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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Researchers have discovered an anti-diabetes substance in an unusual place -- the root of a licorice plant.
But it's not as surprising as you might think. Licorice root, or glycyrrhiza, has been used in traditional healing for hundreds of years and contains properties known to alleviate digestive disorders.
But it also contains amorfrutins, a diabetic substance also found in the fruit of the Amorpha fruticosa bush that can treat the symptoms of type-2 diabetes, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin have discovered.
It works by targeting onto a receptor in the nucleus called PPARy, which helps metabolize fat and glucose.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/17/licorice-holds-key-diabetes-treatment-study
But it's not as surprising as you might think. Licorice root, or glycyrrhiza, has been used in traditional healing for hundreds of years and contains properties known to alleviate digestive disorders.
But it also contains amorfrutins, a diabetic substance also found in the fruit of the Amorpha fruticosa bush that can treat the symptoms of type-2 diabetes, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin have discovered.
It works by targeting onto a receptor in the nucleus called PPARy, which helps metabolize fat and glucose.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/17/licorice-holds-key-diabetes-treatment-study