Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C. It’s long been unclear why. But Dallas researchers may have uncovered an explanation — and it involves parasitic infections. At ...

Vitamins are ubiquitous in medicine cabinets everywhere, with more than half of all U.S. adults regularly taking vitamins or other dietary supplements to boost their health. But the science of ...

It's been thought that type 2 diabetes develops when the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin, causing the beta cells of the pancreas that generate insulin to be exhausted as they produce ...

The body can naturally produce vitamin D when skin is exposed to sunlight, but this process declines significantly in winter. There also aren't many food sources of vitamin D. But vitamin D is very ...

While its reputation is at times dismissed as folklore or the efforts of orange juice marketing campaigns, vitamin C’s ...

Do we really need to take supplements?’ This is a question I am commonly asked by clients, friends and even people I have ...