Bitter gourd effect for diabetes in PCOS

 Vegetables are a key factor for a healthy and a sound body.I can not emphasize enough the importance of green vegetables for women with PCOS.Green vegetables are rich in minerals,vitamins and antioxidants.

Today i am going to talk about a vegetable that not only offers above mentioned benefits but also helps in insulin resistance that is a cause of type 2 diabetes in patients with PCOS.

Thus indirectly it increases insulin sensitivity and normalize the blood sugar levels in PCOS.

If we talk about how bitter gourd works on our body systems and controls the body sugar levels we will see that bitter gourd contains few active compounds that help reduce the blood glucose levels.These are
1-Charanti
2-Vicine
3-Polypeptide-p
4-Lectin

     

Main mechanism:

Bittergourd can regulate blood glucose levels by two major mechanisms:

1- It controls the absorption by the gut of the glucose that we intake via food.

2- Also it stimulates the uptake of glucose from blood to the skeletal muscles.

Active Substances

Charanti

Charanti has a blood glucose lowering effect.All the active compounds present in bittergourd work either by stimulating the function of pancreatic beta cells to increase the amount of insulin in the body or have insulin like action in the body thus increasing the uptake of glucose from peripheral tissues and as a result reduces the blood glucose concentration.In this way they also improve insulin resistance.

Vicine

Vicine like other active compounds alters the hepatic glucose metabolism and stimulates insulin sectretion.

Polypeptide-p

Polypeptide-p reduces blood sugar levels as it acts as the insulin-like hypoglycemic protein.It performs the same function as that of insulin in the body thus used in type 1 diabetes to reduce blood glucose level.

Lectin

Lectin on other hand helps reducing the glucose concentrations by acting on the peripheral tissues.Lectins are a form of protein that bind to the cell membranes.It causes the sugar molecules to bind to the membrane of other cells as it is sugar binding.It also suppresses appetite thus by eating less frequently the blood glucose levels remains low.

After effect of the eating bitter guard is usually hypoglycemia and the main factor that causes this after effect is also lectin.

Precaution

You all should know that excess of everything is bad so if you are going to add bitter gourd in your diet plan make sure to not over consume it as it can cause abdominal discomfort like abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Make sure to consume not more than two bitter gourd in your diet per day and make sure to remove the seeds in it before consuming it.

Also make sure that you are not consuming it with any antidiabetic medicine or insulin as they have hypoglycemic effect just like bitter gourd and thus using them along with bitter gourd can cause severe hypoglycemia and will cause more harm than good to the body.

How to consume

You can either make juice of bitter guard(you can add some stevia or any other sugar alternative to improve the taste) or you can fry it in some healthy fat and make your own healthy snack.

Bitter gourd Juice for weight loss

 We all know that bitter gourd plays a very important role in weight loss and in controlling diabetes.

Benefits of Bitter gourd

Rich in vitamins and minerals

Bitter gourd is rich in beta carotene,thiamine,riboflavin,niacin,vit C,vit E,vit K,vit B6,phosphorus,manganese,zinc,sodium,potassium and calcium.

Cleanses blood

Bitter gourd helps in cleaning harmful toxins in the blood and detoxifies your blood and thus it has beneficial effects on all organs of the body and keeps the skin clean and glowy.

Effects on liver

Liver is the largest internal organ of the body and its functions effecfs our entire body thus its normal functioning is extremely inportant for a healthy body.

Drinking it with black salt has amazing effects on liver and thus on body.

Effects on Stomach

Drinking bitter gourd juice helps in treating constipation and clears stomach and thus it effectively absorbs essential nutrients from food.

It also helps in killing stomach worms.Just have bitter gourd juice and do not eat anything after it for a while and let it kill your stomach worms.

Weight loss

Bitter gourd juice helps in regulating blood glucose levels and helps in weight loss.It is extremely helpful in lowering blood cholesterol levels and thus aids in weight loss.

For diabetic patients

As we know that high blood sugar level is extremely harmful for diabetic patients thus bitter gourd juice helps a lot in this context and helps maintaining normal blood glucose level in diabetic patients.

Effects on Kidney

Drinking bittergourd juice helps in treating kidney stones.

How to take Bitter gourd juice

Just take 2-3 bitter gourd and take out their juice with a juice maker and prepare a shot of it.

Have this shot daily on an empty stomach and your breakfast after 15-30 min and in a few days you will see miracles of this juice on your overall health.

You can add black salt or hing in this shot and have it as they may increase its effectiveness.

Conclusion

Treating your body with healthy food is extremely important for a healthy body and mind so always try to have good nutritious food and stay close to what is natural rather than having highly processed food.