Former Big Pharma Researcher Warns: Don't Take Berberine Or Metformin Before Reading This

If you have Type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, or your fasting numbers won't come down no matter what you try, please read this entire article before you order another bottle of anything.

By Dr. Marcus Hale, MD. Former Senior Researcher at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Last March a woman named Marcia walked into my office and put her glucose meter on my desk.

She was 62 years old. Her A1C had just come back at 7.8.

She'd been quietly buying berberine off Amazon for almost a year because her doctor wanted to put her on Ozempic and she'd refused after watching the lawsuits roll in.

Three different bottles. Almost four hundred dollars. Her fasting numbers had not moved a single point.

She looked at me and said, "Marcus, please tell me what I'm doing wrong before they take my foot."

I knew exactly what was wrong.

I'd been watching this same scene play out across my pilot group for nearly a decade.

What I told Marcia that afternoon is the same thing I'm about to tell you. Because if you've tried berberine and felt absolutely nothing, the problem is not you. And it is not the molecule.

It's that 99% of the berberine on the shelf right now will not lower your blood sugar one single point.

The reason has nothing to do with whether berberine works.

Berberine works. Peer reviewed clinical trials have proven it lowers A1C as effectively as metformin, the most prescribed diabetes drug on Earth.

The problem is what your own body does to berberine the moment it enters your system.

I urge you to read the next few minutes carefully. I'll explain everything.

What I'm about to share has changed the lives of over 1,374 Type 2 diabetics in our private pilot group. Including Marcia.

I'll come back to her at the end.

Berberine Is Nature's Metformin and the Pharmaceutical Industry Has Known It for Decades

Let me start with the science.

Berberine is a natural plant compound found in the roots and bark of goldenseal, Oregon grape, and barberry.

It was first recorded as a medicine over 2,000 years ago in a Chinese medical text called The Herbal Classic of the Divine Plowman.

By around A.D. 500, a Chinese physician named Hongjing Tao documented its anti diabetic activity in a book called Note of Elite Physicians. That means berberine has been used to treat "sweet urine" disease fourteen hundred years before insulin was discovered.

Today, peer reviewed research has confirmed what those ancient physicians figured out.

A clinical trial published in Metabolism found that berberine, taken three times a day, lowered fasting blood sugar, after meal blood sugar, and A1C by 2.0 percentage points in newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetics.

The researchers themselves described the result as "comparable to the effect of metformin."

A 2024 review of 50 separate clinical trials confirmed berberine's glucose lowering effects across thousands of patients.

It works by flipping a switch inside your cells called AMPK.

Think of AMPK as your body's master sugar switch. When it's ON, your cells know what to do with the sugar in your blood. When it's OFF, they don't.

This is the same switch metformin flips. Berberine just does it naturally.

When AMPK is back ON, your cells start listening to insulin again. Glucose moves out of your blood and into your muscles where it belongs. Your liver stops dumping extra sugar into your bloodstream. Your fasting numbers come down. Your post meal spikes flatten out.

And unlike metformin, berberine does this without the side effects. No chronic diarrhea. No vitamin B12 depletion. No "metformin belly."

So why doesn't every Type 2 diabetic in America already know about this?

Three reasons.

One: You can't patent a plant. The major pharmaceutical companies, including the one I worked at for nearly three decades, only invest in compounds they can own. Berberine is not patentable. So it gets no marketing budget, no sales reps in doctors' offices, and no mention in your endocrinologist's prescription pad.

Two: The diabetes industry is worth over $400 billion a year in the United States alone. Insulin prices have gone up over 1,000% in the last decade. Ozempic costs over $900 a month. A cured diabetic is a lost customer. There is no business case to recommend a $50 bottle of plant extract that does the same job.

Three, and this is the one nobody talks about. Even when patients DO find berberine on their own and try it, most of them feel nothing. And that is not because berberine doesn't work. It's because of a flaw in the molecule that the supplement industry has spent the last decade quietly ignoring.

The Blocker. Why 99% of the Berberine You Swallow Goes Straight Into the Toilet

Here's what no one in the supplement aisle is telling you.

When you swallow a $25 bottle of "1200mg Berberine HCL" from Amazon, your body does not absorb 1200mg of berberine.

