Thursday, May 27, 2021 Does Vitamin D Status Affect an Athlete’s Ability to Recover from Knee Surgery? A prospective study on 153 athletes that underwent ACL surgery looked at this very question. Interestingly, the authors concluded that vitamin D status has no effect on outcomes, yet those with the lowest vitamin D status had three times the failure rate than those with higher vitamin D, meaning the authors’ conclusion is not the only conclusion at which one may arrive. Here are the details... The average age of the 153 patients was around 24 years old – young... Read More Posted by Nichole Herms at Thursday, May 27, 2021 exercise physiology micronutrients sports nutrition vitamin d vitamin d and injury recovery Tuesday, May 4, 2021 T-Cells Are Finally Getting the Attention They Deserve, In the Era of COVID Research confirms that T-cells hold the key to lasting immunity against COVID. While most of us are familiar with the notion that antibodies protect us against a specific virus, it is not as well known that antibodies can fade, sometimes even after just a few months. T-cells, however, hold a cellular memory of infection for years, sometimes decades. Further, T-cells are the cells responsible for telling the other immune cells what to do and coordinating a full-... Read More at Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Cellular Health COVID Antibodies Immune Testing Lasting Immunity micronutrients Tcell Memory Tcell Testing Tcells Monday, May 3, 2021 Glutathione: The Powerhouse Nutrient Purported to Protect Against Severe COVID Symptoms Could this powerhouse nutrient be the reason some people fare well while others get really sick from COVID? One doctor has a theory. A doctor at the Research Institute for Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology in Russia proposes a viewpoint that glutathione – known sometimes as the master antioxidant of the body – holds the answer to why so many people have different clinical courses of COVID. Some mild, some severe, some short-term, some for mo... Read More at Monday, May 3, 2021 Cellular Health COVID-19 and Inflammation Glutathione Glutathione and COVID Inflammation micronutrients Tcells
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