lipids
3 stories tagged "lipids"
Nutrition & Food
The Fat Hiding in Black and Green Rice Is a Cousin of the Body's Own Blood-Sugar Molecules
Hokkaido chemists screened 56 rice varieties and found the pigmented ones carry a lipid cousin of the body's own insulin-sensitizing fats. This study did not test it in people.
Brain & AgingThe Fat Molecule That Rides From Your Waistline to Your Brain, and Feeds Alzheimer's Once It Gets There
In obese mice, a membrane fat called phosphatidylethanolamine packed into tiny vesicles, rode to the brain, and sabotaged the immune cells that clear amyloid. An investigational drug reversed it, in mice.
Autoimmune & InflammationFish oil rewired the T-cells in non-obese diabetic rats, and the glucose moved with them
A Brazilian team gave EPA-heavy fish oil to a non-obese diabetic rat strain for eight weeks. Glucose, insulin sensitivity, and lipids all moved in the friendlier direction. The T-cell balance shifted alongside them, and that is the part of the paper worth chewing on.