Fresh evidence supports the potential protective health properties of wine ingredients with a US study showing that a glass of red wine a day could actually protect against liver disease. People who drank up to one glass of red win a day saw the risk of liver disease due to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) cut in half, the researchers from California University's San Diego School of Medicine report. They carried out a study of nearly 12,000 individuals.

Free radical damage to the mitochondria (the powerhouse of your cells) is a major cause of aging. This decay can be significantly reversed in laboratory animals by giving them a combination of Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALCAR) and Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) in high dosages. ALCAR is involved with brain energy and ALA is a mitochondrial antioxidant, and together they restore the speed and efficiency of mitochondrial function and energy production.

Older women who aren't getting enough vitamin D appear to be at risk for suffering from back pain, new research shows. "Given that low vitamin D status is fairly prevalent in older adults and that there are significant functional consequences to untreated chronic pain, these findings argue strongly for querying adults about their pain and potentially screening older women with significant back pain for vitamin D deficiency," Dr. Gregory E.

Glycated hemoglobin is the burning of hemoglobin by excess sugar - it is a form of glycation, a very dangerous free radical generator. Physicians check the level of glycated hemoglobin in diabetics because it gives them a 6 to 12 week portrait of a patients sugar levels and aids their evaluation of diabetes therapy. In the first study, researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK reviewed the effects of chronic elevated blood sugar in both diabetics and non-diabetics.