Chromium Picolinate 90 capsules, 200mcg

Chromium is the most essential nutrient involved in sugar metabolism and prevention of type II diabeties. When your body has low levels of chromium, your craving for sugar expands. But the more sugar you eat, the more you reduce your chromium stores. Optimal chromium levels are critical for weight management, heart disease, and glucose tolerance. Since our foods are lacking in chromium due to mineral poor soil, supplementation is the best way to increase your chromium levels.

Each capsule contains: Chromium (as picolinate) 200mcg

Suggested use: adults take one capsule daily with meals.

Other ingredients: Gelatin (capsules), (May contain one or more of the following; rice powder, magnesium stearate and silica).

• Enhances the effects of insulin in the body
• Regulates carbohydrate metabolism by enhancing insulin function for proper use of glucose in the body.
• Weight loss- it increases your total lean body mass, which in turn speeds up your metabolism.^3,8
• Heart disease- a deficiency in chromium has been associated with a higher chance of developing heart problems. It also helps raise HDL cholesterol and lower LDL cholesterol as well as triglyceride levels.³
• Helps to prevent and regulate high blood pressure³
• Helps to prevent diabetes by working with insulin to drive sugar from your blood into the tissues of your body for use or storage.^3,8
  
  

• Adult-onset diabetes
• Sugar cravings
• Abnormal cholesterol metabolism
• Increased progress of atherosclerosis
• High fat, high sugar diet
• Anxiety
• Fatigue

Very high doses of 600mcg and above of Chromium in hypoglycemics sometimes lead to food cravings. It will also decrease the need for blood sugar lowering medications.

Zinc, magnesium, taurine, vitamin E, manganese, EPA, and flaxseed oil all increase the effectiveness of Chromium Picolinate.

Recently, chromium (in the form of chromium picolinate) is being studied for its possible role in altering body composition. In animal and human studies, it has been shown to increase fat loss and lean muscle tissue gain. For this reason, and for the fact that it reduces sugar cravings by stabilizing the metabolism of sugars, chromium is valuable in the treatment and prevention of obesity.⁸

Chromium works with insulin to drive sugar from your blood into the tissues of your body for use or storage. This mineral is so important in sugar tolerance that severe deficiencies of it cause a diabetes-like illness to develop.⁸

Chromium deficiency during pregnancy may explain the diabetes that develops during pregnancy, and through its interaction with insulin may also contribute to the rapid weight gain, fluid retention, and rise in blood pressure some women experience during pregnancy and afterward.⁸

Chromium is used to help reduce atherosclerosis in people, especially in those who exhibit low chromium levels. Cultures with higher tissue levels of chromium also appear to have lower incidences of atherosclerosis and heart disease.¹⁰