Surprising research on lower mortality.

Surprising research on lower mortality.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
  This population-based study included 495 077 women and men with an average age of 56.6 years (Li ZH, et al., 2020). The researchers wanted to find out if glucosamine would affect mortality. They evaluated all-cause mortality and mortality due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory and digestive disease. The average...
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What damage can high blood sugar and oxidative stress cause?

It is common knowledge that having high blood sugar levels is damaging to our health, but in what way is it harmful to us?   Having high blood glucose levels causes oxidation of glucose and a reaction causing glycation of proteins.  These reactions cause tissue damage and create a lot...
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Stress shortens your telomeres...but why does that matter?

Stress shortens your telomeres...but why does that matter?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
"A telomere is a region of repetitive nucleotides consisting of DNA and RNA at the end of a chromosome that protects the chromosome from deterioration. Shorter telomeres are known to determine cell longevity and shorter telomeres lead to a shorter lifespan.  Telomeres can therefore give us information on how fast...
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3 Important Benefits of Flax Seeds

3 Important Benefits of Flax Seeds

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
One of the impressive health benefits of flax seeds is the ability to decrease blood pressure (Rodriguez-Leyva D, et.al., 2013). In a double-blinded, placebo-controlled study, 30 g of flax seeds daily for 6 months reduced the systolic blood pressure of 10 mm Hg and the diastolic blood pressure with 7...
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An enjoyable way to reduce stress and improve immunity.

Posted by:  tissuerecovery Admin
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Omega 3 fatty acid and prostate cancer

If you have watched the news lately, you have probably heard about a study linking increased risk of prostate cancer with omega 3 fatty acids ( Brasky TM, et al. 2013). The media, looking for big headlines, presented this as a new truth about omega 3 fat. Supposedly, it was...
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