Glucosamine and diabetes - influences, consequences, health impact

Before talking about influence of glucosamine and diabetes consequences, let’s learn something about glucosamine itself.

What is it? In how many forms does glucosamine exist? What is its influence in your body? How does it affect your diabetes? Does it exist any glucosamine side effects?

Everybody has the sacred right to have information for everything. Especially when it comes to diabetes information and what is related to it.

What is glucosamine?

Actually, glucosamine is a component of our body which consists of a glucose and amine molecules. This substance is produced naturally by your body. It is mainly found in cartilage and connective tissue.

Its function is to give a hand in keeping strong, flexible and healthy cartilages and joints.

This is possible due to stimulation of some other substances (glucosaminoglycans) which are responsible to keep your joint tissue altogether, and one kind of joint cartilage.

In this way, it can help to repair damaged and degenerating joint cartilage. It acts like a cushion around your joints.

Not only your joints can benefit from this substance. Also your digestive tract can benefit due to help it gives in the production of protective coating of mucous. It is also considered as a raw material for wound healing.

What happens is that with the passing of time, the production of glucosamine in your body is decreased. This results in decreased flexibility and inflammation in your joints.

Here you must consult your physician if to start taking and oral supplement or not.

Now we come to the influence of glucosamine and diabetes consequences by taking it. Normally, glucosamine is found in little amounts in foods. Mostly you can take it by supplements.

Many approaches have been done to understand the effects of glucosamine in your diabetes route. Until know there are contradictory studies on the real effect of glucosamine and diabetes consequences.

However, it is a clinically proof that glucosamine is very safe for most of people taking it.

Be careful only with worsening of allergic symptoms if you are an allergic person. Anyway, you must watch these worsening symptoms for everything you take and eat too.

From clinical studies in animals, it was concluded an increase in blood sugar levels and insulin resistance too.

This can be possible because glucosamine can damage the function of islet cells (cells that produce insulin) in pancreas. Also it increases insulin resistance by damaging the function of insulin in body cells.

This is one part of the truth about glucosamine and diabetes. On the other side, remains the fact that some other clinical studies have concluded the contrary about glucosamine affects in humans. If it is injected, it may cause the above side effects.

But, Archives of Internal Medicine in one report in 2003 has confirmed that there is no notably affect in glucose levels of type2 diabetics.

This is a great relief for those diabetics who take glucosamine as alternative of toxic affects of osteroarthritis treatment especially NSAIDs. Here is talking about orally intake glucosamine, which is the main way of taking it.

Watch the dosage of glucosamine intake. Don’t use more than 20 milligrams/kg of body weight daily. Consult your doctor for the dosage of supplements you are taking.

You should watch your blood pressure too, because glucosamine raises the level of salt intake everyday.

But, when you have diabetes, due to blood vessels damages, you may face high blood pressure problems. That’s why you must care about it while taking glucosamine.

At the end, I advice you to consult always your doctor about glucosamine side effects on your health and on your body.