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Caffeine may prevent diabetes

According to UCLA, Los Angeles reason studies have shown that caffeine can help protect against diabetes. It has been discovered that there coffeeis a connection between the protein sex hormone binding globulin [SHBG], which regulates the body sex hormones estrogen and testosterone. Coffee has shown to be the cause of the increase in levels of sex hormone binding globulin and thus affecting the development of type II diabetes.

Atuski Goto, a doctoral student in epidemiology and Dr.Simin Liu a professor of shown that coffee drinkers do the bare minimum of 4 cups of coffee a day are less likely to develop type II diabetes.
It has long been felt that sex hormone binding globulin has an important role in development of diabetes and can be used as an indicator for risk. This hormone the only regulates sexual mandal production but also Barnes to specific receptors and possibly have mutations in genes coding which may have two possible side effects, one is to increase the risk of diabetes and other to decrease. This means that SHBG can be used to assess a person’s future risk developing diabetes. It would seem that SHBG is a possible factor in reducing the risk of developing type II diabetes, and this can be influenced by the diet.
The researchers discovered that subjects who consumed more than off the other day at high levels of SHBG and were 56% less likely to develop type II diabetes. Although those who carried a protective copy of the SHBG gene benefited the most from this experiment.
Perhaps a cup of joe a day keeps the doctor away!

Source:  http://Medicalnewstoday.com/articles/213665.php

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