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Retinol (Vitamin A) - A Re-Discovered Weapon in the Battle Against Atherosclerosis: Reduced Progression in Patients, Protection For Healthy Subjects From 25,000IU/Day Retinol

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No it's not fish oil that's going to save your a** from dying of heart attack. It's vitamin A! 25,000IU/day for those who are already suffering from atherosclerotic lesions and heard disease could do the trick. 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year–that’s 1 in every 4 deaths; and at least some could have been prevented, if vitamin A had not been demonized as bone-dissolving kidney and liver killer for decades. That's at least what the results of a recent study from the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in the - at least in terms of medical paradigms - open-minded Iran (Mottaghi. 2014). Unlike their Western colleagues who would probably considered the provision of 25,000IU of retinyl palmitate per day an act of personal injury, Azadeh Mottaghi and his colleagues dared administering the said amount of pre-formed vitamin A to 31 atherosclerotic patients and 15 healthy controls for 4 full months; and the results were... Impr...
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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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News Quickie: Running in Polluted Air Ramps Up Immune Defenses ✰ Retinol (Vitamin A) Protects Against Memory Decline ✰ Mean Penis Size (5.57") Not Race or Age Specific

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In this quickie things that don't belong still find together ;-) If it had not been much too long, I would probably have called today's SuppVersity article "Things You Want and Things You Don't Want to Know". I mean, chances that one of you is among the 45% of men who wanted their "best part" to be larger are high and I bet that many of these men won't really care that Janet Lever, David A. Frederick and Letitia Anne Peplau also found that 85% of the women were happy with the penis size of their male partners (Lever. 2006). That's not really what you want to hear? I see, you didn't really want to hear that!? Ok, let's not forget (all puns intended that there are other news in this quickie, as well. So, let's see what else we've got: SuppVersity suggested read: "Child- hood Asthma: Children Born to Mothers Who Consume Semi-Skimmed Milk 8% More Likely, Kids of Whole Milk Drinking Mothers 15% Less Likely to Develop ...
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SuppVersity Cellulite Special: The Etiology of Cellulite, Genetical and Behavioural Risk Factors? Physical and Supplemental Treatment Strategies & Their Efficacy

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This photo of a 37-year old woman some of you may already have seen Facebook testifies to the success of 12 weeks on 333U/cc retinol cream + high intensity laser pulses (Fink. 2006) I guess, or should I say, I'd hope (?) that some of you have already been waiting eagerly for the write-up of yesterday's Special Installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on the Super Human Network and all the details and obviously the supps, Carl and I could not squeeze into this 1h+ show. Before you go over this huge (and this is also why it took me so long to post this) serving of the "Seconds", I do yet highly recommend that you download and listen to the podcast, first . You can grap the MP3, right here .  It's free and if you don't like the ads, just skip forward, but please come to terms with the fact that a daily 2h radio has to be financed one way or another! Let's dig right into this lumpy-bumby skin condition, now! Despite the fact that they did...
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Fighting to Stay Lean? These 20+ Anti-Obesity Agents Have the Potential to Inhibit Fat Gain Right at the Cellular Level

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No, none of the 20 agents in the list below is going to do the work for you, but they could help you "conserve" the results, keep you lean on a bulk and/or avoid the hazardous Yoyo effect when you go off a die. It's actually normal that the introduction is the last part of an article I write. What's special about today's SuppVersity article is thus not that I write the introduction at the end, but that I did not really know what I would be writing here, when I set out to compile the unsorted (but not chaotic) list of potential anti-obesity agents below. All of them act by pathway(s) you as a SuppVersity reader will have read about before, most prominently AMPK , and the peroxisome proliferator receptors (PPARs), of which the blockade of the obesogenic PPAR-gamma pathway, which is the main working principle of CLA turned out to be the go-to explanation for the ability of these agents to block both the differentiation of adipocytes and the storage of tr...
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