Weight Management, Micronutrients, and Supplements in Diabetes

This year’s 39th International Symposium on Diabetes and Nutrition in Anavyssos, Greece, hosted a series of presentations plenary lectures with focus the effects weight loss, micronutrients, nutritional supplements, alternative dietary patterns prevention management Type 2 diabetes (T2D) cardiovascular risk reduction. Michael Lean discussed how remission can be achieved through loss using low-energy diet (LED) or very (VLED), accompanied by continued long-term support from specialised healthcare professionals. Jeffrey Mechanick importance impact early intervention T2D disease (CVD). He emphasised that should seen not just at point disease, but spectrum prediabetes to complications, interventions having significant only progression T2D, also into latter stages.Simin Liu presented an integrative multilevel framework for causal inference personalise cardiometabolic health, highlighting recent work investigating roles minerals, environment metals, genomics relation diabetes. Several included discussion specific interventions. Daniel West use whey protein (WP) it help control postprandial glycaemic excursions (PGE) people controlled oral antihyperglycaemic drugs. Following this, Andrea Hawkinson new supplement, mulberry leaf (Morus alba) extract (MLE), significantly lower glucose response, as well insulin need further studies evaluate its efficacy T2D. Philip Atherton showed providing evidence essential amino acid (EAA) supplementation muscle mass, which is especially older sarcopenia. Finally, Jose-María López-Pedrosa spoke about supplement containing slow digestible carbohydrates (SDC), arginine, lysine, β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyric (HMB) preserve improve resistance, rat model