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  The following research included 237 036 men 57% and 179 068 women with the average age of 62 years (Huang J, et al., 2020). The researchers compared the risk of mortality between animal source protein and plant-based protein adjusting for other risk factors. They found that greater dietary plant...

  This research evaluated the effect of ingesting either monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat, or water as a control on glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity and insulin clearance in seven overweight or obese, non-diabetic participants (Xiao C, et al., 2006). Olive oil is high in monounsaturated fat, walnuts are...

  Fat is not metabolized to glucose and does not require insulin to be metabolized. Instead, a ketogenic diet (high fat diet) provides energy from ketones. Eating only fat will for that reason not increase the blood glucose level. That may sound good but let us look at what happens....

  Air pollution with exposure to fine particles has shown to affect brain volume. The following study investigated if the potential neurotoxic effects of exposure to these fine particles could be modified by ingestion of omega 3 fatty acids (Chen C, et al., 2020). The participants were 1,315 women 65-80...

  Elevated blood glucose levels cause tissue damage and increase inflammation. You don’t have to have diabetes to see the damaging effects of high blood glucose levels after a meal. Your body may be able to maintain fasting blood glucose within a normal range for a while even if you...

  Both the amount of time we sleep and the quality of sleep we have is very important. The following research investigated how sleep deficiency and sleep disturbance may affect the risk for dementia and all-cause mortality (Robbins R, et al., 2021). 2812 participants in the USA age 65 years...

  We know that physical activity helps to transfer blood glucose into the cells, but you may be surprised what a difference it can make. The following research investigated that more in detail (Burns AM, et al., 2021).   The participants were 10 healthy 24-year-old men. Forearm glucose uptake was...

  As more and more people live longer neurological problems are getting more and more common. There are however things you can do to help protect yourself. The earlier you start the better it is since prevention is always easier than treating a neurological problem. Berberine is an interesting plant...

  This study included 28 756 individuals, half of them lived in England and the other half lived in China (Ma,Y, et al., 2020). The participants from England were 50 years old or older, and the ones from China were 45 years old or older. You may have heard that...

  Would you like to avoid getting a kyphosis of your thoracic spine which is an exaggerated outward curvature of the upper back, or if you have one, improve it? The following research showed that to be possible. This was a study were the participants either participated in 8 months...

  In this study a small group of healthy elderly adults were put through a depletion phase for vitamin B6 (Maydani SN, et al., 1991). The reason was to find out how it would affect their immune system. B-6 depletion significantly decreased the percentage and total number of lymphocytes, a...

  This study was conducted to evaluate the preventive effect of EPA and DHA on cardiovascular disease (Bernasconi AA, et al., 2020). EPA and DHA are the active ingredients of omega 3 fat. The research included 135,267 participants from 40 studies. The researchers found that supplementation with EPA and DHA...

  Mitochondrial disorders play a central role in many diseases. The mitochondria is the energy producing entity of the cells. These researchers explained that it is vitally important for the cells to have optimal levels of glutathione in the mitochondria to prevent cellular dysfunction (Mari M, et al., 2020). A...

  Glutathione is known as a major antioxidant the body is making, but it does much more than protect us from free radical damage.  Altered intracellular glutathione levels are observed in a wide range of pathologies, including several viral infections, as well as in aging (Fraternale A, et.al., 2017). This...

  Glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin have both been used for many years to support joint cartilage. Especially glucosamine sulfate has shown some impressive research stopping further cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritic knees ( Reginster JY, et al. 2002, Pavelka K, et al. 2002). The following study investigated another area of interest,...

  Oxidized LDL (low density lipoprotein) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. How can a cardiovascular risk factor affect joint cartilage? The following study included 203 patients and 194 controls (Erturk C, et al., 21017). Plasma concentrations of oxidized LDL and oxidative stress markers were measured.    ...

  This study included non-critically ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (Carrasco-Sánchez F, et al., 2021). 11,312 patients were categorized into three groups according to their blood glucose levels: Less than 140 mg/dL, between 140-180 mg/dL and more than 180 mg/dL. Only 2128 of these patients had diabetes. This is what...

  It is not only important to have adequate blood supply to the heart, but also very important to have good blood supply to every organ and tissue in the body. If we want a healthy muscle skeletal system, we need to have good micro circulation. The small blood vessels,...

This formula contains Berberine and Green Tea and was designed to support a healthy glucose metabolism and the cardiovascular system. It also exhibits anti inflammatory and antiviral activities.

  It is well established that oxidized LDL cholesterol (oxidized low density lipoprotein) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. This research was a randomized, crossover, controlled feeding trial (Wang L, et al., 2020). The participants were 45 men and women, aged 21-70 years. They were overweight or obese and...