Articles by Shari Barbanel
NIH Awards $1M Clinical Research Grant to NUNM, OSU & Pacific NW National Lab
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), awarded $1 million to Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University (OSU); Helfgott Research Institute at National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM); and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy research laboratory in Richland, WA, for ...
World’s Largest Sleep Study Shows Too Much Shut-eye Can be Bad for Your Brain
Preliminary results from the world’s largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between seven to eight hours per night performed better cognitively than those who slept less, or more, than this amount. Neuroscientists from Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute released their findings in the high-impact journal, SLEEP. The world’s largest sleep ...
Scoliosis Linked to Essential Mineral
Nobody knows why some children’s backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty. Most children diagnosed with scoliosis, or curvature of the spine, have no known risk factors. A new study published in Nature Communications, suggests that the body’s inability to fully utilize the essential dietary mineral manganese might be to blame ...
Limiting Children’s Recreational Screen Time to Less Than Two Hours a Day Linked to Better Cognition
Limiting recreational screen time to less than two hours a day, and having sufficient sleep and physical activity is associated with improved cognition, compared with not meeting any recommendations, according to an observational study of more than 4,500 U.S. children aged 8-11 years old published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. Taken individually, limited screen ...
Artificial Sweeteners Have Toxic Effects on Gut Microbes
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved artificial sweeteners and sport supplements were found to be toxic to digestive gut microbes, according to a new paper published in Molecules by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The collaborative study indicated relative toxicity of six artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, ...
New TRU NIAGEN PRO Launched for Expansive Distribution by Health Care Practitioners
ChromaDex Corp. (Irvine, CA), an integrated, science-based, nutraceutical company devoted to improving the way people age with its flagship ingredient NIAGEN and consumer product TRU NIAGEN, has announced the launch of TRU NIAGEN, a partnership with Natural Partners Fullscript, and a new online NAD education hub for health care practitioners. Tru Niagen Pro, which will be ...
Fish-rich Diets in Pregnancy May Boost Babies’ Brain Development
Women could enhance the development of their unborn child’s eyesight and brain function by regularly eating fatty fish during pregnancy. This is the suggestion from a small-scale study led by Kirsi Laitinen of the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital in Finland, in the journal Pediatric Research. The research supports previous findings that show how ...
First Gut Bacteria May Have Lasting Effect on Ability to Fight Chronic Diseases
New research showing that the first bacteria introduced into the gut have a lasting impact may one day allow science to adjust microbiomes—the one-of-a-kind microbial communities that live in our gastrointestinal (GI) tracts—to help ward off serious chronic diseases. Findings by the University of Alberta (U of A) microbial ecologist Jens Walter and his colleagues ...
NUNM President David Schleich Announces Plans to Retire
National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) President David J. Schleich, PhD, has announced his plans to retire July 1, 2019. During his tenure, NUNM has undergone a period of growth and transformational change, becoming one of the nation’s foremost leaders in integrative natural medicine education, clinical care and research. The NUNM Board of Directors announced ...
How Weight Loss is Linked to Future Health for Older Adults
Studies describing the effects of weight loss on health rarely consider age. However, weight loss during middle age likely has different effects on your health than does weight loss when you’re 65-years-old or older—especially when you’re older than 85. Although some studies have found that weight loss in older adults is generally linked to an ...
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