{"product_id":"chromium-picolinate-200-mcg","title":"Chromium Picolinate 200 mcg","description":"\u003cp\u003eChromium is an essential trace element, and the word trace is doing real work: the whole body holds only a few milligrams of it. Interest in the mineral began in the late 1950s, when Walter Mertz and Klaus Schwarz identified a dietary factor in brewer's yeast that supported normal glucose metabolism and traced its activity to chromium. They called it glucose tolerance factor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe difficulty with chromium has always been absorption. Inorganic chromium salts are taken up poorly — a small single-digit percentage at best. Binding the mineral to picolinic acid, a natural metabolite of tryptophan, produces a stable, neutral complex that crosses the intestinal wall more readily than the salt does. The form is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChromium plays a role in normal carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and in maintaining healthy insulin sensitivity — that is, in helping cells respond to the insulin they already produce. It is used to support blood sugar already within a normal range. Dietary intake is often modest, particularly on refined diets, since refining strips the mineral from grain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable in 60 tablets, 200 mcg each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecological Formulas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44225641414759,"sku":null,"price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/foundationlabs.us\/products\/chromium-picolinate-200-mcg","provider":"Foundation Labs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}