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Juice Cleanses and Detoxes: Real or BS?

June 9, 2015 By Pill Scout 4 Comments

Today as a detour from our usual topic of nootropics, I wanted to touch upon a hotly-debated topic: juicing and whether it’s all that it’s cracked up to be. Due to time constraints, this post lacks the scientific citations I want it to have, but I will expound upon this topic more later. For some […]

Filed Under: Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements

Supplements on an Empty Stomach – Good or Bad?

October 27, 2014 By Pill Scout 2 Comments

There are two schools of thought when it comes to taking supplements: Taking them on an empty stomach will help my body absorb them better Taking them with food will help my body absorb them better In reality, it’s not either-or. It’s simple but depends on a few factors such as whether the supplement is […]

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Does Vitamin C do anything for cold and flu?

October 20, 2014 By Pill Scout Leave a Comment

Ascorbic acid, more commonly known as Vitamin C, is a very interesting and often overlooked substance. It’s commonly used as a preservative and small amounts are used to fortify many foods. It is also one of the most popular supplements. With few exceptions, the current mainstream scientific consensus seems to be that taking more than […]

Filed Under: Health, Nutrition Tagged With: Vitamin C

Shilajit, Fulvic and Humic Acids

July 7, 2014 By Pill Scout 1 Comment

A reader requested that I investigate shilajit a few months back, and since then I’ve had the opportunity to take some and do a little reading on the subject and even purchase a shilajit product myself. This post is mostly an exploration of hype and hearsay versus fact. What is shilajit? Shilajit is a kind […]

Filed Under: Health, Nutrition Tagged With: Shilajit

Should I take a multivitamin?

April 7, 2014 By Pill Scout 1 Comment

Multivitamins are everywhere. You’ve got those One-A-Days and Centrums and even Flintstone vitamins for kids. They even come in chewable gummy forms, and for adults. When most people think of taking their vitamins, they think of these and not about taking the isolated forms. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, special multivitamins can be […]

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My $100 nutrition stack for Spring 2014

March 23, 2014 By Pill Scout 6 Comments

Since I’m working on something else that’s taking up quite a bit of time at the moment, I’ll use this week’s post to spill the beans on what I take to supplement my dietary nutrition. Some of this post may be review for some of you, some of it may be new. Anyway, my diet […]

Filed Under: Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Stacks Tagged With: vitamins

Little-known applications of Vitamin C

March 17, 2014 By Pill Scout 2 Comments

Vitamin C is a ubiquitous nutrient, or at least you’d think so seeing all of the processed foods that contain “100% daily value of Vitamin C” on the label. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably forgotten all about vitamin C after giving up processed foods fortified with the stuff. There’s just enough of it […]

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Vitamin B Basics

March 3, 2014 By Pill Scout Leave a Comment

Vitamin B is not a single vitamin, but rather the B vitamins are a group of water-soluble nutrients that are vital for many aspects of cellular metabolism, serving as enzymes and coenzymes in a variety of biological systems. The main 8 B vitamins are often not synthesized by the body alone so they must be […]

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Not all nutrient sources are the same

December 16, 2013 By Pill Scout 1 Comment

Contrary to the materialist assumption that, automatically, one vitamin = another vitamin because it has a similar atomic makeup, many variants of simple vitamins DO exist that the body can use well or that it can’t use at all. It’s very complex and I still have a lot to learn about these myriad variations myself, […]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements Tagged With: Vitamin A, Vitamin E, vitamin k

The Copper-Zinc Connection

August 26, 2013 By Pill Scout 2 Comments

Zinc is touted as a vital mineral for men. It is intimately linked to the trace mineral copper however, and this is highly important because this balance between the two minerals is crucial to living healthily as a male. Copper and zinc both aid in the metabolism and excretion of one another. One source says […]

Filed Under: Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements Tagged With: zinc

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