Recent Longevity News for the seven days ending 1/14/04:

Going Beyond Atkins - Newsweek, 1/19/04 - "The good news is that you needn't swear off carbohydrates to avoid these problems. The trick is to choose foods with low glycemic loads. As you can see from the table at health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK, a serving of orange juice has nearly three times the glycemic load (13) of an orange (5), and a serving of cornflakes carries five times the load (21) of a serving of All-Bran (4)" - that health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK link is dead but I did track down the Harvard Glycemic Load Table.

DHEA Helpful for Older Women, Too - Yahoo, 1/13/04 - "evaluated the effects of 12 months of low-dose DHEA supplementation (25 milligrams per day) in 20 menopausal women ... After 12 months of daily DHEA supplementation, the authors report, women experienced 3- to 4-fold increases in estrogen, 3- to 4-fold increases in testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, and nearly 2-fold increases in progesterone levels"- See iHerb or Vitacost DHEA products.

Veggies May Offer Cancer Cure - HealthDay, 1/13/03 - "In laboratory tests, this chemically altered DIM proved effective in inhibiting the growth of breast, pancreatic, colon, bladder and ovarian cancer cells. Limited trials on rats and mice yielded similar results ... One of the best parts is that this treatment appears to have minimal or no side effects; in the mice trials it just stops tumor growth" - See iHerb or Vitacost DIM products.

Coenzyme Q10 review - ConsumerLab.com, 1/13/03 - "There was no detectable CoQ10 in one product, another had only 71% of its claimed amount, and a third exceeded its claimed amount by 75%"

Coenzyme Q10 Helps Sperm Movement - WebMD, 1/12/04 - "Researchers say coenzyme Q10 is known to be active in the testes and is an antioxidant that plays an important role in forming the membranes and other structures within cells by fighting the effects of oxidative stress ... researchers looked at the effects of daily oral supplementation with 200 mg of coenzyme Q10" - See iHerb or Vitacost coenzyme Q10 products.

Vitamin D May Prevent MS - WebMD, 1/12/04 - "women who get doses typically found in daily multivitamin supplements -- of at least 400 international units -- are 40% less likely to develop multiple sclerosis compared with those not taking over-the-counter supplements"

Too Much Vitamin D UPS Prostate Cancer Risk - Medline Plus, 1/12/04 - "men who had high or low levels of vitamin D in their blood were more likely to have prostate cancer than men carrying around an average amount of vitamin D in their bodies ... prostate cancer risk may be influenced by whether people eat more or less of certain vitamin D-rich foods"

Vitamin D May Prevent Arthritis - WebMD, 1/9/04 - "women whose diets were highest in vitamin D had the lowest incidence of rheumatoid arthritis ... Holick says most people need to take 1000 IU of vitamin D each day. And he says even this amount may be inadequate in people who have no exposure to the sun" - See iHerb or Vitacost vitamin D products.

Glucosamine Ups Ibuprofen's Pain Relief - WebMD, 1/9/04 - "While the NSAID administered alone had pain-relieving effects, glucosamine administered alone produced no pain-relieving effect ... But when glucosamine was combined with an NSAID, pain relief was more pronounced" - See Drugstore.com ibuprofen products and iHerb glucosamine products.

OTC Cream Improves Blood Flow in Feet - WebMD, 1/8/04 - "arginine does increase blood flow, but it is not yet clear if this translates into fewer foot ulcers or better healing of ulcers" - See iHerb or Vitacost arginine products.

Farm Salmon More Contaminated Than Wild - WebMD, 1/8/04 - "The most highly contaminated salmon came from farms in Europe, the study shows -- especially Scotland. North American and South American salmon farms had a lot less -- but still more than wild salmon" - On 1/8/03, the CBS Evening News had some expert that claimed that you should not eat farmed salmon more then once per month.

Pathways of Aging - Life Extension Magazine, 1/04 - "Carnosine and several antioxidants were tested for their ability to protect cells exposed to 90% oxygen from chromosomal damage. Only carnosine exerted significant protection, reducing the level of chromosomal damage by two-thirds" - See iHerb or Vitacost carnosine products.

New Options in the Treatment of Depression - U.S. Pharmacist, exp. 11/30/05 - "When compared to fluoxetine, mirtazapine demonstrated significantly greater response rates at weeks 3 and 4. When compared to citalopram and paroxetine, mirtazapine showed significantly greater response in the first one to two weeks but not later. A comparison of mirtazapine and venlafaxine in hospitalized, severely depressed patients showed equal response and remission rates"

Abstracts from this week's Doctor's Guide Nutrition/Dietetics:

Subclinical Thyroid Disease - JAMA. 2004;291:239-243 - "Most persons found to have subclinical thyroid disease will have TSH values between 0.1 and 0.45 mIU/L or between 4.5 and 10 mIU/L, for which the benefits of treatment are not clearly established; treatment may be beneficial in individuals with serum TSH lower than 0.1 mIU/L or higher than 10 mIU/L"

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