Possible Interaction: Dietary Fiber and Insulin

“We also found that insulin stimulates collagen deposition and maturation with the fibres organized more like a basket weave (normal skin) than aligned and cross-linked (scar tissue).”

“Other types of fibre , the soluble forms, can act to decrease uptake of glucose and thus suppress insulin exposure, an important factor for colon cancer.”

“ Insulin sensitivity showed a positive relationship with percentage of type I fibres (rtrue=0.33, r=0.21; P < 0.0001) and capillary density (rtrue=0.43, r=0.21; P < 0.”

“However, the important question that remains to be answered is how, in insulin-resistant individuals, does impaired insulin action result in a decreased delivery of glucose, insulin and other metabolites to muscle fibres?”

“Our results show that the response of fibre cells to insulin or IGF-I differs.”

“ Insulin treatment partially corrected the reduction in fibre and axonal area but teased fibre preparations showed an excess of axonal degeneration as compared with controls, untreated diabetics and ponalrestat-treated diabetics.”

“External application of insulin to single crab muscle fibres in vitro can cause a striking rise in the efflux of sodium5.”

“ Insulin caused net gain of muscle fiber K+, though not necessarily an increase in K+ concentration in fiber water.”

“However, the combined use of insoluble fibre and enzymes (HF-e) reduced (p = .0344) the total number of hairballs excreted.”