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Many US students may be vitamin D deficient
16 May 2014
A new US study reports that many young physically active college students have deficient blood vitamin D levels.
14 March 2016
Professor Oleg Shadyro, Chemistry Department, Belarussian State University, Minsk, Belarus
Professor Oleg Shadyro of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Belarus has had over 150 scientific articles published and 20 patents granted to date.
Free radical generation within cells is part of normal metabolism, but in some cellular environments where the ability to deal with them has been compromised, carcinogenic metabolites may be formed. These may in time lead to uncontrolled cell growth, the key pathology behind most cancers.
Professor Shadyro has shown (1) that when tissue oxygen supply is low (hypoxia), free radicals can react with carbohydrates, amino acids and specific lipids in the cell to form signaling molecules (2). Phosphatidic acid (PA) is a signaling lipid that enables cytosolic proteins to be directed to the appropriate membranes and as such has an important role in apoptosis and cell proliferation processes. Higher levels of PA inhibit normal cell death mechanisms. High PA levels can occur when the cell is under oxidative stress. Thus high tissue levels of PA can result in reduced efficacy of chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment for carcinomas (3).
Professor Shadyro’s group have found that the metabolic pathways for the production of PA under conditions of hypoxia (4) can be down-regulated by the presence of nutrients containing quinones or conjugated carbonyl groups, including coenzyme Q10 and vitamins B, C and K (5,6). They were able to show that vitamin C regulated recombination and fragmentation reactions of hydroxyl-containing biomolecules that had been induced by reactive oxygenated species (ROS).
16 May 2014
A new US study reports that many young physically active college students have deficient blood vitamin D levels.
31 May 2016
Early pre-term birth (ePTB) is defined as occurring at 34 weeks of pregnancy or earlier and imposes a considerable burden on mother, child and financial resources alike. Taking a 600mg per day supplement of Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) during the final two trimesters of pregnancy reduced early pre-term birth (ePTB) with a net average saving of $1,484 per pregnancy, according to a new study from the KUDOS (Kansas University DHA Outcome Study) cohort (1) in the U.S. This could produce total savings of $6 billion per year in the U.S.
17 February 2010
High blood levels of vitamin D may be at a 33 percent lower risk of developing heart disease, says a new review.