Northern Nutritionals

Tag: bmi

  • Thyroid Labs

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    Karline Jensen
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    It is possible for imbalances of thyroid hormones to exist despite a normal TSH.  One example of such an imbalance is non-thyroidal illness syndrome, which was investigated in the context of obesity by Keşkek et al. (2018).  They found that 9.5% of the 219 obese participants in their study had low free T3 despite normal…

  • Artificial Sweeteners, Microbiome, and Glucose Tolerance

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    Karline Jensen
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    Some studies (Ahmad et al., 2020; Serrano et al., 2021) have concluded that consumption pf normal amounts of artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, or sucralose, does not impact the gastrointestinal microbiota.  However, Suez et al. (2014) found the correlation between non-caloric artificial sweetener intake and Enterbacteriaceae, Deltaproteobacteria, and Actinobacteria to be statistically significant, when…