Green Coffee Extract Stabilizes Blood Sugar

Chlorogenic acid is the major antioxidant found in green coffee bean extract. One clinical study found that 400 mg of green coffee bean extract resulted in a 32% lower post-meal blood glucose spike. Not only essential to healthy aging, but regulating levels of blood sugar is critical to maintaining a healthy weight.

When too much sugar including grain is consumed, blood sugar cycles through periods of hyperglycemia (hyper= high) and hypoglycemia (hypo-low). A cycle of high and low levels of blood sugar aggravates the body causing inflammation and damage to organs, hormonal pathways and the immune system

Blood Sugar and Weight Loss:

A major cause of weight gain is the imbalance of blood sugar. Elevated fasting blood sugar levels occurs when muscles and the liver release glucose into the bloodstream even though there is already elevated sugar concentrations.

In other words, the body can be viewed as eating its own tissue when this results. Nighttime is characterized by high levels of glucose-6-phosphatase (G6P) enzyme activity which results in this “self-eating” phenomenon. 

The study in which 400 mg of green coffee bean extract had such a tremendous impact on lowering blood sugar levels that this equates to lowering a dangerous level of 144mg/dL blood glucose to only 109 mg/dL following a meal. This is made possible by the presence of chlorogenic acid and its ability to inhibit the activity of the G6P enzyme. Furthermore, researchers found that green coffee extract lowered post-meal glucose by inhibiting the absorption of sugar across the intestine and suppresses fat accumulation.