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Are food supplements really useful to strenghten hairs?

There are various external factors that influence the appearance of hair, especially discretionary ones such as cigarette smoking and alcohol abuse between meals which...

Functional foods: what to eat to keep the brain in shape every day?

What are functional foods? The functional food sector is increasingly the subject of interest and development. It does not enjoy a real categorization and in...

Sports supplements: ethical considerations outside the practice

There is no single definition, legal or within the nutritional sciences, of what constitutes a dietary supplement. There are several and they may be...

Antioxidants: not all of them match for mitochondrial needs

Mitochondria are tiny structures in human and animal cells that produce energy through an integrated series of chemical reactions known as the respiratory chain...

PCOS: what oxidative stress and markers are trying to tell us?

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the most frequently observed endocrinopathy in women of reproductive age. Although the figures vary according to diagnostic criteria, its...

Pesticides and neurological diseases: evidences keep piling up

There have always been doubts about the impact of phytochemicals on both food quality and consumer health. The reasons lie not only in the...

Antioxidants: the lovely coffee is second to no one

Everyone likes a good coffee. One reason, perhaps unconscious, is that coffee is potentially the biggest source of antioxidants in the world. The other...

Endometriosis: new facts, concepts beneath etiology and biomedicine

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent pelvic inflammatory disease characterized by implantation and growth of endometrial tissue (glands and stroma) outside the uterine cavity. It affects...

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