Study finds one way statins can cause diabetes, and a solution

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A bottle of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.’s atorvastatin calcium tablets arranged for a photograph, February 20, 2014. | Photo Credit: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Administering ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) can stave off the tendency of statins to induce glucose intolerance and diabetes, a study by a group of researchers in China has found. (For top health news of the…

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Are you sure you contain 10x as many microbes as human cells?

August 28, 2023 admin

“You are more microbes than human.” It is possible you have had this factoid thrown at you, with the thrower claiming that the microbes in our bodies outnumber our own cells 10 to one. But according to an assessment published in Nature Microbiology, this is a myth. In a 2016 study the assessment’s authors cited,…

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