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Human studyPublished 2016· Blood Sugar & Diabetes

Effects of carnosine supplementation on glucose metabolism: pilot clinical trial

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Plain-language summary

Pilot clinical trial in adults with disordered glucose handling, randomizing participants to carnosine versus placebo. The carnosine arm showed improved insulin sensitivity readouts, providing early human validation for the preclinical metabolic story.

Key takeaways
  • Insulin sensitivity moved in the right direction.
  • Tolerability was favorable across the cohort.
  • Sets up a larger phase-II metabolic program.
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