Blood sugar · Kenya
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Mid-afternoon and the biscuit tin is calling again? Gluconax puts chromium and gymnema leaf beside bean, mulberry and bilberry extracts in a tablet taken with your main meal. Fifteen tablets to a box. Leave your number, then pay the rider.
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I run a small tailoring shop in Embu and by four I was always sending the boy for a soda and biscuits. My cousin told me she had been taking Gluconax.
I take one tablet with my lunch of githeri, and I cut out the afternoon soda myself. These days I do not think about sweets until supper.
K— Kimathi E., 52, Embu
Chromium is the mineral behind the claim that glucose stays at a normal level; it leads the formula.
Gymnema is the Indian leaf known for dulling the taste of sweet foods.
White kidney bean and mulberry leaf are plant extracts traditionally taken alongside the main meal.
Nothing to juggle through the day: a single tablet goes with your largest meal.
Five plant and mineral ingredients in one tablet, all aimed at the way the body handles sugar at mealtimes.
trace mineral that contributes to normal blood glucose
leaves of a climbing plant from India, valued for making sugary food taste less sweet
concentrated extract of the common bean, taken at mealtimes
the silkworm tree's leaf, brewed or taken with food in many herbal traditions
leaf of the bilberry shrub and a roasted-coffee-like root that complete the plant mix
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With your biggest meal of the day, one tablet only. Taking it on an empty stomach is not what the label says.
Talk to your doctor before starting. Chromium and the plant extracts can add to the effect of your medicine, so your dose may need checking.
A box lasts 15 days, and the pack sets no fixed course, so decide how long to continue after a conversation with your doctor.
Shakiness or sweating can occur, especially with other sugar medicine. If it happens, check your sugar and stop.
That is all the form needs. Card numbers and M-Pesa details are never requested.
The consultant runs through your town, road or estate, how many packs, and which day suits you for delivery.
You hand over the shillings when the parcel has reached you.
