{"id":14507,"date":"2019-11-11T21:10:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14507"},"modified":"2019-11-11T21:10:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:10:43","slug":"research-a-compound-in-avocados-may-help-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/diabetes\/research-a-compound-in-avocados-may-help-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: A Compound in Avocados May Help Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s new evidence that a compound in avocados may help people with diabetes due to a unique fat molecule that reduces insulin resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How avocados help insulin resistance<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada studied mice to see if AvoB, the fat molecule that\u2019s unique to avocado, could help with insulin resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For 8 weeks, the team fed mice a high-fat diet to make them obese and promote insulin resistance. At the end of the 8 weeks, they fed half the mice the same diet but with AvoB added. This continued for 5 weeks. The results were impressive. After 13 weeks:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The mice that ate the diet with AvoB added gained weight at a slower pace than the group without it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The mice that at the diet with AvoB had increased insulin sensitivity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why did the AvoB help? It appears that the AvoB assisted in the complete oxidation of fats in the pancreas and skeletal muscle. This, in turn, lead to improved glucose tolerance and the mice\u2019s ability to use it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Studying AvoB in humans<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was another test done on humans, which looked at the effects of AvoB on an average Western diet for 2 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study participants took either 50 mg or 200 mg of AvoB and there were no issues. Although the volunteers did lose a little weight, it wasn\u2019t considered statistically significant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, just eating avocados doesn\u2019t appear to be enough to see benefits. In order to get enough AvoB, you\u2019d have to take it in a powder or pill, which may be hitting the Canadian market soon as Health Canada has already cleared the products for human consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe advocate healthy eating and exercise as solutions to the problem, but that\u2019s difficult for some people,\u201d says the paper\u2019s lead author, Nawaz Ahmed. \u201cWe\u2019ve known this for decades, and obesity and diabetes are still a significant health problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s new evidence that a compound in avocados may help people with diabetes due to a unique fat molecule that reduces insulin resistance. How avocados help insulin resistance Researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada studied mice to see if AvoB, the fat molecule that\u2019s unique to avocado, could help with insulin resistance. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753],"tags":[1109,714],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-avacados","tag-diabetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}