Cocoa may delay Type 2 diabetes

Insulin is the hormone that manages glucose, the blood sugar that reaches unhealthy levels in diabetes patients is caused by insulin not working properly.

Failure of beta cells to produce insulin can leads to diabetes, the body of diabetes patients either doesn't produce enough insulin or doesn't process blood sugar properly.

Researchers have discovered certain compounds in cocoa that can aid the release of more insulin and respond to increased blood glucose. Beta cells work better and remain stronger with an increased presence of epicatechin monomers, compounds found in cocoa.

Researchers fed animals with the cocoa compound, they discovered that adding the compound to their diet decreases the level of obesity in the animals and increases their ability to regulate increased blood glucose levels.

This showed that cocoa compounds called epicatechin monomers enhanced beta cells' ability to secrete insulin by protecting the cells and increase their ability to deal with oxidative stress.

The epicatechin monomers are making the mitochondria in the beta cells stronger, which produces more ATP which leads to more production of insulin.
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