Posts Tagged ‘vitamin E’ | Friday, February 24th, 2012  In 2005, a well-publicized study came out showing that taking high doses of vitamin E could actually do you harm. Here I’ll address that study and give you what I consider to be the bottom-line health advice regarding the antioxidant vitamin E.
To the study in question. Researchers looked at 19 previous studies dating back to 1966. The grand total of patients involved in these trials eclipsed 135,000. They found … Read More | Thursday, February 23rd, 2012  It has been a rough decade for vitamin E. The evidence hasn’t, overall, been too favorable for taking this essential nutrient alone to prevent things like heart disease. In fact, the news has been starkly negative at times. Here is a quick two-part article about what you should know, based on the past decade, regarding vitamin E.
About one-third of all U.S. adults, and half of everyone over 55, take … Read More | Friday, February 10th, 2012  Loss of bladder control is so common that studies have suggested that as many as four in 10 people get one case of urinary incontinence a year — and 14% get it every day. Up to 20 million Americans suffer from incontinence; roughly 75% are women. Control over your bladder can slip just like vision starts to fade or your movement starts to slow. This story addresses this common issue … Read More
Tags: Alzheimers Disease, bladder control, Bromelain, Diabetes, flaxseed oil, goldenseal, kegal, magnesium, Natural Remedies, soy isoflavones, stroke, Urinary Incontinence, uva ursi, vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc Posted in General Health | No Comments » | Wednesday, February 1st, 2012  Your immune system consists of special tissues (i.e. bone marrow, lymph nodes), organs (i.e. thymus gland, spleen, tonsils), and cells (lymphocytes or specialized white blood cells) and unique chemicals such as antibodies and interferon. Older adults are prone to infections and are at a much higher risk of dying from them than are younger adults. Let’s take a look at the major links between your immune system and nutrients.
There … Read More | Monday, January 16th, 2012  One vitamin is joining the debate around diabetes treatment. Should a type 2 diabetic seek help with vitamin E? As you’ll see here, the evidence is far from conclusive.
Vitamin E is a powerful fat-soluble antioxidant nutrient. Part of its action in our bodies may involve the way insulin is used, as well as the metabolism of blood glucose. For these reasons, vitamin E has been proposed as a potential … Read More | |
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