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Chromium

Chromium is a mineral essential to health, and plays an important role in glucose and lipid metabolism.

From anti aging perspective, it is also important to note that the compound has the effect of normalizing blood sugar levels.

Chromium is believed to form a component of glucose tolerance factor, responsible for activating insulin receptor kinase, thereby increasing insulin sensitivity.

For some researchers, the compound has become an essential tool in their search for remedies in clinical studies for diabetes and obesity.

There is evidence that chromium lowers harmful total cholesterol and triglycerides, while raising beneficial HDL cholesterol.

One can even find studies that suggest that chromium promotes fat loss and lean muscle mass retention.

Chromium - Studies

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Anderson RA, Cheng N, Bryden NA, et al. Elevated intakes of supplemental chromium improve glucose and insulin variables in indi- viduals with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes. 1997 Nov;46(11):1786-91.

Wilson BE, Gondy A. Effects of chromium supplementation on fasting insulin levels and lipid parameters in healthy, non-obese young subjects. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 1995 Jun;28(3):179-84.

Bahijri SM. Effect of chromium supplemen- tation on glucose tolerance and lipid profile. Saudi Med J. 2000 Jan;21(1):45-50.

Bahijri SM, Mira SA, Mufti AM, Ajabnoor MA. The effects of inorganic chromium and brewer’s yeast supplementation on glucose tolerance, serum lipids and drug dosage in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Saudi Med J. 2000 Sep;21(9):831-7.

Bahijri SM, Mufti AM. Beneficial effects of chromium in people with type 2 diabetes, and urinary chromium response to glucose as a possible indicator of status. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2002 Feb;85(2):97-109.

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Uyanik F. The effects of dietary chromium supplementation on some blood parameters in sheep. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2001;84(1- 3):93-101.

Cheng HH, Lai MH, Hou WC, Huang CL. Antioxidant effects of chromium supplementation with type 2 diabetes mellitus and euglycemic subjects. J Agric Food Chem. 2004 Mar 10;52(5):1385-9.

Thomas VL, Gropper SS. Effect of chromium nicotinic acid supplementation on selected cardiovascular disease risk factors. Biol Trace Elem Res. 1996 Dec;55(3):297-05.

Morris BW, MacNeil S, Hardisty CA, Heller S, Burgin C, Gray TA. Chromium homeostasis in patients with type II (NIDDM) diabetes. J Trace Elem Med Biol. 1999 Jul;13(1-2):57-61.

Ekmekcioglu C, Prohaska C, Pomazal K, Steffan I, Schernthaner G, Marktl W. Concentrations of seven trace elements in different hematological matrices in patients with type 2 diabetes as compared to healthy controls. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2001 Mar;79(3):205-19.

Anderson RA. Effects of chromium on body composition and weight loss. Nutr Rev. 1998 Sep;56(9):266-70.

Crawford V, Scheckenbach R, Preuss HG. Effects of niacin-bound chromium supplementation on body composition in over- weight African-American women. Diabetes Obes Metab. 1999 Nov;1(6):331-7.

Bahadori B, Wallner S, Schneider H, Wascher TC, Toplak H. Effect of chromium yeast and chromium picolinate on body composition of obese, non-diabetic patients during and after a formula diet. Acta Med Austriaca. 1997;24(5):185-7.

Kleefstra N, Bilo HJ, Bakker SJ, Houweling ST. Chromium and insulin resistance. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2004 Jan 31;148(5):217- 20.

Lamson DS, Plaza SM. The safety and efficacy of high-dose chromium. Altern Med Rev. 2002 Jun;7(3):218-35.

Anderson RA. Recent advances in the clinical and biochemical effects of chromium deficiency. Prog Clin Biol Res. 1993;380:221- 34.

Anderson RA. Essentiality of chromium in humans. Sci Total Environ. 1989 Oct 1;86(1- 2):75-81.

Anderson RA. Nutritional role of chromium. Sci Total Environ. 1981 Jan;17(1):13-29.

Anderson RA. Chromium metabolism and its role in disease processes in man. Clin Physiol Biochem. 1986;4(1):31-41.

