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Review studyPublished 2016· Blood Sugar & Diabetes

Carnosine in cardiometabolic disease: physiology, evidence, and therapeutic potential

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Plain-language summary

A focused review that gathers the human and animal evidence for carnosine in cardiometabolic disease — insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, and the cluster syndrome that links them. The authors argue that the molecule's dual antioxidant and carbonyl-quenching chemistry is precisely the intervention this disease cluster needs.

Key takeaways
  • Frames metabolic syndrome as a carnosine-deficiency phenotype.
  • Reviews mechanistic and clinical evidence in one place.
  • Influential anchor for follow-on trials in metabolic health.
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