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New Vitamin D Research

PERQUE Is Always Better! Since day one PERQUE has abided by a strict full disclosure label policy with every supplement we manufacture including our superior PERQUE Vitamin D3 Cell Guard. We go the extra mile to guarantee our quality through 3rd party testing that proves every batch of every PERQUE product is pure, potent, and fully delivers on our label claims. With PERQUE’s full disclosure policy and commitment …

Bone and Joint Health

Musculoskeletal conditions involving both bone and joint affect close to half the US population and costs involving these conditions are huge as well. Global prevalence is slated to escalate due to increasing age, baby boomers and lack of appropriate prevention measures. Awareness campaigns are initiated throughout the country by the federal government, CDC and the Bone and Joint Initiative.  Bone …

Introducing PERQUE Liva Guard Forté!

Introducing PERQUE Liva Guard Forté – a breakthrough reformulation of our original PERQUE Liva Guard. Like PERQUE Liva Guard, this new and improved Forté addition is uniquely formulated to protect the liver, one of the body’s most vital organs, from an increasingly toxic world. Responsible for detoxifying the body of chemicals, medications, supplemental hormones, “bad” fats, alcohol and caffeine, a properly functioning, healthy liver can …

Dr. Jaffe Published in Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients 2nd Edition

PERQUE Integrative Health is excited to announce the second edition release of Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients, the bestselling textbook that puts nutrition back at the heart of medicine. Featured in this anticipated second edition are our very own Dr. Russell Jaffe and Jayashree Mani.  Their contributions to this important text include chapters on treating gluten-related disorders and diabetes …

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Long-term Calcium Supplementation Does not Affect the Iron Status of 12-14 year-old Girls

Nutrient requirements for iron and calcium are higher in adolescent girls around the time of menarche. Calcium supplementation can compromise long-term iron status, but few data are available for adolescent girls. The aim of this randomized, double- blind, placebo controlled study was to evaluate whether calcium supplementation affected iron status in 113 Dutch girls aged 12-14 years. Subjects took 500 …

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Agriculture, Public Health, and Viable Society: Another Eternal Golden Braid by Russell Jaffe Fellow, Health Studies Collegium

Today, many seem to operate in a compartmentalized, disintermediated world. The narrowness of their view is largely the product of a reductionist, mechanistic educational system. In the age of systems biology, quantum physics and interdependence, narrow vision can lead to profound unforeseen consequences. From lead in the water to formaldehyde in the water and air to asbestos to PCBs/PBBs to …

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Progress on cancer risk: Benefit of adequate vitamin D3

Amount of Vitamin D3 in PERQUE Life Guard and PERQUE Bone Guard translates into dramatic cancer risk reduction proven in double blind, controlled study. This month’s issue of AJCN1 reports the astounding result that cancer rates can be reduced by 60% in the first year and a whopping 77% in the second year by taking high doses of vitamin D. …

Ascorbates (Vitamins C) and the C Cleanse

The story of vitamin C goes back to the 18th century to a time when people aboard ships were at sea for periods of time longer than vegetables and fruits could last without proper storage.  A mystery illness spread across the ships with symptoms like bleeding gums, muscle degeneration, spotty skin and bone pain. This was later linked to Vitamin …

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Acting From An Excess of Caution

There is uncertainty about average and peak levels of radioactivity to which some people are being exposed. Radioactive materials cause harm only when not enough antioxidants are present to soak up the extra electrons (energetic free radicals; oxidative stressors) induced by radioactive particles. Radiation is like a sub-molecular fire. There is a temperature above which even the best fire resisting …

The Many Health Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Omega-3 fatty acids such as those found in fish oil supplements may reduce the risk of breast cancer by almost 32%, as determined by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. They followed 35,016 post-menopausal women who had no history of breast cancer. Each woman was asked to fill out a pre-study questionnaire about their use of non-vitamin, …