Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Japanese Rice Variety RD43 Reduced Insulin Therapy Need by 73 Percent in Gestational Diabetes Study
Thomas DeLauer
This New Form of Japanese Rice Does NOT Spike Insulin (and shrinks waist circumference)
"In the Jasmine group, 23% needed insulin. In the RD43 group, 6%. A 73% reduction in needing insulin therapy from a single rice swap. And it gets even crazier, though. Of the women in the jasmine rice group who hit the threshold for needing insulin, almost all of them, 10 out of 11, were able to avoid it after switching to RD43."
A clinical therapeutics study involving 96 women with gestational diabetes found that those eating RD43 rice had dramatically lower rates of requiring insulin injections compared to those eating regular jasmine rice. The specially bred Japanese rice variety uses a unique starch architecture that forms crystalline structures resistant to digestion, preventing much of the starch from converting to blood sugar. The results suggest a simple dietary swap could significantly reduce medical intervention needs for pregnant women with diabetes.
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