Supplements

Jun 18, 2016

June 18, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

The Vitamin D Complex(ity)

Wouldn’t it be nice if a simple, inexpensive vitamin supplement could solve so many health-related issues? So begins the question at the heart of a review featured in this article: http://www.healthcanal.com/nutrition/73501-vitamin-d-may-not-be-the-great-solution-to-health-problems.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+healthnewshc%2FOxfp+%28Health+News+from+HealthCanal.com%29 As I’ve written in so many blogs and Facebook posts, vitamin D is either great or relatively inconsequential…and yet some fitness and nutrition expertsRead More

Dec 01, 2010

December 1, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

On Vitamin D: Changing Standards?

The other day, I got my tufts nutrition newsletter. There was a small piece in there about the need to take more vitamin D and how many are getting this message. The same day, the NY times and wall street journal reported on an institute of medicine committee that reviewed hundreds of articles and cameRead More

Oct 10

October 10, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Supplements, Free Radicals, and Anti-Oxidants

I have colleagues who, as trainers, wish to help their clients and friends by also supplementing their incomes passively. So they sell or market supplements, either muscle building or immunity-enhancing or disease-reducing “proprietary blends” that have an ounce of science and a ton of marketing behind them. Just the other day, a close associate wasRead More