Grapefruit may help treat diabetes

Grapefruit may help treat diabetes
In a few researchers of the study revealed that grapefruit may help consumers new diabetes treatment. An antioxidant called naringenin, which gives a bitter taste to grapefruit. This antioxidant works similarly to the two drugs currently used to combat type 2 diabetes.



When your body is unable to produce enough of the hormone insulin to properly normalize the levels of blood sugar occurs when diabetes. The antioxidant naringenin increases the body's sensitivity to insulin. It also allows patients to maintain a healthy weight, a significant part of the treatment of diabetes.

After the meal, the blood is red with sugars that cause the liver to produce lipids or fatty acids for long-term storage. Mean weight gain that diabetics are at risk for health problems and decreases the efficiency of insulin. Naringenin causes the liver to burn fat instead of storing it, the researchers found.

Its effect is to take the action of drugs known as lipid lower fenofibrate and rosiglitazone, which are used to manage type 2 diabetes. Antioxidants in fruits that do the job as two drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes. The liver, like fatty acids in fasting, Fi instead of carbohydrates, said lead researcher Dr. Martin Yarmush Remarka.

Chemicals such as naringenin have been pursued by the pharmaceutical industry, but its growth has been plagued by security problems, said study author Yaakov Nahmias, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.