1 Teaspoon Before Meals - Works Like Ozempic

0:00 Most people think that GLP-1 medications like Ompic literally burn fat and that's how they help people in losing weight. While in reality, the main mechanism through which these GLP-1 medications work is by reducing your appetite and slowing down the movement of your food through your stomach and improving the insulin sensitivity. And through these mechanisms in long-term basis, they help people in losing weight. Now, here's where things get interesting because a new research study has come up which showed that just 5 g of this particular seed powder when used before meals was able to keep people fuller longer as well as it also improved the postmeal insulin spike in these people. And then

0:46 combining this with two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar just before your meal, you further improve your insulin spike and also boost your metabolism so that you can keep feeling fuller longer and have less food cravings. Hi, I'm Dr. Anul Gupta, a former Cleveland Clinic functional medicine physician from US. I help people improve their chronic diseases by making personalized functional medicine plants. The seed powder I'm talking about is fenugreek seeds. Now before you think you already know about fenugreek seeds and you know how to use them, think again. Because this particular research study changed everything because they took overweight and obese people and then gave them exactly 5.5 g of fenugreek seed powder just before their meals. And what the

1:33 results showed was that their postmeal glucose was significantly lower than people who did not consume fenugreek seeds. And one surprising result was that these people also felt fuller longer for a long time as their satiety was also very high. Now why this mechanism is very important is that ompic or GLP-1 medications work very similarly. They help in controlling our appetite as well as slows down the movement of food throughout our GI system. So we feel fuller for a longer amount of time. So eventually people will eat lesser and lesser amount of food and then slowly week after week as they're eating less and plus their insulin sensitivity is better people are able to lose substantial amount of

2:19 weight and my goal is to mimic the similar effect of ompic by using natural ways and this is where this combination of fenugreek seed and apple cider vinegar has been very promising and useful for my clients. But you have to use them in the right way so they can give you the exact results you are expecting from them. Now recently researchers have been very much interested in fenugreek seed because there are two interesting things happening with fenugreek seed. First of all they're very high in a soluble fiber. What happens is that when you mix this fenugreek seed powder with water it creates a viscouslike substance. This is the soluble fiber in the fenugreek seed which creates this viscous substance which acts as a prebiotic and soluble fiber for your gut. So it does two

3:05 things. First of all, it increases your satiety and also slows down the movement of your food throughout your stomach. And plus, fenugreek seed also have certain antioxidant compounds which has shown to improve the insulin sensitivity of people thereby specifically reducing the postmeal glucose spike in them. Interestingly, even small amount of fenugreek seeds have shown amazing results. This particular recent study was very interesting where fenugreek seed powder was added while making breads and buns and only 10% fenugreek seed powder was added and even this small amount when these particular breads and buns were consumed. It again showed that postmeal glucose rise was much lower in these people who consumed

3:51 these breads as compared to the regular breads and plus their insulin spike was also much lower. So that's the reason fenugreek seed powder is really great. But this is where when you combine this with 2 tepoon of apple cider vinegar, you see even better results because of this particular research study where researchers gave around 10 grams which is approximately 2 teaspoon of vinegar just before eating the biggest meal of the day. And those people again saw significant improvement in their postmeal insulin spike as well as glucose spike. Plus interestingly it also affected their satiety levels. The actual ingredient which works over here is the acetic acid in the vinegar. And this is where apple cider vinegar is really great because it also supports your metabolism and also your gut health. The important thing to know over

4:38 here is that you need to use a precise dose of fenugreek seed powder and apple cider vinegar. And also the timing of when you use it matters a lot. So this is exactly how we'll use it. You take one glass of room temperature water and then add it to it 5.5 g of fenugreek seed powder. This was a precise dose that was used in that particular research study. So if you have a kitchen scale, I will measure that amount and then add it to the water. But let's say if you do not have a kitchen scale, then the closest it would come to is 1 and 1/2 teaspoon of fenugreek seed powder. And then after that you add 2 tepoons which is around 10 ml of apple cider vinegar. And then when do you consume it? You consume it just before your

5:24 biggest meal of the day. Do not do it several hours before your meals because it literally doesn't work. The research is very clear that you have to do it 15 to 20 minutes before you consume the biggest meal of the day. You can do it twice a day also if your lunches and dinners both are the biggest meals. Now there are some small number of people for which apple cider vinegar will not agree with their gut. Well, for those people I will just recommend using the plain fenugreek seed powder in a glass of water and using it before meals. Alternatively, you can use very small amount. Start with only half a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar too and see if you are able to tolerate that. Now the bigger question is that consuming this 5.5 g of fenugreek seed powder with apple cider vinegar will that give you ompic like effects? Well, if your main

6:11 problem is controlling your appetite or you have several food cravings, then this is going to be very useful for you. On the other hand, just using these two things is not going to literally burn belly fat for you or help your body in losing several pounds. For this, obviously, you need to work on what you are eating, combining that with body movement or exercising and then following all those things in a regimented manner for four to 6 weeks. Then you are going to see that weight loss effect. So now they have a complete protocol which will literally work like these GLP-1 medications to helping in losing weight. For that I have created couple of other videos. One of them is a 21day plan which walks you exactly what you need to eat and what you need to do so that your body can get into the

6:56 weight loss mode. as well as I have created another video of one cup ompic like drink which have different ingredients that supports your metabolism as well as controls your hunger hormones which can be again a great addition into the whole protocol in helping in losing weight. The link will be in the description if you want to watch those videos and start making a complete plan that is working on different aspects of your weight loss journey so that you can get better results and better success. So today I shared with you the research study which showed that these fenugreek seed powder can be a very powerful tool specifically when taken before meals and when combined with two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar so that you have better control of your hunger hormones and can also improve your insulin spikes. So

7:43 start making your weight loss plan and incorporate this as one tool that can significantly help you in losing weight. I hope you like this video. If you do, please like and subscribe to my channel so you keep on getting these kind of health related information in the future also as well as share this with others who might benefit from it. Until next time, take care. Bye-bye.