A 55-year-old man treated for thyroid cancer was on a low-iodine diet as part of treatment, but his iodine levels of continued to increase.
A patient history published in The New England Journal of Medicine and reported in CBCNews.ca reveals an unexpected source of iodine among the 20 supplements he was taking. Continue reading Thyroid cancer and stealth iodine-containing drugs
It’s only one patient (not the one in the photo), but it might reflect a bigger problem.
Here’s what happened.
Continue reading Arsenic poisoning from an herbal kelp supplement
Rat research on fucoxanthin presented during the 2006 American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco is starting to make the rounds in the media.
Don’t hold your breath, fucoxanthin is years from being sold at GNC — if it ever gets that far.
Here’s what we know about fucoxanthin.
Continue reading Fucoxanthin as a potential anti-obesity agent?