Articles by Shari Barbanel
MUIH Announces Educational Partnership With IM4US
Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) Professional Continuing Education program has announced a new partnership with Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US). MUIH and IM4US have entered this educational collaboration with the shared goal of promoting the use of holistic and integrative approaches to promote wellbeing for underserved individuals and communities. This collaboration expands MUIH’s ...
Dietary Supplement Usage Up Dramatically During Pandemic, New Ipsos-CRN Survey Shows
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has issued results of a COVID-19-focused consumer survey that discovered more than two in five (43 percent) of dietary supplement users have changed their supplement routines since the start of the pandemic. Among those who altered their regimens due to COVID-19, 91 percent report increasing their supplement intake which ...
Vitamin D Twice a Day May Keep Vertigo Away
Taking vitamin D and calcium twice a day may reduce your chances of getting vertigo again, according to a study published in the August 5, 2020, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “Our study suggests that for people with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, taking a supplement of vitamin D ...
Profession Physical Therapy Announces New Virtual Clinical Affiliation Program With the University of Delaware
New York-based Professional Physical Therapy, a provider of outpatient physical and hand therapy and rehabilitation services in the Northeast, announces the modification of their Clinical Affiliation Program to a virtual setting to adjust to the needs of students during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this affiliation program, Professional Physical Therapy teams up with more than 100 schools ...
Multivitamin, Mineral Supplement Linked to Less Severe, Shorter-lasting Illness Symptoms
Older adults who took a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement with zinc and high amounts of vitamin C in a 12-week study experienced sickness for shorter periods and with less severe symptoms than counterparts in a control group receiving a placebo. The findings by Oregon State University (OSU) researchers were published in the journal Nutrients. The research ...
Lipoic Acid Supplements Help Some Obese But Otherwise Healthy People Lose Weight
A compound given as a dietary supplement to overweight but otherwise healthy people in a clinical trial caused many of the patients to slim down, research by Oregon State University (OSU) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) showed. The research, published in the Journal of Nutrition, analyzed the effects of 24 weeks of daily, 600-milligram ...
New Research to Examine How Changes in the Eye May Provide Insight on Cognitive Impairment in People With Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have been awarded a European Union (Horizon 2020) grant to co-lead the RECOGNISED project, together with Professor Rafael Simo, from Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Spain. The research will determine how the retina can be used as a tool to identify and predict cognitive impairment and dementia in people with type ...
Antioxidant-rich Powders From Blueberry, Persimmon Waste Could Be Good For Gut Microbiota
Feeding the world’s growing population in a sustainable way is no easy task. That’s why scientists are exploring options for transforming fruit and vegetable byproducts—such as peels or pulp discarded during processing—into nutritious food ingredients and supplements. Now, researchers reporting in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have shown that blueberry and ...
Aerobic Exercise Could Have the Final Say on Fatty Livers
A new study from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) highlights that fitness may be a more important clinical endpoint for improvement in patients with fatty liver diseases during exercise trials, rather than weight loss. The findings have been published in the medical journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is a condition characterized ...
Heather Grzych, Ayurvedic Practitioner
Heather Grzych, Ayurvedic Practitioner Email: [email protected] Website: http://heathergrzych.com Instagram: @heathergrzych Facebook: @grzychheather Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility. A board-certified ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Grzych is on the board of directors for ...
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