What’s old is new again. Recent research shows that consumption of a beverage that contains the herb Salacia Oblonga, which has been used as medicinally in India for ages, helped folks reduce their post-prandial blood sugars by more than 25%. That would easily bring me into ‘human normal’ range. I’m going to try and acquire some to test on myself.

[edit] So I’ve been looking for sources of this herb on the net and not finding anything, aside from an indian import/export site where you can bid on bulk lots of the raw herb. I’ve already been burned once importing a bunch of stuff from india so I’m a bit leery, on the other hand the idea sort of intrigues me. Anyone want to go in on a lot of Salacia that we’ll then process down into extract for ebay sales? We’ll make a killing, I promise! (mostly kidding, though Andrew, you’re a likely candidate!)