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Omega-3 EFAs Help Ease Anxiety: Meta-Analysis Shows
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements may help ease anxiety symptoms in people diagnosed with a range of physical and mental health problems, according to authors of a meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open. The authors sought to determine changes in severity of anxiety symptoms after omega-3 supplementation. The study analyzed findings from 19 different trials. The ...
Sports Report: Market Research on Sports Nutrition
Various market researchers have studied the sports nutrition market, both to make predicts as to how the market will fare in the future and to highlight the state of industry at present. What follows are links to several current reports from various sources: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/06/08/1010159/0/en/Global-Sports-Nutrition-Market-Size-Statistics-Estimated-to-Reach-45-27-Billion-by-2022-Zion-Market-Research.html https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/sports-nutrition-market https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/sports-nutrition-market Feature
How Skin Ages, Loses Fat and Immunity
In a study published in Immunity on December 26, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers and colleagues show how fibroblasts develop into fat cells and identify the pathway that causes this process to cease as people age. “We have discovered how the skin loses the ability to form fat during aging,” said ...
The Key to Heart Health Begins in Childhood
Evolving evidence shows that heart healthy habits in adults are rooted in the environments we live in in early childhood, representing a window of opportunity in young children to focus on health promotion and potentially prevent disease in adulthood, according to a review paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology., will ...
Herbs Found to Help Vanquish Lyme Bacterium
According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year, approximately 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed. A spirochete bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi causes the disease, and blacklegged ticks are responsible for the majority of North American cases of the illness. Oils from garlic and several other common herbs and medicinal plants show strong activity ...
News Flash on Hot Flashes: They are Lasting Longer
Menopause symptoms are not just for midlife anymore, according to a new Mayo Clinic study recently published in the Journal of the North American Menopause Society. The study, conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic gathered data from nearly 5,000 women. When asked whether they experienced any symptoms commonly associated with menopause, such as hot flashes ...
Probiotics Can Protect the Skeletons of Older Women
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have demonstrated that probiotics, dietary supplements with health-promoting bacteria, can be used to affect the human skeleton. Among older women who received probiotics, bone loss was halved compared to women who received only a placebo. The research opens the door to a new way to prevent fractures among ...
Dosing and Delivery in the Cognitive Health Category
With a broad range of ages using them, cognitive health supplements are made versatile to stay relevant with consumers. “I think we’ll continue to see delivery methods increasingly match customer needs,” said Cheryl Myers, chief of scientific affairs and education at Wisconsin-based EuroPharma, Inc. “For example, there are many older individuals (and some not-so-old individuals) ...
Is Chewing Gum the Next Gummies?
A new single-blind, placebo-controlled randomized study examined how vitamins performed in a chewing gum. The research team gave 15 participants two gums containing supplement ingredients—vitamins—to try to determine how they delivered those vitamins. They looked at the release of vitamins from the chewing gums into the saliva and then sought to identify the acute impact ...
High Glucose Spikes are Common in “Healthy” People
The amount of glucose circulating in the blood changes throughout the day and night, and it is influenced by the food we eat, activity, hormones, health and more. It is well known that glucose levels above or below certain thresholds can cause damage to organs; however, a new study published July 24 in the open ...
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