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This is how you use D-pinitol
D-Pinitol strengthens the effect of insulin, we wrote a few days ago. The anti-diabetic effect of supplements with D-pinitol is optimal if you take them an hour before a meal.
Study
The authors of the study on which we base this post are affiliated with Inje University in South Korea. In 2006, they published a trial in the Journal of Medicinal Food in which 15 adults with type 2 diabetes participated.
The test subjects ate 64 grams of rice containing 50 grams of carbohydrates on different occasions. For three hours, two hours, one hour and just before that meal, the subjects were given a supplement with D-pinitol. The researchers then determined on the basis of the concentration of glucose in the blood of the test subjects which method of administration provided the optimal anti-diabetic effect of D-pinitol.
Results
You can see in the table below that taking it immediately before the meal [0 minutes] had little effect. The effect was optimal if the subjects took a dose one hour before a meal. A dose of 600 milligrams had hardly any effect, but 1200 milligrams did.
During the 4 hours that the researchers monitored the subjects' blood, they found 31 percent less glucose if the subjects had taken 1,200 milligrams of D-pinitol an hour before a meal.
Ergogenic effect?
In the doping scene, insulin is considered a particularly powerful anabolic agent. That is why we wonder whether inositol-like compounds could act as a kind of natural version of insulin. We will delve deeper into this.
More coming soon.
Sponsor
The research was paid for by the South Korean government. The researchers used a product from Amicogen, a manufacturer of D-pinitol, but Amicogen was not the sponsor of this study.
Source:
J Med Food. 2006 Summer;9(2):182-6.
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