Inadequate zinc levels contributed to high blood pressure (hypertension) in a new study conducted on mice. The research demonstrated that lower-than-normal zinc levels altered the way the kidneys handle sodium. Zinc deficiency is common in people with chronic...
If you’re suffering from chronic headaches, you may want to consider spending a little more time in the sun—or start taking a quality vitamin D supplement. According to a study from the University of Eastern Finland, vitamin D deficiencies are more common among people...
Rather than loading the nation’s water supplies with the neurotoxin fluoride, we’d be far better off if water policies dictated adding certain nutritional supplements to the water. This is what a reasonable person could deduce from new research by a U.S. university....
The tide is turning. Just a few years ago news headlines ranted that vitamin supplements were of little to no value. In fact Forbes magazine publishes a long list of vitamin supplements they say you don’t need just about every year. Apparently someone forgot to tell...
Researchers in the U.S. have found that high doses of B-vitamin supplements may “completely offset” the damage caused by pollution. The study was small—only involving ten subjects—but the positive results provide hope that one more tool for fighting the...
The antioxidant values of various foods are expressed in ORAC “units.” ORAC is an acronym for “Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity.” ORAC is a the unit of measurement that was developed specifically to have some type of uniform way to measure the differing amounts of...
