Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. A single high dose of vitamin D3 (80,000 IU) increased subject’s vitamin D status by approximately 60% and significantly reduced the serum levels of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6, IL-8 and TNF-α.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. A 1-µg/day increase in dietary vitamin D intake was associated with a beneficial 5-year change in pain severity, pain frequency, and number of pain locations.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. 3 years of daily MVM use led to relative improvements both for memory (P=.04) and for executive function (P=.02) in adults ≥65 years and older.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. 12-week supplementation of a Spirulina maxima 70% ethanol extract (SM70EE) resulted in statistically significant improvements in visual learning (p=0.007) and visual working memory tests (p=0.024).
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Results of this large prospective cohort study show that participants who maintained regular intake pattern overtime of mushroom and algae consumption appeared to be inversely associated with all-cause mortality (HR = 0.86, 95% CI, 0.76, 0.98), as compared with participants who had rare intake patterns.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Study findings show that dietary intake of VC in adults with type 2 diabetes (mean 75.5, 95% CI 72.5-78.4 mg/day) was significantly lower than in adults without diabetes (84.6, 95% CI 83.4-85.7).
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Results of this 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of 600 mg/day supplementation of G. sylvestre show that, at the end of the intervention, 46.7% of patients obtained normal values in A1C.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. When combining all regions, Crohn’s patients had more frequent intake of processed food, soft drinks, and all additives (polysorbate-80, carrageenan, carboxymethylcellulose, aluminosilicates, titanium dioxide, sucralose, total emulsifiers, and total additives) compared to healthy unrelated controls.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Data from the 2017-2018 NHANES datasets of 5641 subjects show that, after fully multivariate adjustments, participants in the highest serum selenium quartile (>2.60 µg/L) had lower LSM values (p< 0.005) compared with participants in the lowest quartile.
Written by Chrystal Moulton, Staff Writer. Ultra-processed food consumption was also associated with a 72% higher risk of distal colon cancer in men (P <0.001).
