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Choline Deficiency, Its Consequences and How You Fix It | Part 2 of the "Common Nutrient Deficiencies, Their Health Consequences and How You Can Fix Them" Series

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Don't you tell me there was no fancy cooking with the choline source #1, i.e. egg yolk! What about egg yolk on ricotta cauliflower ravioli filling, for example, | get the recipe @ tastespotting.com If you've read the last installment of this series, you can hardly be surprised that today, we are about to talk or rather I am about to write about choline. Choline is, as Wikipedia informs us, a water-soluble essential nutrient. Why choline is not officially called a "vitamin" is beyond me. "Experts" will still group it within the B-complex vitamins, anyway. In my analyses in the series on nutrients other than carbohydrates that influence glucose control, you've read that the former, the "other", "real" B-vitamins are - in my humble opinion - totally overrated. Choline, which can come in various forms of quaternary ammonium salts all of which contain the characteristic N,N,N-trimethylethanolammonium cation, on the other hand, it pr...

Nutrigenomics - "Let Food be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food." An Ancient Truth in Light of Fancy DNA Analyses

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Researchers working in the field of nutrigenomics prioritize berries over pills and individuality over "one-size-fits-it-all approaches" - can they also tell us how to "eat away cancer"? "Live longer, live stronger"... rings any bells? Anyone? Of course. That's the motto of Super Human Radio. So anyone, who has been listening to the Science Roundup over the past couple of weeks will  have heard it at least once. Now, while the "stronger" part of Carl Lanore's slogan is still largerly under-researched if you asked me, the nutritional angle, which does not appear in the slogan, but is still a major theme of the show is really taking off, these days. Nutrigenomics , i.e. the science of (a) how what we eat determines how our genes functions - keyword: epigenetics and (b) how our very individual genes determine how we're supposed to eat, is really talking off these days. Reason enough for me to invite you to take a peak at what we alr...

Old School Supplements - Choline: Stronger, Faster, Leaner & More Muscular, or Just Another Dumb-and-Barbell Story?

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Image 1: You really get a hefty dose of the history of physical culture with volume 1 + 2 of Randy Roach 's Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors ; I must forewarn you, though: These books have addictive potential, so don't buy them, when you have other important things (beside training ;-) on your schedule. If you are among my facebook friends, you will probably remember that I have received an amazing gift from my friend Carl Lanore , a few weeks ago: The first two books of Randy Roach's Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors (soon-to-be) Trilogy (Roach. 2008-2011). I am not a fan of muscle gossip, but these books are a really amazing resource for everyone with a vested interest in physical culture - just as Super Human Radio the "first radio station dedicated to promote physical culture is, by the way ;-) My personal favorite in the first two volumes of Muscle Smoke & Mirrors is yet clearly the last third of the second volume about the history of dietary supplements. Aside ...
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