Vitamin B8, officially referred to as Inositol, is a carbocyclic sugar that is abundant in the brain and other mammalian tissues.
It mediates cell signal transduction in response to a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, and growth factors and participates in osmoregulation.
It is a sugar alcohol with half the sweetness of sucrose. It is made naturally in humans from glucose.
This Health & Medicine Lab video talks about whether vitamin B8 could help treat diabetes.
If you care about diabetes, please read studies about health problem that cause half of new diabetes cases annually in U.S. and findings of a new way to treat heart disease in type 2 diabetes.
For more information about diabetes, please see recent studies about birthweight strongly linked to type 2 diabetes risk in adulthood, and results showing why people with type 2 diabetes have poorer muscle function.
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