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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Using an antioxidant to reverse inflammation in the brain caused by a high-fat diet greatly improves symptoms related to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.
Eating a high fat diet is associated to inflammation in the brain, which is considered a driving factor in the development of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, which his by far the most common form of the disease.
New Zealand researchers decided to investigate whether directly stopping the inflammatory process in the hypothalamus (the brain’s control center) could help lower blood sugar levels and reduce insulin resistance, the condition that leads to diabetes.
To find out they used two groups of obese mice, one that had become fat due to a deficiency in the leptin (the satiety hormone) and the other because of a high-fat diet.
http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/diabetes-brain-inflammation-butein/2015/01/30/id/621794/
Eating a high fat diet is associated to inflammation in the brain, which is considered a driving factor in the development of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, which his by far the most common form of the disease.
New Zealand researchers decided to investigate whether directly stopping the inflammatory process in the hypothalamus (the brain’s control center) could help lower blood sugar levels and reduce insulin resistance, the condition that leads to diabetes.
To find out they used two groups of obese mice, one that had become fat due to a deficiency in the leptin (the satiety hormone) and the other because of a high-fat diet.
http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/diabetes-brain-inflammation-butein/2015/01/30/id/621794/