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25.01.2022 FODMAP What does this mean? Low Fermentable Oligo-, Di, and Monosaccharide and Polyol diet. what the f#ck!? This type of diet was produced and patented by the Monash University in Australia to help with digestion issues by reducing dietary intake of any slowly absorbed or indigestible short-chain carbohydrates which are all of those listed above creating the acronym FODMAP.... It is believed that this was found to help relieve symptoms associated with IBS. The Monash University of Australia claims that 15% of the world’s population 1 in 7 people are affected by IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). #health #nutrition #IBS
25.01.2022 Over the past 6 months we have been heavily involved learning about our customers health issues and have been taking time to learn about what these issues are and what can cause them, to see if there was something we could do to help In many cases we found many people with similar health issues that we know we can assist with (of course with them getting advice from their GP) What we found was many women, with the same health problems such as; ... Endometriosis & Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome, these are both very painful conditions and in the past have been missed diagnosed women's health is a big focus for 2020 #womenshealth #science #health #nutrition
25.01.2022 When looking at singular nutrients, it's "easy" to workout the effective dose for the majority of people Vitamins from one place to another, Are the same thing. (vitamin A from here is the same as it is over there) as long as it passes the test, it is what it is. With supplements, the effective dose is an average and can be quite different for you, the bell curve allows us to find the sweet spot for most people but some people's sweet spot can be different.... So, when it comes to developing supplements. We design them, using bell curves to find where the majority of people are finding the benefits
24.01.2022 Have you heard of Blue Zones? Learn about what blue zones are, in our latest blog :) https://www.itsyouenterprises.com/blog/bluezones
23.01.2022 Every day your body uses the micronutrients you consume to; Make new structural cells and repair old cells to build skin, hair, muscle, and bone. Make tens of thousands of red blood cells that carry nutrients and oxygen to every cell in your body. Produce white blood cells to fight invaders, flush away allergens and deal with injury. Send electrical signals via a network of nerves all through the brain and body pathways. Make, release and respond to chemicals t...hat determine your mood and ability to make memories. Facilitate your cellular energy production and determine which fuel you burn or store. Make chemical messengers that shuttle from organ to organ, issuing orders. To do all this, your body requires many different food raw materials to supply the 30 or so essential vitamins and minerals that your body cannot manufacture in sufficient amounts on its own.
21.01.2022 The truth about fish oils In the human body, it's all about balance. In the early days, it was thought that all we needed were fish oils for our omega intake. Take heaps of these, and the world will be right. Unfortunately, the body is more complicated than just taking one nutrient or the basic omega fatty acids. For example, you wouldn’t just want to take a mega dose of one vitamin or mineral. We need many of them. ... #fishoils #health #nutrition
20.01.2022 Dosing, RDA, RDI, DRI etc. How much do we need? And how much is too much? The valuable lesson we have learned from the extensive research into vitamin supplementation and our experience with food fortification has demonstrated time and time again that more is NOT better. Vitamins work to correct dietary deficiencies. We only need "trace" to "micro" amounts of these substances every day for them to do their job. High doses do something else, especially when a single co...mpound is used in isolation without all of the necessary co-factors and forms found with it in nature. High doses that are not following the laws of nature will overwhelm conversion and excretory pathways and disturb the natural balance found in foods. This is how overdosed vitamins can be toxic and have side effects
19.01.2022 The practice of supplementing with synthetic versions of vitamins without their natural variations in forms and co-factors has never been seen in nature. In many cases the supplemented forms of the vitamin are not even found in nature, so to supplement with human-made chemicals because our food is weak in other natural substances is bizarre. Our focus needs to be on improving the nutrient levels in foods and then the preservation of these nutrients long enough to for us to... get a chance to eat them. Providing we make the right food choices and find such foods we then need to prepare it food in a way to ensure we get all of the nutrients and don’t lose it them in the boiling water and for that, we need to be informed and have access.
18.01.2022 Excess vitamins have three major detrimental effects: 1. Pro-oxidant instead of antioxidant. High doses of vitamins or imbalanced protocols using single synthetic versions can actually increase ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species) generation leading to oxidative tissue damage instead of antioxidant protection. This can be contributing to cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, insulin resistance (metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity); 2. By competing with hormones and neur...otransmitters for metabolizing enzymes that convert and detoxify synthetic vitamins can create defects and imbalances in hormones and brain chemistry. 3. Causing epigenetic changes such as altered DNA methylation by interfering with or depleting the body’s methyl-group pool. 4. Excess vitamin intake may compete with and deplete the drug-metabolizing system that is also necessary for controlling detoxification, elimination and conversion of hormones, neurotransmitters, xenoestrogens, pollutants, medications and other environmental toxins you may be exposed to. This can eventually cause a variety of chronic diseases, metabolic disorders and oxidative tissue damage.
17.01.2022 What's A Vitamin? A vitamin is an organic substance, one produced by a plant or an animal, that is required in small amounts from the diet as they cannot be synthesized in the human body and are essential for human life.
