Amino Acid Arginine Could Help Beat Diabetes

To test the effect of the amino acid arginine, researchers subjected lean and obese animal models to a so-called glucose tolerance test, which measures the body's ability to remove glucose from the blood over time.

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Clemmensen said that the team have demonstrated that both lean and fat laboratory mice benefit considerably from arginine supplements.

He said that they improved glucose metabolism by as much as 40 percent in both groups and can also see that arginine increases the body's production of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), an intestinal hormone which plays an important role in regulating appetite and glucose metabolism.

The findings have been published in the scientific journal Endocrinology.

Source: ANI