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  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...

  Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxidized LDL) plays an important role in atherosclerosis by promoting inflammation and the deposits of lipids in the arterial wall (Trpkovic A, et al., 2014). LDL is especially harmful when it gets oxidized. Glutathione is a very effective antioxidant the body is producing, but we produce...

  Working memory which is the ability to keep goal-relevant information in mind is an important part of memory, especially if you are going to accomplish your goals. This research investigated the reason for this type of memory loss in 11,546 obese people with an age range of 25-34 years...

  The participants of this study were 266 cognitively healthy individuals without type 2 diabetes, 60-64 years of age (Cherbuin N, et al., 2012). MRI scans of their brains were recorded at the beginning of the study and 4 years later. Plasma glucose levels were found to be significantly associated...

  The following research analyzed 40 randomized controlled trials which included 135,267 participants (Bernasconi AA, et al., 2020). The researchers investigated the results of supplementation with EPA and DHA which are the active ingredients in omega 3 fish oil. They looked at cardiovascular outcomes and included myocardial infarction, coronary heart...

  The following research analyzed 243 observational studies and 153 randomized controlled trials to document ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease (Yu GT, et al., 2020). The researchers found 10 suggestions with strong evidence. These were the areas: Education, cognitive activity, high body mass index in late life, high homocysteine levels,...

  Human gammadeltaT lymphocytes are a subset of T cells (white blood cells) and are a first line of defense against microbes and tumors. According to these researchers L-Theanine was found to enhance gammadelta T cell function in individuals supplemented with this amino acid (Bukowski JF, Percival SS, 2008). This...

  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...

  Exercise produces many health benefits, but can it help us live longer, and if it can how many years can we gain? 654,827 individuals were included in this research (Steven SC, et al., 2012).   The study had a median follow up time of 10 years. A physical activity...

  Advanced glycation end-products are considered potent molecules capable of promoting neuronal cell death and participating in the development of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (Bittencourt LS, et al., 2014). Advanced glycation end-products can be formed several ways. Elevated blood glucose can cause the glucose to react with protein...

  Both green coffee extract and guarana contains caffeine in combination with antioxidants. Caffeine is increasing energy and has shown to improve athletic performance , but can it also help sedentary people increase their exercise capacity? That is what the researchers of the following study wanted to find out (Laurence...

  Research has shown that chlorogenic acids the major compounds present in green coffee are highly absorbed and metabolized in humans (Farah A, et al., 2008). In the following study coffee extract was found to induced apoptosis (cell death) in a human prostate carcinoma cell line (Bauer D, et al.,...

  L-Theanine is an interesting substance. It is an amino acid found in tea. Green tea contains both caffeine and L-Theanine while coffee contains caffeine, but no L-Theanine. That’s why coffee and green tea don’t affect us exactly the same way, because L-Theanine makes us feel calm and relaxed and...

  The amino acid L-Theanine an ingredient of tea has been found to improve cognitive functions, verbal fluency, and executive function (Hidese S, et al. 2019). L-Theanine has also shown protective effects from neurotoxicity induced by neurotoxins affecting Parkinson’s disease, in cultured human dopaminergic cell lines (Cho HS, et al.,...

  Berberine a plant compound has shown several health benefits. The following are some interesting examples of that. Berberine suppresses neuroinflammatory responses through activation of the AMP-activated protein kinase (Lu DY, et al., 2010). AMP-activated protein kinase is an enzyme involved in energy metabolism. Berberine has shown to inhibit proinflammatory...

Adequate levels of glutathione are essential for optimal functioning of the immune system in general and especially T cell activation (Morris G, et al., 2014). T cells are immune cells that are programmed to recognize an antigen (foreign particle). Glutathione is also very important for the brain as an antioxidant,...

  When researchers reviewed 21 studies on green tea and how it affected brain functions in humans, they found some interesting things (Manchini E, et al., 2017). The reviewed studies presented evidence that green tea influenced the reduction of anxiety. It also improved cognition as benefits in memory and attention....

There are a lot of recommendations for a ketogenic diet now, as a way of promoting health.Eating a ketogenic diet means that you eat a very high-fat diet.You can also find recommendations for consuming a lot of saturated fat.We have known about the effect of fat for quite some time.Let’s...

  We all know that air pollution is harmful, but did you know that it can result in a smaller brain? The researchers in the following study investigated the toxic effects of air pollution on the brainin 1,315 women aged 65 to 80 years which were free of dementia at...

  In this randomized double-blind control study, the participants were 70-year-old individuals with mild cognitive impairment (Smith D, et al., 2010). Cranial MRI scans were done at the start and finish of the study. The participants were assigned to two groups of equal size. One group was treated with folic...