Puer tea may significantly lower blood sugar, help prevent diabtetes

A new two-year study conducted by scientists at Jilin University and the Changchun Science and Technology University found that drinking puer tea may significantly reduce blood sugar levels and help prevent diabetes. In a study of twenty obese rats with very high blood sugar, eight of ten of those that were not fed puer tea developed sores and infections died after eleven months. All ten rats that were fed puer tea lived beyond eleven months, and none developed sores or infections.

The study also compared the blood sugar reducing ability of puer tea versus Rosiglitazone, a drug widely used to reduce blood sugar. The study found that after two weeks the rats that were fed Rosiglitazone had a 36.5 percent reduction in blood sugar, verus a 42 percent reduction in the puer tea fed rats. Puer tea fed rats lost weight, while the Rosiglitazone rats did not.

The deputy mayor of Pu’er City pointed out that Yunnan has one of the best longetivity rates in China, the lowest cancer rate, and Pu’er city has the lowest number of cancer patients in Yunnan.

The study also found that when 120 diabetic human volunteers stopped taking their diabetic medication and drank puer tea regularly, seventy percent lowered their blood sugar levels below 7 mmol/L, an average decrease of 35 percent.

China Daily Article

One Response to Puer tea may significantly lower blood sugar, help prevent diabtetes

  1. Jason Witt says:

    Incredible story. Not just the scientific study but the anecdotal evidence is believable to me because it's a general fact about the whole region. A community of Puerh drinkers has little cancer and lives longer than others. Amazing. I'm making note of this and am already thinking about drinking more Puerh Tea.

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