L-Isoleucine and Improved Glycemia

• Amino Acid Metabolite Profiling for Predicting and Understanding the Metabolic Effects of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

  • 2025-08-14
  • Review
  • Journal of metabolic and bariatric surgery 14(2)
  • • Hyeon-Seong Lee
    • Jaeyoung Kwon
    • Yeongkeun Kwon

  • PubMed: 40917202
  • DOI: 10.17476/jmbs.2025.14.2.124

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Glycemia

  • Low evidence

  Elevated preoperative levels of isoleucine, phenylalanine, levodopa, and 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid are associated with improved glycemic control and T2D remission.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes