{"id":66422,"date":"2026-07-09T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66422"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:05:50","slug":"insulin-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66422","title":{"rendered":"Insulin Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Apple cider vinegar in water before meals flattens the spike by 30%<br \/>\n2. Walk 10 minutes after eating &#8211; beats every glucose supplement<br \/>\n3. Berberine from goldenseal or barberry &#8211; dubbed &#8220;nature&#8217;s Ozempic&#8221;<br \/>\n4. Cinnamon on everything &#8211; drops fasting glucose measurably<br \/>\n5. Eat protein and fat before carbs &#8211; changes the whole meal&#8217;s response<br \/>\n6. Fenugreek seeds soaked overnight &#8211; used traditionally, now studied<br \/>\n7. Green banana flour in smoothies &#8211; resistant starch flattens glucose<br \/>\n8. Magnesium before bed &#8211; fasting blood sugar drops by morning<br \/>\n9. Chromium from broccoli &#8211; helps insulin work better<br \/>\n10. Cut seed oils &#8211; insulin resistance drops in 30 days<br \/>\n11. Stop fruit juice, eat the fruit &#8211; completely different metabolic effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Apple cider vinegar in water before meals flattens the spike by 30% 2. Walk 10 minutes after eating &#8211; beats every glucose supplement 3. Berberine from goldenseal or barberry &#8211; dubbed &#8220;nature&#8217;s Ozempic&#8221; 4. Cinnamon on everything &#8211; drops fasting glucose measurably 5. Eat protein and fat before carbs &#8211; changes the whole meal&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insulin Hacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66423,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66422\/revisions\/66423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}