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About Insulin Resistance
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Insulin
Resistance - Risk of Early Heart Disease
- Reuters Aug 9, 2001 |
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Physicians and nurses use and recommend dietary supplements: report of a survey.
- Annette Dickinson, Nicolas Boyon, Andrew Shao. Nutrition Journal 2009, 8:29, doi:10.1186/1475-2891-8-29 |
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Alternative
Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes
- Lucy Dey MD, Chun-Su Yuan MD PHD |
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The
role of insulin, insulin growth factor, and insulin-degrading
enzyme in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease.
-Messier C, Teutenberg K.School of Psychology, University
of Ottawa, Neural Plast. 2005;12(4):311-28 |
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Risk
Factors and Life Expectancy Project, University of Buffalo,
results presented at the annual meeting of the Society
for Epidemiological Research.
-Paolo Muti MD, Jain Liu, Maurizio Trevisan MD, Alessandro
Menotti, University of Buffalo |
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Relationship
between Insulin Resistance, weight loss and coronary heart
disease risk in healthy, obese women
-McLaughlin T, Abbasi F, Kim HS, Lamendola C, Schaaf P, Reaven
G. Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of
Medicine Stanford, CA, USA |
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F
as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America
- Trust for America's Health, 2005. |
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Insulite Pre-SensitX :
Gymnema Sylvestre:
Blood Sugar Control:
- Antidiabetic effect of a leaf extract from Gymnema sylvestre
in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients.
- Enzyme changes and glucose utilization in diabetic rabbits:
the effect of Gymnema sylvestre, R.Br.
- Gymnema sylvestre
- Possible mechanism of antihyperglycemic effect of Gymnema sylvestre
leaf extract, part I.
- Medicinal plants of India with anti-diabetic potential.
- A comparative evaluation of some blood sugar lowering agents
of plant origin.
Hypoglycemic Actions:
- Hypoglycaemic activity of an indigenous drug (Gymnema sylvestre,
'Gurmar') in normal and diabetic persons.
- Antidiabetic effect of a leaf extract from Gymnema sylvestre
in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients.
- Antihyperglycemic effects of gymnemic acid IV, a compound derived
from Gymnema sylvestre leaves in streptozotocin-diabetic mice.
Enhances Insulin Action:
- Antidiabetic effect of a leaf extract from Gymnema sylvestre
in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients.
- Antihyperglycemic effects of gymnemic acid IV, a compound derived
from Gymnema sylvestre leaves in streptozotocin-diabetic mice.
Anti-Diabetic Action:
- Enzyme changes and glucose utilization in diabetic rabbits:
the effect of Gymnema sylvestre, R.Br.
- Antidiabetic effect of a leaf extract from Gymnema sylvestre
in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients.
Decreases HbA1c:
- Antidiabetic effect of a leaf extract from Gymnema sylvestre
in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients.
Beta-Cell regeneration/repair:
- Antidiabetic effect of a leaf extract from Gymnema sylvestre
in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients.
Bitter Melon (Momardica Charantia):
Blood sugar lowering:
- Effect of Momordica charantia on lipid profile and oral glucose
tolerance in diabetic rats.
- Hypoglycaemic effect of Momordica charantia extracts.
- Effect of Momordica charantia on lipid profile and oral glucose
tolerance In diabetic rats.
- Hypotriglyceridemic and hypocholesterolemic effects of anti-diabetic
Momordica charantia (karela) fruit extract in streptozotocin-induced
diabetic rats.
- Combined treatment of sodium orthovanadate and Momordica charantia
fruit extract prevents alterations in lipid profile and lipogenic
enzymes in alloxan diabetic rats.
- What do herbalists suggest to diabetic patients in order to
improve glycemic control? Evaluation of scientific evidence and
potential risks.
- Antidiabetic herbal drugs officially approved in China.
- Antihyperglycemic effects of three extracts from Momordica
charantia.
- Antihyperglycemic activity of Momordica cymbalaria in alloxan
diabetic rats.
Anti-Diabetic:
- Antidiabetic herbal drugs officially approved in China.
- Antihyperglycemic activity of Momordica cymbalaria in alloxan
diabetic rats.
- Evaluation of antidiabetic effect of Momordica cymbalaria fruit
in alloxan-diabetic rats.
- Antidiabetic and hypolipidemic effects of Momordica cymbalaria
Hook. fruit powder in alloxan-diabetic rats.
