Articles by Lisa Schofield
Green Environs May Boost Cognitive Function
Abundant plant life may have a protective effect on cognition, a study finds. Cognitive function at middle age is a strong predictor of whether a person may develop dementia later in life. A 2022 study published in JAMA Open Network led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher has found that increasing ...
Think It Over
The brain support category’s spinoff, nootropics, is getting hot, and all adults can benefit. If you’re relatively healthy all the way up top, you think approximately 50,000 thoughts per day (according to the San Diego Brain Injury Foundation)—despite that it may feel like a lot more than that. Viewed another way, each second, the human ...
Study Shows Consumer Use of Single Vitamins and Minerals
A 2020 study investigated what single vitamins and minerals and other single supplements were used most commonly with condition-specific goals. The authors’ stated objective stated that “vitamin and mineral supplements are widely used for self-care of a variety of medical conditions, but little is known about the specific conditions for which they are used. This ...
It’s Great to Be Single!
While multis provide a foundational supplement, single vitamins and minerals offer a personalized solution. Sure, multivitamin/mineral complexes shine as a foundational supplement for good health and well-being. But single vitamins and minerals, which tend to stay behind the spotlight, are not bit players. According to the newly published CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) ...
Study Sheds New Light on Immune System
Researchers have created a novel new view of how immune cells recognize threats such as viruses. The researchers even believe that their discovery could be used to design better vaccines and to gain a deeper insight into autoimmune diseases and allergies. According to the researchers, their study reveals crucial new knowledge about B cells, which ...
Healthy Immunity: A Balancing Act
As colder weather approaches, consumers are looking to ensure their immune system is functioning optimally. Elizabeth Kim, marketing specialist, Korea Ginseng Corporation, California, noted that according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the timing and severity of the 2022-2023 influenza season will supply the United States with as many as 173 million ...
Probiotics May Boost Immunotherapy Response
According to researchers in their new study published in Cell, probiotic bacteria travel from the gut and establish in melanoma tumors, where they directly stimulate immune cells to make cancer immunotherapy more effective. The study showed that Lactobacillus reuteri stimulates cancer-killing T cells by secreting a compound called indole-3-aldehyde, or I3A. When the researchers gave ...
Go Pro!
Prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics dominate the digestive health market—here’s how to keep up. You may be hard-pressed to find a customer in your store who has not heard about probiotics. What an auspicious opportunity to expand their knowledge about the beneficial bacteria! The gut microbiome and its relationship to health, as well as prebiotics that ...
A Key to Fibromyalgia Pain Discovered
Feeling like we have a degree of control increases tolerance to pain. But for those with fibromyalgia, this doesn’t work and a recent study yielded results that may explain why. Fibromyalgia is a mysterious chronic pain disorder that is difficult to treat—it was added to the World Health Organization’s catalogue in 1994 so there is ...
Easing Pain
Summertime often brings a variety of aches, strains, bug bites and of course, sunburn—mini maladies that often kick inflammation into higher gear. Here’s how to help. The pool. The lake. The beach. The park. The campsite. Sun and burns, bugs and bites, running and tripping, swimming, volleyball spiking and hiking causing muscle strains. Yup, it’s ...
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