Essential Vitamins And Minerals

Vitamin B12 Boosts Brain Benefits Simple Dietary Changes May Help Ward Off Brain Volume Loss in Old Age Vitamin B12 may help protect against brain volume loss in the elderly. That's according to researchers from the University of Oxford in England. The scientists studied 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87 without memory or thinking problems. The average age of participants was 73, and 54% were women. The researchers collected blood samples to check the levels of vitamin B12, a nutrient found in meat, fish, and milk. Participants underwent yearly brain scans using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), memory...

Research scientists continue to discover new benefits to vitamin D3. They have also found that vitamin D3 is technically not a vitamin, but a hormone...a potent hormone that can play many vital roles in maintaining your good health. This recent research has lead to the conclusion that vitamin D3 is more important than we ever believed. Let's take a look at what vitamin D3 is and the role it plays in your body. One difference between vitamin D3 and other vitamins is this: We, along with others in the mammal kingdom, can create Vitamin D3 by exposing ourselves to direct...

The way we eat has changed more in the past 50 years than in the previous 10,000 years. If you took a stroll through the aisles of today's supermarkets, you could count up to 47,000 products -- or more.  A great many of these products turn out to be artificial byproducts of just one acidic food...corn. And corn is far from the healthy vegetable that many people believe it is. Corn can wreak havoc on blood sugar levels, due to its high carbohydrate content. This is particularly the case for diabetics. Corn can also cause or aggravate allergies, lead to...

Astaxanthin: The Antioxidant 6,000 Times Stronger than Vitamin C! Aging. No matter what the health problem is, if you dig deep enough, that one word is making the problem worse. From heart / cardiovascular disease and cancer to stroke, joint pain, mental fog, and fatigue...and countless other maladies...AGING DOES NOT HELP ANY SICKNESS IMPROVE...ZERO, ZIPPO, NADA. This has, of course, been known for centuries. And it has been the cause of many ideas, searches, treatments, and theories to find a way to slow aging down, or even stop and reverse it. From ancient alchemists' attempts at developing an “elixir of...

How could that above statement be true? After all, we are what we eat, right? Yes -- and that's the problem. Here's why. Did you know... The way we eat and the food we eat has changed more in the past 50 years than in the previous 10,000 years? Our ancestors would have a hard time understanding modern food. For example, many of the essential foods in our diet are genetically engineered -- and the food industry is moving mountains to pass laws that will not require them to label these foods as “Frankenfoods.” In their mad scramble for profits,...

 In the past decade, the world of nutritional supplements has been rocked by a wave of exciting new breakthroughs, seemingly one after another. Many powerful and efficient supplements have been introduced, or have finally come into the public's awareness: astaxanthin, resveratrol, glutathione, and more...much more that are living up to their promise and delivering results...real results...in the lives of countless people. This trend is exciting, and just beginning. Research scientists are always making more discoveries, and are without a doubt on the verge of even more significant findings that promise to skyrocket health benefits to a far higher level than...

What you need to know about Vitamin E The real facts about this life-saving nutrient Ever since it was discovered almost 100 years ago, vitamin E has created excitement for its promises to be on the front lines of the battle against disease-prevention. Specifically, vitamin E has been shown to: Protect our skin from sun damage and aging Offer reliable protection from free radicals. Free radicals attack our cells and do so much of the damage relating to aging. Due to its antioxidant abilities, vitamin E can annihilate free radicals, dead in their tracks. Offer protection against heart disease, and...

What You Need to Know About Vitamin C In one of his earliest explorations across the Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Columbus noticed that many of his sailors appeared sick...very sick. They were lethargic, with aching limbs and debilitating fatigue. These symptoms were so pronounced that Columbus was ready to have the sick men walk the plank when a lush, verdant island suddenly appeared. The sick people begged to be let out on the dry land, and Columbus agreed. Once there, the sailors devoured strange fruits and plants, and a miracle unfolded: they began to heal from whatever affliction had caused their...

The two major forms of vitamin D are vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) and vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). Both are actually inactive precursors of active metabolites that are important for calcium metabolism in humans. This even includes the cholecalciferol created by our bodies via ultraviolet light stimulation. Both D2 and D3 are converted to the other metabolites by the liver and the kidneys and are similar in chemical structure to testosterone, as both are derived from cholesterol with a steroid chemical backbone. Vitamin D's Role in the Body People with a vitamin D deficiency can actually develop a condition called rickets where the...