“Insulin is essential for life, but too much of it can also be deadly,” said Dr. Michael Karin, senior author of the study ...

Jan Gojda, Radka Straková, Andrea Plíhalová, Petr Tuma, Jana Potocková, Jan Polák, Michal Andel, Increased Incretin But Not Insulin Response after Oral versus Intravenous Branched Chain Amino Acids, ...

Further analysis suggested this is because insulin is necessary for preventing the breakdown of those amino acids. The team then fed 10 non-diabetic mice a diet without serine or glycine for a ...