{"id":4866,"date":"2012-03-11T06:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T10:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2012-03-11T06:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T10:33:26","slug":"green-tea-extract-boosts-pancreatic-insulin-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2012\/03\/11\/green-tea-extract-boosts-pancreatic-insulin-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Tea Extract Boosts Pancreatic Insulin Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A new study in mice has discovered that a compound found in green tea known as EGCG promotes the release of insulin from the pancreas. This study has important implications for diabetics as decreased insulin production is the hallmark of late-stage type 2 diabetes. <\/p>\n

In this study from this week\u2019s Nutrition & Metabolism tested the effect of EGCG extract on rats with borderline diabetes. Rats receiving the extract had significantly lower risk of developing diabetes compared to rats that didn\u2019t receive one. <\/p>\n

The study researchers note that EGCG protects the pancreas\u2019s insulin-producing cells, known as the Islets of Langerhans, from inflammation.<\/p>\n

Check out our natural step-by-step diabetes plan proven by science…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new study in mice has discovered that a compound found in green tea known as EGCG promotes the release of insulin from the pancreas. This study has important implications for diabetics as decreased insulin production is the hallmark of late-stage type 2 diabetes. In this study from this week\u2019s Nutrition & Metabolism tested the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-diabetes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gree-tea-diabetes.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}