Comment · Thu, August 13, 2020 · ND Owner
Can Berberine Cause Hypoglycemia?
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Experienced8 · 12 points
I usually only take berberine before a carb-containing meal, however, today I took some upon waking and then ate a steak.
The whole morning I felt like I could fall asleep at any second. Brain fog. Weak muscles. Absolutely CRAVING food and sugar. Seemed like hypoglycemia.
Can this happen to someone like me who is NOT diabetic, in shape, eats clean, sleeps well?
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TheGermanGuy21 · 1 points
Another ALA question that came to mind: I've read that ALA chelates minerals and thus should ideally not be taken at the same time with mineral supplements. Is that a myth too, like the reducing muscle growth thing?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
ALA is a good chelator of heavy metals; particularly mercury. I think it mainly chelates divalent metal ions. So magnesium, potassium, calcium, etc. would be divalent metals. If you were taking them in ionic form, you might space them out in dosing. I probably would not be too concerned about them in a form like Micromag or a chelated form like threonate or glycinate, as they are not in ionic form at that point.