Northern Nutritionals

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  • 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…

  • Dietary Pattern Metabolites

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    Karline Jensen
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    Tong et al.(2020) analyzed serum metabolites against adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and against cardiometabolic risk factors, in participants of the Fenland cohort study, to see which metabolites might be involved in the ability of the Mediterranean Diet to prevent cardiometabolic disease, citing Sofi et al. (2014) as an example of this preventative effect.  They…