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Vitamin D Linked to Improvements in Blood Pressure in Children
Overweight and obese vitamin D-deficient children who took a relatively high dose of vitamin D every day for six months had lower blood pressure and ...
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Ketone Supplement Drink Mimics Ketogenic Diet
With more people with diabetes and pre-diabetes looking for strategies to help control blood sugar, new research from University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus suggests ...
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PART 2: The Pervasive Misuderstanding of What the FODMAP Diet Does and Doesn’t Do
The exaggerated confidence given to the FODMAP diet, that it has the ability to favorably alter the intestinal microbiota, starve out organisms, or alter the ...
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Part 1: The Pervasive Misunderstanding of What The FODMAP Diet Does And Does Not Do
As the FODMAP diet grows in popularity, we need to be clear about what the research has revealed. There is a pervasive misunderstanding of what ...
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Chicory and Chicoric Acid Show Potential Health Benefits
Chicoric acid, a hydroxycinnamic acid, derived most commonly in the roots of chicory (Cichorium intybus), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), and basil. Each possesses a variety ...
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Are your Patients Getting Enough Vitamin D?
During the past few decades your patients have been taught to be wary of the sun. This advice may mean your patients are not getting ...
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Caprylic Acid Shows Greater Plasma Ketone Response in Humans Consuming Different Medium-Chain Triglycerides
Which medium chain fatty acids–caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid or lauric acid–has more ketogenic properties? Medium chain triglycerides (MCT) are ketogenic but the relationship ...
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Maternal Exposure to Non-nutritive Sweeteners Negatively Impacts Progeny’s Microbiome and Liver Health
Yet another study shows the damage that zero-calorie sweeteners pose to the gut microbiome. About 20% of people above age two in America consume two ...
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Common Food Preservative, Propionate, Triggers Insulin Resistance in Humans, says Harvard Study
Harvard scientists warn that a short-chain fatty acid, used as a potent inhibitor of molds in food production, could be a trigger that leads to ...
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Full-Spectrum Amla Extract Shown to Support Healthy Triglycerides and Cholesterol
In this study, researchers discovered that a simple extract from the amla plant ((Emblica officinalis, Indian gooseberry), could be a supportive therapy for dyslipidemia, a ...
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