Think diabetes is all about sugar, weight, or bad luck?
Turns out, one everyday food can actually reprogram your body to fight it.
A new study in Nutrients found that a common type of oil changes how your body handles blood sugar.
It…
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- makes insulin work better
- calms inflammation
- prompts your body to burn fat
And you already have it sitting in your kitchen.
Scientists reviewed multiple studies and discovered that olive oil doesn’t just help manage diabetes—it actually fixes the root causes at a deep, cellular level.
Here’s what it does:
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• Makes insulin work better – Oleic acid (the main fat in olive oil) helps your cells listen to insulin, so sugar gets used instead of floating around in your blood.
• Calms inflammation – Polyphenols like hydroxytyrosol shut down inflammatory signals that mess with blood sugar control.
• Protects insulin-producing cells – It shields your pancreas from damage, helping it keep pumping out insulin.
• Burns fat the right way – It breaks down harmful fat deposits that block insulin from doing its job.
• Flips the right genetic switches – It turns on the genes that help regulate blood sugar and off the ones that cause insulin resistance.
So if you want to naturally keep blood sugar in check, load up on olive oil.