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Thursday November 9, 10:15 am Eastern Time
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Synergism Between Chromium Picolinate and Biotin Discovered
EVANSVILLE, Ind.--(BW HealthWire)--Nov. 9, 2000--A newly discovered synergism between Biotin and Chromium, two essential nutrients, may hold a key to healthy carbohydrate metabolism.

On November 9th at the 17th International Diabetes Federation Congress in Mexico City, a team of researchers from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, presented new research that showed a combination of chromium picolinate and biotin was better than chromium picolinate alone in helping insulin to stimulate muscle cells to build up carbohydrate stores.

``Our previous data demonstrated that chromium picolinate supplementation leads to improvements in the ability of muscle cells grown in lab dishes to take up blood sugar,'' said Dr. William T. Cefalu, head of the research team that completed the new research. ``However, in these studies we found that chromium picolinate not only increased the uptake of blood sugar in muscles cells but also increased the capacity of the cells to convert blood sugar to glycogen, the stored form of carbohydrate energy inside the cells.''

``Moreover, the combination of chromium picolinate plus biotin, a vitamin, worked better than chromium picolinate alone,'' added Dr. Cefalu. ``That synergism and the effects on the glycogen are also new findings.''

In people with poor blood sugar control and very high blood insulin levels, muscle cells often lose their ability to respond normally to blood insulin and absorb blood glucose efficiently. Poor glucose uptake leads to reductions in cell glycogen, the form of stored glucose inside the cells. Glycogen is a very important source for quick energy for muscle cells. When cells are deficient, they have problems responding normally to the body's signals for contraction.

``These studies are particularly important,'' said Dr. Stanley G. Miguel, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Chromium Information Bureau, Inc., a not-for-profit education organization, ``because the results shed light on a new role for chromium working inside cells to improve carbohydrate metabolism. Before now, we have focused primarily on chromium's role as a helper for insulin actions on the cell membrane. Now, we have clues that the effects go further to increase cell synthesis and storage of carbohydrate energy.''

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