If You Take Medications, Do NOT Drink Grapefruit Juice
Many people are unknowingly placing themselves in harms way by consuming grapefruit juice along with their medications. (more…)
Many people are unknowingly placing themselves in harms way by consuming grapefruit juice along with their medications. (more…)
If you are paying attention to nutrition or health-related news, you know that not a week goes by without some new findings coming out about the health benefits of vitamin D. However, there is also a lot of confusion about how much vitamin D each person needs as well as the best/safest way to achieve optimal vitamin D levels. The purpose of this post is to try and clear some of the confusion. (more…)
What if there was a way to completely manage the symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease without side effects? This may have sounded like pure folly a few year’s ago, but now – it is possible. (more…)
Carbidopa is a class of drug called decarboxylase inhibitor that inhibits the conversion of L-dopa to dopamine outside of the brain. It also irreversibly binds to and permanently deactivates the active form of vitamin B6 in the body. Vitamin B6 is required for the function of over 300 enzymes and proteins in the body in almost every major system. (more…)
Over the years, many supplements and botanical products have been used to try and reduce or eliminate the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, but very few have shown to be effective. However, there are a handful of products that have shown to be very important in addressing the root causes for the neurodegeneration associated with Parkinson’s disease, including amino acid therapy, specific B-vitamins, Coenzyme Q10, vitamin D, creatine, omega-3 fatty acids and green tea. (more…)