It absorbs less than 12mg.

That's not a typo.

Multiple studies, including research published in the medical journal Nutrients, have measured how much berberine actually gets absorbed into your blood. They all arrived at the same shocking conclusion:

Less than 1% of the berberine you swallow ever makes it into your bloodstream.

The other 99% gets flushed straight down the toilet.

Why? Three things happen the moment berberine hits your gut.

The first is what scientists call "the bouncer." Your gut wall has tiny pumps built into it whose only job is to grab foreign substances and shove them right back out before they can be absorbed. To your body, berberine looks like a stranger. So these pumps eject 50 to 70% of the berberine before it has a chance to do anything.

The second is your liver chewing it up too fast. Whatever tiny amount of berberine sneaks past the bouncer goes straight to your liver, which breaks it down and flushes it out within hours.

The third is that berberine doesn't dissolve well in water. It's a hard, crystal like compound. So inside your gut it clumps together and never even reaches the gut wall where absorption happens.

The end result? You swallow 1,200mg of berberine. Your bloodstream sees 12mg. And 12mg of berberine cannot move the needle on your blood sugar. Not in a week. Not in three months. Not ever.

Imagine if your doctor prescribed you 1,200mg of metformin, but every dose, your body only used 12mg of it. Your diabetes would be wildly out of control. And so would the doctor's malpractice lawsuit.

But that's exactly what's happening with every cheap berberine bottle on Amazon, in CVS, and on the shelf at your local health store right now.

Now you know why Marcia spent four hundred dollars and a year of her life on three different bottles and got nowhere. She'd bought Nature's Bounty first. Then Toniiq. Then a generic Amazon bottle with cinnamon mixed in.

Each time she did everything right. Two gummies a day with breakfast. Walked after meals. Cut bread. And each time her meter told her the same story. 165 fasting. 168. 162.

It was not her fault. It was not even the brand's fault, technically. It was the form. Cheap unbuffered berberine in a capsule by itself does not work in the body. It cannot.

She is one of millions of diabetics quietly going through this exact same loop right now. Some have spent a thousand dollars. Some have spent two. Every single one of them was flushing 99% of the active compound down the toilet.

The 2,000 Year Old Mistake the Western Supplement Industry Made

When the modern supplement industry rediscovered berberine in the early 2000s, they did what they always do. They isolated it.

They standardized it into a single ingredient called Berberine HCL and they put it in a capsule alone. But here's what they got wrong.

For 2,000 years, traditional Chinese medicine never used berberine alone.

The original formulas that Hongjing Tao and the physicians after him used to treat diabetes always paired berberine with co herbs.

There was always a delivery partner, typically a pungent herb like ginger or black pepper, to help the body absorb it.

There were always co mechanism partners, herbs like cinnamon, gymnema, or fenugreek, that attacked the same blood sugar problem from a different biological angle.

And there were always anti inflammatory partners, herbs like turmeric and licorice root, that calmed the inflammation that was making the patient's cells deaf to insulin in the first place.

In other words, berberine was never the whole answer. It was the lead player on a 12 herb team.

The modern supplement industry put the lead player on the field by himself and wondered why he kept getting tackled before he could touch the ball.

Once I understood that, the path forward was obvious.

The Three Things Cheap Berberine Is Missing and How To Fix It

Here is what every effective berberine formulation must contain.

Path 1. Get the Berberine Past Your Body's Bouncers.

This is the missing piece that finally lets berberine work. Without it, nothing else matters. Because the berberine never makes it into your bloodstream in the first place.

The answer turned out to be the same compound that 2,000 years of traditional medicine already used: black pepper extract (piperine).

Piperine is the natural compound that makes black pepper hot. And it has a remarkable property. It shuts down those tiny bouncer pumps in your gut wall so the berberine can finally get through.

It also slows down how fast your liver breaks the berberine down. And it boosts blood flow in your gut to help absorption.

This is the exact same trick that turned cheap turmeric, which has the same absorption problem as berberine, into the powerful curcumin supplements that finally started working for people with arthritis. Applied to berberine, the effect is dramatic.

Path 2. Hit All Three Things That Are Broken.

Type 2 diabetes is not one problem. It's three problems happening at the same time.

