CLA and Diabetes: Maintenance of Blood Glucose and Insulin Levels

For those who require maintenance of blood glucose insulin levels, one of the most important health benefits of CLA could possibly be its ability to affect and treat some types of diabetes.

According to Dr. Martha Belury at Purdue University and Dr. John Vandel Heuvel at Penn State University, CLA helps in the maintenance of blood glucose levels in non insulin-dependent diabetes.

In earlier experiments by Houseknecht, et. al., it was observed that CLA and troglitazone reversed the symptoms of diabetes in a specific diabetic animal model.

Effects included decreased triglycerides, insulin and leptin, and improved glucose utilization. Belury and Vanden Heuvel conclude that CLA may represent an important agent for the treatment of Type II diabetes, best measured by the maintenance of blood glucose levels.

Because CLA isomers share many of the attributes of the clinical thiazolidinedione drug, troglitazone, without exhibiting as many side effects, CLA may represent a new insulin-sensitizing agent for treatment of Type II diabetes.

Additional clinical studies are scheduled at many universities worldwide in order to further explore the possibilities of using CLA for the maintenance of blood glucose levels.

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