Cinnamon Supplementation Helps Reverse Pre-Diabetic State in High-Risk Individuals
The research I’m citing today comes from journal Lipids in Health and Disease (BioMedical Central), published on June 12, 2017. The study showed that supplementation with 3 grams per day of cinnamon for 16 weeks improved blood sugar regulation and other important cardiovascular risk factors in individuals with pre-diabetes or more accurately, individuals with metabolic […]
Magnesium Supplements Reduces High Blood Pressure
Today I am citing a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in September 2017. The study was designed to examine how magnesium supplementation reduces high blood pressure in individuals who were prediabetic, had insulin resistance or had noncommunicable chronic diseases. What studies were included by the researcher? The study reviewed all the […]
Can Almonds Increase HDL(the Good Cholesterol)?
The research I am citing today was published in the Journal of Nutrition on August 1st, 2017. The study included 48 men and women with elevated LDL-cholesterol (the bad cholesterol that narrows arteries leading to heart attack and stroke). The intention was to compare the impact on LDL-cholesterol and HDL(the good cholesterol) of consuming either […]
Exercise Reduces High Blood Pressure and Prehypertension
The research article I’m reviewing today was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association on February 1, 2013. The study reviewed all the available clinical trials that examined the effect of exercise on blood pressure. The researchers included 93 human clinical trials, involving over 5,000 total patients (3401 in the exercise groups and […]
Converting White Fat into Brown Fat | Global Integrative Medicine Academy
It seems every way we look at it, your body is more than willing to work with you if you will work with it. Another example of this was published in August, 2016, in the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism. It has recently been discovered that during exercise, muscle cells release a chemical […]