Is Vitamin E bad for you? Looking at the volume of research pouring in, it may seem that way. A vitamin that was once thought to be useful is now not? How can that be? The truth is Vitamin E is good for you. It’s the limited nature by which research is presented that creates unnecessary confusion and concern. In …
Is all the sugar the same?
A myth resurrected remains a myth. Dr. Russell Jaffe answers the question: Is sugar, just sugar? In the 1960s the nutrition world was told that a ‘miracle’ had been discovered in the form of fructose and particularly high fructose corn syrup. The miracles depended upon two premises: First, that fructose was able to fool the body because it did not …
Vitamin D and Antioxidants May Help to Reverse Glucocorticoid Resistance
Abstract: Glucocorticoid resistance or insensitivity is a major barrier to the treatment of several common inflammatory diseases-including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute respiratory distress syndrome; it is also an issue for some patients with asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Several molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance have now been identified, including activation of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathways …
PERQUE Vessel Health Guard and PERQUE Life Guard can help with migraines
Background: Migraine is a prevalent and debilitating disease that may, in part, arise because of disruption in neurovascular endothelia caused by elevated homocysteine. This study examined the homocysteine-lowering effects of vitamin supplementation on migraine disability, frequency and severity and whether MTHFRC677T genotype influenced treatment response. Methods: This was a randomized, double-blind placebo, controlled trial of six months of daily vitamin …
Benefits from Vitamins E yet not from d-alpha-tocopheryl acetate (or succinate) by Dr. Andrew Saul
The first course I ever taught was entitled “Forgotten Research in Medicine.” That was in 1976. Even by that time, there had been a strikingly large number of impeccably qualified researchers and physicians who had left drug-and-cut medicine behind in favor of a naturopathic approach. I had seen so much well-documented evidence for the safety and effectiveness of therapeutic nutrition …
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Vitamin D toxicity, policy, and science
Vieth R. Vitamin D toxicity, policy, and science. Bone Miner Res. 2007 Dec;22 Suppl 2:V64-8. Departments of Nutritional Sciences, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. The serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration that is the threshold for vitamin D toxicity has not been established. Hypercalcemia is the hazard criterion for vitamin D. Past policy of the Institute …
Diabetes Type I and Type II Outcome Study
Tolerance loss in diabetics: association with foreign antigen exposure We read with interest the article by Dr Lawlor’s group relating milk avoidance to insulin resistance [1]. Cow’s milk has also been causally associated with Type 1 diabetes [2]. However, the pathogenic basis of these associations remains unclear. We hypothesize that the possible role of cow dairy in causing/ accentuating the …
Do antioxidants like vitamins E and beta-carotene help or harm people with Cardiovascular diseases?
In The Lancet medical journal (14 June 2003; 361: 2017-2023), Marc Penn and colleagues conclude that antioxidants are not helpful and may be harmful in cardiovascular diseases.