Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been taking 1800mg of regular Berberine HCL, along with turmeric and cinnamon. This one claims to be a 15:1 ratio on berberine, so a single pill with 200mg of the concentrated extract is equal to 3000mg of regular Berberine. It also has and has turmeric, cinnamon, and milk thistle. I haven't done independent laboratory testing to confirm, but I will say this past week was Thanksgiving. We had two Thanksgiving dinners (both our families are from the same place) and two other family feasts while traveling. I added one of these prior to eating each time, and my blood sugar spiked to 130 instead of its normal 200 after eating anything sweet. While I didn't gorge myself on desserts or carbs, I also didn't avoid them completely. I ate sweet potato casserole (with butter, brown sugar, pineapple, and marshmallows), a small piece of pie, and some other things that were not especially diabetic friendly. I was really surprised that I stayed so low. My morning fasting level was also 90-130--once or twice it went up to 150--which really shocked me. I can't remember the last time I woke up with my blood sugar below 100. I even dropped 10 lbs over the past week while on this! Not eating much between feasts, and walking a lot more than normal likely helped, but normalizing my blood sugars seems to have helped too. My levels stay between 90 and 120. I have less pain. I have more energy. This was the only change to my supplements or meds. To all the people who complain that it's "200 mg" instead of "3000 mg", remember, they explicitly say this is a 15:1 ratio. Several times. In the listing here. On the bottle. All over the place. If you missed that, sorry, but that's on you. Again, I have zero clue if this is precisely what it claims to be in the exact ratio it says it is. I don't know that I plan to stop taking the turmeric and cinnamon (they are higher doses than this claims), but I will plan to replace my regular Berberine with this twice a day--maybe three depending on my sugars. At this point, I am cautiously optimistic that this sucker works. I HOPE to be down another 10 lbs before the end of the year. I feel like if I can drop 10 after that, I might actually be able to say I HAD diabetes. I am DESPARATE to avoid Metformin and the side effects it can cause. I have not noticed any side effects to this supplement so far...again, aside from losing weight, less pain, and more energy. I wish all my meds and supplements had such side effects ;) I'll update this if it stops working, it destroys my liver, I grow a superfluous third nipple, or something else negative... FWIW, I haven't received ANY free gifts, kick backs, or other perquisites from this company or its affiliates. I am just really excited at how much it SEEMS to have helped me this past week.