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Stretching Helps Glucose Control | Curcumin Limits Weight-Regain | Arachidonic Acid + Training = NOT Inflammatory

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About time for another installment of the SuppVersity Short News . Isn't it? Today: Stretching + Glycemia, Curcumin + Weight(-Re)Gain, ARA + Inflammation Have you been waiting for a new installment of the SuppVersity Short News ? Well, the waiting just ended. In today's installment, I will shed some light on the weight(re)gain-limiting effects of curcumin and their mechanistic underpinnings, (2) explain how post-prandial stretching may help you control your blood sugar surges, and (3) answer the question whether the (meanwhile hardly available) alleged muscle-building (pro-inflammatory) long-chain omega-6 fatty acid, arachidonic acid (ARA, yes that's the alleged evil twin brother to DHA and EPA), doesn't just improve the myogenic (=muscle promoting) gene response to exercise but will also ruin your health. Read about exercise- and nutrition-related studies in the SuppVersity Short News Alcohol, Microbes & International Chest Day Aug '15 Ex.Res. Upd.:...
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Can Stevia Help You Ward Off Type II Diabetes? A Review

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Unfortunately, it is not even clear if you need the "white stuff", i.e. pure steviosides, whole leaves of leaf-extracts to maximize the anti-diabetic effects of stevia. What is clear, though, is that there's still a lot of research to be done. "Can Stevia Help You Ward Off Type II Diabetes?" That's not just the title of today's SuppVersity  article, it is also the research question of a recent paper by Esteves A.F. dos Santos from Farmácia Progresso  (dos Santos. 2016). An interesting question with an obvious answer: if you replace  sugar in your diet with stevia, it will help. Now, you know that this would not be worth discussing in a SuppVersity  article of its own. What is  worth discussing, though, is that stevia contains "compounds and other substance obtained from stevioside hydrolyses" (dos Santos. 2016) such as isoteviol  of which studies show that they can be used as 'active' diabetes treatments - meaning: they help, eve...
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Food Matrices: Protein & Fat Ameliorate Glucose Spikes After Standardized Glucose Load | Plus: Timing Matters if You Want to Turn Regular into Resistant Starch

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This is what it's all about. Real food does not come in form of "macros". It comes in form of complex food matrices that determine its effect on one's health - including one's glycemic health. You will probably remember that I have touched on a specific aspect of the effects of and interactions between different macronutrients in what scientists often refer to as "food matrices" on the glycemic response to standardized glucose loads in previous articles like the famous "True or False?" article that dealt with the question: "Will Adding Fat to A Carby Meal Lower the Insulin Response?" ( read it ). You don't remember this or any of the other articles? Well, in that case, I probably have to tell you again  that the mere fact that the postprandial glucose are lower does not mean that a certain food or combination of certain macronutrients would increase your insulin sensitivity (adding fat to a high carbohydrate meal certainly d...
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Magnesium & Type II Diabetes - Link not as Straightforward as Some Experts & Supp. Recommendations Suggest

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If Mg is the solution, then in form of high Mg foods, not supplements. If you've ever googled "magnesium and diabetes", you will probably have read a sentence like this "magnesium (Mg) is actively involved in a number of metabolic reactions as an important co-factor with special emphasis on carbohydrate metabolism (Mooren. 2015). Unlike the latest paper by the German scientists Frank C. Mooren from the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen from which I've grabbed the previously cited statement, your Google results will yet probably have treated  this  observation as if it was conclusive evidence that the provision of extra-magnesium would solve the T2DM-crisis of the Western wordl. In his review, Mooren doesn't make the same mistake, instead he provides a brief, but in-depth overview of the regulation of intra- and extracellular Mg and the regulatory role of Mg in important metabolic pathways involved in energy metabolism and glycaemic control. Learn m...
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The Vitamins E & Glucose Control | Part X of the "There is More To Glucose Control Than Low Carb" | Plus: Alpha-, Gamma-, Delta-Vitamins E, Where Can You Find Them?

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All nuts are good tocopherol (T) sources, but α- T is predominantly found in peanuts, almonds and sunflower seeds, while γ-T is the major vitamin E in walnuts, pecans and pistachios. Over the past week I've been questioning the potency of various supplement superstars with respect to their ability to improve your, my or any one else's glucose metabolism. We've dealt with protein, peptides, fats, vitamin D, calcium, a whole host of B-vitamins and even the underrated vitamin A (go back and review all of them ). Today I am going to take a look at a "fallen star", vitamin E, once thought of as a panacea and universal protector of your cells, it has, at the latest with publication of the disappointing, if not shocking results of the SELECT trial in 2013 and the mass-media reverberations about increased prostate cancer risk, become the centerpiece (literally) of every anti-vitamin supplement rant. You can learn more about this topic at the SuppVersity Pr...
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