Ben Greenfield

Apple cider vinegar is another cheap hack that you can do before a meal that can lower blood glucose.

Do these things actually work?

They actually do.

And they actually can work so effectively that

And this has happened to me.

If you take a really powerful one like dihydrobarbarine or bitter melon extract and you have carbs and then you go exercise or you have carbs but it's not that many carbs, you can actually watch your blood sugar and you start to go a little bit hypoglycemic.

Really?

Yeah.

But if you're going to go to a steakhouse and punish the bread basket or have an extra cocktail or do something that's going to put extra sugar into the body, I think it's a good idea.

And if you're just like...

up the creek without a paddle and you forgot to take your enzymes and your glucose disposal agents to the restaurant if you go to a restaurant or you go to anywhere that has a bar and you look behind the bar they always typically have a lineup of bitters or bitters their bitters are bitter and anything bitter is a glucose disposal agent and

anything bitter also stimulates the release of glucagon like peptide the glp that a lot of people will inject and so you get this mild like satiation inducing effect by having something bitter with a meal that's one of the reasons like some people will say to control blood glucose have like the bitter like the salad you know the bitter vegetables like earlier on the meal because it helps to control the blood glucose from the carbs that you're going to have later on

Bitters.

Like bitters?

I mean, no.

Bitters.

It's kind of like the elephant in the room.

Tonic water is a little bit bitter.

But for me, honestly, I will order soda water with a squeeze of lemon and a splash of bitters, A, for that effect.

And B, because I'm a lightweight, and I usually don't drink more than one cocktail when I'm at a party.