This is a big week for Resveratrol, one that you need to know about if you’re a Type 2 diabetic or have diabetes in your family history.  A study by Jill Crandall at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City was presented at the American Diabetes Association Convention in Anaheim, CA that Resveratrol can help boost the action of insulin in older or overweight people.  The is the first human study on diabetes in humans that proves what we have known all along:  Resveratrol is one of the most important dietary supplements that everyone should take!

It’s well known that as we age, our ability to respond to insulin worsens.  When insulin can’t get into the cells to allow sugar in, the blood sugar level starts rising and does damage to every organ.  This is called insulin resistance.

Crandall has had a long history of researching diabetes.  She’s examined the genetic aspects of diabetes and prevention programs for diabetics, and studied treatments and complications of the disease.  In this recent study, she found that Resveratrol makes the cells more sensitive towards insulin, thereby decreasing insulin resistance.  Volunteers tested were older people with mild insulin resistance with an average age of 72.

No one wants to get diabetes as they age; the disease is a major killer.  With diabetes, one can expect several different organs to fail in due time – the heart, blood vessels, kidneys, immune system, and eyes.  It’s no fun to not have endurance and stamina, live at the dialysis clinic, be susceptible to every bug going around the neighborhood, and risk vision loss.  Saving lives from disease and consequent discouragement, frustration and strife is more than a noble deed reserved for researchers; it’s a responsibility that each one of us should take on.

Crandall found that Resveratrol was helpful in reversing insulin resistance with the caveat that these are preliminary research study results.  However, as more and more of these studies are completed, the case for Resveratrol’s effects on insulin sensitivity becomes more compelling.

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