Micronutrients & recovery
Adherence to a Prudent diet for two weeks significantly increases urinary levels of imidazole propionate, hydroxypipecolic acid, dihydroxybenzoic acid, enterolactone glucuronide, and plasma levels of ketoleucine and ketovaline.
Eating a Prudent diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains changes your metabolic profile quickly. Within two weeks, levels of specific compounds like enterolactone glucuronide and ketoleucine rise in your blood and urine. These changes are objective markers of healthy eating, confirming that your diet is supporting metabolic health.
Similarly, creatinine-normalized urinary imidazole propionate, hydroxypipecolic acid, dihydroxybenzoic acid, and enterolactone glucuronide, as well as plasma ketoleucine and ketovaline increased with a Prudent diet (p < 0.05) after adjustments for age, sex, and BMI.
Why this rating
Randomized controlled trial with rigorous metabolomic validation.
Source
Metabolic Trajectories Following Contrasting Prudent and Western Diets from Food Provisions: Identifying Robust Biomarkers of Short-Term Changes in Habitual Diet
Nadine Wellington et al. · Nutrients · 2019
DOI 10.3390/nu11102407
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