15.01.2022 Over the years consumers have been lead to believe more is better. The more vitamin c, the better. The best explanation we have heard was: Alcohol, a little bit is good, a lot more is fun but if you keep going you get alcohol poisoning. Lets dive more into how dosages work. They use terms such as lethal effective doses, which is found when 50% of the studies population dies off. Then we have a minimum effective dose, which is found when 50% start to see a change. ... We use what they call bell curves. It starts with no activity then a peak of activity then it starts to drop off to being a lethal effective dose. The peak on the bell curve is what we're after When looking at studies you will see standard deviation, it will be in brackets with a P value. the smaller the number the more effective/ more predictable the product is, this is how we work out the ideal dose. so more is not always better. #nutrition #supplements #health
11.01.2022 ARE YOU SURE GLUCOSE IS THE PRIMARY FUEL OF THE BRAIN, WHAT ABOUT KETONES AND THE KETO DIET? . Even in starvation, where the liver provides ketones as an emergency fuel source, the body will STILL find ways to use glucose where it can. . we find it interesting that anyone would want to starve the body of it’s primary fuel, in order to then deliver the brain with what is clearly a ‘second preference’ fuel source. That’s like putting the standard unleaded fuel in your new hig...h performance car vs the premium fuel. You wouldn’t do that unless you absolutely had to right? And that is why the body can use ketonesit’s a back up, a physiological adaption so to speak, to allow the body to still survive when starved of carbohydrates. When there is no other choice. Note we said ketones allow the body ‘to survive’ not the ‘thrive’. . The very fact that being in ketosis long term is NOT normal or healthy can be backed up by the lack of science showing any population to thrive on such a diet long term. Keto proponents will no doubt bring up the Inuit population, however that is merely clutching at straws as these people ate fish, whales & seals were not on chronic ketosis and had a genetic mutation which prevented them over producing ketones #ketodiet #health #nutrition
10.01.2022 Sorghum crops, in areas where the agricultural parasite witchweed is common, are more likely to have genetic adaptations to help them resist the parasite, according to new research led by Penn State scientists. Witchweed is one of the greatest threats to food security in Africa, causing billions of dollars in crop losses annually. It has a variety of hosts, including sorghum, the world’s fifth most important cereal crop. As we find the science behind this fascinating,... we also don't really know the effects something like this can cause, in the long run #science #agriculture
10.01.2022 What's A Mineral? A mineral is an inorganic element, such as magnesium, iron, iodine, zinc, or selenium, that is required from the diet as they cannot be synthesized in the human body and are essential for life of humans, animals, and plants.
07.01.2022 The glucocorticoid hormone cortisol is a primary product of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis, a key biological stress response system. Cortisol is one of the most frequently employed biomarkers in psychobiological research for several reasons. . Cortisol levels are responsive to social and psychological stress. Cortisol levels respond to both acute stress (e.g., acute loneliness or negative social evaluation) and chronic stress (e.g., the stress of poverty or o...ngoing family conflict). . The development and adult functioning of the HPA axis is profoundly influenced by prior developmental experience. . Cortisol has pervasive effects throughout the body and brain, and is thought to play important roles in daily cognitive and behavioural functioning. . Cortisol has also been implicated in the aetiology of a wide range of mental and physical health outcomes. See more
05.01.2022 Vitamins are required in tiny amounts constantly because of their inactivation, conversion, storage or elimination in the body requires a delicate balancing act. Naturally they are found in tiny amounts spread across a lot of foods to prevent overdose of any particular vitamin or form of vitamin. They play a catalytic role in many metabolic reactions of the cells and act as co-enzymes or part of co-enzymes and enzyme systems. Certain vitamins act as hormones and exert the...ir action at intracellular receptor sites like Vitamin A and D. There are multiple forms of each vitamin found in nature and each vitamin has a long list of essential co-factors usually found with it that are essential for it to function efficiently. Vitamins are individually very complex in their chemical structure and behaviour and they will convert and change between their forms in our bodies, in storage or during processing.
02.01.2022 herbs have multiple mechanisms of actions, multiple targets. it's complete different when you compare a whole herb to an active ingredient. when looking at a whole herb, you're looking at so many ingredients, a herb is a unique herbal formulation, created by nature. where that herb is grown and what season it's grown in can completely change the herb. ... A whole herb is more useful as a whole, instead of isolating active ingredients Artemisia, an active ingredient from Chinese wormwood is the only natural compound isolated from a herb, unchanged turned into a drug for malaria but new studies show that malaria was becoming resistant to the one active ingredient. studies showed that the whole herb worked better than the active because the herb comes with other compounds that work against the resistance. #herbs #herbalmedicine #science
01.01.2022 You've most likely experienced a supplement, where it has worked for your friend but not for you. Even when you followed the same protocol! It can depend on your microbiome, missing nutrients in your diet, genetic polymorphisms, environmental factors, etc. It doesn't work the same for everyone. ... So when it comes to supplements, we have to work with the majority. The "sweet spot". Which is exactly what we did with MNK and our new products #supplements #science #nutrition
