Ever heard of chromium? Know anything about it? If you answered no, you’re probably like almost everyone else reading this. Chromium is a mineral. A mineral with an enormous amount of potential for amazing health benefits. For some odd reason though, it’s coverage, in the media and in the health world, has been super-minimal, with barely any talk of it at all. Well, today we’re here to shed some light on chromium… An amazing mineral that quite simply does not get all of the coverage that it deserves. You see, chromium is not understood by most people, the way interacts with the body, how it helps different minerals vitamins run their course better, how it helps out the state of your health in general, plus a number of other things, some of which we’ll get to later.
Like we said, it’s not just about the little tiny parts of the body, it’s also very important to the health of your entire body. This is especially true now, considering the state of the S.A.D. Standard American Diet) a diet that is insanely low on any type of real nutrition/minerals/vitamins, as well as insanely high in chemicals,toxins and other nasty artificial ingredients.
So, let’s get started shall we?
What can this underrated mineral do for your body?
Normalizes Blood Sugar
Kicking off the list of benefits you get from chromium we have blood sugar. Or more the fact that chromium normalizes it. In fact, it is for this reason (the fact that it normalizes blood sugar) that chromium has gotten some of it’s highest traction in the past few years, because of several different studies done that revealed that chromium was actually capable of helping out those of whom suffer from diabetes.
Helping to manage blood levels, making the person and their blood, much more stable. You see, if you take enough chromium, your digestive system becomes more and more efficient at breaking down carbohydrates into glucose, which in turn takes a ton of stress off the already overworked pancreas. Plenty of diabetics use chromium regularly to treat their conditions and that’s why.
Builds Muscles
If you ask most people, “what mineral builds muscle?” They’ll probably say protein, not surprising when you think about it, seeing as protein definitely has the most coverage and talk about it when compared to other muscle-building minerals. But, did you know that chromium is also great at building muscles? It’s true! It makes the digestive more efficent at breaking down carbohydrates, like we said earlier, making it easier to build muscle. This is the main reason that plenty of body bodybuilders use it in their dieting regimen.
Lowers Blood Pressure
When your blood sugar levels get high, so does your blood pressure, that’s just how it works, this can even become a chronic condition if you’re not careful. High blood pressure, as we all know is extremely damaging to your heart and ends up increasing your risk of heart disease as well, not cool… Chromium lowers blood sugar, which in turn lowers your blood pressure, which lowers the amount of damage done to your heart, which then finally brings it around and lowers your risk of heart disease. Pretty cool, right?
