Possibly helpful new way to lose fat....

Today's Post: Monday, 2-22-2010

Last Thursday, 2-18-2010, HealthDay News ran a story that the, amino acid, isoleucine may be helpful for fat loss.

Japanese researchers fed mice a high-fat diet with 45 % of calories from fat, and from the sound of it fat ADDED to the normal food for mice with far less, for six weeks.

Two weeks into the study, one group of mice also got added isoleucine in their drinking water while the control group did not. This continued for the other 4 weeks in the study.

Even though both groups had the added calories; and their fluid and calories were the same, the mice who got the isoleucine gained less weight than those in the control group.

Even better, the mice that got the isoleucine also had lower serum insulin apparently due to the improved glucose-lowering effects of their insulin, and had less fat deposits and greater fat metabolism.

That suggests that isoleucine definitely improves insulin resistance in mice and might very well do so in people as well AND make it easier to lose fat and keep it off.

I’m unsure that this would work well in people or how much you’d need to get this effect.

But, since isoleucine is abundant in mushrooms which have virtually no calories but do have flavor and protein, it looks very likely to me that adding mushrooms to savory dishes either instead of part of the meat or in addition to it or to add to a bean dish, might make a very good choice for fat loss and improving insulin resistance and lowering insulin levels.

If I hear of isoleucine being tried successfully as a supplement to do these things, I’ll do another post.