Ever wonder why doctors always tell you to take your vitamins? Vitamins help maintain optimal health and wellness. Unfortunately, some cannot be found in your everyday diet and we often do not eat enough to experience the maximum benefits. Therefore, it is critical to consider proper supplementation of your diet with basic vitamins.

Vitamin A
Vitamin A is well known for helping to improve vision. It converts light signals so you can read and helps you distinguish colors. An inadequate intake results in night blindness—a condition in which the eyes have difficulty adjusting to darkness or bright lights—but can be addressed by increasing your vitamin A consumption (1). Vitamin A also has been shown to have benefits for some patients with certain cancers such as bladder, breast and prostate (2).

In addition to vitamin supplements, this nutrient can be found in fish liver oil. And, vitamin A palmitate is often added to foods like fat-free or low-fat... 

A subject to make even the manliest of men blush, prostate health is not one from which to shy away. The prostate is a walnut-sized gland in the male reproductive system that plays a role in sexual and urinary health. Although seemingly tiny and of miniscule importance, an unhealthy prostate can actually grow into a really big problem, quite literally, when overlooked for too long.

A Growing Problem
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (hypertrophy), or BPH, is a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate gland, of which the exact cause is not known. BPH affects approximately half of men over age 40 (1). Research suggests the presence of the male sex hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is produced from testosterone and the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, leads to prostate enlargement. Also, the hormone estradiol, of which... 

What do laundry detergent, automobile exhaust systems and saliva have in common? All three contain catalysts or substances that speed up a chemical reaction while remaining unchanged. In cars, this is useful for reducing the toxicity of emissions, but detergents and saliva contain a different type of catalyst—the enzyme. An enzyme is simply a protein, produced by any living organism, that functions as a catalyst (1). Taken as a supplement, enzymes can benefit digestion, immune function, inflammation and more.

How Do Enzymes Work?
For most chemical reactions that release energy, a certain amount of energy must first be input for the reaction to proceed. This is called the activation energy. Think of a lighter—before you can get fire, you need that initial spark. Sometimes, though, you can spark a lighter and it doesn’t light. This could be due to a variety of conditions, including wind, wetness or the size of the spark. As a solution, a catalyst for... 

Aside from the many other health benefits of anti-inflammatory Omega-3 fatty acids, a new study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that omega-3 fatty acids  may help protect your body’s cells from aging by slowing down the shortening of telomeres, structures that are a marker of biological aging.

The well-designed, 5 year study on over 600 people who had stable coronary artery disease concluded that people with the lowest levels of Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA had the highest rate of telomere shortening, and that people with the highest levels of EPA and DHA has the slowest rate of telomere shortening, indicating the important role that Omega 3 fatty acids EPA and DHA have in... 

Biossential Nutrition is proud to announce the highly anticipated release of our new exclusive formula, Vital Defense Packs, after undergoing rigorous testing with the most current scientific data. Biossential Nutrition’s Vital Defense Packs are designed to support a healthy immune system response and support your body’s natural defense mechanisms against infectious pathogens by providing key nutrients such as Ester C®, Opti-Zinc®, Beta Glucans, A.H.C.C.®, and Colostrum that have been shown in scientific studies and medical journals to possess powerful immune boosting properties.

“We wanted to design a powerful product that works quickly and helps make people feel better as fast as possible, as there currently... 

A new article posted on Yahoo News cites a recent research published online by the British Medical Journal that suggests that high levels of vitamin D in the blood appear to be linked to lower risks of colon cancer.

In the study, patients with the highest blood levels of Vitamin D had a nearly 40% lower risk of colorectal cancer in comparison to those with the lowest blood levels.

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If you are interested in taking a Vitamin D supplement, we recommend Clinical D3 from Anabolic Labs, a high potency Vitamin D supplement providing 5,000IU of Vitamin D3. Although the current RDA for Vitamin D is a meager 200IU/day, clinicians are recommending anywhere between 2,000IU and 10,000IU...