Sentences with phrase «called berberine»

This herb contains a compound called berberine which we now know has beneficial effects against bacteria, parasites, and yeast.

For instance in Mahonia or Oregon grape — it's a plant from the Pacific Northwest — there is one compound called hydnocarpin that will kill [a] certain type of bacteria, but the bacteria develops a resistance where it evolves this pump to remove the hydnocarpinfrom its cells and it's no longer toxic; and then it turns out that the Oregon grape also has this other compound called berberine which stops that pump from working, so it's only in combination [that] these two compounds in that plant will actually still kill the bacteria.

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In a well - known study called «efficacy of berberine in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus», scientists gathered 36 patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Berberine targets a very basic regulator of metabolism called AMPK - activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation that works to: