Glycemic Control / Insulin Sensitivity
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Summary of Glycemic Control / Insulin Sensitivity
Scientific Information on Glycemic Control / Insulin Sensitivity
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Human Effect Matrix
The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect glycemic control / insulin sensitivity.
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Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials |
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Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled |
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Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies |
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Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence
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The amount of high quality evidence. The more
evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Magnitude of effect
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The direction and size of the supplement's impact on
each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.
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Consistency of research results
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Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or
VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.
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- | Moderate See all 12 studies |
An effect is possible in type 2 diabetics but studies are not generally supportive.
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High See all 10 studies |
Calculations based on glucose and insulin such as HOMA and QUICKI suggest an improvement in insulin sensitivity on ketogenic diets, even independently of weight loss. One study used a euglycemia hyperinsulinemia clamp and found an improvement in insulin sensitivity, but it was confounded by weight loss.
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- | - See all 4 studies |
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