Its active ingredient, colosolic acid, acts as a glucose transporter, regulating and lowering blood sugar with no side effects. Glucosol helps normalize insulin levels. High blood insulin level is a normal aging problem related to decreased HGH secretion and Syndrome X. Traditional uses of Banaba include normalizing high blood sugar for Type II Diabetics, as a fat-loss diet aid, and for healing mouth ulcers.
Recent studies suggest that blood sugar levels can be lowered twice as much by tripling the dosage.