Seniors have different nutritional needs that result from an aged digestive system that may have a reduced capacity to digest and absorb crucial nutrients. Research also demonstrates that the manufacture of important antioxidants in the senior’s body begin to decline compromising immune system efficiency and contributing to premature degeneration and aging. When this age-related deterioration …
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Oxidation 101 Beauty and the beast; The antioxidant and the free radical. 0
The free radical is much more than just “a bad chemical that inflicts damage,” and there’s a lot more to the antioxidant than its “good-guy image”. In fact, our cells and the cells of our companion animals rely on free-radical activity for many life-supportive processes such as immune function and oxidation of nourishment for energy …
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Designing A Supplement Program For the Human Race of a Lifetime. 0
Although it’s easy to surrender to the common belief that disease is an age-related inevitability more of us are taking our health into our own hands employing the powerfully protective natural strategies that have been available to us for thousands of years. Supplementation has been used in various forms for millennia. As far back as …
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Nutrigenomics – understanding the biological activity of food 0
Throughout the 20th century, nutritional science focused on finding vitamins and minerals, defining their use and preventing the deficiency diseases that they caused. As the nutrition related health problems of the developed world shifted to overnutrition, obesity and type two diabetes, the focus of modern medicine and of nutritional science changed accordingly. In order to address the increasing incidence of these diet-related-diseases, the role of …
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