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Research Insights for Menopause
Consuming bicarbonate-calcium mineral water, low in sodium, can help manage calcium imbalance and support bone health in perimenopausal women.
Menopause Mineral Water Osteoporosis
A combination of soybean germ extract and a probiotic significantly improved menopause-related conditions and mood in an ovariectomized rat model.
Bacillus Menopause Soybean
Fermented soy milk significantly improves lipid profiles and fertility in a model of premenopausal mice, due to increased bioavailability and action of beneficial compounds.
Menopause Ovarian Function Soy Milk
Long-term intake of traditionally made Doenjang, particularly high in certain species, may improve symptoms of estrogen deficiency more effectively than unfermented soybeans.
Bacillus Gut Microbiota Menopause
Pomegranate can significantly enhance women's health during and after menopause by reducing hot flashes severity and other menopause symptoms.
Hot Flushes Menopause Pomegranate
Saffron shows promising improvements in dealing with women's health issues related to labor, childbirth, premenstrual syndrome and menopause.
Labour Menopause Premenstrual Syndrome
High prevalence of insomnia, anxiety, and depression among perimenopausal women, emphasizing the importance of exploring acupuncture as a potential green therapy for effectively addressing these interconnected issues.
Anxiety Insomnia Menopause
Four weeks' treatment with pomegranate supplement greatly helps in alleviating menopausal symptoms and enhancing the quality of life in menopausal women.
Menopause Pomegranate
A diet low in fat, vegan, and inclusive of daily cooked soybeans significantly reduces the frequency and severity of hot flashes in postmenopausal women.
Hot Flushes Low Fat Diet Menopause
Pumpkin seed oil, with its phytochemical content, shows beneficial properties against cardiovascular problems in menopausal women and hormone imbalances.
Cardiovascular Disease Menopause Pumpkin Seed
Soybean lettuce extract effectively reduces symptoms of menopause syndrome without notable side effects.
Lettuce Menopause Soybean
Isoflavone supplementation noticeably impacts menopausal symptoms and hormonal changes in postmenopausal women.
Isoflavone Menopause Soybean
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Consumption of broccoli sprouts significantly lowers blood pressure, potentially due to properties of sulforaphane.
2022 Jundishapur Journal of Natural Pharmaceutical Products Beneficial Effects of Sulforaphane-Yielding Broccoli Sprout on Cardiometabolic Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Broccoli sprouts may reduce the viability of thyroid cancer cells and prevent inflammation, demonstrating a promising safety profile for normal thyroid function.
2022 Plants Broccoli Sprouts and Their Influence on Thyroid Function in Different In Vitro and In Vivo Models
Chronic consumption of cranberry or cherry juice might considerably improve blood pressure levels.
2020 European Journal of Nutrition Effects of chronic consumption of specific fruit (berries, citrus and cherries) on CVD risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Lemon juice boosts gastric secretions and emptying rate, and reduces blood sugar response to starchy food, potentially due to acid-inhibition of digestion enzyme in saliva.
2022 European Journal of Nutrition Glycemic response, satiety, gastric secretions and emptying after bread consumption with water, tea or lemon juice: a randomized crossover intervention using MRI
Lemon juice, but not black tea, can lower and delay the blood glucose concentration peak after consuming bread.
2020 European Journal of Nutrition Lemon juice, but not tea, reduces the glycemic response to bread in healthy volunteers: a randomized crossover trial
D-Limonene, a bioactive compound found in citrus peels, shows potential anticancer activity and is better tolerated in breast cancer patients compared to its derivative perillyl alcohol.
2021 BMC Cancer Effect of d-limonene and its derivatives on breast cancer in human trials: a scoping review and narrative synthesis
Certain species of citrus extracts effectively control dyslipidemia, reducing total cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides while increasing HDL, primarily due to their rich antioxidant composition.
2022 Frontiers in Pharmacology Citrus Extract as a Perspective for the Control of Dyslipidemia: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis From Animal Models to Human Studies
Walnut oligopeptide improves cognitive performance and sleep quality among teenagers and elderly people.
2022 Natural Product Communications Walnut (Juglans regia L.) Oligopeptide Effects on Enhancing Memory, Cognition and Improving Sleep Quality in Teenagers and Elderly People in a Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial
Daily consumption of walnuts improves sleep quality and reduces daytime sleepiness in healthy young adults.
2024 The 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023 Walnut Consumption Improves Sleep Quality: A Randomized-Controlled Trial
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The first research article I've ever come across that discusses the benefits of non-alcoholic beer during pregnancy. Further research and caution is advised here.
—Jinnan C 9 Nov 2025
2022 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture The melatonin contained in beer can provide health benefits, due to its antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties
Page cannot be found...
—Rachael L 3 Oct 2024
2018 Advances in Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences - Open Journal Blueberry Polyphenols and Their Effects on Bone and Joint
Cannot find the article with the link provided -- Rach...
—Rachael L 6 Aug 2024
2018 Nursing and Midwifery Studies The effects of inhalation aromatherapy with Boswellia carterii essential oil on the intensity of labor pain among nulliparous women
Zhangyanming Tablets (ZYMT) has been in clinical use for almost 4 decades. The main components of this medicine include Fructus Lycii (wolfberry), Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali, Radix Puerariae Lobatae, Radix...
—Jinnan C 25 Apr 2024
2023 Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy Protective effect of ZYMT, a traditional Chinese patent medicine in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa
Need observational study tag
—Adrian Y 19 Mar 2024
2019 Medical Acupuncture An Observational Study on Acupuncture for Earthquake-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Experience of the Lombard Association of Medical Acupuncturists/Acupuncture in the World, in Amatrice, Central Italy
The relative risk reduction for those taking statins compared with those who did not was 9% for deaths, 29% for heart attacks and 14% for strokes. Yet the absolute risk...
—Jinnan C 26 Feb 2024
2022 JAMA Internal Medicine Evaluating the Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Reduction and Relative and Absolute Effects of Statin Treatment
The ability to produce it is not present in over half of the human population due to the absence of specific equol-producing bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
—Jinnan C 22 Jan 2024
2022 Nutrients Maximizing the Estrogenic Potential of Soy Isoflavones through the Gut Microbiome: Implication for Cardiometabolic Health in Postmenopausal Women
Case study?
—Adrian Y 16 Jan 2024
2016 Agriculture & Food Security The humble sardine (small pelagics): fish as food or fodder
No abstract?
—Adrian Y 16 Jan 2024
2021 Circulation Effects of Walnut Consumption for 2 Years on Lipoprotein Subclasses Among Healthy Elders