It is generally accepted that health doesn’t just miraculously appear. Rather, it is the end result of a process that begins at the cellular level in the body and cascades through tissues and organs to ultimately be identified at the clinical level. To be clinically healthy, it is essential that the process start with healthy [...]
An international group of vitamin D experts recently published the Endocrine Society’s (ES) Vitamin D Clinical Practice Guidelines, which challenge some of the key findings of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recent vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) and tolerable upper limit (UL) recommendations¥2. The Endocrine Society also challenged the IOM’s [...]
Independent, hard-working, goal-oriented, confident… these are just some of the words used to describe members of the Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964. One characteristic of Baby Boomers that those of us at Mannatech especially appreciate is their ongoing commitment to maintaining health and wellness. With the high cost of health care, in [...]
People take Mannatech’s Ambrotose® products for lots of reasons. Many appreciate them for the enhanced well-being and immune support they provide. Would it surprise you that many people also report cognitive benefits from taking Ambrotose products? It shouldn’t. Independent scientists have shown, in three “gold-standard” randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, that the recommended daily serving of [...]
Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics¹ (AAP) and authors published in the British Medical Journal² (BMJ) and the Journal of Nutrition³ recommended that people of all ages, from children to older adults, increase vitamin D levels in the body using nutritional supplements.
In the nutrition industry, it seems there is a new “magic miracle” announced almost monthly. Claims are cleverly written to convince a public not schooled in nutritional biochemistry that the newest product for sale is bigger than life. We see it in virtually every category of product sold.
Regulatory authorities throughout the world are drastically tightening the regulations relating to dietary supplements. Some are treating dietary supplements as medicines and demanding more and more scientific evidence to substantiate claims and document safety. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and certain members of Congress have recently [...]
ORAC is the acronym for “Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity” and it is a measure of the level of protection against free radicals. Free radicals are not terrorists who have just been released from jail but are a highly reactive species produced in the body that can damage normal structures, impair function and lead to more [...]
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