One. Your gut absorbs sugar from food way too fast. Spiking your blood sugar after every meal.

Two. Your muscle cells stop listening to insulin. So sugar gets stuck in your blood instead of going where it belongs.

Three. Your pancreas is exhausted from trying to keep up.

Berberine, even when properly absorbed, only attacks one of these. To actually lower your A1C, the formula needs partners that attack the other two. That's why my formula includes:

Gymnema sylvestre. Known in Ayurvedic medicine for over 2,000 years as gurmar, which literally means "the destroyer of sugar." It blocks your gut from absorbing sugar after meals.
Chromium picolinate. A mineral that helps your cells listen to insulin again. Most Americans, and especially diabetics, are low in chromium.
Cinnamon bark. Helps your pancreas work better and helps your cells respond to insulin.
Banaba leaf extract. Used in the Philippines and Japan for centuries to keep blood sugar from spiking after meals.
Bitter melon. Known as "vegetable insulin" in Asia. It acts like a natural insulin booster in the body.
Olive leaf extract. A 2013 clinical trial published in PLOS One showed it improved how well the body responds to insulin by 15%. And helped the pancreas work 28% better.

Path 3. Put Out the Fire Inside Your Cells.

This is the part most blood sugar formulas miss entirely. The real root cause of Type 2 diabetes is not "too much sugar." It's inflammation. A slow, quiet fire smoldering inside your cells.

That fire is what makes your cells stop listening to insulin in the first place. It's why your fasting numbers won't come down even when you're eating perfectly. Until you put out that fire, no blood sugar ingredient can fully work. That's why my formula also contains:

Turmeric. The most studied natural anti inflammatory in the world. The same one your friends take for joint pain.
Pine bark extract. A powerful antioxidant that protects your cells from the damage that high blood sugar causes.
Cocoa bean extract. Improves blood flow and helps your cells respond to insulin.
Eleuthero root. Helps your body handle stress. When you're stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol. And cortisol spikes your blood sugar.
Juniper berry, butcher's broom, and guggul. Traditional herbs that calm inflammation and support healthy blood flow.

Plus the basic vitamins and minerals that nearly every Type 2 diabetic is running low on:

Vitamin D. Being low in Vitamin D is linked to insulin resistance. Most Americans are low.
Vitamin C. Protects your cells from the damage high blood sugar causes.
Magnesium. Essential for the way insulin works in your body.

Eighteen ingredients. Three paths. One bottle. But I had a problem.

The Reason This Formula Didn't Exist Already

The reason no major supplement company had ever built this formula is simple. Building it correctly is expensive.

You can't just dump 18 ingredients into a gummy and call it a day. The piperine has to be paired with the berberine in the exact right ratio. Too little and the absorption boost doesn't kick in.

The herbs have to be concentrated extracts. Not the cheap stuff. Most bottles you see on Amazon use ground up leaves. That's basically tea dust in a capsule. The good stuff is a concentrated extract that's been lab tested to actually contain the active compounds your body needs.

On top of that, the gummy itself has to be made to survive stomach acid so the formula releases where it's supposed to.

Doing this right requires a production facility with clinical grade equipment, independent lab testing, and the kind of quality control that only a handful of supplement makers in the United States are capable of.

Most supplement companies cut corners. They use the cheap, low quality raw ingredients. They put in tiny doses that don't do anything. They skip the lab testing. That's how you end up with a $15 bottle on Amazon that does nothing.

I was not going to put my name on a bottle like that. So I went looking for a manufacturing partner who could build this formula the right way.

Partnering With Athovita. Where Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies Is Actually Made

After interviewing seven different supplement manufacturers, I partnered with a company called Athovita.

Athovita is a small U.S. supplement company. Every ingredient they use is lab tested to confirm what's actually in the bottle matches what's on the label.

Their facility is GMP certified, FDA registered, and tested by an independent outside lab. Every batch gets an official lab report that confirms it's pure, potent, and free of heavy metals or contaminants.

When I brought them my 18 ingredient formula, they didn't try to talk me out of it. They didn't try to cheapen the ingredients. They didn't push me to swap in lower grade extracts to widen their margins. They built it exactly the way I designed it.

