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Image 1: A beehive in one of the beehives Koompassia excelsa (‘Tualang’) trees which grow in the Rain Forest of Kedah, Malaysia. " Have you already had your tablespoon of honey, Honey? " If that's what your girlfriend or wife asked you this morning, she is probably concerned about your testicular health... A group of Malaysian scientists has recently been able to show that 1.2g/kg/day (human equivalent: 0.2g/kg/day or about 1 tablespoon for an average adult man) of a off-the-shelf Malaysian Tulang honey protected the testis of rats , who had been exposed to cigarette some for 8 minutes three times per day, from damage and oxidative stress ( Mohamed. 2011 ). Before the experiment, the scientists had conducted FRAP and DPPHI assays to determine the in-vitro antioxidant activity of the sweet gummy superfood from "beehives built on a tall tree, Koompassia excelsa (locally named as ‘Tualang’ tree) that grows in the Rain Forest of Kedah". Figure 1: Total...

Vitamin D is all the rave. Even mainstream nutritionists are now jumping on the vitamin D bandwagon and the hype is spilling over from the Internet to newspapers and TV stations. "Take your Vitamin D!" is what children and adults, men and women, couch-potatoes and top-level athletes are told. Recently discovered problems related to the accurate measurement of actual vitamin D levels aside (e.g. Shah. 2011 ), a recent investigation into the immediate effects of vitamin D on aromatase activity in Sertoli cells of rat testes, suggests that we have to reevaluate whether this advice, which is hitherto largely based on epidemiological data, is not overgeneralizing, to say the least. Image 1: Transverse section of a tubule of the testis of a rat. X 250. (Wikipedia) After all, the results of the aforementioned study, which has been published in the Journal of Vertebrate Reproduktive Science & Technology ( Zanatta. 2011 ), c...