A study comparing beet juice to cooked beets found that both lowered blood pressure, but raw beet juice reduced several additional markers of inflammation such as hs-CRP more than cooked beets (R)
Food addiction is when someone may become addicted to certain foods, usually those that are high in fat, sugar, and salt, because of the feel-good brain chemicals that are released when consumed, explains registered nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner Nicola Shubrook
In this context, nutritional management becomes not merely supportive but an integral component of maintaining metabolic stability during pharmacological weight reduction
Zhu B, Gong N, Fan H, Peng CS, Ding XJ, Jiang Y et al (2014) Lamiophlomis Rotata, an orally available tibetan herbal painkiller, specifically reduces pain hypersensitivity states through the activation of spinal glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors