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Diabetes
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Inositol: uses, evidence, dosing and safety
Inositol does two things, and it does them better than most of the supplement aisle: it lowers the risk of gestational diabetes, and it improves hormone markers in polycystic ovary syndrome.
Aug 6, 2026
Mediterranean diet beat low-fat on 20-year heart risk
Researchers emulated a trial in 12,197 higher-risk US adults from two Harvard cohorts. Estimated 20-year cardiovascular risk was 28.2% on a Mediterranean diet against 35.9% on a low-fat one.
Aug 6, 2026
Melatonin worsened blood sugar, but only in gene carriers
A tightly controlled Diabetes Care trial gave the same 21 adults both 5 mg of melatonin and a placebo. Glucose tolerance worsened in the 10 who carry a common diabetes risk variant, and not in the 11 who do not.
Aug 6, 2026
Resveratrol: uses, evidence, dosing and safety
The original longevity molecule, and Cochrane could not find enough evidence to judge it either way in type 2 diabetes. Twenty years on, the human results are mostly small or absent.
Aug 6, 2026