Vitamin A (Retinol) & Glucose Management | Part VIII of the "There is More To Glucose Control Than Low Carb"- Series. Plus: Retinol's Effects on Pancreas, Liver, Muscle and Fat
Vitamin A is not exactly known for being an anti-diabetes vitamin. If anything people will associate it with skin health... and SuppVersity Readers probably with anti-cellulite treatments | learn more In the previous installments of this series I have addressed many of the "usual suspects" everyone associates with non-carbohydrate dependent improvements in blood glucose management. In today's installment of this series I will now take a look at an important vitamin of which only few would expect that it is in any way involved in glucose management: Vitamin A - real, pre-formed retinoic acid, not beta-carotene. In view of the misleading news about the "involvement" of retinol binding proteins in the etiology of the diabesity epidemic and the bullocks about the negative effects of vitamin A on vitamin D, the vast majority of health junkies all over the web will probably associate high vitamin A intakes with insulin resistance, not -sensitivity. You can l...