Health Impact II Study Finds Seniors Who Take Certain Dietary Supplements Live Longer, More Independent Lives

As the American population ages and U.S. healthcare costs skyrocket, taking certain dietary supplements could help seniors live independently longer, and offset healthcare expenditures by billions of dollars, a new study by The Lewin Group finds.

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Vitamin C Found to Help with Exercise-Induced Asthma

Abstracted by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS, from “Ascorbic acid supplementation attenuates exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in patients with asthma“ in the May 2007 issue of Respiratory  Medicine. Posted December 11, 2008. Read more »

Resveratrol May Help with Liver Health

Abstracted by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS, from “Resveratrol alleviates alcoholic fatty liver in mice” in the October 2008 issue of the American Journal of Physiology – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. Posted December 11, 2008. Read more »

L-Ornithine May Help with Fatigue

Abstracted by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS, from “l-Ornithine supplementation attenuates physical fatigue in healthy volunteers by modulating lipid and amino acid metabolism “, in the November 2008 issue of Nutrition Research. Posted December 11, 2008. Read more »

Vitamin D Found to Influence Breast Cell Health

Abstracted by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS, from “Vitamin D from Dietary Intake and Sunlight Exposure and the Risk of Hormone-Receptor-Defined Breast Cancer”, American Journal of Epidemiology, October, 2008. Posted December 5, 2008. Read more »

The Alternative Approach: Singing the Praises of Vitamin C – If Used Right

By Patrick Massey, M.D., Ph.D., Daily Herald columnist, December 1, 2008.  Posted December 5, 2008. View all “Alternative Approach” columns by clicking on the Alternative Approach link. Read more »

Old Rats Shape Up with L-Carnitine

Abstracted by Marcia J. Egles, MD, from “L-Carnitine Supplementation and Physical Exercise Restore Age-Associated Decline in Some Mitochondrial Functions in the Rat”, The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 63:1027-1033 (2008). Posted December 5, 2008. Read more »

Low Vitamin D Linked to High Blood Pressure

Abstracted by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS, from “Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Risk of Incident Hypertension Among Young Women”, Hypertension, November 1, 2008.  Posted December 4, 2008. Read more »

Vitamin E in Combination with Selenium Shown to Induce Self-Destruction of Human Prostate Cancer Cells

Abstracted by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD, Biochem, from “Combination of Vitamin E and Selenium Causes an Induction of Apoptosis of Human Prostate Cancer Cells by Enhancing Bax/Bcl-2 Ratio”, The Prostate 68:1624 ^1634 (2008). Posted December 4, 2008. Read more »