Oat Avenanthramides Oats are one of the quintessential foods of the traditional Scottish diet. In terms of health benefits they are best known for their fibre content,...
Nettle and Ginger Stinging nettle and ginger are botanicals with a long history of human use. Both have been shown to possess significant anti-inflammatory activity.11,12...
Subjects then performed four 30-s all out cycling bouts on the air-braked ergometer (Repco) with 4 min of rest between bouts. Immediately following the first...
Although no severe adverse changes have been reported with long term consumption of a ketogenic diet, renal damage due to excretion of nitrogenous waste products...
The ketogenic diet is a nutritionist’s nightmare. High in saturated fat and VERY low in carbohydrates, “keto” is adopted by a growing population to paradoxically...
The gut microbiota structure, dynamics, and function result from interactions with environmental and host factors, which jointly influence the communication between the gut and peripheral...
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) were originally thought to only be released by phagocytic cells during their role in host defence. It is now clear that...
Cells use cellular respiration to break down sugars and other materials into other chemical forms that cells can use as energy. The vast majority of...