Abstracts & Commentary
Omega-3-enriched parenteral nutrition, when combined with enteral nutrition, improves postoperative course following radical gastrectomy.
Vaginal seeding may improve neonatal microbiota in ways that could potentially have lifelong benefits.
Initial results seem promising, but study flaws, such as small sample size and failure to report baseline measurements, call into question their validity.
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) essential oil effectively reduces blood pressure and stress in patients with essential hypertension.
In both men and women, regardless of body mass index, eating more ultraprocessed foods resulted in higher levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, an indicator of inflammation.
In contrast to common assumptions about the safety of water-soluble vitamins, there may be a sweet spot for vitamin C intake, with too little and too much both increasing mortality risk.
Fasting for 16 hours a day, while restricting eating times to the other 8 hours, for five days a week, improved cardiovascular risk in breast cancer survivors, but with some undesirable effects.
Living near nature may improve psychomotor speed/attention and overall cognition, adding to the list of positive health effects associated with green spaces.
For patients experiencing darker stools due to iron supplementation, bioavailable curcumin may be a promising adjunctive treatment.
In patients with type 2 diabetes, supplementing with vitamin D3 significantly reduced inflammation, a key mechanism behind the pathophysiology of diabetes and a possible route for helping patients.
