Dietary cysteine alleviates sucrose-induced oxidative stress and insulin resistance
Anyone wanting some really boring biochemistry can look further into how dietary cysteine (an amino acid) gets converted into glutathione (one of the body’s strongest antioxidant and detoxification enzymes).
For the rest of us, this article finds that, in rats, increasing dietary cysteine greatly alleviates the affects of a diet promoting diabetes and insulin resistance. Not that I would promote a diet high in refined carbs, but adding in high quality protein sources such as whey may help protect our bodies from the abuse we dole out as a result of our current lifestyles.