It has long been known that creatine supplementation can enhance muscle strength and power after only five to seven days in young adults. But did you know that they are also able to benefit older individuals where aging is associated with a decrease in muscle strength and explosive power?
In a study by Gotshalk and colleagues that is published in the journal ‘Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercises (Pumbed ID 11880821) it was found that seven days of creatine supplements in normally active older men (between the ages of fifty nine to seventy two) that seven days of creatine supplementation is effective at increasing several indices of muscle performance, including functional tests in older men without adverse side effects. There are many places where you can buy discount creatine supplements nowadays and these supplements may prove to be a very useful herapeutic strategy for older adults in their fight against muscle loss.
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Posted in Supplements February 20th, 2007 by admin | No comments
This Article/abstract is taken from the American journal for Cardiology. It is written by j Gaziano and C Gibson. they work at Harvard and Boston.
Millions of individuals in the United States take low-dose aspirin for cardioprotection. Physicians face a clinical dilemma when those same patients also have pain from arthritis or another condition. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may increase the risk of gastrointestinal complications when used in conjunction with aspirin. In addition, Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs particularly ibuprofen, may interfere with the antithrombotic benefits of aspirin through competitive interaction with platelet cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1).
Evidence suggests that naproxen has antithrombotic effects; however, as with other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, it poses a risk of gastrotoxicity. Selective COX-2 inhibitors reduce the risk of gastrointestinal side effects, and although they inhibit platelet COX-1, it is to a far lesser extent than COX-2. However, it is unclear to what degree COX-2 inhibitors remain gastroprotective in the presence of aspirin. In addition, recent long-term trials have raised concerns about adverse cardiovascular events with prolonged use of both traditional and selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Conversely, acetaminophen is well tolerated, has not been shown to contribute to gastrotoxicity when taken with aspirin, and has not been shown to interfere with the inhibition of platelet aggregation produced by aspirin. Acetaminophen is considered a first-line therapy for patients with mild-to-moderate joint pain.
The full article can be found via pubmed using the ID 16675319. It is in the May 2006 edition number 8;97, starting on page 23.
Posted in Supplements May 17th, 2006 by admin | No comments
This article from Zhou and Zhong is only available in Chinese. It has a pubmed ID of 16613273. The writers of the abstract herald from Guangdong, which is an hospital of traditional Chinese medicine.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the therapeutic effect of Liang’s anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule (LARG) in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at the active stage.
METHODS: Fifty patients were administered orally with Liang’s anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule in the treated group, 30 patients were treated with Wangbi granule in the control group. Symptoms, physical signs and relevant laboratory indexes in the 2 groups were observed and compared before treatment and after being treated for 2 months.
RESULTS: The total effective rate and curative-markedly effective rate in the treated groups were superior to those in the control group (P <0.01). The improvement in aspects of integral scoring of symptom and physical signs, including arthragia, tumefaction, dysfunction indexes, morning stiffness and 15m walking time, and laboratory indexes, including blood sedimentation rate, rheumatoid factor, C creative protein, immunoglobin, as well as hemorheology relevant indexes in the treated group after treatment were significantly different to those before treatment and those in the control group (P <0.05 or P <0.01).
CONCLUSION: Liang’s anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule has obvious therapeutic effect on RA at the active stage.
This abstract comes from the March @006 edition of the Chinese journal of integrated traditional and Western medicine Issue number 26(3), start page 248
Posted in Supplements April 16th, 2006 by admin | No comments
