Inosine is formed when a purine (hydrogen bonding compounds widely occurring in plants and meats) is bound to ribose (an energy (ATP) enhancing sugar).
    Inosine helps facilitate energy production and other cellular activities.      more…

November 01, 2008 Lung airway cells activate vitamin D and increase immune response.

    Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen primarily in the kidneys, but a new University of Iowa study finds that the activation step can also occur in lung airway cells.  Continued...

    Vitamin D is a prohormone (a broken-open steroids called a secosteroid), that is converted in the liver and kidney to become the hormone 1,25-D (physiologically active form of a protein bound vitamin D).      more…

March 10, 2008 The results of a study published in the international journal, Chemistry & Biology, declared that teams from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica extracted four bioactive components from the Bitter Melon, and all appear to activate the enzyme AMPK, a protein well known for regulating fuel metabolism and enabling glucose uptake.

    Scientists have uncovered the therapeutic properties of Bitter Melon that make it a powerful treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
The advantage of Bitter Melon is that there are no known side effects.  Continued...

        It has been reported to improve glucose tolerance in humans.       more…

    Vitamin D is a prohormone (a broken-open steroids called a secosteroid), that is converted in the liver and kidney to become the hormone 1,25-D (physiologically active form of a protein bound vitamin D).
    Vitamin D₃ (Cholecalciferol) is the natural dietary secosteroid to our body's internal 1,25-Hydroxyvitamin D3.

    Osteomalacia in adults; rickets in children. In children, its deficiency causes rickets, which results in skeletal deformities. In adults, its deficiency can lead to osteomalacia, which results in muscular weakness in addition to weak bones, deformity of bone and pathologic fractures..   more…

November 01, 2008 Lung airway cells activate vitamin D and increase immune response.

    Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen primarily in the kidneys, but a new University of Iowa study finds that the activation step can also occur in lung airway cells.  Continued...