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Some women spend hours deciding what to wear or watching YouTube makeup tutorials when most may not know that what’s on the inside can also lead to beauty. Yep … a healthy gut can improve your skin, enhance your mood, and leave you feeling more energetic. Women can work towards that healthy gut with probiotics and prebiotics.   The gut environment or ‘microbiome’ sets the stage...

Why is LDL bad? Cholesterol comes in two forms: HDL (high-density lipoporotein) and LDL (low-density lipoprotein). The consumption of saturated fatty acid has been shown to increase LDL levels, which promotes the formation of atheroma and inflammation in arteries. Atheroma is a cardiovascular disease in which the artery wall thickens due to the accumulation of macrophage cells, calcium, cholesterol, and some fibrous connective tissue...

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), are the sugar molecules found in high concentrations in breast milk. HMOs are found exclusively in human breast milk, standing as the third most ample component that is solid with the first two being lactose and fat. HMOs are found in nearly 200 different forms within human breast milk. Interestingly enough, for infants, HMOs are indigestible. However, they do serve as...

Not only is human milk touted as exceptionally beneficial for babies, but there are also little known components within, called human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), which aid in surprising ways. These complex carbohydrates—most notably two in particular, fucosyllactose (2’-FL) and lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT)— present in the breast milk of most nursing mothers, aid in a healthy infant gastrointestinal system by feeding the beneficial bacteria, such as...

Human milk oligosaccharide. It’s quite a mouthful. I know. But it's worth the trouble of trying to pronounce it. Trust me.  Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are present in great quantities in human breast milk; the third largest element after lipids and lactose. While numerous studies have determined that breast milk is a great benefit to babies, just what these HMOs—a group of carbohydrates or...

Let’s face it, managing diabetes is not a simple task in the best of times. Tracking blood sugar levels several times a day plus finding time to eat healthy and exercise while on the fly to meetings, school, dropping off or picking up kids, or any other myriad activities that make up a typical day, can be a challenge in the most tranquil of...

Lactoferrin is a member of the transferrin family of iron-binding proteins. Numerous functions have been reported and continue to be reported for the protein, some of which are related to its iron-binding properties. Its extensive antimicrobial activities were originally attributed to its ability to sequester essential iron, however, it is now established that it possesses bactericidal activities as a result of direct interaction between...

A group of doctors from The Mayo Clinic conducted a significant study on purified White Kidney Bean extract carb blockers. The doctors investigated whether commercial bean-derived α-amylase inhibitor preparations (in the 1980s) failed to decrease starch digestion in humans because of insufficient anti-amylase activity, destruction by gastrointestinal secretions, or because of decreased activity in the presence of starch. They used a simple partial purification...