The Risks and Benefits of Neti Pot Nasal Irrigation
Though nasal irrigation with salt water has been found to an effective and inexpensive treatment...
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Friday Favorites: How Effective Is Chemotherapy? And How Much Does It Improve Survival?
Most chemo drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life. If you put together all the new chemo drugs that had been approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is only 2.1 months.
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Take Vitamin D Supplements with Meals
Taking vitamin D supplements with food may be a cost-effective strategy to achieve optimum levels.
Resolving the Vitamin D-Bate
Why the current vitamin D recommendations may be too low, other expert recommendations may be...
How the Institute of Medicine Arrived at their Vitamin D Recommendation
The latest revision of the official vitamin D recommendations was based on the body's reaction...
The Difficulty of Arriving at a Vitamin D Recommendation
People respond differently to the same level of vitamin D supplementation, making it difficult to...
Vitamin D Supplements May Be Necessary
To reach the circulating (25-hydroxy) vitamin D levels associated with the lowest overall mortality, one...
Vitamin D and Mortality May Be a U-Shaped Curve
Vitamin D deficiency may shorten one's lifespan, but getting too much vitamin D may also...
Is Vitamin D the New Vitamin E?
The Institute of Medicine's conservative position on vitamin D is understandable, given the history of...
Evolutionary Argument for Optimal Vitamin D Level
Should the vitamin D levels found in lifeguards be considered the norm for our species,...
Vitamin D Recommendations Changed
The Institute of Medicine tripled their official vitamin D recommendation, based on target blood levels...
Is Pomegranate Juice That Wonderful?
Food companies (such as POM Wonderful) invoke the First Amendment to defend false and unsubstantiated...
Alzheimer’s & Apple Juice
Pilot study published on whether apple juice could affect the cognitive performance, day-to-day functioning, mood,...
