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Nutrition Green tea contains insulin booster

Kenny Croxdale

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Green tea contains insulin booster

The most important bioactive substance in green tea, EGCG or epigallocatechin gallate, induces muscle cells to absorb more glucose.
When they fed the cells with EGCG as well as glucose, the cells absorbed up to seventy percent more glucose.
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There are broadly speaking two ways in which muscle cells can absorb glucose
. One is via insulin and insulin mimickers, and goes via the P13K pathway. The other goes via the protein AMPK, and becomes more active as a result of physical exercise. That is also why chemical athletes inject insulin after physical activity. After training, muscle cells absorb so much glucose that none gets to the fat cells. If you inject insulin, then the muscle cells absorb glucose even quicker, so your fat deposits don’t increase. They do increase if you use insulin at other times.
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The researchers are interested to learn more about EGCG and glucose because they are looking for ways to alleviate diabetes-2 through diet and supplements. But the results are of course also interesting for athletes. They add evidence to the claims for green tea products as pre-training energizers, and might also be evidence of after training effects. Green tea stimulates fat burning during cardio sessions. If green tea also increases the uptake of glucose, it makes green tea even more interesting.
 
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