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Vitamin E Helps Decrease Your Cancer Risk

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin with potent antioxidant activity that helps combat damaging free radicals. It also plays a role in the making of red blood cells, helps your body use vitamin K (which is important for heart health1) and is involved in your immune function and cell signaling. As with many other nutrients,… Read More »

How Magnesium Can Protect You From Liver Damage

Magnesium, an essential mineral involved in more than 300 metabolic reactions,1 may also play an important role in liver health. Due to the way it interacts with your gut microbiome, magnesium may offer protection from liver damage caused by one of the most common liver toxins — acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol.2 Acetaminophen overdose is… Read More »

Could Endometriosis Be Caused by Bacteria?

There is a good and a bad side to bacteria. One 2023 study1 published in Science Translational Medicine revealed data suggesting one genus of an anaerobic, gram-negative bacteria,2 Fusobacterium, plays an influential role in the development of endometriosis. This genus of bacteria has species that live symbiotically with humans and others that develop invasive infections.… Read More »