They paired the berberine with a high potency black pepper extract. The same kind used in published research. They used real, concentrated extracts of gymnema, banaba, cinnamon, and the other key plants. Not the cheap powders. They encapsulated the formula in a way that protects the active compounds from stomach acid so they release where they're supposed to. And they tested every batch.

The product you're reading about right now is the result of that partnership. The formulation is mine. The manufacturing is Athovita's.

Together, we built the only berberine formula on the market that's engineered around the three things every cheap berberine bottle gets wrong. It's called Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies.

What Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies Does in Your Body

Two gummies a day with food. That's the entire protocol.

And here is the part Marcia told me made the biggest difference for her. They are gummies. Not capsules. Sugar free. Naturally flavored. They actually taste good.

She told me on her week three call that she had finally found a supplement she didn't dread taking. That she actually looked forward to two minutes with her morning coffee and the raspberry gummies. That after 30 years of fighting with vitamin horse pills and waxy berberine capsules that gave her acid reflux, this was the first thing she had not abandoned by week four.

That matters more than people realize. The single biggest reason supplements fail is that people stop taking them. The best formula in the world cannot lower your A1C if it is sitting in a drawer.

Marcia started on a Tuesday morning. I told her to call me back in 30 days with her meter readings.

Day 4 she called early. "Marcus, my fasting was 141 this morning. I haven't seen anything under 160 in over a year." I told her to keep going.

Day 11. "It was 128 this morning."

Day 18. "It was 117. I almost cried."

By day 28 she was hitting fasting numbers in the low 100s. By day 60 her after meal numbers stopped spiking above 140. By day 90 her A1C came back at 6.1, down from 7.8.

That is a clinically meaningful change. That is the difference between "we need to talk about insulin" and "whatever you're doing, keep doing it." It is also the difference between keeping a foot and not.

I do not say that lightly. Type 2 diabetes is the leading cause of non traumatic lower limb amputation in the United States. 160,000 diabetic amputations a year. A leg every 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

The day Marcia walked into my office and asked me to help her before they took her foot, she was already developing neuropathy in her left foot. Her endo had told her to start checking the bottoms of her feet every night for cuts she might not feel.

At her 90 day follow up, her neuropathy was gone. Her foot exam was clean. She is not on that trajectory anymore.

Marcia is not unusual. In our 90 day pilot group of 1,374 Type 2 diabetics and prediabetics, the average A1C drop was between 0.8 and 1.6 percentage points. Some people got off metformin entirely with their doctor's blessing. Some lost 10 to 15 pounds without changing their diet.

What every single success in that pilot group had in common was a meter that finally showed numbers they hadn't seen in years.

I want to be honest with you. This is not a miracle pill. If you're eating donuts three times a day and drinking a two liter of Coke, no supplement is going to save you. You still have to do the basic work. Eat reasonable food. Walk after meals. Hydrate.

What Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies does is make all that work actually count. It is the missing piece that turns reasonable effort into measurable, lab confirmed blood sugar control.

Real Stories From the Pilot Group

Linda Brennan, 62. Retired Nurse, Knoxville, TN — A1C 7.4 to 5.6 in 90 days

"I worked 31 years as a hospital nurse and watched what diabetes does to people up close. When my own A1C came back at 7.4, I refused metformin. I'd tried four different berberine bottles from Amazon over a two year stretch. Nature's Bounty, Toniiq, two others I can't even remember. Zero. Nothing. My A1C kept creeping up. I almost didn't order Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies because I was so burned out on supplements. But the absorption explanation made sense to me as a nurse. I took two gummies a day with breakfast and dinner. Three months later my A1C lab came back at 5.6. My fasting numbers are 95 to 105 every morning. My doctor asked what I was doing and I told him the truth. He didn't say it out loud but I could tell he was surprised. I'm 62 years old and I'm not diabetic anymore."

