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Whole Eggs Can Boost Your Beta-Carotene and Vitamin E Uptake from Veggie Salad W/ Oil Dressing by 400%-700%

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Believe it or not raw food vegans, it takes scrambled (whole) eggs to turn your veggie salads into a "superfood", or rather, to have the "super effects" of all its "super vitamins" on your health . The photo shows an egg-recipe from The Organic Dish , take a look ; and don't worry if you're afraid of healthy oats , you can leave out the out cakes under the eggs ;-) I still see people throwing the good yolk of their eggs away. Shame on you!  You're not just throwing the most nutrient dense (also in terms of nutrients per energy content) away, you also sacrifice the beneficial effects of the co-ingestion of eggs with other nutrient dense foods - benefits which have only recently been recognized by the scientific community when people finally starting looking beyond individual foods and nutrients and started to investigate the actual and practically more relevant effects of food matrices. This trend that began with the negative effects of pe...
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Vitamin A, D, E & K - How Much and What Type of Fat Do You Need to Absorb These Fat Soluble Vitamins?

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Some butter on top of the broccoli would allow for the assimilation of the absorption of the 101.6μg vitamin K 623IU vitamin A (various). There are a handful of very basic questions in nutrition science, no one appears to have an answer to. One of these questions, which is directly related to the  well-known fact that the vitamins A, D, E & K are "lipid soluble". This means that they are "solved" and thus made absorbable by fats and oils. The general assumption is thus that the vitamins A, i.e. the retinol and carotenoids, all forms of vitamin D, the tocopherols and -trienols (vitamin s E) and the two major forms of vitamin K, i.e. phylloquinone (K1) and menaquinone (K2) will only be absorbed, if you consume them with a sufficient amount of dietary fat. Now, the questions obviously are (a) is this correct and (b) how much is sufficient . Is there a rule of thumb? Well, I guess if there was one, it would be to consume 5-10g of low PUFA fats with every mea...
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The Vitamins E & Glucose Control | Part X of the "There is More To Glucose Control Than Low Carb" | Plus: Alpha-, Gamma-, Delta-Vitamins E, Where Can You Find Them?

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All nuts are good tocopherol (T) sources, but α- T is predominantly found in peanuts, almonds and sunflower seeds, while γ-T is the major vitamin E in walnuts, pecans and pistachios. Over the past week I've been questioning the potency of various supplement superstars with respect to their ability to improve your, my or any one else's glucose metabolism. We've dealt with protein, peptides, fats, vitamin D, calcium, a whole host of B-vitamins and even the underrated vitamin A (go back and review all of them ). Today I am going to take a look at a "fallen star", vitamin E, once thought of as a panacea and universal protector of your cells, it has, at the latest with publication of the disappointing, if not shocking results of the SELECT trial in 2013 and the mass-media reverberations about increased prostate cancer risk, become the centerpiece (literally) of every anti-vitamin supplement rant. You can learn more about this topic at the SuppVersity Pr...
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Underestimated Vitamin D Sources: Especially Eggs, But Also Chicken, Pork, Fish & Dairy Contain an Overlooked, Physiologically Relevant Amount of Ready-Made 25OHD

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What do you need for a high 25OHD picnic at the beach? Eggs! Regular SuppVersity readers know: The slowly abating vitamin D hype is driving me up the walls. Whenever you search a database for recent articles with the word "vitamin" in it, you are flooded with papers on vitamin D - many of them simplistic adulations without any new data or information. Others are totally irrelevant experiments on cell lines or non-significant epidemiological analyses, where no one can tell you whether the low vitamin D levels are mechanistically or corollarily involved in whatever the scientists are trying to tell you vitamin D was beneficial for. Among all this mess, you can still find a handful of interesting papers. You just have to look close enough to spot gems such as a review by Ovesen, Brot, and Jakobsen (2013). Are Eggs the Best Dietary Vitamin D Source We Have? "Eggs? The best vitamin D source?" I don't have the hubris to say that eggs are the absolute #1, ...
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Vitamin D & PUFA - Is There an Overlooked Antagonism Between Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Vitamin D3?

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Image 1: Do not write off all the "good" foods until you read the full blogpost, including my comment at the end (image by ADAM ) Hah... I knew a newsitem the title of which joins everybody's contemporary "pet supplements", would get your attention. Quasi as a byproduct of one of the hilarious vitamin D + calcium trials in which scientists seek to prevent bone loss and fracture in men and women age 65 and older by supplementation with 700IU (no I am not missing a "0", here) and 500mg calcium per day, Sathi Niramitmahapanya and his colleagues from the  U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University found an interesting and previously not thought of negative correlation between their subjects' plasma levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels and the ratio of poly- to monounsaturated fatty acids in their diets ( Niramitmahapany. 2011 ). Could i...
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