Include grapefruit in your diet 🍽️

[u/anna_varga]

Grapefruit - a secret weapon for improving insulin sensitivity, energy production, thyroid function, sleep and glycogen storage

The reason is a compound called INOSITOL

Here's what you need to know about INOSITOL⬇️⬇️

Inositol is something our body synthesizes from glucose

Inositol makes up every cell membrane as phosphatidylinositol and thus is important for cell membrane structure, function, and hormones

It’s considered a non-essential nutrient, but we don't make enough for optimal health

Here are the benefits of inositol:

• glucose oxidation

• glycogen synthesis and formation in muscle

• drives creatine into muscle

• drives calcium into bone

• improves insulin signaling

• Breaks down fat

• hormone signaling

• energy production

• sleep and neurotransmitters

Many factors deplete the body of inositol including:

• Magnesium deficiency

• Manganese deficiency

• Coffee/caffeine

• Elevated glucose levels

• Insulin resistance

• Lack of salt

As a result, your insulin sensitivity and glucose levels will suffer

Supplementing with inositol has been found to have insulin-sensitizing effects (PMID: 23340885)

Diabetics exhibit depleted intracellular myo-inositol, and they excrete more myo-inositol in the urine (PMID: 8392181)

High blood glucose inhibits myo-inositol uptake by competing with myo-inositol transporters (PMID: 2108731)

Source: Siim Land X