Improved Glucose Tolerance:
- Effect of Momordica charantia on lipid profile and oral glucose
tolerance in diabetic rats.
- Hypoglycaemic effect of Momordica charantia extracts.
Lipid Lowering Actions:
- Antidiabetic and hypolipidemic effects of Momordica cymbalaria
Hook. fruit powder in alloxan-diabetic rats.
- Evaluation of antidiabetic effect of Momordica cymbalaria fruit
in alloxan-diabetic rats.
- Combined treatment of sodium orthovanadate and Momordica charantia
fruit extract prevents alterations in lipid profile and lipogenic
enzymes in alloxan diabetic rats.
- Hypotriglyceridemic and hypocholesterolemic effects of anti-diabetic
Momordica charantia (karela) fruit extract in streptozotocin-induced
diabetic rats.
- Effect of Momordica charantia on lipid profile and oral glucose
tolerance in diabetic rats.
Decreased Post Prandial Glucose:
- Antidiabetic and hypolipidemic effects of Momordica cymbalaria
Hook. fruit powder in alloxan-diabetic rats.
Decreased Fat Tissue Accumulation:
- Reduced adiposity in bitter melon (Momordica charantia) fed
rats is associated with lower tissue triglyceride and higher
plasma catecholamines.
Berberis Aquifolium (Oregon Grape Root):
Blood Glucose Lowering:
- Clinical study on jiang tang san in treating non-insulin dependent
diabetes mellitus patients
- Therapeutic effects of berberine in impaired glucose tolerance
rats and its influence on insulin secretion.
- Insulin sensitizing and insulinotropic action of berberine
from Cortidis rhizoma.
- Effects of berberine on glucose metabolism in vitro.
Raises Insulin Sensitivity:
- Experimental study on berberin raised insulin sensitivity in
insulin resistance rat models
- Insulin sensitizing and insulinotropic action of berberine
from Cortidis rhizoma.
Stimulates Insulin Secretion:
- Therapeutic effects of berberine in impaired glucose tolerance
rats and its influence on insulin secretion.
Compared with Metformin in glucose lowering
capability:
- Effects of berberine on glucose metabolism in vitro.
General Information about herbs for controlling
pre-diabetes:
- Nutraceutical resources for diabetes prevention--an update.
- What do herbalists suggest to diabetic patients in order to
improve glycemic control? Evaluation of scientific evidence and
potential risks.
About Vanadium
- Effect of vanadium on insulin sensitivity and appetite.
- Effect of vanadium(IV) compounds in the treatment of diabetes:
in vivo and in vitro studies with vanadyl sulfate and bis(maltolato)oxovandium(IV).
- Vanadyl sulfate improves hepatic and muscle insulin sensitivity
in type 2 diabetes.
- Effect of long-term treatment with vanadate in drinking water
on KK mice with genetic non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
- Metabolic effects of vanadyl sulfate in humans with non-insulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus: in vivo and in vitro studies.
- Vanadium and diabetes.
About Chromium
- Overproduction of insulin in the chromium-deficient rat.
- Chromium in the prevention and control of diabetes.
- Chromium as an essential nutrient for humans.
About Cinnamon
- Cinnamon improves glucose and lipids
of people with type 2 diabetes.
About Magnesium
- Magnesium in diabetes mellitus.
- Low dietary magnesium is associated with Insulin Resistance
in a sample of young, nondiabetic Black Americans.
- Effects of insulin on plasma magnesium in noninsulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus: evidence for Insulin Resistance.
About Alpha Lipoic Acid
- Lipoic acid acutely induces hypoglycemia in fasting nondiabetic
and diabetic rats.
- Engagement of the insulin-sensitive pathway in the stimulation
of glucose transport by alpha-lipoic acid in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.
- Alpha-lipoic acid in the treatment of diabetic polyneuropathy
in Germany: current evidence from clinical trials.
- Alpha-lipoic acid: effect on glucose uptake, sorbitol pathway,
and energy metabolism in experimental diabetic neuropathy.
- Alpha-lipoic acid: a multifunctional antioxidant that improves
insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Omega-3 and Lipid Profiles
- Eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid from fish oils:
differential associations with lipid responses.
- Docosahexaenoic and eicosapentaenoic acids in plasma phospholipids
are divergently associated with high density lipoprotein in humans.
- Highly purified eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid
in humans have similar triacylglycerol-lowering effects but divergent
effects on serum fatty acids.
