Vitamins & Minerals

If you’ve been around bodybuilding for a while, you know what cortisol is and that it can blunt or even stop...

Bodybuilding is the ultimate “show me” sport—it’s about getting huge and ripped and getting noticed. In bodybuilding one maxim holds true:...

Latest information from the United States. Department of Agriculture suggests that 55 percent of Americans don’t get enough vitamin A. Most...

Vitamin D appears to help prevent diabetes. A study showed that subjects who got more than 800 international units of vitamin...

A number of recent studies suggest that more than 50 percent of Americans are vitamin D deficient—the result of more and...

According to the Vitamin D Council, statin drugs, used to combat high blood pressure and high cholesterol, can impair the synthesis...

Here are a few interesting tidbits from the book Power of Vitamin D by Sarfraz Zaidi, M.D.: • Not technically a...

Our knowledge about the importance of vitamin D in maintaining health and proper hormone levels continues to grow. If you’re not...

Getting enough potassium in your diet means better blood pressure and muscle function. Unfortunately, the Institute of Medicine of the National...

Many nutritionists say that taking supplemental vitamins and minerals is a waste of time if you eat enough of the right...

If you don’t get out in the sun often, take vitamin D supplements, at least 2,000 international units per day. And...

Older athletes often complain of joint pain after intense workouts, and some of those aches could be from mild-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis....

It’s no secret that cardiovascular disease is a big—if not the biggest—health problem. Upping your vitamin D intake can help. According...

Vitamin C is important to human health and plays a key role in regulating wound healing, immune function, liver detoxification and...

Back in the early days of bodybuilding there were no fat burners to facilitate the ripping process. Those who were looking...