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Response to: can one teaspoon of trehalose a day mitigate metabolic syndrome and diabetes risks?

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  • February 22, 2021 Dear Editor, Thank you for contacting us regarding the comments and questions from Dr Fred Brouns’ group about our paper “Daily consumption of one teaspoon of trehalose can help maintain glucose homeostasis: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial conducted in healthy volunteers” [1]

  • In animal tests, the improvement effect on glucose tolerance was identified in an amount of trehalose that is equal to 1.2-10g per 60kg of human body weight [2, 3]

  • On the other hand, according to the literature regarding the effects of trehalose on saccharometabolism, such as improvement of glucose tolerance, there is some evidence to show a mechanism of how trehalose works in the gut

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February 22, 2021 Dear Editor, Thank you for contacting us regarding the comments and questions from Dr Fred Brouns’ group about our paper “Daily consumption of one teaspoon of trehalose can help maintain glucose homeostasis: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial conducted in healthy volunteers” [1]. Dear Editor, Thank you for contacting us regarding the comments and questions from Dr Fred Brouns’ group about our paper “Daily consumption of one teaspoon of trehalose can help maintain glucose homeostasis: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial conducted in healthy volunteers” [1]. This paper was intended to report on the results of the use of trehalose in postprandial hyperglycemic human volunteers as published.

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