Nutrition fun facts III
Fact #1
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Red yeast rice, given to test subjects over an 8 week period, demonstrated a significant impact on modulating blood serum lipids.
Lipotrienols RYR™ is a powerful combination of natural substances intended to support normal blood lipid levels and optimize cardiac and vascular health. The red yeast rice in Lipotrienols RYR™is USDA certified organic and grown in the USA. Designs for Health takes great care to assay our red yeast rice to assure that there are undetectable levels of citrinin (< 1 ppm).
Listen to the discussion entitled “Natural Approaches to Lipid Management, and Avoidance of Statin Medications”, featuring red yeast rice expert Gary Walker.
Source: Efficacy of Monascus purpureus Went rice on lowering lipid ratios in hypercholesterolemic patients.
Fact #2
You can’t pick a bone with DHEA.
Taking a DHEA supplement combined with vitamin D and calcium can significantly improve spinal bone density in older women, according to a new study.
“The results of our study are very promising. Similar studies have demonstrated much smaller benefits for bone than we found. However, calcium and vitamin D deficiencies, which are present in half of older adults, may have prevented DHEA from improving bone density in the earlier studies,” said Edward Weiss, Ph.D., associate professor of nutrition and dietetics at Saint Louis University’s Doisy College of Health Sciences and lead author of the study.
Low DHEA concentration has been associated with low bone density, which led researchers to question whether restoring DHEA levels could improve or preserve bone health.
To learn more about bone health and osteoporosis click here to listen to Wednesday’s Clinical Rounds call with Keith McCormick, DC, CCSP.
Source: Dehydroepiandrosterone replacement therapy in older adults: 1- and 2-y effects on bone1,2,3
Fact #3
If only those negative alpha-tocopherol studies had told us this!
If only those negative alpha-tocopherol studies had told us this!
It has recently been reported that alpha-tocopherol has not delivered on its initial promise of improving cardiovascular health and reducing cancer risk. It appears one reason may be that supplementation with alpha-tocopherol alone may actually lower serum levels of gamma-tocopherol, which in many recent studies is showing to be the most active form in the tocopherol family and was inversely associated with cardiovascular health and some cancers.
Ultra Gamma Vitamin E delivers increased levels of gamma tocopherol, the most active of the tocopherols and the form of vitamin E associated with expanded health benefits.
Source: Supplementation of Diets with Tocopherol Reduces Serum Concentrations of gamma and delta Tocopherol in Humans
Fact #4
A guy walks past a mental hospital and hears a moaning voice ” … 13 … 13 … 13 … “.
The man looks over to the hospital and sees a hole in the wall. He looks through the hole and gets poked in the eye. The moaning voice then groaned ” … 14 … 14 … 14 … “.
Researchers have discovered that a form of vitamin B1 could become a new and effective treatment for one of the world’s leading causes of blindness.
Scientists believe that uveitis, an inflammation of the tissue located just below the outer surface of the eyeball, produces 10 to 15 percent of all cases of blindness in the United States, and causes even higher rates of blindness globally. The inflammation is normally treated with antibiotics or steroid eye drops.
“Benfotiamene strongly suppresses this eye-damaging condition and the biochemical markers we associate with it,” said UTMB associate professor Kota V. Ramana, senior author of the study. “We’re optimistic that this simple supplementation with vitamin B1 has great potential as a new therapy for this widespread eye disease.”
DFH’s Metabolic Synergy™ contains 50mg of benfothiamine per recommended dose.
Source: Prevention of Endotoxin-Induced Uveitis in Rats by Benfotiamine, a Lipophilic Analogue of Vitamin B1
Fact #5
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In more health related news, it has recently been reported that supplements of antioxidant vitamins after exercise may decrease the benefits of the workout by blocking the positive effects of reactive oxygen species. Researchers have reported that antioxidant vitamins C and E may blunt the positive effects of exercise, with respect to insulin sensitivity.
Reacting to the study, Alexander Schauss, PhD, from AIBMR Life Sciences, said, “The primary objective of this study was to study the effect of a 4-week intensive 5-days a week exercise program on insulin sensitivity. Yet the title of the paper leads one to believe otherwise,” he said.
“This is a small gender-biased study of 40 male subjects, 25 to 35 years of age. When I read through the study for the first time I had to wonder how could the authors have come up with such a title for their paper?”, he asked.
Dr. Schauss goes on to say, “Skeletal muscle biopsies were obtained from the right vastus lateralis muscle of study subjects. But some of the data is missing for a number of subjects, and reported as such by the authors,” said Dr Schauss.
The authors noted that biopsies for the ‘early’ time-point were only obtained from five people in the vitamin group, and four in the placebo group. “Yet the authors conclude a “strong induction of PGCl-alpha, PGCl-beta, and PPAR-gamma expression in skeletal muscle following 4 weeks of exercise training in previously untrained, antioxidant naïve individuals” and “markedly reduced exercise-related induction” in those taking antioxidants, based on these limited number of biopsies,” said Dr Schauss.
“Would it not have made more sense to appropriately increase the intensity and duration of exercise slowly and then see if the subject’s bodies didn’t accommodate handling of ROS without a significant change in induction of these markers?” he said.
Source: Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise in humans. If you hve questions regarding your nutritional health, contact Dr. LoGiudice for an in depth nutritional and chiropractic exam.
