Disclaimer: I love and respect many low-carbers and low-carb researchers, and think low-carb diets are very appropriate and perhaps necessary for many people. Many in the low-carb field seem to think that insulin resistance is what is making us fat and even that insulin resistance is caused by… insulin. Too much carb makes too much …
Chinese researchers provide new evidence that vitamins A and D work together in cooperative fashion, each increasing production of the other’s receptor. In pancreatic stem cells, they synergize to flip on the “neurogenin-3” switch, involved in turning stem cells into fully functional insulin-producing cells. Neither vitamin is effective alone, however. This suggests that vitamins A …