Brain development suffers from lack of fish oil fatty acids, UCI study finds
While recent reports question whether fish oil supplements support heart health, UC Irvine scientists have found that the fatty acids they contain are vitally important to the developing brain.
April 17, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: fish, fish-oil, irvine, nutritional counseling, question-whether, recent-reports, support-heart, the-fatty
Findings Will Help Explain Vitamin D’s Role In Seasonal Illnesses
UC Irvine and Mayo Clinic researchers have found that vitamin D levels in the U.S. population peak in August and bottom out in February.
June 25, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: absorb-calcium, bones / orthopedics, clinic, essential-vitamin, from-the-sun, healthy-bones, helps-bones, irvine, nutrition, oncalldiets, population-peak, the-skin, upon-exposure
Multiple Sclerosis Attacks Suppressed By Glucosamine-Like Supplement
A glucosamine-like dietary supplement suppresses the damaging autoimmune response seen in multiple sclerosis, according to a UC Irvine study. UCI’s Dr…
October 3, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: damaging, damaging-autoimmune, dietary-supplement, irvine, multiple-sclerosis, oncalldietitian.com, response-seen, suppresses-the-damaging, uci
Link Found Between Environment And Genetics In Triggering MS: Discovery Points To New, Personalized Treatments
Environmental and inherited risk factors associated with multiple sclerosis – previously poorly understood and not known to be connected – converge to alter a critical cellular function linked to the chronic neurologic disease, researchers with the UC Irvine Multiple Sclerosis Research Center have discovered…
June 1, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: chronic, critical-cellular, irvine, multiple-sclerosis, neurologic-disease, not-known, oncalldietitian.com, poorly-understood, sclerosis-research, the-chronic
