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A Golden Gem for Brain Health
We are constantly stressed with deadlines and pressured to produce tasks faster and with more efficiency. In today’s workforce, our mental clarity plays a major role in delivering quality work. Practices to help think more clearly may include better sleep, controlled anxiety, and brain supplements. One such “brain supplement” with research bragging rights is curcumin,…
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Importance of Arterial Elasticity
As the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and diabetes continues to grow, a recent publication sheds light on the temporal sequence of events that may contribute to their development and progression. Specifically, arterial stiffness has emerged as a possible precursor for subsequent events, including hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, at least in a younger population.
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Troubleshooting GI Issues with Keto
As ketogenic diets become more popular and more people adopt this way of eating, it’s inevitable that some of them will encounter issues that cause them to rethink whether keto is right for them. Often these unexpected issues don’t result from keto, per se, but rather, from how the diet is implemented. When it’s done…
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Senescent Cells & Longevity
The senescence-centric view of aging posits that cellular senescence is central to the aging process itself, and over time the accumulation of senescent cells contributes to the age-related loss of vital functions and regenerative processes we associate with declining physical and mental capacity, and ultimately a shortened healthspan and lifespan. Cellular senescence occurs when a…
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Beware the Vitamin N Deficiency
For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population now live in urban settings rather than rural settings. This trending switch has taken us away from nature, which has taken a collective toll on our health.
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The Impact of Sleep on CVD
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of sufficient quality and duration of sleep on nearly every body system, and multiple recent trials emphasize the critical role it plays in cardiovascular health, including implications for causality to both peripheral and coronary artery disease.
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Vitamin D & Dementia
Results of a large prospective cohort study were recently published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, describing the association between vitamin D supplementation and dementia incidence within the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) cohort. As the authors point out, there is considerable interest in vitamin D as a potential modifier of risk, as dementia affects 50 million…
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Berberine: The Gut-Brain-Heart Connection
Most of us have heard about the gut-brain connection, how nearly 90% of the body’s serotonin is actually made in the digestive tract, and how the gut-brain axis is the missing link in depression. Gut health and the landscape of the gut microbiota influence many aspects of our health, so it is no surprise that…
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Slow or Stalled Weight Loss on Keto
5 Causes of Slow or Stalled Weight Loss on Keto Diets People adopt ketogenic diets for many different reasons, but weight loss is near the top of the list. And while some people drop weight seemingly effortlessly when they cut carbs, others struggle to shed excess pounds. Let’s look at the five most common reasons…
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Vitamin D & Pregnancy
In a 2021 double-blind randomized trial which enrolled pregnant women in Northern Ireland, the primary outcome was the effect of vitamin D supplementation on levels of both maternal and umbilical 25-hydroxyvitamin D ([25(OH)D]), as well as the secondary goal of evaluating any impact of obesity. Two hundred and forty women (166 completed the study) were…