{"id":169463,"date":"2025-05-02T15:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=169463"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:02:12","slug":"the-hidden-power-of-vitamins-can-they-help-prevent-obesity-and-its-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/health\/the-hidden-power-of-vitamins-can-they-help-prevent-obesity-and-its-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Power of Vitamins: Can They Help Prevent Obesity and Its Complications?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although they often go unnoticed, vitamins are essential for keeping the body running smoothly. Nowadays, our lifestyle and eating habits tend<\/a> to leave them out\u2014and that can come with consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent study on rats fed a \u201ccafeteria diet\u201d<\/a>\u2014high in fats, sugars, and calories, much like typical junk food\u2014found that supplementing with a commercial multivitamin reduced the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the blood (molecules that promote inflammation and circulate in the bloodstream). So explained Jos\u00e9 Antonio Palma Jacinto<\/a>, one of the authors of the study Putative mechanism of a multivitamin treatment against insulin resistance.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous studies had already shown that certain vitamins<\/a>\u2014such as B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B12, C, D, and E\u2014can help lower insulin resistance<\/strong>, a condition that prevents the body from using insulin effectively and is linked to diseases like type 2 diabetes. However, until now, the underlying mechanism behind this effect remained unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using both in vitro and in vivo<\/em> models (the former done in a lab using cells or tissues in a dish, the latter conducted in living organisms like animals), the study pinpointed two key factors: oxidative stress and lipoinflammation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These two processes, which often occur simultaneously, may contribute to the onset of insulin resistance during obesity\u2014and eventually to conditions such as type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese two factors\u2014oxidative stress and lipoinflammation\u2014are emerging as potential therapeutic targets<\/strong> for treating obesity and its complications, or even for developing preventive treatments,\u201d said Palma Jacinto during a brief talk as part of the Flash Tec Talks<\/strong> held at the 2025 International Obesity Research Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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