Robert "Bobby" Chen, 58. Truck Driver, Bakersfield, CA — Got off metformin after 8 years

"I'd been on metformin for 8 years and it was destroying my stomach. Couldn't drive a route without knowing where every rest stop was. My doctor wanted to add Ozempic and I just couldn't. I'd seen the lawsuits and I was scared. I'd tried berberine years ago and it did nothing. My niece is a pharmacist and she's the one who told me about this product. She explained the bioavailability thing and showed me the studies. I ordered one bottle. After the first month my fasting was down 35 points. After three months my A1C was 5.9, down from 7.1. My doctor approved me coming off the metformin. I'm 58 years old, I have my stomach back, I have my energy back, and I am still on the road. I tell every guy at the truck stop about this."

Imagine What the Next 90 Days Could Look Like For You

Marcia called me on a Saturday in October. It had been about eight months since she'd walked into my office with her glucose meter and the line about her foot. I almost didn't recognize her voice. She sounded twenty years younger.

She told me she had just gotten back from her granddaughter's wedding in Charleston. She danced. For three songs. With her husband. In heels.

She said she stood for the entire ceremony, did the reception line, walked the cobblestones of the historic district for two hours the next morning with her daughter, and never once had to ask anybody to slow down or sit. Not once.

She said the most surprising part wasn't even her feet. It was that she stopped thinking about her diabetes the entire weekend. For the first time in eight years.

That is what we are actually selling here. We are not selling a supplement.

We are selling the wedding you do not have to sit out. The cobblestones you can still walk. The morning meter reading you have not seen since 2017. The 3 AM bathroom trips that finally stop. The slice of birthday cake at your grandchild's party that does not turn into a 200 reading two hours later.

Imagine waking up at 6 AM. Not at 3 AM to pee for the fifth time. Just sleeping straight through.

Imagine pricking your finger before breakfast and seeing a fasting reading in the 90s for the first time in years.

Imagine sitting across from your doctor at your next 90 day appointment and watching her eyebrows go up when she sees your A1C.

Imagine your doctor saying the words you never thought you'd hear. "We can talk about lowering your metformin dose." Or even better. "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it."

Imagine being the grandparent who is still on their own two feet at every wedding, every graduation, every Sunday dinner, ten years from now.

All of that is on the other side of the right formula. And it is not a miracle. It is not magic. It is not too good to be true.

It is just biology. Finally working the way it was supposed to. Because for the first time, the berberine your body has been waiting for is finally getting through.

A Quick Word About Stock

Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies is made in small batches at Athovita because they will not cut corners on the standardized extracts. That means we sell out constantly.

Our last batch sold out in 11 days. The one before that sold out in 8.

If you are reading this article right now, it means we still have inventory. Otherwise we would have taken the page down. But I cannot guarantee how long it stays in stock.

You Will Not Find Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies on Amazon or in Stores

Let me be very clear about this.

If you go to Amazon and search for "Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies," you may find counterfeits. You may find imitation bottles that look similar. They are not the real product. They are not made at Athovita. They are not independently tested. They are not made with the real, concentrated extracts that make this formula work.

The only place to get the authentic Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies, the formula I built, manufactured by Athovita, tested for purity and potency, is through our official website.

I refuse to sell on Amazon because Amazon's counterfeiting problem is out of control, and the last thing I want is for someone to think they got Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies, get a fake bottle of unstandardized junk, and conclude that "berberine doesn't work" all over again.

If you want the real thing, it's here. Nowhere else.

Now, About the Price

Let me give you some context first.

A 90 day supply of Ozempic, without insurance, costs over $2,700. A 90 day supply of name brand metformin runs $300 to $500. And it comes with all the side effects you already know about. A 90 day supply of high end "absorption fixed" berberine, which still only solves one piece of the puzzle, runs $150 to $200.

When our team and I looked at our cost of goods, the lab testing, the standardized extracts, and the quality of the encapsulation, we calculated that a fair retail price would be $69 a bottle. That's still less than what a single Ozempic copay runs at most pharmacies.

But I don't want to charge $69 a bottle. I want to help as many people as possible, and I don't want cost to stand in the way of that mission.

The diabetic on the truck route, the retired nurse on a fixed income, the schoolteacher saving for her grandkid's college. None of them can afford to spend a fortune on a supplement, even if it works. So we made the call. We priced it at a fraction of what the experts told us to.

