Medicina (Oct 2023)

Effects of Foods of Mesoamerican Origin in Adipose Tissue and Liver-Related Metabolism

  • Alejandra Meza-Rios,
  • Erika Fabiola López-Villalobos,
  • Luis Alberto Anguiano-Sevilla,
  • Sandra Luz Ruiz-Quezada,
  • Gilberto Velazquez-Juarez,
  • Rocío Ivette López-Roa,
  • Ana Laura Marin-Molina,
  • Adelaida Sara Minia Zepeda-Morales

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina59111907
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59, no. 11
p. 1907

Abstract

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Adipose tissue and liver metabolism play a key role in maintaining body homeostasis; therefore, their impairment conduces a pathological state. Nowadays, occidental lifestyle is a common etiological issue among a variety of chronic diseases, while diet is a unique strategy to prevent obesity and liver metabolism impairment and is a powerful player in the treatment of metabolic-related diseases. Mesoamerican foods are rich in bioactive molecules that enhance and improve adipose tissue and liver performance and represent a prophylactic and therapeutic alternative for disorders related to the loss of homeostasis in the metabolism of these two important tissues.

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