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Chromium picolinate helps muscles use blood sugar

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 6th, 2006

A new study reports that daily use of chromium picolinate enhanced muscle sensitivity to insulin in obese, insulin-resistant rats. Specifically, chromium improved the ability of insulin, after attaching to muscle cells, to enhance chemical signals in the cell that promoted blood sugar uptake.

The study, published in the February 2006 Journal of Nutrition, funded in part by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and conducted by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC), part of the Louisiana State University System, is the first published study using this animal model to demonstrate chromium's action in this way.

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