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What Do My Kidneys Do?

Kidney HealthYour kidneys are bean-shaped organs, each about the size of your fist. They are located near the middle of your back, just below the rib cage.

Your kidneys filter blood. The filtering occurs in tiny units inside your kidneys called nephrons. One kidney has about a million nephrons. ...

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A high percentage of radioactive fallout is in the form of radioactive iodine. Potassium iodide provides enough safe iodine to completely fill the thyroid's binding sites, blocking any radioactive iodine from binding there.
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Vitamin D is necessary for utilization of calcium and phosphorus. The vitamin D3 supplied by the Life Extension Foundation is synthesized, but its form (cholecalciferol) is identical to that which is derived from cholesterol in the human body.
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Forskolin may be helpful to control the underlying cause of glaucoma. The successful use of  it to reduce intraocular pressure may be due to its ability to stimulate adenylate  cyclase activity and increase cyclic adenosine monophosphat.
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In 1997, the Life Extension Foundation introduced the first high concentration (40%) isoflavone soy extract. The theory was that isoflavones such as genistein were the components of soy most likely to be responsible for its multiple health benefits
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The primary purpose of supplementing with vitamin E is to suppress damaging free radicals. Scientific studies have identified the gamma-tocopherol form of vitamin E as being critical to human health
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Vitamin E refers to a family of eight related, lipid-soluble, antioxidant compounds widely distributed in plants. The tocopherol and tocotrienol subfamilies are each composed of alpha, beta, gamma and delta vitamers having unique biological effects.
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Studies have shown that pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) has an ideal daily dose of over 700 mg. Complete B-complex contains high amounts of pantothenic acid, yet also safe and effective levels of all the other B-complex vitamins.
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L-cysteine is a conditionally essential amino acid, and N-acetyl-cysteine is the acetylated form of L-cysteine which is more efficiently absorbed and used. Glutathione is one of the body’s most important and powerful antioxidants
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SAMe is an amino acid derivative normally synthesized in the body. It is widely used in Europe as an antidepressant. SAMe is used by the body in three important pathways: methylation,  the synthesis of polyamines, and trans-sulfuration.
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Research indicates the value of taking high doses of choline in order to achieve optimal acetylcholine levels in the brain. The most cost effective way of consuming large amounts of choline is to drink choline chloride liquid.
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