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Supplements for Healthy People
Posted by admin on 09 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Vitamins, Supplements
Why take vitamin and mineral supplements? Supplements may help healthy people for a number of reasons. They can help prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies when the diet is not adequate to provide all necessary nutrients. They can also provide amounts of nutrients larger than the diet can provide. Larger amounts of some nutrients may help to protect against future disease. Many of these nutrients will be briefly discussed here. However, for more information, refer to individual nutrient articles. Continue Reading »
Nutritional supplements that may be helpful for seasonal affective disorder
Posted by admin on 18 May 2008 | Tagged as: Disorders, Supplements
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is an extreme form of common seasonal mood cycles, in which depression develops during the winter months.
How seasonal changes cause depression is unknown, but most of the research into mechanisms and treatment has focused on changes in levels of the brain chemicals melatonin and serotonin in response to changing lengths of exposure to light and darkness. Continue Reading »
Why take vitamin and mineral supplements?
Posted by admin on 16 May 2008 | Tagged as: Minerals, Vitamins, Supplements
Supplements may help healthy people for a number of reasons. They can help prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies when the diet is not adequate to provide all necessary nutrients. They can also provide amounts of nutrients larger than the diet can provide. Continue Reading »
Nutritional supplements that may be helpful for low back pain
Posted by admin on 10 May 2008 | Tagged as: Supplements, Back Pain
Three double-blind trials have investigated the effects of supplementing a combination of the enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin for seven to ten days on severe low back pain with or without accompanying leg pain. Eight tablets per day were given initially in all trials, but in two trials the number of pills was reduced to four per day after two to three days.
One of these trials reported small, though statistically significant improvements, for some measures in people with degenerative arthritis of the lower spine.People with sciatica-type leg pain had significant improvement in several measures in one trial, while another found the enzymes were not much more effective than a placebo. These trials included chronic low back conditions, so their relevance to acute LBP alone may be limited. Continue Reading »
Nutritional supplements that may be helpful for anemia
Posted by admin on 03 May 2008 | Tagged as: Anemia, Supplements
Deficiencies of iron, vitamin B12, and folic acid are the most common nutritional causes of anemia. Although rare, severe deficiencies of several other vitamins and minerals, including vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and copper, can also cause anemia by various mechanisms. Rare genetic disorders can cause anemias that may improve with large amounts of supplements such as vitamin B1. Continue Reading »
Antioxidants for Sports & Fitness
Posted by admin on 18 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Fitness, Antioxidants, Supplements
Some athletes say that antioxidants help protect the body from free radicals.
What do the advocates say?
Antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, CoQ10, glutathione, and alpha lipoic acid are important supplements for everyone, but especially for those who exercise on a regular basis. The rationale is that exercise is a highly oxidative process and, as a consequence, produces free radicals from aerobic metabolism. Antioxidant compounds help alleviate this process.
There is conflicting evidence whether the best time to supplement with an antioxidant is before or after a workout. Continue Reading »
Nutritional supplements that may be helpful for diabetes
Posted by admin on 17 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Supplements, Diabetes, Nutrition
A variety of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other supplements may help with symptoms and deficiencies associated with diabetes. Continue Reading »