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How diet affects our overall health: Interactions between food, nutrients, and the microbes in the gut – Part 1Tweet The ancient physicians and philosophers were fond of saying “You are what you eat” or there were the prophetic words of Hippocrates “Let food be thy medicine”. These statements were held to be fundamental truths. Even though they had Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
Is the intake of grapefruit juice linked to increased breast cancer risk?Tweet The human body relies heavily on enzymes to perform all sorts of functions such as: the breakdown of various foods so that the nutrients can be absorbed, accelerating various chemical reactions which otherwise would be too slow for the Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me! Part 2: Bioavailability: What happens when the gatekeeper is knocked out senseless?Tweet Not surprisingly, improving the bioavailability has turned out to be the holy grail in the halls of natural product research labs the world over. There are many ways to improve bioavailability, these can range from: incorporating compounds like curcumin Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
An interesting tale of red meat, l-carnitine, and gut bacteria.Tweet A recent paper published in Nature Medicine has sparked a major controversy. Emotions seem to be running high since one of the mainstream nutritional products, l-carnitine, has been implicated in causing atherosclerosis or formation of plaque in the blood Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me! Part 1: Curcumin bioavailability: The need to compare apples with applesTweetCurcumin is the largest of the three curcuminoid components present in the root of Curcuma longa. Curcumin is probably the most widely studied natural product on the planet, and has a multitude of health benefits. These range from improving heart, Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
Lactobionic Acid: A New Strategy to the Calcium ConundrumTweetCalcium is an important mineral for maintenance of bone health and for preventing the more serious condition called osteoporosis and the associated risk of vertebral, spine and wrist fractures especially in postmenopausal women. Recently, calcium has once again come under Read more… ShareComments: 3 Comments
Exciting Evidence for the Effectiveness of a Highly Bioavailable Form of Curcumin (Longvida®) in Alzheimer’s DiseaseTweetThere is considerable research in natural products and the prevention and reversal of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Curcumin, the active component of the spice turmeric, which is widely used in Asian cuisine has come under close scrutiny for its protective effects Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
Is Curcumin an answer to Alzheimer’s Disease?TweetEpidemiologists, researchers that look at populations and disease patterns have long remarked that the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in India is significantly lower than in the US. One reason proposed for this huge difference may be because the Indian population Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
Nitric Oxide and Alzheimer’s diseaseTweetAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is an advanced stage of dementia which progressively worsens with time and is associated with a high degree of mortality. The disease is not part of normal aging, and is likely caused by various processes that damage Read more… ShareComments: Leave a Comment
The NOx 3,2,1 pathway: There’s NOthing like it!TweetSince 1998, when the Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded for the work on nitric oxide (NO) as a signalling molecule that was responsible for dilation of the blood vessels, research in NO has accelerated rapidly. In the mid 1990’s Read more… ShareComments: 3 Comments
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