While gold, silver, and platinum are regarded as the world’s most precious metals, some minerals are just as precious, but for health reasons. Minerals are those elements on the earth and in foods that our bodies need for proper development and functioning. Essential minerals are a class of minerals that
Magnesium is an essential mineral that is naturally present in a variety of foods. It plays an important role in many enzyme systems that regulate a wide range of biochemical reactions in the body, the major ones being in bone health, calcium absorption, diabetes, and heart health. It also plays
Calcium is generally associated with bone health and healthy teeth. Contrary to their appearance, bone is living tissue that is constantly being broken down and build up again, depending on the calcium contents and needs of the body. The bone production of healthy individuals, who get enough dietary calcium and
In health circles, NAC is the internationally recognized abbreviation for N-Acetylcysteine, which is quite a mouthful to say, read, or write. NAC is an important and low-cost supplement that has been used in medicine for years, when treating a wide range of acute and chronic conditions. Although well known for
Advances in technology may someday into the future determine your daily nutritional needs with a simple test at home, where for example a pinprick of blood could indicate nutritional deficiencies. An app on your cellphone would then, for instance, tell you to cut down on the red meat to twice
Vitamins are essential nutrients that the body requires in small quantities daily from our diet, since the body can’t make them. Vitamins are classified in two broad categories, namely fat soluble, such as vitamins A, D, E, and K, or water soluble, such as the rest of the vitamins (B
What is vitamin D? The natural form of vitamin D is produced in the skin when energy from ultraviolet B rays (UVB) in sunlight converts cholesterol in the cells of the skin into vitamin D3, a steroid hormone. The natural form of vitamin D from sunlight or fatty animal sourced
Conflicting opinions in articles available on the internet about the best time to take probiotic supplements can easily lead to confusion. One school of thought claims that probiotics should be taken first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Another school of thought claims that the absolute best time
Health Insight has requested Bioflora, the manufacturers of Intestiflora (widely used by our clients) to shed some light on the claim that this strain of probiotic bacteria is from human origin. We received the following response from Dr Ela Johannsen: “Why should the probiotic bacteria be of human origin? Human
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