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Vitamin K2 for Cardiovascular Health
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What is Vitamin K2? Vitamin K is a fat soluble group of sub-vitamins which primarily aid in the clotting of blood. Vitamin K2 is a more easily absorbed form of the vitamin which is found primarily in fermented foods, or, alternatively, supplements. This often over-looked vitamin is responsible for a lot of health benefits, including keeping your bones and teeth healthy. The biggest benefit, however, is for your cardiovascular health. What Are It's Cardiovascular Benefits? The cardiovascular benefits associated with Vitamin K2 boil down to one major thing: it helps to prevent artery calcification. Artery calcification is...
5 HTP Benefits for Sleep
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Using 5-HTP for a Better Night's Sleep For the many people all over the world who don't get enough sleep, this epidemic has major effects on their lives. There are many things that can keep you from sleeping - diet, too much screen time, and health problems. When you've changed your life and still can't get enough sleep it may be time to consider alternatives. Two supplements - melatonin and 5-HTP can have amazing benefits for sleep. Melatonin This is a hormone that your body naturally secretes, but if you don't have enough of it then your sleep can...
Lutein Has a Role to Play in Eye Health
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Lutein is an organic yellow pigment, technically known as a carotenoid vitamin and related to beta carotene, synthesized by plants and thus stored in the fat of herbivore animals. It gives chicken fat its colour, for instance. The pigment accumulates in the human retina, where it helps protect against the cellular damage caused by the sun's radiation, specifically the free radicals created by the ultraviolet wavelength that produces the colour blue. Lutein absorbs the light from that portion of the spectrum. Lutein is particularly concentrated, due to selective filtered accumulation from plasma, in the macula, the retinal area dedicated to...
5HTP Effectiveness on Anxiety and Depression
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5HTP is a naturally occurring chemical byproduct of a protein building block called L-trypotophan. This substance is also commercial produced using the seeds of an African plant called Griffonia Simplicifolia, whose seeds have 20% naturally occurring 5HTP. The difference in the commercial produced and the kind naturally occurring in our bodies, is that the ones coming from these seeds is smaller. This smaller size is the main factor behind why it works so well in the human population. Since the 5HTP molecules in the seeds are smaller, they are able to pass what is known as the blood-brain...