date:Sep 27, 2012
Extracts from hops (Humulus lupulus L.) may help manage weight and increase metabolic flexibility in mice fed a high fat diet, researchers report.
Lab mice fed a high fat diet and the hop extract had significantly lower body weights than animals only fed the high fat diet, while also improving glucose tolerance to a level achievable by a well-known pharmaceutical, according to findings published inNutrition .
Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the Meta