thermogenesis Is working standing up too expensive? It could cost you as little as $10 2:33 PM 0 Spending too much time sitting down is clearly unnatural, particularly if you sit down on very comfortable chairs . Sitting down per se is ...
vitamin D What is a reasonable vitamin D level? 6:44 AM 0 The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase ...
sudden cardiac arrest Cortisol response to stress is much more elevated with ingestion of glucose than with protein or fat 7:14 AM 0 Cortisol is a hormone that does a number of different things; a jack of all trades among hormones, so to speak. It tells the liver to produc...
visceral fat Cheese consumption, visceral fat, and adiponectin levels 5:55 PM 0 Several bacteria feed on lactose, the sugar found in milk, producing cheese for us as a byproduct of their feeding. This is why traditionall...
research Blood glucose variations in normal individuals: A chaotic mess 6:55 AM 0 I love statistics. But statistics is the science that will tell you that each person in a group of 20 people ate half a chicken per week ove...
research Blood glucose control before age 55 may increase your chances of living beyond 90 7:07 PM 0 I have recently read an interesting study by Yashin and colleagues (2009) at Duke University’s Center for Population Health and Aging. (The ...
vitamin D Vitamin D levels: Sunlight, age, and toxicity 3:00 PM 0 Calcidiol is a pre-hormone that is produced based on vitamin D3 in the liver. Blood concentration of calcidiol is considered to be a reliabl...
vitamin D How much vitamin D? Vitamin D Council's recommendations 11:09 AM 0 Since my recent post on problems related to vitamin D deficiency and excess I received several questions. I have also participated in sever...
research Growth hormone: The fountain of youth 5:52 PM 0 Growth hormone, also known as human growth hormone, seems to be implicated in a number of metabolic conditions associated with aging, and, m...