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Vitamin B3: How I Raised My Good Cholesterol Over 30%

In spite of going to the gym three or four days each week, my cholesterol test came back with low HDLs. My doctor said that I should try to get it above 40 and wanted to give me a prescription for Simvastatin. My dad took that for a while and had muscle pain so badly […]

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A List of Vitamins & Minerals and What They Do

Vitamins are organic compounds that are necessary for proper health and cannot be synthesized by the body.  By strict definition there are 13 nutrients considered to be vitamins in humans.  Below are lists of vitamins, their functions in the body, diseases that occur when they are lacking, and dietary sources of vitamins.  There are also […]

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