Carnosine is a small molecule of dipeptide that occurs naturally in the bodies of a large variety of animals, plays a major role in energy metabolism, antioxidant oxidation, gene expression, protein integrity and phosphorylation, but scientific research, to date, did not find an explanation of what exactly is its biological function. This article has highlighted […]

In this article, the authors wanted to list all the features of this spice and its use, but above all to dispel all myths and correct all the often incomplete information circulating on the net. For example, it has been said that piperine was discovered by Hans Christian Oersted in 1819. The truth is that piperine […]

Wheat has been at the center of the human diet for thousands of years. It is in fact the foundation of civilization: it easily cultivates, preserves for years the shape of the kernel, releasing its nutritional goodness when the seed is ground and prepared in fresh bread or porridge. This is how the grains have […]

This month’s Sciences publishes an article with a significant title: “Confused truths about weight loss.” Susan B. Roberts and Sai Krupa Das both lead the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at the Tufts University (Medford / Somerville, Usa). The fact that overweight and obesity is so and more and more common in the […]

Doctors and biologists from the Eurocenter Venalinfa have just published an article that illustrates the benefits of proper nutrition and specific nutraceuticals (eg Maqui, Curcuma, Carnosina) in the treatment of edema (or “cellulite”) lipodystrophy, adiposity and of all alterations in the body’s profile due to the accumulation of adipose tissue. Read more…