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Cardiovascular, Healthy Aging, Insulin & Diabetes, Weight Loss & Detox Cardiovascular, Healthy Aging, Insulin & Diabetes, Weight Loss & Detox

Magnesium supplementation improves insulin resistance

Insulin resistance is benefited by magnesium supplementation according to mounting evidence. A study published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism documents significant improvements in insulin resistance by supplementation even when the subjects' magnesium levels appeared normal.

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Oncology, Women's Health, Insulin & Diabetes Oncology, Women's Health, Insulin & Diabetes

Insulin resistance is a risk factor for breast cancer even with normal fasting glucose and insulin

Well before fasting glucose and insulin rise out of the normal range, background surges of insulin associated with decreased insulin receptor sensitivity do harm throughout the body and, as confirmed by a study just published in the Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research shows, promote breast cancer.

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Weight Loss, Insulin & Diabetes Weight Loss, Insulin & Diabetes

Weight loss and insulin resistance improved by branched-chain amino acids

Weight loss and improvement in insulin resistance naturally go hand in hand, and a study just published in the journal Diabetologia confirms that consumption of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) helps both. Isoleucine, leucine and valine are already known to promote muscle growth and repair, influence brain signaling for appetite and metabolic rate, help with burn recovery, and be remedial for autism when it includes genetic mutations in BCAA pathways.

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