5. Controlled Blood Sugar Levels
Unregulated blood sugar is the culprit type 2 diabetes. Consuming too much sugar on a daily basis sets up the chain of events that eventually leads to that diagnosis, but many of us exist in a pre-diabetic state without even knowing it. Adding spirulina to your daily regimen can help tip the balance back to a safer place.
In studies of people with type 2 diabetes, 2 grams of spirulina each day not only reduced blood sugar levels, it also lowered a marker for damage caused by consistently high blood sugar, called HbA1c, by a whole percentage point. While that may not sound like much, experts agree that it is enough to reduce the risk of death from diabetic complications by 21%.