Why You Shouldn’t Take Aloe Vera for Blood Sugar All the Time: The Eastern Balance Behind Herbtail GlucoMetabol | Chairman Chen Chang-Hung on Metabolic Health EP01
Chairman Chen Chang-Hung uses aloe vera as an example: it can help lower blood sugar, but it is cold in nature, and taking it alone long term may make the constitution colder.
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Many blood sugar products on the market emphasize just one “active ingredient.” Why does Herbtail GlucoMetabol combine several natural ingredients instead? In this episode, Chen Chang-Hung, Chairman of Landmacy Healthcare Tech Company and the developer of Herbtail GlucoMetabol, starts with the differences between Eastern and Western medical thinking to explain the philosophy behind the formula.
Western Research: Single Ingredients With Clear Doses and Effects
People trained in Western medicine or nutrition science value scientific evidence. In their research, they usually choose a single ingredient, or a single plant extract, to analyze. This kind of research is stable and pure, and the dose and effect are clearly defined. That is why products with a Western background tend to have fairly simple ingredient lists, even when they use natural raw materials.
Eastern Medicine: Cold, Heat, Deficiency and Excess, and Finding the Balance Point
Eastern medicine looks not only at whether an ingredient works, but also at its nature. The property of each raw material, whether hot, warm, cold or cool, must be taken into account.
Chairman Chen gave aloe vera as an example: scientific research has found that the components of aloe vera do help with blood sugar. But in Eastern thinking, aloe vera is very cold and cooling in nature. If you eat it continuously and over the long term, your constitution may become colder and colder.
That is why Eastern medicine emphasizes balance: it looks not only at a single effect, but also takes care of the person’s whole constitution.
Herbtail GlucoMetabol: Blending Three Kinds of Wisdom
Herbtail GlucoMetabol is built on natural raw materials and combines three backgrounds at the same time:
- Ayurveda: The natural medicine of ancient India, which emphasizes the overall balance of body and mind.
- Western nutrition science: Precise nutrition such as vitamins, minerals, trace elements and phytonutrients, with doses and actions that are thoroughly documented in research.
- Eastern medicine: Thinking based on cold, heat, deficiency and excess and the balance of herbal properties, used to integrate the various ingredients.
What Does “Multi-Ingredient, Multi-Target” Mean?
Early on, Western medicine proposed that diabetes has eight major pathogenic mechanisms. As science has advanced, thirteen have now been identified, and more may be found in the future.
Herbtail GlucoMetabol is designed to first understand each cause scientifically, and then develop a more comprehensive response. Bitter melon, turmeric and fenugreek, for example, are each supported by a good deal of research, but their mechanisms of action differ, and so do their herbal properties. By combining them in balance with Eastern thinking, a single formula can regulate metabolism from several directions at once. This is what “multi-ingredient, multi-target” means.
Key Takeaways From This Episode
- Western research values single ingredients, with clear doses and effects.
- Eastern medicine emphasizes cold, heat, deficiency and excess, and the balance between herbal properties and constitution.
- Aloe vera helps with blood sugar, but it is cold in nature and not suited to long-term use on its own.
- Herbtail GlucoMetabol blends Ayurveda, Western nutrition science and Eastern medicine.
- Multi-ingredient, multi-target: regulating metabolism from several directions at once.
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