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Redox homeostasis

If balance is truth, homeostasis is its biological expression. Students learn the importance of homeostatic regulation in the first few lectures of any physiology course....

Diet and Diabetes: Recipes For Success

Diabetes diets typically call for portion control, carbohydrate limits and, for those who are overweight, calorie restrictions. Fortunately, there is another way. Low-fat, plant-based diets...

9 Ways to Boost Glutathione

Coined “The Mother of All Antioxidants” by Mark Hyman, MD, glutathione is one of the hottest topics in both natural health and medical circles today....

Digestion of lipids

  Action of Bile Salts      Bile salts enhance the digestive action of lipases by breaking down fat globules into smaller droplets in a process...

Feed Cooked Grains

While a lot of time is spent focussed on horses that can’t eat grain in their diet, cereal grains such as oats, barley, triticale, corn,...

Essential Fatty Acids

Synthesis of lipid mediators Eicosanoids are potent chemical messengers that play critical roles in immune and inflammatory responses. The term ‘eicosanoid’ encompasses numerous bioactive lipid...

All About Resistant Starch

Resistant starch is a type of starch that isn’t fully broken down and absorbed, but rather turned into short-chain fatty acids by intestinal bacteria. This...