Posts in Nutrition

Lutein and zeaxanthin build the macular pigment that filters blue light and eases glare. Here is what trials, including AREDS2, show about food and pills.

Creatine for the brain raises the energy reserve neurons draw on, easing sleep-deprived thinking and helping vegetarians most. Here is what trials show.

Coffee and liver health are closely linked: two extra cups a day track with less cirrhosis and liver cancer. Here is what the evidence can[…]

Soy and breast cancer: genistein favors estrogen receptor beta, and cohorts of over 9,500 survivors link soy foods with lower recurrence, not higher risk.

Key Takeaways: Across twelve randomized trials totalling 3,139 infants, late-clamped newborns weighed an average of 101 grams more at birth, and their hemoglobin at 24[…]

Key Takeaways: Choline is one of the few nutrients formally classified as essential that most adults still consume well below adequate intake. Its central job[…]

Last month was High Blood Pressure Awareness Month, and one of the cleanest dietary intervention studies in modern cardiovascular medicine remains the original DASH trial.[…]

Serotonin is most often discussed as a dietary product—the precursor amino acid tryptophan, the vitamin and mineral cofactors of its synthesis—but a crucial fact about[…]