by mandy | Aug 3, 2020 | Diet, Evidence Based, Nutrition
Exposure to toxins may have detrimental effects on humans and animals, even at low concentrations. Specific probiotic and bacterial strains may have properties that enable them to bind to toxins we are exposed to in our environment, such as food and water. Different strains vary in their ability to bind and detoxify, often times relying [...]
by mandy | Jul 27, 2020 | Nutrition, Recipes
Let Food Be Thy Medicine I was looking for something different eat that is quick, healthy, hypoallergenic and has all the nutrients my body needs to be healthy, while also support healing the leaky gut. So I pulled out my famous gut-friendly pumpkin banana muffins. This is delicious with a spoon of pumpkin seed butter and [...]
by mandy | Jul 25, 2020 | Diet, Evidence Based, Nutrition
For this review, I want to summarize the findings on the dietary carbohydrate to protein ratio and how it may influence body composition and blood lipid profiles in adult women. There is evidence that older adults experience age-related changes in body composition, such as increase in body fat and decrease in lean body mass (Kim, [...]
by mandy | Jun 22, 2020 | Diet, Evidence Based, Nutrition, Science-Based
I was interested in learning more about vitamin E supplementation to address oxidative stress. Dr. Tan wrote a nice summary of Vitamin E in his book “The Truth about Vitamin E”. Vitamin E is a family of eight separate but related molecules, and that includes four tocopherols (delta, gamma, alpha and beta) and four tocotrienols [...]
by mandy | Jun 22, 2020 | Diet, Evidence Based, Nutrition, Science-Based
Zinc is a very interesting mineral. It is also one I commonly see low in hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA). It plays an important role in facilitating hundreds of biochemical reactions. Due to its role in enzymatic function, it can impact metabolic pathways such as carbohydrate, protein, nucleic acid, and lipid metabolism. It is also [...]
by Jaber Rony | Dec 13, 2019 | Evidence Based, Nutrition
The term antioxidant paradox refers to the theory that giving large doses of antioxidants to human subjects have little to no preventative/ therapeutic effect, as evidenced by recent studies (Halliwell, 2013). Antioxidants supplementation is a popular intervention in nutrition and health, and it is based on the idea that reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a [...]
