It plays a crucial role in immune function, detoxification capacity and protection against oxidative stress
Doses, weight, and side-effect logs should not sit behind a paywall
Distributing protein across meals supports muscle protein synthesis better than consuming it all at once
Procedures like gastric sleeve and gastric bypass produce durable, long-term outcomes that medications alone sometimes cant match, especially at BMIs above 40 or when conditions like type 2 diabetes or severe sleep apnea are in the picture
Enhances angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels)
We have shown that pericyte-mediated no-reflow can be significantly reduced by infusing adenosine at the time of reperfusion 8 , and it has also been suggested that remote ischaemic preconditioning (RPc, in which a limb is made transiently ischaemic before the cardiac ischaemia) has a cardioprotective action that is mediated by relaxation of pericytes 12