JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Lower Your Blood Sugar With This!

20 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this interview, JJ Virgin explains that allulose is a rare sugar found in foods like dates that does not raise blood glucose or insulin. When taken before a meal—typically 10‑12 g—it can lower the post‑meal blood‑sugar response because it raises GLP‑1, acting like a short‑acting GLP‑1 agonist for about 4‑5 hours while providing essentially zero calories. Virgin emphasizes that beyond its use as a sugar substitute in recipes, allulose can be used therapeutically: doctors are prescribing it to help patients taper off GLP‑1 agonist weight‑loss drugs and to support weight‑loss efforts. He advocates taking it before each meal as a simple, effective strategy for blood‑sugar control and weight management.

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Well, it turns out that this allulose sweetener is— it's a rare sugar, comes from things like dates. It doesn't raise your blood sugar. It doesn't raise your insulin. In fact, if you take it before you eat a candy bar, it will lower your blood sugar response. Wow. Because it raises GLP-1. It acts like a GLP-1 agonist drug, but it has a short half-life. Like, it might work for about 4 to 5 hours. But basically you can take 10 to 12 grams of this sweetener. It won't have any calories and it's going to lower the blood sugar effect of the meal.
So allulose for me, my familiarity with it is as a sugar, basically like a substitute. If I'm going to make brownies, if I'm going to make the thing—
It's the perfect one. But what you didn't realize is that you were actually like, it's a therapeutic supplement. Like, you— like, I am now making a point of taking it. I'm trying to get it in before each meal.
Wow.
There are doctors using it to get people to be able to titrate off of GLP-1 agonist drugs, to be able to use them as weight loss drugs. But just think about anyone using a sweetener. This is the sweetener of choice. It's amazing. Like,