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ALA, Alpha Lipoic Acid, or Alpha-lipoic acid Can Change Sugars To Energy For More Energy, Endurance, Stamina

The popular antioxidant, ALA or Alpha Lipoic Acid, helps convert simple sugars, such as glucose, lactose, maltose, etc to energy, which would help in many exercise health fitness programs

ALA (Alpha-Lipoic Acid) For Sugar Metabolism To Energy

Many people supplement their diet with ala to help in weight loss, energy, and endurance. There hasn’t been much testing outside athletes personally testing the supplements and using their own findings.

We at Personal Trainer Los Angeles have used ala for years and have found a positive benefit for increasing endurance, stamina, especially in the weight room, and may help with fat loss. This energy increase was only slight. The increase in energy and stamina alone we hypothesize will increase our intensity and duration weight training and cardio, therefore increase our fat loss.

Scientists test ALA with people with no diabetic symptoms and with people diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Our bodies produce the powerful hormone insulin to help regulate our blood sugar levels i.e. glucose. Diabetics have a problem producing enough insulin, which requires them periodic insulin shots.

ALA, Alpha Lipoic Acid, or Alpha-lipoic acid can help diabetics convert glucose, dextrose, etc sugars to energy. ALA can improve our body’s ability to absorb and change sugars to energy, in regards to glycemic control-insulin sensitivity, in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

As a control group, scientists observed 12 patients with normal glucose tolerance levels and insulin sensitivity who did not take Alpha Lipoic Acid. Another group of 12 over weight Type 2 diabetics ingested 600 mg ALA twice a day for 30 days.

The Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus were discovered to clear sugars from the blood almost twice as fast, an average close to 90% in clearing rate with respect to before ingesting the ALA, Alpha Lipoic Acid.

The scientists also determined how sensitive the diabetics were to insulin and after taking Alpha Lipoic Acid insulin sensitivity increased over 60 percent.

There was not much difference in sensitivity to insulin between the healthy control group and the The Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients. This led to the possible result ALA can increase insulin sensitivity with people who are diabetics.

Ref: Hormones (Athens). Oct-Dec, 2006; 5 (4) : 251 - 8