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Coffee Beans and Diabetes

Coffee bean extracts alleviate inflammation, insulin resistance in mouse cells When coffee beans are processed and roasted the husk and silverskin of the bean are removed and unused, and often are left behind in fields by coffee producers. There they are sitting in the fields, unused and untested. An improved remedy for diabetes? “A recent study, published in  Food and Chemical Toxicology , shows that when fat  cells  of mice were treated with water-based extracts from coffee beans skins, two  phenolic compounds —protocatechuic acid and gallic acid—in particular reduced fat-induced inflammation in the cells and improved glucose absorption and  insulin sensitivity . ” See, https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-coffee-bean-alleviate-inflammation-insulin.html The most unlikely cures come from the most unlikely sources. And then, how many were missed when the view was toward something else? Consider one hundred thousand untested substances and one hundred thousand med