A combination of borage seed oil and quercetin reduces fat accumulation and improves insulin sensitivity in obese rats.

@article{Aranaz2020ACO,
  title={A combination of borage seed oil and quercetin reduces fat accumulation and improves insulin sensitivity in obese rats.},
  author={Paula Aranaz and Mar{\'i}a Zabala and Ana Romo-Hualde and David Navarro-Herrera and Miguel L{\'o}pez-Yoldi and Jos{\'e} Luis Vizmanos and J. Alfredo Mart{\'i}nez and Ferm{\'i}n Ignacio Milagro and Carlos Javier Gonz{\'a}lez-Navarro},
  journal={Food \& function},
  year={2020}
}
The metabolic properties of omega-6 fatty acid consumption are being increasingly accepted. We had previously observed that supplementation with a borage seed oil (BSO), as a source of linoleic (18:2n-6; LA) and gamma-linolenic (18:3n-6; GLA) acids, reduces body weight and visceral adiposity and improves insulin sensitivity in a diet-induced obesity model of Wistar rats. Here, it was investigated whether the anti-obesogenic properties of BSO could be maintained in a pre-obese model of rats, and… 
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In overweight young adults with a family history of obesity, borage oil, a source of GLA, did not show promise as a weight control aid, but could help prevent undesirable readings for two blood lipid measures.
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