Dr. Jaffe comments on article published in Heart journal online on May 23rd, 2012

Calcium supplements should be taken ”with caution,” Swiss researchers warn, as they may raise your risk of heart attack. Calcium supplementation recently came under attack when Swiss researchers came out with a study that says taking calcium supplements can raise risk of heart attack. At face value this research raises doubt if not concern. The context of research is important …

The Truth About Vitamin E

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 …

Proving the Superiority of PERQUE Life Guard

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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 …