Category: Health
Meta-study: a high vitamin D level helps you live longer
People with high levels of vitamin D in their blood probably live longer than people with low amounts of vitamin D in their blood, according to an epi [...]
Cold brewed white tea contains most antioxidants
In Taiwan it's all the rage, and it's catching on elsewhere too: making tea by steeping leaves in cold water. Test-tube studies done at the Italian Un [...]
Study: Echinacea helps against colds
Plant extracts of Echinacea purpurea increase immune cell production during a viral cold infection and help make the suffering more bearable. Nutritio [...]
Testicle size worries? Try a cycle of tamoxifen + Andriol
Taking steroids by definition reduces your body's own testosterone production, underground handbooks will tell you. Well, not necessarily. In the 1990 [...]
Stressed out? Your cortisol level will explode after training
If you are experiencing a lot of psychological stress in your life – for example because there's been a death in your close family, you're going throu [...]
Live ten years longer with just one multivitamin pill per day
If you take a multivitamin and mineral supplement regularly you're likely to live ten years longer. At least, you'd think so if you read a study from [...]
Heavily taxed heart beats more slowly with fish oil
Fish oil may help to improve performance during extreme aerobic exercise, when the heart is performing at its peak ability. We deduce this from a stud [...]
In vitro study: fish oil is anti-estrogenic
High doses of the fish fatty acid DHA may help protect the body from the impact of the female sex hormone estradiol. This is suggested by research don [...]
Life-extending effect of virgin olive oil shown in fat rats
Westerners are getting fatter and fatter. If they were to get most of their dietary fat from cold-pressed olive oil they might not lose weight, but th [...]
Milk, the white ladykiller
You can't have missed it, it's all over the news media: the epidemiological study that researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden published recently [...]
Animal study: low-carb diet with lots of saturated fats cuts life expectancy
Not all nutritionists are happy with the idea, but it does look as though a low-carb diet can be healthy. Take a look in our archives. But that low-ca [...]
Optimal fruit and veg intake is a pound a day, says meta-study
People who want to live as long as possible should eat about a pound a day of fruit and vegetables. Chinese and American nutritionists draw this concl [...]
More fish fatty acids, more IGF-1
A diet that is relatively high in fish fatty acids is not only healthy, but also ergogenic. It raises the concentration of the anabolic hormone IGF-1 [...]
Physical exercise delays molecular aging by ten years
If you are physically very active, the chances are your genetic material is ten years younger than it would be if you spent your life as a couch pota [...]
Daily dose of Echinacea lengthens life expectancy
If you give mice two milligrams of Echinacea purpurea every day from adolescence onwards, the animals reach a greater age, researchers at McGill Unive [...]