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unusual facts about insulin resistance



Cinnamtannin B1

Cinnamon could have some pharmacological effects in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance.

South Beach Diet

To explain this failure, he turned to the scientific work with insulin resistance which led David J. Jenkins to develop the glycemic index in the early 1980s.


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Ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1

Mutations in this gene have been associated with Idiopathic infantile arterial calcification, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine (OPLL), and insulin resistance.

Joslin Diabetes Center

1996: A molecular pathway (called NF-κB) is identified in fat and the liver that is activated by obesity (and a fatty diet) and causes the insulin resistance that can lead to type 2 diabetes (Steven E. Shoelson, M.D., Ph.D.).