High insulin makes your body store fat around your middle, and lowering insulin makes your body burn that fat first.

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Effect of Long-Term Treatment with Metformin Added to Hypocaloric Diet on Body Composition, Fat Distribution, and Androgen and Insulin Levels in Abdominally Obese Women with and without the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2000 Aug

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Exercise-induced lowering of chemerin is associated with reduced cardiometabolic risk and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in older adults

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2014

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When someone has too much insulin in their blood, it stops the body from burning stored fat and instead makes the body turn extra sugar into new fat, which gets stored in fat tissue.

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