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As we have already discussed, high blood sugar levels result in a spike in the hormone insulin, leading to cellular disruption and obesity. More than 90 percent of North Americans are deficient in chromium. When you combine low chromium consumption with blood sugar levels that are high due to a high consumption of sweets, breads and refined foods, the result is a staggering increase in Type II diabetes, overfatness and obesity. Most soils contain little or no chromium. As a result, the plants we eat contain very little chromium. The best way to boost the level of chromium in your cells is to take a supplement.

If you are over-fat, there is a good chance you are insulin resistant. Your cells just do not let the sugar enter their interiors as well as they used to. This results in the pro-fat insulin spike that keeps the fat pounds on despite vigorous exercise and diet routines. Chromium is essential to reducing the cells’ resistance to insulin. It helps your cells function better, allowing blood sugar and amino acids in and keeping blood insulin levels lower.



GTF— Glucose Tolerance Factor
by totalhealth editors

It is important to understand that although chromium is essential, to be most effective it should be in the form of GTF (Glucose Tolerance Factor). This means that the mineral chromium in its organic form, which is trivalent chromium (Cr+3), must combine in the body with nicotinic acid/B3 and three other amino acids which are glycine, cysteine and glutamic acid.

Studies have revealed that GTF binds both to the insulin molecule and the insulin receptor, which increases the hormonal effect of insulin up to threefold, thereby enhancing glucose tolerance. But as people grow older, and due to other health complications, they can no longer form the GTF in their own bodies, contributing to diabetes and/or elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, increasing the risk of cardiovascular complications. To insure proper blood sugar control, glucose tolerance, oneshould take chromium that is already in a GTF form.

 
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