- Eicosapentaenoic acid is primarily responsible for hypotriglyceridemic
effect of fish oil in humans.
- Long-term effects of fish oil on insulin resistance and plasma
lipoproteins in NIDDM patients with hypertriglyceridemia.
- Increased n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids do not attenuate
the effects of long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on
insulin sensitivity or triacylglycerol reduction in Indian Asians.
Omega-3 and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
- The effect of omega-3 fatty acids on risk factors for cardiovascular
diseases.
- Fish-oil concentrate: effects on variables related to cardiovascular
disease.
- Farmed and wild fish in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases:
assessing possible differences in lipid nutritional values.
- The Omega-3 Index: a new risk factor for death from coronary
heart disease?
- Dietary fat quality: a nutritional epidemiologist's view.
- Docosahexaenoic acid affects insulin deficiency- and insulin
resistance-induced alterations in cardiac mitochondria.
- Fatty acids, triglycerides and syndromes of insulin resistance.
- Fish oil capsules lower in contaminants: study
Omega-3 and Hypertension
- Effect of docosahexaenoic acid on smooth muscle cell functions.
- Effect of docosahexaenoic acid on intracellular calcium dynamics
in vascular smooth muscle cells from normotensive and genetically
hypertensive rats.
- Effects of docosahexaenoic acid on vascular pathology and reactivity
in hypertension.
- Vasorelaxant properties of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids
in aortas from spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rats.
- Mechanisms of vasorelaxation induced by eicosapentaenoic acid
(20:5n-3) in WKY rat aorta.
- Docosahexaenoic acid--induced vasorelaxation in hypertensive
rats: mechanisms of action.
- Calcium-mediated mechanisms of eicosapentaenoic acid-induced
relaxation in hypertensive rat aorta.
- Eicosapentaenoic acid inhibits Ca2+ mobilization and PKC activity
in vascular smooth muscle cells.
- Effects
 of eicosapentaenoic acid on cardiac SR Ca(2+)-release and ryanodine
receptor function.
- Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, endothelial lipase
and atherosclerosis.
Omega-3 and Insulin Resistance
- N-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids: a nutritional tool
to prevent insulin resistance associated to type 2 diabetes and
obesity?
- Skeletal muscle membrane lipids and insulin resistance.
- Fatty acids, triglycerides and syndromes of insulin resistance.
- Adverse effect of obesity on red cell membrane arachidonic
and docosahexaenoic acids in gestational diabetes.
- Omega-3 PUFA of marine origin limit diet-induced obesity in
mice by reducing cellularity of adipose tissue.
- In the 19th century, women attacking medicine
- N-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in type 2 diabetes:
a review.
- Influence of co-administration of oral insulin and docosahexaenoic
acid in mice.
- N-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids: a nutritional tool
to prevent insulin resistance associated to type 2 diabetes and
obesity?
- Assessment of the influence of fatty acids on indices of insulin
sensitivity and myocellular lipid content by use of magnetic
resonance spectroscopy in cats.
Omega-3 and the Reduction in Inflammatory
Markers
Associated with CVD
- C-reactive protein is independently associated with fasting
insulin in nondiabetic women.
- Insulin resistance, inflammation, and serum fatty acid composition.
- Habitual dietary intake of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids in relation
to inflammatory markers among US men and women.
- Major dietary patterns are related to plasma concentrations
of markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction.
- Consumption of (n-3) fatty acids is related to plasma biomarkers
of inflammation and endothelial activation in women.
- Background diet influences the anti-inflammatory effect of
alpha-linolenic acid in dyslipidaemic subjects.
- Diet composition and insulin action in animal models.
- Dietary alpha-linolenic acid reduces inflammatory and lipid
cardiovascular risk factors in hypercholesterolemic men and women.
- Dietary fatty acids affect plasma markers of inflammation in
healthy men fed controlled diets: a randomized crossover study.
Neurological Impact of Omega-3's
- Omega-3 fatty acids in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
- Essential fatty acids, DHA and human brain.
- Health benefits of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
- Brain development and assessing the supply of polyunsaturated
fatty acid.
- Roles of unsaturated fatty acids (especially omega-3 fatty
acids) in the brain at various ages and during ageing.
- Essential fatty acids and the brain.
- Lipids, depression and suicide
- Omega-3 fatty acids and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Food Addiction
- New Food-Addiction Link Found
Diabetes
- Hypothesis: the 'metabolic memory', the new challenge of diabetes
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