This paper discusses the role of peptides in cancer therapy with special emphasis on peptide drugs which are already approved and those in clinical trials. The potential of peptides in cancer treatment is evident from a variety of different strategies that are available to address [...]
Athletes who use steroids and other such medications are more likely to suffer a lot in their old age. Such illness varies from anxiety, depression and burst sinews, but is unlikely to be cardiac illness, an unusual discovery in a study of six hundred and [...]
It is not bad for muscles. One study suggested that any food that has a high amount of plant based protein can be harmful for animals. Does that apply also to humans? Looking for research into the effect of plant-based proteins and animal proteins on [...]
In general, the only introduction somebody might have had to the term “peptide” is in the news about sports men and women using peptides. These reports however can be misleading. Even science, may not be helpful in providing a balanced perspective for what is a [...]
The Korean pharmaceutical company LG Life Sciences has been producing the growth hormone Declage since 2007. It's available in Korea and some neighbouring countries, but not yet elsewhere in the world. [Asia Pacific Biotech 2008;12(3):22-8.] Once Declage becomes more widely available then thousands of chemical [...]
It's been on the market for about twenty years: glucosamine – an aminosugar that, according to small studies, protects joints (and according to larger studies, mainly sponsored by the pharmaceutical sector, has no effect at all). This same glucosamine extends lives according to Swiss and [...]
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our body would get fit without our lifting a finger? Yes of course we love the trips to the gym, we get a runner’s high from our two mile run, and a long walk in the evening is just part [...]
In small quantities the stress hormone cortisol is amazingly useful, but continuously raised levels of it are bad... for just about everything. We've been doing some digging around in old scientific journals, and fortunately there's an easy way to reduce the amount of cortisol in [...]
Eating a considerably higher amount of nuts can help in protecting us from prostate cancer. In this case, men who usually consume more nuts can protect themselves from various types of cancer and most importantly, prostate cancer. This information was provided by conducting an animal [...]
Even though most of the nutritionists swear that obese people must eat breakfast, however, based on a British study, regularly skipping breakfast can be considered as a reliable way mainly for the slimmers to cut off excess body fat. This study was conducted by a [...]
