JJ Virgin recommends Calicurb, a hops extract that raises GLP-1 levels for four hours, and Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat by Dr. Jeff Bland as natural alternatives to GLP-1 drugs. She argues these supplements have a built-in off-switch and pose less risk of dangerously low blood sugar.
This one I found, I was at a conference and I met this company. They're from New Zealand and this actually was tens of millions of dollars, I think like 10 years of research in New Zealand to try to find something that could raise GLP-1. This is a proprietary hops extract and actually it will raise GLP-1 for 4 hours, which is amazing. I don't know of any other thing that can do that besides taking a GLP-1. When you do any of the natural types of things, it's usually pretty short-lived, minutes. This is hours, so that's That's pretty amazing. So Calicurb, this hops extract that they've done a bunch of research on now, is a way to take something before a meal and really get that GLP-1 to stay up and extended. And one of the reasons I think it works is because it's of the bitterness of it, of the hops. There's another product similar to this called Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat that my buddy Dr. Jeff Bland has formulated. He actually is now like making this his life's work. Work, and it's very good for your immune system and your gut health, but it also can help with GLP-1 production as well. So I've been doing some of this Himalayan tartary buckwheat. I actually do it every single day for the improvement it does— immunorejuvenation. It helps with gut health. It's great fiber, but it also can help raise GLP-1. So those two, I think, in the same category here— callicurb and Himalayan tartary buckwheat. So try, you could try either of those. You can do both of those. And that's what's nice about all of these things. You could do all of these things. You're not going to have like too much lowering or too much raising or too much, you know, blood sugar dropping or anything like that. You know, with medications, they don't really have an off switch as much, but with nutrients, a lot of times they just, they know where to work and when to stop. You know, when's too much.
