In an Italian trial, advanced lung cancer patients given four capsules a day supplying 510 mg EPA and 340 mg DHA for 66 days during chemotherapy gained weight and had lower C-reactive protein, IL-6 and reactive oxygen species than those on placebo.
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Autism patients may benefit from supplementation
In a small uncontrolled trial, 37 children aged 4 to 14 with autism spectrum disorders took the luteolin formula NeuroProtek for four months. Gastrointestinal and allergy symptoms improved in 75 percent, eye contact and attention in 50 percent, with no side effects observed.
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Dietary rice bran helps prevent breast cancer and others
A review in Advances in Nutrition suggests rice bran phytochemicals, among them ferulic acid, tricin, gamma-oryzanol and tocotrienols, may help prevent breast cancer and other cancers by inducing apoptosis, curbing cell proliferation and scavenging free radicals.
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Inositol supplementation helps preterm infants
A Cochrane review of trials in preterm infants found inositol supplements cut neonatal death by 47 percent, infant death by 45 percent, severe retinopathy of prematurity by 91 percent and grade II-plus intraventricular hemorrhage by 47 percent, with no change in sepsis.
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S-equol supplements help overweight or obese people
In a 12-week randomized trial of 54 overweight or obese Japanese outpatients, 10 mg of s-equol daily lowered HbA1c, LDL cholesterol and cardio-ankle vascular index scores, most clearly in women who cannot produce s-equol themselves.
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Recent Study Shows Omega-3 Supplements Do Not Lower Heart Attack Risk
University of Ioannina researchers re-examined 20 earlier studies in JAMA and found omega-3 supplements did not lower heart attack risk. Cardiologist Robert Bonow told the Los Angeles Times any benefit paled beside exercise, weight control and treating cholesterol and blood pressure.
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Green Tea Compound May Help Regenerate Adult Brain Cells
Chinese researchers report in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research that mice given EGCG, green tea's main antioxidant compound, outperformed controls in maze tests after three days of training, alongside observed hippocampal cell proliferation.
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Protein supplements help high blood pressure in overweight people
In a Dutch trial of 99 overweight adults with untreated elevated blood pressure, four weeks on a diet drawing 25 percent of calories from protein supplements lowered office systolic and diastolic pressure by 4.9 and 2.7 mmHg. Daytime systolic pressure did not differ from the control group.
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Fish Oil Does Not Benefit Heart
A JAMA review of 20 studies covering 68,680 patients who took omega-3 fatty acids for an average of two years found no effect on heart-related death, heart attack or stroke.
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Fish oil helps colorectal cancer patients
In a small trial, 23 colorectal cancer patients on chemotherapy took either 2 grams of fish oil daily or a placebo for nine weeks. The supplemented group held its weight and body mass index and improved its C-reactive protein to albumin ratio.
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Isoflavones cut risk of endometrial cancer
Among 46,027 postmenopausal women in the Multiethnic Cohort followed about 13.5 years, those eating the most total isoflavones were roughly a third less likely to be diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Legumes, soy, tofu and glycitein showed no significant association.
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Monitor your blood pressure if testosterone used for weight loss
In obese male rats, ten weeks of testosterone supplements promoted weight loss and lowered insulin and cholesterol but raised mean arterial pressure, a study in Hypertension found. The researchers say testosterone treatment of obese men needs careful blood pressure monitoring.
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Cinnamon supplements fight type 2 diabetes mellitus
In a small trial, 150 newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients took 3 or 6 grams of cinnamon or placebo daily for three months alongside diet and exercise. Both cinnamon doses improved fasting blood sugar, HbA1c, systolic blood pressure and lipids, and patients tolerated them well.
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Polyunsaturated fatty acids help autism spectrum disorders
In a 16-week randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 13 children with autism spectrum disorders, supplements of arachidonic acid and DHA significantly improved measured social withdrawal and communication, researchers led by Kunio Yui of Jichi Medical School reported.
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Branched-chain amino acids prevent muscle damage
Twelve trained men took branched-chain amino acids or a placebo around 100 drop-jumps. Over 96 hours the BCAA group showed less creatine kinase release and muscle soreness and better recovery of maximal voluntary contraction; jump height and limb circumferences did not differ.
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Probiotics, breast milk fight rotavirus-induced diarrhea
Mouse dams fed Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055 and immunised against rotavirus produced milk with significantly more rotavirus-specific IgA, and their pups had a lower incidence of rotavirus-induced diarrhoea than pups of dams immunised without the probiotic.
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Got high cholesterol? Take taurine supplements
In a nested case-control study of 223 coronary heart disease patients and matched controls, serum taurine showed no overall link to heart disease. Among women with total cholesterol above 250 mg/dL, though, those in the highest taurine tertile were 61 percent less likely to develop it.
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Dietary flanovoids linked to lower Parkinson disease risk
Across 49,281 men and roughly 80,000 women followed two decades, men with the highest flavonoid intake were 40 percent less likely to develop Parkinson disease; women showed no such pattern. Anthocyanins and berries matched 24 and 23 percent reductions. The study could not establish cause.
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