INS and diabetes mellitus: This assertion comes after a 9‐month study, involving a pre‐diabetic population, which demonstrated that curcumin treatment could not only lower haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA‐IR) levels (a measure of insulin sensitivity), but also decelerate the deterioration of pre‐diabetes to type 2 diabetes 103.