Nutrients to Delay Brain Aging

From eNewsletter 8/5/2024

DID YOU KNOW that you can help digest your food better by eating bitter foods?

You may have heard me talk about how most Americans do not activate all of their taste receptors. While sugar, salt, and fat taste receptors are supercharged from the Standard American Diet, bitter and sour taste receptors are mostly ignored. Not only are some of our healthiest foods bitter and sour, but they can activate our stomach to generate more stomach acid, thus aiding digestion.

A study from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry found that parietal cells in the stomach, responsible for acid production, react to bitter-tasting food constituents. Many vegetables can be bitter, so this is yet one more of the myriad reasons you should be eating them daily.

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Lead in Water | Sale Ending

From eNewsletter 7/31/2024

DID YOU KNOW that a new study presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting found that circadian misalignment, which is highly prevalent in adolescents, is linked with excess carbohydrate consumption and sedentary behavior in teens?

Results show that teens who went to sleep later was significantly associated with greater intake of refined carbohydrates, and this relationship was partially explained by irregular sleep timing. A later sleep schedule also was associated with greater sedentary behavior.

The best thing you can do for your teen is to start them on a consistent sleep schedule where 10PM should be the latest they go to bed. A child should go to sleep even earlier.

Parents having trouble getting their young children to bed because of anxiety or worry are less likely to have a bedtime routine. The researchers do not recommend leaving on a video or TV show, or staying with your child until they're asleep.

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Zinc Is Incredible | Sale!

From eNewsletter 7/29/2024

DID YOU KNOW that a new study published in Nutrition Reviews examined the incidence of anxiety and zinc supplementation?

Zinc has been associated with mood and anxiety reduction by acting on GABA, glutamatergic, serotonergic, neurogenesis, and immune systems. The researchers discovered that patients with anxiety frequently had lower levels of zinc as compared with healthy individuals. Furthermore, they found supplemental zinc consumption was associated with reduced anxiety symptoms.

A study in The Journal of Nutrition found that zinc deficiency was associated with 63% higher predicted odds of worse COVID outcomes, with most of the risk due to gut-related inflammation.

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