Northern Nutritionals

Tag: triglycerides

  • 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…

  • Coenzyme Q10

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    Karline Jensen
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    Coenzyme Q10 is also called ubiquinone, because it is ubiquitous in the human body, found in the membranes of all of our cells.  In a 2018 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, Zhang et al.1 looked at coenzyme Q10 supplementation in 40-61 year old Chinese people with high cholesterol to see which of several risk factors for…