Endocrine Abstracts

Preclinical and clinical studies suggest that whey protein intake can ameliorate postprandial glucose control and potentiate insulin release in both type-2 diabetic patients and healthy subjects.Most likely, the insulinotropic effect of whey occurs by multiple pathways, including the potentiation of incretin activity through inhibition of DPP-4 in the proximal bowel, with the outcome of increasing intact incretin levels.During last...