Use of dietary supplements to enhance sports performance
Researchers at Texas Chiropractic College, in Pasadena, studied children in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) in order to estimate...
Creatine supplements during inactivity and immobilization
 Muscle and strength loss occur during periods of physical inactivity and immobilization. Researchers from St Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish...
Creatine’s effect on resistance training in patients with HIV
 Researchers from the University of California San Francisco studied whether creatine supplementation augments the effects of progressive resistance exercise training...
Creatine supplementation in healthy young adults
 It reportedly improves certain aspects of cognitive (reasoning) and psychomotor function in older individuals and in young people following sleep...
Status of CAM to treat the frailty syndrome
There’s a need, but no well-documented evidence. Researchers from the Miami VA Medical Center in Florida have complied a detailed...
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Seizures associated with guarana in energy drinks
Recently, 4 patients experienced seizures multiple times following heavy consumption of energy drinks. The authors proposed that energy drinks rich...
Benefits from creatine reported outside sports medicine
In patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis — conditions characterized by weakness and swelling of limb and neck muscles — taking...
Using creatine to treat dermatomyositis and polymyositis
The former produces skin inflammation and muscle weakness. People with the later condition get weakness of limb and neck muscles,...
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The most commonly used vitamins and herbals
These data are from a telephone survey of more than 2500 randomly sampled noninstitutionalized Americans, which was published in 2002....