Effect of yacon syrup on blood lipid, glucose and metabolic endotoxemia in healthy subjects: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial

Abstract

We investigate the impact of yacon syrup consumption on glycemic, lipid and metabolic endotoxemia in healthy subjects. Thus, 32 healthy were randomized into two groups that consumed 40 g of yacon syrup/day (= 8.74 g FDS/day) or a placebo, for 2-weeks. Anthropometric assessments, gastrointestinal effects, glycemic and lipid profile, and LPS were performed at the beginning and at the end of the study. The results obtained shown that the 2-weeks consumption of yacon syrup does not promote serum LPS alteration in healthy volunteers. Moreover, the glycemic and lipid profile were also similar between the groups before and after the intervention. Yacon syrup did not affect blood lipid, glucose or metabolic endotoxemia. However, it is possible that positive effects of yacon syrup will turn evident only in a long-term intervention. Further studies are needed to assess the long-term effect of yacon syrup consumption, and its use in obese and diabetic individuals.

Treatment of protrusion of Lumbar Intervertebral Disc (LID) with percutaneous laser disc decompression - a follow-up study of 108 patients

“…It is one of common reasons resulting in pain in waist and lower extremities, which is manifested as lumbar pain accompanied with or without lower limb ache and numb, even causing nerve root or cauda equina dysneuria (Radulović et al, 2004), and it is hard to be cured unless otherwise it is treated surgically with a higher recurrence rate. Various kinds of operative treatment are likely to cause different levels of cause trauma and hemorrhage, more complications, and that lumbar stability is easy to be influenced after operation (Dionsio et al, 2020;Ismail et al, 2020;Valença et al, 2021). Percutaneous laser disc decompression (PLDD) (Xiao et al, 2004) is a kind of technology used for minimally invasive therapy of spine between conservative treatment and operative treatment.…”