Paving the way to test inosine’s ability to slow Parkinson’s progression
The dietary supplement inosine, which the body converts to urate, safely raises blood urate levels in people with early stage Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to a new study. The result paves the way for testing inosine as a potential treatment for slowing PD progression.
December 30, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-urate, body, body-converts, dietary-supplement, jama, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, parkinson, parkinson's disease, paves-the-way, potential-treatment, safely-raises, the-way
Could Carrots Reduce Risk Of Type-2 Diabetes?
Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found that for people harboring a genetic predisposition that is prevalent among Americans, beta carotene, which the body converts to a close cousin of vitamin A, may lower the risk for the most common form of diabetes, while gamma tocopherol, the major form of vitamin E in the American diet, may increase risk for the disease…
January 23, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: beta-carotene, body, body-converts, close-cousin, diabetes, disease, lower-the-risk, medicine, most-common, university
