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“At the end of the eight-week period, the average blood vitamin C levels in the supplemented group were 41.7 micromoles per liter, but average levels among the depleted group were 9.7 micromoles per liter.”

“The immune system utilizes both rapid-acting and long-term defenses against infection. Plasma B cells produce antibodies to fight active infections, while memory B cells circulate throughout the body for months or years after an infection has ended, ready to attack if re-infection occurs.”

“The authors of the study compared the trajectories, change rates, and death rates associated with fasting blood glucose, body weight, and fat mass in mice, nonhuman primates, and humans across their lifespans.”

“The study involved more than 12,000 adults (average age 47 years) who were enrolled in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study - an ongoing prospective investigation of links between exercise and cardiovascular health.”

The authors of the study drew on data from the Progetto Veneto Anziani (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18283228/), a long-term cohort study of more than 3,000 older adults (65 years and older) living in northern Italy.

“The investigators analyzed structural magnetic resonance imaging data and medical records for more than 8,300 children between the ages of nine and ten years who were enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.”

“Circadian rhythms modulate a wide array of the body's physiological processes, including the production of hormones that regulate sleep, hunger, metabolism, and others, ultimately influencing body weight, performance, and susceptibility to disease.”

“Assessing isothiocyanate exposure via dietary reports of glucosinolate intake is often inaccurate due to reporting biases as well as differences in plant glucosinolate content, which varies across species and cultivars.”

“Interestingly, they found that levels of apolipoprotein B, a protein associated with the development of atherosclerotic heart disease, were markedly lower after a month of fasting, and these lower levels persisted even one week after the fasting period ended.”

“A new study shows that having low bone density may increase a person's risk for cerebral small vessel disease – a driver of dementia. People with the lowest bone density in their upper femur were twice as likely to develop dementia over a ten-year period than those with the highest bone density.”