date:Apr 27, 2012
sulin resistance, although the mechanism was unknown, said Thompson.
The desire to get to the bottom of it drove Thompson and Ahrens to rent time on supercomputers from UCLA to dissect the components of more than 700 fruits in order to identify the phytochemicals that could potentially be causing these metabolic effects, he said.
In 2006, they identified three phytochemicals that combined in certain ratios seemed to be promising. Because this combination emulated insulin at several key enzymatic