ANG and metabolic syndrome: Additionally, in recent studies (Barbosa et al., 2019; Figueiredo et al., 2019) we have shown that oral treatment with Ang-(1–7) in rats, with established MetS induced by HF diet, was effective in restoring biometric, biochemical parameters, redox process, and RAS components in the liver and gastrocnemic muscle (Figueiredo et al., 2019).