Fiber-Rich Foods: Fiber plays a key role in stimulating GLP-1 production
Its metabolic journey is a prime example of tissue-specific post-translational processing, where the same precursor is cleaved into different bioactive peptides depending on the enzymes present in the cell [27] [Figure 2]
In addition, T2D and SA share common modifiable risk factors: obesity [15], smoking [16, 17], alcohol consumption [18, 19], etc
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