Since most users want to give the formula a full 90 days to see their A1C move on a real lab, and since most users end up ordering for a spouse, a brother, a parent, or a friend who also needs it, we built bundle pricing that essentially gives you free bottles when you stock up:

Package	Price	Per Bottle	What You Get
1 Bottle	$29.99	$29.99	30 day supply
Buy 2, Get 1 FREE ⭐ MOST POPULAR	$59.99	$19.99	3 bottles, 90 day supply
Buy 3, Get 2 FREE ⭐ BEST VALUE	$89.99	$17.99	5 bottles, 150 day supply

The "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" is what 71% of our buyers choose, because three bottles is enough time to see your next A1C lab reflect the change.

The "Buy 3 Get 2 Free" is what most of our repeat customers order. Because once they see it working, they want a five month buffer AND extra bottles to share with the family member they know also needs it. That's an extra two free bottles. A $60 value. At our absolute best price.

You Get 60 Days to Test Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies. Including Your Next A1C Lab.

I know exactly what's going through your head right now. You've been burned before.

You've spent money on berberine bottles that did nothing. You've spent money on "Sugar Defender" and "GlucoTrust" and three other products with similar sounding names. You've watched your A1C creep up while your wallet got lighter.

You're sitting there thinking, "How do I know this isn't just another disappointment?" I get it.

That's exactly why we offer the 60 Day Test Your Own Numbers Money Back Guarantee.

Here's how it works. Order Athovita Pure Berberine Gummies today. Take two gummies a day, every day, with a meal. Track your fasting glucose every morning on your home meter. Track your post meal numbers a few times a week.

If you want a lab to back it up, most providers will run an A1C at the 8 week mark if you ask. That falls inside your guarantee window.

If your fasting glucose, your post meal numbers, or your A1C have not measurably improved in 60 days, for ANY reason, just email us. We will refund every penny you spent.

Our team is at support@pureberberinecomplex.com. We answer within hours.

That means, today, right now, you are risking absolutely nothing.

The only thing you are risking is going another six months without finally finding the formula that actually moves your numbers. Because once this batch sells out, we can't guarantee when the next one will be available, or at what price.

Here's Exactly What to Do Next

Click the green button below that says "GET PURE BERBERINE COMPLEX NOW." It will take you to our secure checkout page.

Select your package. Single bottle, Buy 2 Get 1 Free, or Buy 3 Get 2 Free. Enter your shipping address and payment information. We process orders within one business day and ship via priority mail. Your bottles will arrive within 3 to 5 business days.

Start the formula immediately. Two gummies a day with a meal.

In 30 days, your meter will tell you the truth. In 90 days, your lab will tell you the truth. In 60 days, you'll be looking at A1C numbers you haven't seen since before you were diagnosed.

Remember. There is ZERO risk today. The only real risk is what happens if you do not try this.

I spent 28 years inside the pharmaceutical industry. I know exactly how this story ends if you stay on the path they want you on.

Metformin first. Then a second drug added. Then a third. Then insulin. Then the complications start. The numbness in your feet. The changes in your eyes. The kidney numbers that start trending the wrong way on your labs.

I have seen this trajectory thousands of times. It is not the trajectory of someone who got unlucky. It is the trajectory of someone who got managed instead of treated.

Marcia was on that trajectory the day she walked into my office. She is not on it anymore.

She came back to see me last month. She brought a tin of homemade lemon shortbread for my staff. Her A1C is 5.6. Her doctor took her off her second blood pressure medication because her vascular numbers came back so clean. The neuropathy in her left foot is gone. She does not check the bottoms of her feet at night anymore.

She still has both her feet. She still has her license. She still has her life.

She did not need a billion dollar drug. She needed the right form of a plant her great great grandmother probably used in tea.

You've spent enough money on bottles that did not work. You've spent enough nights up at 2 AM wondering if this is just your life now. You've spent enough doctor visits being told to "just manage it."

This is your shot at being told something different. By your own glucose meter. By your own lab work. By your own body.

If you are still reading this, I think you already know what you want to do. Click the button below. Order the bottles. Start tomorrow morning with your breakfast.

In 30 days your meter will start telling you something different. In 90 days your A1C will. And in six months you might be calling somebody you love to tell them about the wedding you danced at.

I really hope I see you feeling better soon.

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Individual results may vary. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Consult your doctor before starting any new supplement, especially if you take medication for diabetes.