Researchers at Wake Forest University found that combining weight training with a low-calorie diet helps your body preserve lean muscle mass. The researchers found that walking causes greater muscle loss than lifting weights and dieting alone.

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Medical biochemist Henry Pownall, PhD and his team wanted to prove that current beliefs about how the body eliminates cholesterol are accurate. But like so many things in science, they made an accidental discovery. They found out that their beliefs weren’t quite right.

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When seizures occur, it’s often because of a pathological hyperexcitability in brain neurons. Scientists have long searched for treatments that can prevent this hyperexcitability. But they haven’t had much success – until now. Recently, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that inducing a biochemical alteration in brain proteins using the dietary supplement glucosamine could rapidly dampen that pathological hyperexcitability.

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High blood pressure medications do not totally reverse hypertension’s damaging effects on the vascular rhythms that help circulation of the blood say researchers.

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Researchers found that when a mother has a B12 deficiency, it significantly increases the baby’s risk of having a metabolic disorder, such as diabetes. The deficiency causes the baby’s body to produce abnormal levels of leptin, producing leptin resistance. This results in weight gain, insulin resistance, and diabetes.

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