Mar 24, 2021 | Nutrient Deficiency, Wellness
Chronic alcohol abuse can cause vitamin deficiency by depleting nutrients in three major ways: decreasing nutrient consumption, enhancing malabsorption, and increasing excretion. The former is due to alcohol’s suppression of appetite, along with the tendency to...
Mar 31, 2020 | Featured, Immune System, Nutrient Deficiency, Vitamins and Nutrients, Wellness
Your immune system requires vitamins and minerals at certain levels for optimal function. A poor diet lacking in these nutrients puts you at risk. “The immune response is compromised when nutrition is poor,” write the authors of a 2018 literature review. Not only does...
Dec 9, 2019 | Glutathione, Vitamins and Nutrients
The master antioxidant, Glutathione (GSH) is critical to keep our livers removing the damaging substances we ingest on a daily basis from our bodies. These substances come from processed foods, pollution, medications, stress, radiation, smoke, and alcohol, among...
Oct 30, 2019 | Featured, Nutrient Deficiency
Oral contraceptives, including birth control pills, interfere with vitamin absorption and activity. Vitamin, mineral, and other nutrient depletion is an effect of taking these drugs that has been documented since the 1960s, leading many researchers and pharmacists to...
