date:Sep 17, 2013
For the study, Albino Wistar rats were fed a high fat, high fructose diet to induce insulin resistance in theanimals. (Note how nasty a high fat high fructose diet is!) And then either GSP in a dose of 100 mg/kgbody weight, or metformin in a dose of 50 mg/kg body weight or both were administered to insulinresistant rats.
As a result, the high fat, high fructose diet caused hyperglycemia (high sugar), hyperinsulinemia (highinsulin), increased gluconeogenesis (a metabolic process resulting in t