Articles by Shari Barbanel
Gut Microbes Could Unlock the Secret to Healthy Aging
Bacteria and other microorganisms in the digestive tract are linked with dozens of health conditions including high blood pressure, high blood lipids and body mass index (BMI) according to research presented at the 2020 ESC Congress. “Our study indicates that microbiota might have an important role in maintaining health and could help us develop novel ...
Integrative Healthcare Symposium Announces New Dates for 2021
Diversified Communications, organizer of the Integrative Healthcare Symposium, has determined that the continued and long-term magnitude of the public health and safety issues caused by COVID-19 requires the postponement of the event until May 2-4, 2021 at the New York Hilton Midtown, NY. In the last five months, the health care industry and community have ...
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 ...
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