbs, which the Mayo Clinic is reported to be interested in testing.
Without it, Krishnakumar Moorthy says he would be certainly on insulin-and probably crippled.
A story in the Indian news magazine The Week tells the story of Moorthy and how Cogent DB came to the 2 million people with diabetes now using it in India. After helping his father through severe diabetic neuropathy, P.N.E. Balaram watched him die. After his death, this Indian entrepreneur got a recipe from a friend for an Ayurvedic diabetes remedy. Balaram had it translated from its original Sanskrit, collected the herbal ingredients and made the concoction, which he gave to a friends father who has diabetes. One week later, the friend asked him for more. The remedy had lowered his blood sugars, something his other medicine had not done.
Getting Scientific Proof
He gave it to others, with the same success, but Balaram knew these stories would not sell a product. He needed scientific proof. He took it to the Amala Cancer Research Centre in the Kerala State of India. First researchers studied rats with alloxan-induced diabetes, and found that Cogent DB reduced their blood sugar levels and improved their liver and kidney functioning.
Some criticize the alloxan method of testing rats. One Indian endocrinologist says that claiming liver and kidney healing is far-fetched, as the Cogent DB could just be reversing the damage that alloxan causes.
Studies done in humans, however, did confirm the blood-sugar-lowering effects. According to Balaram and his company, Cybele Herbal Laboratories, studies performed at the Amala center show that Cogent DB lowered the fasting and postmeal blood sugars in nearly all type 2 subjects.
Word Gets Around The Week says that the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota, wants to study Cogent DB. Mayos head of research, Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, is reportedly interested in confirming the success of Cogent DB with "careful and well-controlled trials."
Nair did not answer DIABETES HEALTHs calls for confirmation of this studys possibility, but Balaram says, "Dr. Nair, his Mayo Clinic team and their associates in Trivandrum, India, are testing Cogent DB."
How does it work in the body to lower blood sugar? It seems that nobody knows, not even Balaram. Sreekumaran isnt sure. Until larger tests are performed, this herbal preparation has only time and anecdotes on its side, as this is the case with many ancient formulas.
"Cogent DB is a unique formula of some of the most powerful time-tested antidiabetic herbs," says Balaram. Clinical testing, he adds, "is only a process of validation and not inventing something new."
How does Cogent db work:
The ingredients in Cogent db plus have traditionally been used to treat abnormal blood sugar levels. Each of the nine individual herbs (which have been used in cooking and as spices for centuries) work well alone, but even better together, to slow the conversion rate of carbohydrate to sugar.
Not only does Cogent db plus help the body more efficiently digest sugar, it also reduces the amount of sugar converted immediately to fat. After a meal blood sugar levels rise significantly. This is known as a post prandial spike in blood sugar levels. Among those taking Cogent db plus, this spike in sugar levels rises and then falls more steadily than in untreated people.
After a meal taken with Cogent db plus, blood sugar levels rise more slowly and then fall more steadily than in an untreated person.
[Abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates can lead to the storage of sugar as fat and potentially to the development of Type II diabetes and Syndrome X, or metabolic syndrome].
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