Multivitamins and Minerals
Manganese Manganese has received a lot of attention for its role in bone and joint health. Most multivitamins provide only a few milligrams of manganese – enough to satisfy the minimum requirements – but...
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Zinc and Copper
Zinc and copper work together in the human body, so a good multivitamin should contain adequate quantities of both. A 15:1 zinc-to-copper ratio is considered ideal, with a range of 10 to 30 parts...
Potassium
Multivitamin often include potassium at doses around 100 milligram per tablet, far below the recommended intake of 3,000 milligrams or more. However, individuals with varied, healthful diets usually don’t have a problem obtaining adequate...
Calcium and Magnesium
Calcium Since calcium is such a bulky mineral, manufacturers include only a portion of the RDI in atypical multivitamin. Because calcium plays an important role in bone building, muscle contraction and more, it’s important...
What Should My Multivitamin Contain?
There are no perfect answers about what an ideal multivitamin should contain. Whether you’re a man, woman or child will help determine the product that’s best for you, as will your age, your dietary...
Multivitamin / Mineral Supplements
If you were to take only one of the many dietary supplements available today, which would it be? Many nutrition experts recommend a high-quality multivitamin / mineral supplement (referred to simply as a multivitamin,...
Carnitine Facts
Male Infertility Concentrations of L-carnitine can be found in the epididymis and sperm cells of the male reproductive system. Scientists have found that L-carnitine plays a key role in sperm motility and respiration, making...
Alzheimer’s Disease
Evidence is mounting in favor of carnitine’s effectiveness in slowing the rate of neurological deterioration associated with Alzheimer’s disease. in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study published in the Archive of Neurology in 1992, researchers randomly...
Chronic Fatigue syndrome
Although research is mixed, some studies have found a deficiency of L-carnitine in people with chronic fatigue syndrome. Additionally, researchers have found that carnitine supplementation can help relieve symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. In...
Benefits of Carnitine Supplements
There is compelling scientific evidence that supplemental carnitine offers great cardiovascular benefits. It can not only help prevent heart disease but also helps treat several heart problems, including myocardial ischemia, a lack of oxygen...
Carnitine
Carnitine is a protein-like substance that the body synthesizes from two amino acids, methionine and lysine. Carnitine plays a central role in transporting fatty acids to muscle cells, including heart cells, which convert fatty...
Twelve Important Antioxidants
With so many antioxidants available in health food stores, choosing the right supplements may seem impossible, but it’s not. For starters, consider the following 12 antioxidants, which are readily available in health food stores...
Niacin (Vitamin B3)
The niacin or nicotinic acid form of vitamin B3 has been known to be an effective method for lowering blood cholesterol levels since the 1950s. In the 1970s, the famed Coronary Drug Project demonstrated...
Ester-C
Ester-C is a patented combination of vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) along with various metabolites of vitamin C, such as threonate and aldonic acid. Ester_C is clamined to be better absorbed and utilized compared...
Vitamin C and Common cold
Many claims have been made about the role of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in regard to the prevention and treatment of the common cold. Since 1970, there have been over twenty double-blind studies designed...
Prevention of cardiovascular disease
A high dietary carotene intake is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Beta-carotene may inhibit the oxidative damage to cholesterol and the lining of the arteries that initiates the process of hardening...
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Prevention of cancer
Population-based (epidemiological) studies have clearly demonstrated that a diet high in beta-carotene is protective against a variety of cancers. The evidence is much stronger for beta-carotene than for vitamin A, presumably because beta-carotene exerts...
USANA Optimizer – Vitamin D
It started off as a seasonal product to help get you through the dark winter months. But now that the summer sunshine is just around the corner, how often are you actually going to...
Drinking It UP
Stay Hydrated The liquids you consume have a powerful impact on your metabolism. Some will help it, while others will make it sluggish and may even lead to unhealthy weight gain. The best drink...
Choose Foods Rich in Calcium
Eat Broccoli Sprouts Broccoli sprouts boost enzymes in the body, while detoxifying potential carcinogens. Researchers estimate that broccoli sprouts provide 10 to 100 times the power of mature broccoli to neutralize carcinogens. Doctors found...
Keeping Up That Calcium
Consume Calcium Calcium is an important part of a balanced diet. That’s because calcium is not only important for strengthening bones (which is especially important because it helps prevent musculoskeletal injuries during exercise), it...
Is Your Vitamin Pill Worth It or Worthless? Six Rules to Guarantee Quality
The debate gets heated when people talk about vitamins because some people really believe they work, while others really believe they just make expensive urine. But a recent study looked over thirty years of...
Talk to Your Doctor If You Are Pregnant or Breastfeeding
Pregnancy and breastfeeding will affect your metabolic rate. To support the growth of a fetus, a pregnant woman must take in more calories. Breastfeeding an infant also requires additional caloric intake. Both of these...
Talk to Your Doctor If You Are Diabetic
Other hormones, specifically insulin and glucagon, play an important role in metabolism by affecting glucose levels or the transport of glucose through the body. The more insulin you product – the more sluggish your...
Talk to Your Doctor if Your Suspect Thyroid Problems
Thyroid hormones stimulate many metabolic activities in most body tissues, resulting in an increase in basal metabolic rate. Though it is uncommon, carrying excess (or not enough) weight may be the result of an...
Know Your Body Rhythms
Are you a morning person or an evening person? If you are one extreme or the other, you already know your body’s preferred rhythm, and I hope you’re in sync with it. If you...
A New Standard For Your Life
Ask yourself the following questions: Does your commitment to health – for yourself and for those you care about – extend to studying all product labels to identify those containing synthetic ingredients? Will you...
Zinc
Zinc is an essential component of a wide range of enzymes. It is also necessary for maintaining and replicating genetic material (DNA and RNA), enabling the body to interpret its genetic information. This mineral...
Sulfur
Sulfur is present in every cell of the body, and is especially concentrated in the skin, nails, and hair. Most sulfur in the body is obtained as part of the protein intake, as it...