The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—defined as an excessive accumulation of fat in liver tissue, when other causes of secondary hepatic fat accumulation disorders, including significant alcohol consumption, hereditary disorders, and steatogenic medication have been ruled out—is estimated to be 25% world-wide.According to the Role of Probiotics in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Does Gut Microbiota Matter, which appears in the November 2019 issue of the online, open ...

As we age, especially after 60, our body is exposed to the effects of sarcopenia, the aging loss of muscle, dynapenia, the resulting loss of strength, and anabolic resistance - reduced skeletal muscle repair—especially after intense exercise. Aging is also associated with both glucose and insulin resistance—increasing the risk to type 2 diabetes.Add to this complication the potential to increase the inflammatory response to a high sugar/fat Western-type diet, then aging increases the associat...

In 2020, cancer is predicted to be diagnosed in 15 million people – with 12 million associated deaths. Lifestyle choices – like our diet, percent total and visceral, abdominal body fat, and exercise history (or lack of it), are potentially tied to 35% of all cancer deaths.According to research - From the Table to the Tumor: The Role of Mediterranean and Western Dietary Patterns in Shifting Microbial-Mediated Signaling to Impact Breast Cancer Risk - which appeared in the November 2019 issue of...

According to Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017, which appeared on Jamanetworkopen.com in November of 2019, life expectancy has decreased in the US for three consecutive years—having stopped increasing in 2010 and has been decreasing since 2014. That’s irrespective of excessive healthcare spending compared to other high-income countries.JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) commented that the life expectancy data for 1959-2016 and cause-...

According to research—Beneficial Effects of Leucine Supplementation on Criteria for Sarcopenia: A Systematic Review—which appears in the October 2019 of the online journal Nutrients—"sarcopenia is defined as a progressive loss of muscle mass, strength, and function. From a physiological point view, sarcopenia starts in the fifth decade of life and at a population level, proceeds at a rate of ∼ 0.8% annually."In fact, notes the research, "the decrease in skeletal muscle strength induced by sar...

Modes of aerobic exercise include cycling, aerobic classes, dancing, calisthenics, jumping rope, swimming, running, and walking. Resistance training comes in a variety of forms, such as using weights, elastic bands, and body weight exercises.With either mode of exercise, there is a commonality as to each form’s ability to regulate systemic glucose (blood sugar) balance, skeletal muscle transport, and glucose metabolism.Glucose is stored in the liver and muscles as glycogen. Glycolysis is the ...

Curcumin (curcuma longa linn) - a polyphenol compound extracted from the spice turmeric—offers multiple biological activities. Research has pointed to the potential benefits of curcumin, as an associated therapy in oxidative stress diseases, such as neurological disorders. Curcumin, Hormesis, and the Nervous System, a research paper published in the October 2019, issue of the journal Nutrients, notes that, "there is growing evidence indicating that oxidative stress contributes to the eti...

Obesity, defined as a body mass index greater than 30 or a waist measurement in excess of 40 inches in a woman, and 50 in a man, has been classified as a disease process by numerous scientific circles. According to Effect of Weight Loss via Severe vs Moderate Energy Restriction on Lean Mass and Body Composition Among Postmenopausal Women with Obesity, which appeared in the October 10, 2019, issue of JAMA Network Open, "effective obesity treatments are needed to reduce obesity-related morbidit...

"Former US football athletes are at increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality compared with the general population and other professional athletes." That’s a strong conclusion coming from medical researchers from Emory and Furman Universities writing – Weight Gain, Hypertension, and the Emergence of Maladaptive Cardiovascular Phenotypes Among US Football Players – which appeared in the October 16, 2019, online issue of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Car...

A research study - Marine Omega-3 Supplementation and Cardiovascular Disease: An Updated Meta-Analysis (many similar studies) of 13 Randomized Controlled trials Involving 127,477 Participants - appeared September 2019 in Journal of the American Heart Association. It concluded that, “marine omega‐3 supplementation lowers risk for myocardial infarction, CHD (coronary heart disease) death, total CHD, CVD (cardiovascular disease) death, and total CVD.”Harvard researchers used data from three rand...