How bile acids could fight diabetes

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 04:00 in Health & Medicine

A receptor activated by bile acids can reduce fat-tissue inflammation and insulin resistance in obesity-linked diabetes, research has shown. Diabetes develops when the body has problems with insulin, a hormone that regulates sugar levels in the blood. This results either because the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin or when the body cannot use insulin efficiently.

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