If you have Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes or Pre-diabetes, you have what’s called insulin resistance. This is where your muscle cells are surrounded by plenty of insulin, but for some reason the insulin can’t get into the cell. The cells are starved for the sugar that insulin brings into the cells.  It’s similar to when you’re hungry for cookies and the doorbell rings.  It’s a cookie salesman with the best variety of chocolate chip cookies you’ve ever seen… but your mother won’t buy any cookies!

The opposite of insulin resistance is insulin sensitivity.  This is where the cells are surrounded by plenty of insulin and even when very small amounts of insulin are nearby, the cells let it in to bring the sugar to them to be used as fuel. This situation could be considered comparable to a child, hungry for ice cream. While the child is playing in the back yard or in the basement, he hears the music of the Ice Cream Man’s truck a few blocks away. His mother says, “Get your allowance, honey! The Ice Cream Man is on his way!” The child is sensitive to the sound of the ice cream man (insulin) and his mother (the cells) allow the ice cream to be purchased.

Chinese researchers found that Resveratrol improves the body’s ability to be more insulin sensitive.  That’s a good thing.

They found that Resveratrol worked best in fat cells to do this, and made those fat cells more insulin sensitive by turning off genes that made the fat cells insulin resistant. Resveratrol also worked by affecting hormone-signaling systems that control insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity.

This is great news for diabetics. For a long time, we’ve known that Resveratrol can make a significant difference in animals with diabetes. But it doesn’t mean that diabetics can return to eating a diet of fried food, sugary desserts and high carbohydrate meals. Some things will never change…

This research, published in the journal called Biochimie in late February 2010 adds even more evidence to the list of positive benefits experienced by Resveratrol.

What would happen to the incidence of diabetes in America if every diabetic took Vindure 900? It’s something to think about.

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