What’s good for baby camels may be great for diabetic humans.
Nomads have always considered camel’s milk a medicine, but only recently has science confirmed it. We’re in agreement – see our 6 green reasons for drinking camel milk.
While folks in Dubai enjoy coffee- and chocolate-flavored camel milk drinks, researchers view the thin, bland milk in a more serious light. Improved blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetics drinking camel milk was proved by Dr. Rajendra Agrawal in the Diabetes Care & Research Centre in Bikaner, India. This caught the attention of researchers at Cairo University, Egypt, and King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
At Cairo University, a 4-month trial was conducted involving 54 participants receiving insulin. Of those, 27 drank 500 ml. of camel milk every day. Test results showed that those drinking camel milk had significantly reduced blood sugar and higher C-peptide levels, which indicate improved insulin function. Following this, Prof. Agrawal conducted a 2-year study which concluded with proof that three participants no longer needed insulin.
Agrawal explains that camel milk passes into the bloodstream quickly because it has low coagulum (which create curds in the stomach). With no digestive solids to impede quick assimilation, the high-insulin milk enters the bloodstream immediately, benefiting those whose own insulin secretions are inadequate. He also claims that camel milk benefits cell function of the pancreas, another important benefit to diabetics.
The National Nutrition Institute in Cairo’s analysis of camel milk showed high levels of iron, zinc and copper in camel milk, but especially high levels of Vitamin C.
Will these discoveries make an impact on Western medicine? It may, albeit slowly. While vast camel herds roam the deserts of Sudan and Somalia, there are relatively few in the First World. And camels give comparatively little milk: 13 pints to a cow’s 50.
Still, there’s hope for diabetics in the USA: the American Camel Coalition, a group of camel dairies, has recently obtained permission to sell camel milk from the FDA. And in Britain, powdered camel milk should be available soon, pending approval from the European Commission . Vitamol Camel Dairy and Products has been set up by Germans Malik Dakdaki and Martin Wilke and Moroccan Abdelkader Saoudi. The three partners plan to invest US$40m in the project.
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Author: Miriam Kresh
Miriam Kresh is an American ex-pat living in Israel. Her love of Middle Eastern food evolved from close friendships with enthusiastic Moroccan, Tunisian and Turkish home cooks. She owns too many cookbooks and is always planning the next meal. Miriam can be reached at miriam (at) greenprophet (dot) com.
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Pls, you have to create a means for people in the African part of the world, esp Nigeria, to have access to this camel’s milk.
My sugar is very high, I also have liver psoriasis . And I read that camel milk is good to help me treat this problems. I would appreciate if some one can tell me how I can get Carmel’s milk. ASAP……
It depends on where you live. You can always buy a camel…. 🙂
I tried to get some Camel milk in the north of Tunisia, but I just couldn’t get any.
Time to buy a camel?
Laurie, I would look for Vitamol and Camel-licious products. But if they contain sugar, they won’t help you, of course.
I keep kosher myself, so don’t expect to taste camel milk, but if the Camel-licious people are successfully flavoring and marketing it, you can flavor it too. It’s said to be quite unlike other mammal milks – thin, bland and a little salty. Maybe you’d like it just as it is. Another claim for it is that milk-intolerant people do tolerate it.
Miriam
Amazing story – especially as I just got diagnosed with high blood sugar.
Got any tips on where to source the stuff in these parts?
And maybe you can concoct some recipes to make the stuff tasty for someone who hates the taste of all milk?
Laurie