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Inflammation Is a True Fat Burner: BSO-Induced Glutathione Depletion Wards off Fat Gains on Hypercaloric Diet

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Image 1: This little bugger obviously has too little inflammation going on ;-) Are you "on fire"? Inflammation has been implicated as the root cause of almost all modern disease: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, you name it. Soothing the flames via natural and supplemental anti-oxidants has thusly been proposed and marketed as a solution for many of the aforementioned health problems. Yet, despite tons of vitamins, anti-oxidants and all the other "healthy" stuff we are taking and consuming on a daily basis, the number of morbidly obese people, diabetics and heart attack patients appears to be ever-increasing... how can that be? A possible answer to that question comes from scientists from the Saha Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, Kentucky, US ( Findeisen. 2011 ) - we simply got everything wrong ! The observation that insulin resistance and beta-cell dysfunction usually occur in...

Not All Vitamin C is Created Equal: AA-2βG, a Powerful Vitamin C Analogue From Goji Berries Outperforms Its Cousin L-Ascorbic Acid and Teaches Scientists "Nature Still Knows Best!"

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Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid probably is the best known of all anti-oxidants; and the marketing  departments of the food companies know that and how to make use of its popularity with slogans like "Extra rich in vitamin C", "Extra Vitamin C", etc. Back in the days, when food was still exclusively nourishing and nobody expected it to heal the ailments it, or other food was causing, ascorbic acid was mostly added to products to extend their shelf-life (this is still common practice, btw.). Today, however, the highly processed foodstuff the unhealthy majority of the fast food society, we have become, is consuming on a daily basis contains vitamin C to... well, I guess to be more marketable . After all , scientific evidence for the purported beneficial effects of vitamin C in isolation, i.e. outside of the natural nutrient mix of real food (vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, etc.) is scarce and a recent study ( Zh...
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