Kefir and Reduced Insulin Levels

• Effects of Kefir Consumption on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

  • 2023-05
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 314
  • Current drug targets 24(7)
  • • Farveh Yahyapoor
    • Neda Haghighat
    • Zahra Sohrabi
    • Omid Asbaghi
    • Mohammad Bagherniya
    • Tannaz Jamialahmadi
    • Amirhossein Sahebkar

  • PubMed: 37102491
  • DOI: 10.2174/1389450124666230427095742

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  • Reduced Insulin Levels

  • High evidence

  Kefir intake significantly reduced fasting insulin (WMD: -3.69 micro-IU/mL,95% CI: -6.30 to -1.07, p = 0.006, I² = 0.0%)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

• Effects of Regular Kefir Consumption on Gut Microbiota in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Parallel-Group, Randomized, Controlled Study.

  • 2019-09-04
  • RCT
  • Nutrients 11(9)
  • • Ezgi Bellikci-Koyu
    • Banu Pınar Sarer-Yurekli
    • Yakut Akyon
    • Fadime Aydin-Kose
    • Cem Karagozlu
    • Ahmet Gokhan Ozgen
    • Annika Brinkmann
    • Andreas Nitsche
    • Koray Ergunay
    • Engin Yilmaz
    • Zehra Buyuktuncer

  • PubMed: 31487797
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu11092089

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  • Reduced Insulin Levels

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  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  Fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, TNF-α, IFN-γ, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure showed a significant decrease by the intervention of kefir (p ≤ 0.05, for each). However, no significant difference was obtained between the kefir and unfermented milk groups (p > 0.05 for each).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  180 mL/day