Researchers have shown that fisetin, a type of flavonoid found in strawberries and to a lesser extent in other foods, reduces neurologic complications and kidney damage in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes.

 

The research, suggests that fisetin may reduce diabetes complications by protecting nerve cells from toxic insults and by direct effects of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.

 

Significantly, the study found that oral fisetin reduced methylglyoxal-protein glycation in the kidney, brain, and blood of diabetic mice, lending support to the hypothesis that complications of diabetes share common pathogenic mechanisms, the study authors say.