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Can Stevioside in Combination with a Soy-Based Dietary Supplement Be a New Useful Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes? An In Vivo Study in the Diabetic Goto-Kakizaki Rat

Per B. Jeppesen, Stig E. Dyrskog, Andreas Agger, Soren Gregersen, Michele Colombo, Jianzhong Xiao, Kjeld Hermansen

Keywords: type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, stevioside, soy-protein isolate, GK-rats

Abstract

The diterpene glycoside stevioside (SVS) and soy bean protein isolate have both been shown to have beneficial effects in diabetes treatment. As they each show different benefits we investigated whether the combination of both substances shows an improvement in the treatment of diabetes in Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats. Over the course of 4 wk, the rats were fed with the following four test diets (n = 12 per group): 1. Standard carbohydrate-rich laboratory diet (chow), 2. chow + SVS (0.03 g/kg BW/day), 3. 80% SPI + 20% chow and 4. 80% SPI + 20 % chow + SVS (0.03 g/kg BW/day). At the end of the course conscious rats underwent an intra-arterial glucose tolerance test (IAGTT) (2.0 g glucose/kg BW). Compared to normal chow diet, stevioside in combination with SPI shows the following beneficial effects in GK rats with mild type 2 diabetes: 1. a 56% reduction in plasma glucose (p < 0.001), 2. a 118% increase in first-phase insulin (p < 0.005), 3. a 20% reduction in glucagons (p < 0.05), 4. a 28% reduction in total cholesterol (p < 0.001), 5. a 13% reduction in FFA (p < 0.01), 6. a 49% reduction in TG (p < 0.001) and 7. a 11% reduction in the systolic blood pressure (p < 0.001). In conclusion, the combination of stevioside and SPI has synergistic positive effects on the characteristic features of the metabolic syndrome, i.e. hyperglycemia, hypertension and dyslipidemia.

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