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Vitamin D is essential for building and protecting the bones and muscles in your body. While you don’t have to chug a gallon of milk every day, researchers say getting the nutrient into your diet is vital. A recent study by Brazilian scientists found that a vitamin D deficiency can lead to a massive 78 percent drop in muscle strength. While vitamin D is commonly known for making strong bones and muscles, it has widespread health benefits. It regulates the amount of calcium and [...]

Sao Paulo, Brazil — Certain nutrients may be a secret ingredient in new anti-aging therapies.Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo say that amino acids Taurine Can help fight the aging process. When cells process oxygen and food, the human body produces potentially toxic by-products called “free radicals.” Some of these molecules perform essential functions in the body, but too many free radicals can damage the internal structure of the cell, causing it to malfunction [...]

A study shows that administering antioxidant coenzyme Q10 reverses damage done to germinative cells by BPA, a contaminant found in many kinds of plastic Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and resins, inner coatings for food cans and bottle tops, thermal paper used in store receipts, dental sealants and so on, is a concern because of possible adverse health effects, including a reduction in fertility. A study performed at Harvard Medical School [...]

Fungi of the genus Candida cause thrush and candidiasis, a fairly common disease in humans. It can be lethal to individuals with low immunity, especially when they are hospitalized. Although the drug most widely used to combat the disease is effective in most cases, some varieties of the fungus are drug-resistant. Compounds that combat two species of Candida have now been isolated from a plant by researchers based in Brazil and Spain. The plant is Mimosa [...]

The incidence of thyroid cancer among first responders who volunteered or were employed as firefighters, rescue personnel and cleanup workers at Ground Zero in New York on or after September 11, 2001, is three times higher than that in the general population. This difference has been confirmed by a method involving a panel of four biomarkers that distinguish benign from malignant thyroid cancer cases on the basis of gene expression. The tests were developed by researchers at the Federal [...]

A new study has concluded that cannabidiol attenuates the aggressiveness induced by social isolation. The research, based on a mouse model, was performed by scientists at the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP-USP) in Brazil. The results are published in the journal Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. “Our study shows that cannabidiol can inhibit aggressiveness and that it does so by facilitating the activation of [...]

Lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, overweight and obesity, unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity areassociated with a third of all deaths caused by 20 types of cancerin Brazil, according to a new epidemiological study. Published in the journalCancer Epidemiology, the study shows that lifestyle risk factors account for 114,497 annual cases of cancer in Brazil, whichrepresents 27% of all cancer cases, and 63,000 deaths, or 34% of cancer mortality. The study was [...]