In a double-blind trial of 82 impotent men, many with diabetes or vascular disease, 14 percent fully restored erection after a month on up to 42 mg of oral yohimbine hydrochloride and 20 percent responded partly. Side effects were few and benign.
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Raspberry ketone may be good for weight loss
Raspberry ketone has not been tested in human obesity trials, but preliminary animal research from Korea and Japan reports it raises lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation, blocks fat-building gene expression, and prevented obesity and fatty liver in mice fed a high-fat diet.
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Caralluma fimbriata extract may prevent diabetes mellitus type 2 or insulin resistance
Indian researchers report that rats fed a high-fat diet plus Caralluma fimbriata extract at 200 mg/kg daily for three months had better glucose, insulin sensitivity, leptin and triglycerides, and less oxidative stress, than high-fat-fed rats given none.
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Raspberry ketone fights obesity, fatty liver - studies
Japanese researchers reported in Life Science that raspberry ketone kept mice on a high-fat diet from gaining liver and visceral fat, and reduced that fat when given after weight gain. They studied it because its structure resembles capsaicin and synephrine.
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Got high triglycerides? Try Garcinia Cambogia!
A study in Phytotherapy Research found that 60 days of Garcinia cambogia supplementation lowered triglycerides in obese women. The piece then explains what triglycerides are, where the thresholds for high levels fall, and which conditions and drugs raise them.
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HPV infections in women eradicated by AHCC, Japanese mushroom extract
In a ten-woman pilot study presented at a Society for Integrative Oncology meeting, HPV-positive women took the mushroom extract AHCC daily for up to six months. Five tested negative, three with eradication confirmed after stopping AHCC, and two responders stayed on the study.
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Amygdalin Blocks Bladder Cancer Cell Growth In Vitro by Diminishing Cyclin A and cdk2
In three bladder cancer cell lines, amygdalin at 1.25 to 10 mg/ml dose-dependently reduced growth and proliferation, delaying cell cycle progression and lowering cdk2 and cyclin A. The authors say animal work must follow before amygdalin's value as an anti-tumor drug can be judged.
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Calcium/vitamin D supplements prevent hip fracture/osteoporosis
Reviewing Women's Health Initiative data, Ohio State researchers found estrogen with or without progestin reduced bone loss and hip, vertebral and total fractures, while calcium plus vitamin D gave a small but significant gain in hip bone density. Whether that gain prevents fractures is unknown.
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Amino acids help diabetic foot wounds
A University of Nevada review with pilot data finds supplementing arginine, glutamine and HMB may help diabetic foot wounds heal by raising production of hydroxyproline, needed to make collagen. One human trial showed improved wound depth and wound-appearance scores.
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Branched-chain amino acids may prevent diabetes mellitus, obesity
A Japanese cohort of 13,525 residents linked high branched-chain amino acid intake, as a share of total protein, to 43 percent lower diabetes risk. A separate study of 4,429 adults tied the highest BCAA intake to 30 percent lower overweight risk. Neither proved cause.
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Grape seed extract lowers blood sugar in diabetes mellitus
Chinese researchers gave diabetic rats grape seed extract procyanidins for six weeks and found significantly lower blood sugar, serum lipids and liver oxidative stress than in untreated diabetic rats, with oligomers working better than the polymeric forms.
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Taurine supplements help diabetes mellitus
Rabbits with antibiotic-induced diabetes that drank taurine at 200 or 400 mg per kg for 15 weeks had milder hyperglycemia and retinas protected from electrophysiological change. Taurine sits in the retina at high concentration and acts there as an antioxidant.
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N-3 PUFA Dietary supplements fight high blood pressure in non-diabetic patients
In a three-month trial, 100 hypertensive patients without diabetes or high cholesterol at a hospital in Ajman, UAE took omega-3 supplements or placebo. The supplements lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, with a stronger effect in men.
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Caffeine supplements boost peak anaerobic power output
Glaister and colleagues at St Mary's University in Twickenham found that caffeine supplementation at 5 mg per kilogram of body weight increased peak anaerobic power output.
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Glutamine supplements help weight loss
In a four-week pilot trial, obese and overweight women given glutamine significantly reduced body weight and waist circumference and cut insulinemia and HOMA-IR by 20%, without changing diet or lifestyle. The authors say the pilot suggests glutamine is safe and favors weight loss.
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Omega 3 fatty acids may help patients with ear, nose and throat cancer
A one-year follow-up of 31 ear, nose and throat cancer patients treated with radiotherapy found those with higher omega-3 intake had a lower risk of premature death and longer survival. Omega-3s showed no significant effect on inflammatory or oxidative biomarkers.
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Probiotics supplements prevent necrotizing enterocolitis
A King Saud University meta-analysis of 24 trials in preterm infants found probiotic supplementation cut severe necrotizing enterocolitis by 57 percent and mortality by 35 percent, but did not significantly reduce nosocomial sepsis. Effects in infants under 1,000 g remain unknown.
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Selenium reduces Aflatoxin B1 induced hepatotoxicity
Sichuan Agricultural University researchers fed broilers aflatoxin B1, which shrank the bursa of Fabricius, cut serum immunoglobulin and raised apoptotic bursal cells. Adding sodium selenite reversed those changes and reduced lesions, which they say protects humoral immune function.
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