59Chewing Gum May Be Effective For Delivering Vitamins
Chewing Gum May Be Effective For Delivering Vitamins
Nearly 15 percent of all chewing gum varieties sold promise to provide health-enhancing supplements to users, so Penn State researchers studied whether two vitamin-supplemented products were effective at delivering vitamins to the body. Their results validate the concept of gum as an effective delivery system for at least some vitamins. The research marks the first ...
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, ...
Non-disease Causes of Inflammation
By Prof. Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG), Huntington University of Health Sciences The role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of disease—as well as a consequence of disease—is well established. Indeed, when we think about chronic inflammation, we generally associate it with various disease states such as arthritis or IBD. While such an association is certainly correct, ...
Water-soluble Eggshell Membrane: Topical Benefits for Skin
There are a myriad of topical products with claims to eliminate wrinkles or otherwise restore your youthful appearance. The fact is that only some of these topical products have some level of benefit, while others are merely high-priced emulsions with little efficacy. This article will focus on one ingredient, water-soluble eggshell membrane, which has solid ...
You Teach, But Do You Lead?
So often, my patients will ask me, what do you eat? What do you do for exercise? What supplements do you take? How did you survive menopause? How do you manage stress? I feel like they want to know because they are looking for a real live example of what it looks like and what ...
Discovering New Alternatives Within Children’s Health
In a world where medical options seem endless, practitioners provide their take on the holistic choices available to children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, 84 percent of U.S. children ages 5-11 are considered to be in “excellent or very good health,” via a 2016 survey. However, ...
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