Anderson RA. Chromium in the prevention and control of diabetes. Diabetes Metab. 2000 Feb;26(1):22-7.

Racek J. Chromium as an essential element. Cas Lek Cesk. 2003;142(6):335-9.

Appleton DJ, Rand JS, Sunvold GD, Priest J. Dietary chromium tripicolinate supplementation reduces glucose concentrations and improves glucose tolerance in normal-weight cats. J Feline Med Surg. 2002 Mar;4(1):13-25.

Shinde Urmila A, Sharma G, Xu YJ, Dhalla NS, Goyal R K. Anti-diabetic activity and mechanism of action of chromium chloride. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes. 2004 May;112(5):248-52.

Guan X, Matte JJ, Ku PK, Snow JL, Burton JL, Trottier NL. High chromium yeast supplementation improves glucose tolerance in pigs by decreasing hepatic extraction of insulin. J Nutr. 2000 May;130(5):1274-9.

Shigeta A, Ratanamaneechat S, Srisukho S, et al. Epidemiological correlation between chromium content in gallstones and choles- terol in blood. J Med Assoc Thai. 2002 Feb;85(2):183-94.

Turkoski BB. An ounce of prevention. Drugs used to treat hyperlipidemia (Part 1). Orthop Nurs. 2004 Jan;23(1):58-61.

Brunzell JD, Ayyobi AF. Dyslipidemia in the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mel- litus. Am J Med. 2003 Dec 8;115 Suppl 8A:24S-8S.

Kuvin JT, Karas RH. The effects of LDL reduction and HDL augmentation on physiologic and inflammatory markers. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2003 Jul;18(4):295-300.

Preuss HG. Effects of glucose/insulin perturbations on aging and chronic disorders of aging: the evidence. J Am Coll Nutr. 1997 Oct;16(5):397-403.

Wierzbicki AS, Mikhailidis DP. Beyond LDL-C — the importance of raising HDL-C. Curr Med Res Opin. 2002;18(1):36-44.

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McKenney J. New perspectives on the use of niacin in the treatment of lipid disorders. Arch Intern Med. 2004 Apr 12;164(7):697-705.

Rosenson RS. Antiatherothrombotic effects of nicotinic acid. Atherosclerosis. 2003 Nov;171(1):87-96.

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Malik S, Kashyap ML. Niacin, lipids, and heart disease. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2003 Nov;5(6):470-6.

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Ganji SH, Kamanna VS, Kashyap ML. Niacin and cholesterol: role in cardiovascular disease (review). J Nutr Biochem. 2003 Jun;14(6):298-305.

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Bays HE, McGovern ME. Once-daily niacin extended release/lovastatin combination tablet has more favorable effects on lipoprotein particle size and subclass distribution than atorvastatin and simvastatin. Prev Cardiol. 2003 Fall;6(4):179-88.

Stein EA, Davidson MH, Dujovne CA, et al. Efficacy and tolerability of low-dose Simvastatin and niacin, alone and in combination, in patients with combined hyperlipi- demia: A prospective trial. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 1996 Apr;1(2):107-16.

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Vinson JA, Mandarano MA, Shuta DL, Bagchi M, Bagchi D. Beneficial effects of a novel IH636 grape seed proanthocyanidin extract and a niacin-bound chromium in a hamster atherosclerosis model. Mol Cell Biochem. 2002 Nov;240(1-2):99-103.

Preuss HG, Wallerstedt D, Talpur N, et al Effects of niacin-bound chromium and grape seed proanthocyanidin extract on the lipid profile of hypercholesterolemic subjects: a pilot study. J Med. 2000;31(5-6):227-46.

Leonard SS, Xia C, Jiang BH, et al. Resveratrol scavenges reactive oxygen species and effects radical-induced cellular responses. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2003 Oct 3;309(4):1017-26.

Geetha S, Sai Ram M, Mongia SS, Singh V, Ilavazhagan G, Sawhney RC. Evaluation of antioxidant activity of leaf extract of Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) on chromium(VI) induced oxidative stress in albino rats. J Ethnopharmacol. 2003 Aug;87(2-3):247-51.

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