vinegar

How I got going on apple cider vinegar is that I was diagnosed diabetic a couple of years ago and in browsing around I found that ACV has lowered blood sugar when taken before meals.  That was in a study at the University of Arizona, a small but significant one.  So, I kept it on hand, tried it and didn't seem to work for me.  Then a little over a year ago I went to a high school reunion luncheon and ate way too many carbohydrates including bread, cheese cake, and other deserts.  When I got home my chest was pounding with what I now know was AFIB (it hadn't yet been diagnosed), and I immediately checked my blood sugar and found it to be about 220.  My normal BS after a meal is around 95 - 110.  My chest was really uncomfortable from the pounding and I thought that it was acting up because of my high BS.  So I started chugging ACV.  Started with almost a 2 ounce shot glass full and nothing seemed to happen.  Then another almost full shot glass, and this time the heart began to come under control so I gave it another shot.  Within a half hour of my first BS test, I tested again and it was 85 and my heart felt completely normal.

I still generally take ACV with a meal and when I've eaten something out of bounds, I do it double.  (I'm on the Virginia Mason Diabetes diet which is no more than 15 carbohydrates per meal, for a total of no more than 45 per day.  I found that if I violated that, my AFIB would often kick in, particularly with bread and potatoes.)

Three months after the above HS reunion incident, I was diagnosed with AFIB on an EKG.  Rather amazing how those things seem to go together, a significant problem, and not too long afterward either a solution or a diagnosis.  It's happened to me several times in my 76 years.