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Betsy Riedel wrote:
According to Dr. Jack Newman, Fenugreek does NOT lower blood sugar. My=20=
colleague and I thought the same thing and apparently it does not,=20
according to him. This information is listed on his website.
Just wanted to add that.
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Betsy
My information came from Tom Hale's text: Medications and Mother's Milk
(11th edition, 2004, pp. 319-321).  In the entry on fenugreek he twice
mentioned a hypoglycaemic effect, at least in higher doses.
Cheers
Virginia

Virginia Thorley, OAM, DipEd, MA, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant since 1985,.
Cultural Historian working in the History of Medicine.
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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