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Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) are the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine. These three amino acids comprise around 35% of the body’s amino acids and about 14-18% of the amino acids found in muscles and are considered essential because your body cannot create them. Instead, you can only get these BCAAs through diet [1].

Of all the organs in the human body, the eyes are perhaps one of the most complex. The eyes need many different vitamins and minerals to function correctly, and certain conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataracts can impact one’s eyes. With all these conditions, nutritional factors appear to play a significant role.

Regarding evil corporations, Monsanto is right up there at the top. In the 1960s, Monsanto manufactured a product called Agent Orange, which was a powerful weedkiller. The United States used Agent Orange during the Vietnam war and sprayed large areas of the jungle with the toxin, which caused horrible health effects such as cancer and congenital disabilities among American veterans and Vietnamese civilians.

According to a 2010 study entitled “Vitamin D Deficiency- An Ignored Epidemic,” over a billion people worldwide are deficient in vitamin D [1]. Certain activities such as working indoors, wearing extensive clothing, regularly using sunblock, or consciously avoiding the sun can raise the risk of vitamin D deficiency [1]. Yet, of all these activities, wearing sunscreen seems to be the most common, consciously performed task.

In 2000, over 125 million Americans were living with chronic conditions, and 61 million had more than one. These chronic inflammation-mediated diseases include diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis and joint diseases, allergies, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). While conventional medicine leans towards treating chronic inflammation with medication, people often overlook one central aspect: one’s diet.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a group of conditions where there is an accumulation of excess fat in the liver of people who drink little or no alcohol.

I recently posted an article entitled “Aspartame Is Not “Safe”: A Scientific Review,” which explained why aspartame, aka aspartylphenylalanine, is not safe. So, I will also review scientific studies which illustrate who sucralose not safe either.

I have examined cardiovascular disease in several of my articles, with the most notable being “Fish Oils, Omega-3s, EPA and DHA: A Review of Benefits” and “More Benefits of CoQ10, Heart, Lung, and Brain Health, Cancer Prevention.” I have also noted heart disease is the leading cause of death

There is often a lot of discussion on how to increase fertility in women, but an equally important point is how to increase fertility in men. Studies have shown one in every three cases of infertility is due to fertility problems in the male partner alone [1] [2]. Not only does age affect the count and quality of eggs, but age will also affect the count and quality of sperm.