Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being so hard-nosed about this? Androstenedione is not a vitamin, a mineral or a protein. It's an honest-to-goodness steroid. The only chemical difference between it and testosterone, which is found in varying degrees in both men and women, is a single hydrogen atom. That helps explain why androstenedione is banned by the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee. If you find it surprising that you can buy a steroid over the counter, you can thank the U.S. Congress, which in 1994 barred the Food and Drug Administration from regulating the "dietary supplements" industry...
Nonprescription drugs can cause problems too. Antacids, for example, can neutralize certain antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. High doses of vitamin E (over 400 IU) can trigger serious internal bleeding when taken with a blood-thinning agent like Coumadin. Even eating can be tricky. Grapefruit juice intensifies the effects of some high-blood-pressure medications (calcium channel blockers) while aged cheeses, wine and chocolate can turn antidepressants (MAO inhibitors) into poisons. And those are just some of the thousands of cross-reactions that pharmacists know about. New contraindications are added to the list all the time...
...parched mouth, information that he dutifully jots down in my chart while observing, "Maybe your body is talking to you." Then he tells me that salt tends to precipitate calcium, a common component of kidney stones, out of the bloodstream into the kidneys. He informs me that excessive vitamin C can do the same thing. I note that my kidney specialist in New York City never told me about these two contributing factors...
...First, she would want to know if any factors other than hormonal changes have contributed to bone loss. An eating disorder during adolescence, for instance, or chronic inadequate calcium intake diminishes total bone mass. Steroids taken for asthma and immunosuppressants reduce bone density. Even a lack of vitamin D, which is most easily acquired through exposure to half an hour of sunlight a day, diminishes the ability of bones to absorb calcium, a main building block. Moore would recommend an increase in the daily intake of calcium to about 1,500 mg, the equivalent of five 8-oz. glasses...
Huang's rise to celebrity status began accidentally. At age 12 a vitamin company came to her school looking for children of Chinese descent to appear in a print advertisement; Huang was selected. While doing that job, the coordinator of the project told her she should look into modeling professionally. Huang did, and has been at it ever since...