Sentences with phrase «while high doses»

While high doses of vitamin C are already used to help fight cancer, pairing vitamin C with antibiotics is showing promise for making its cancer killing properties even more effective.

Beyond that, she said, omega - 3 fats may also make the blood less prone to clotting, while high doses can help lower triglycerides — a type of blood fat.

Results from bowel cancer - prone mice given the smaller dose showed a 50 per cent reduction in tumour size while the high dose showed a 25 per cent reduction.

«A lower dose is going to shift your circadian rhythm, while a higher dose works more like a sleep medication or hypnotic,» Dr. Avidan points out.

Not exact matches

While the FDA has concluded that pesticide residues pose no risk of concern for infants and children, certain kinds of conventionally grown produce contain higher doses of pesticides — even when washed and peeled — which means you should prioritize buying them organic.

While achieving a lethal dose of caffeine would be difficult with regular coffee, high doses of caffeine pills are a known cause of many caffeine overdoses.

While researching an essay on pesticides realised her baby daughter would be receiving the highest dose of chemical exposure and that much of that would come from food.

While single dose laundry packaging addresses these issues, Purex found that consumers weren't always willing to pay a higher price for convenience packaging or they still wanted to be able stay with their liquid detergent.

Certainly a daily dose of the school fare can contribute; but it's also true that many kids eat nothing but that type of food and do not develop a weight problem, while kids like mine never touch the stuff and still have a high BMI.

This would help tamp down antibiotic resistance, while allowing doctors to lower the dosage of antibiotics that are toxic at high doses and that produce nasty side effects such as deafness and kidney damage.

«For example, in Alberta and Ontario, oxycodone is the drug most commonly prescribed at high doses, while in British Columbia, it's morphine.»

He was not surprised to discover that male rats exposed to high doses of the chemical while in utero had lower sperm counts later in life.

While the dose was higher than the 50 milligram dose approved for overactive bladder, the treatment was well tolerated.

In this Dutch study, while the people assigned to the dose - reduction group initially had a higher relapse rate, after two to three years, the people who stayed on their drugs had «caught up», and after seven years differences between the two groups were statistically insignificant (see graph).

While it's clear that high doses of phthalates are harmful to animals, it remains to be shown whether these effects translate to humans.

«The advantage of being able to deliver methotrexate in this targeted way is to be able to gain the benefits from this key treatment of RA, while reducing the risk of adverse effects that are more frequent at high doses,» concluded Dr Macor.

Veterans prescribed higher doses of benzodiazepines while concurrently receiving opioids were at greater risk of overdose death than those on lower doses of benzodiazepines.

However, a higher number of studies looked at indirect comparisons and in those cases tetracycline appeared to have larger benefits than doxycycline, norfloxacin and trimethoprim - sulfamethoxazole, while single dose azithromycin shortened the duration of diarrhea by over a day compared to ciprofloxacin and by half a day compared to erythromycin.

These results remained largely unchanged after further sensitivity analyses, prompting the researchers to suggest that giving moderate to higher opioid doses for shorter durations may be a more effective way to manage pain after surgery, while minimising the risk of misuse and addiction.

While high radiation doses can eventually cause cancer, the immediate health effect is to destroy dividing cells — including blood cells — which wipes out the immune system.

Studies have shown that the risk of heart disease is higher in this group of women after radiation treatment because it can be difficult to ensure that a sufficient dose of radiation is delivered to the left breast while adequately shielding the heart from exposure.

Two newer epilepsy drugs may not harm the thinking skills or IQs of school - aged children whose mothers took them while pregnant — but an older drug is linked to cognitive problems in children, especially if their mothers took high doses — according to new research from The University of Manchester.

Lead author Dr. Stefan Gravenstein, a professor at both the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health at Brown University, said that while a prior study showed that older individuals could respond better to the high - dose vaccine, that study focused on relatively healthy older adults.

While biased agonists may be able to be used more safely at higher doses than other opioids, it remains to be seen how other side effect profiles will be affected.

«While there appear to be no risks from taking a standard multivitamin, the effects of high - dose single supplements are unpredictable, complex and often harmful.

While these imaging procedures, including fluoroscopically guided procedures such as cardiac catheterization, computed tomography scans, and nuclear medicine studies, are critical for accurate diagnosis and intervention, ionizing radiation in high doses can be harmful.

While antibiotics are often required in high doses and affect the whole body, ATPL treatment can be concentrated on the infected site.

A treatment group of mice were given an intake of folic acid 20 times greater than the RDA for humans: while the folic acid dosage consumed by most adults is lower and taken over a longer period of time, a higher dose was used in this study to account for the fact that mice are more efficient in metabolizing folic acid than humans.

«Topiramate hits quite a lot of targets and has complex side effects, while the doses needed for functional effects for cimetidine seemed high,» he cautions.

In adults we observed a tendency toward a dose response, with the 50 µg group having the highest antibody levels, while in children the 25 µg antibody levels were slightly higher.

Greatest hope: While researchers believe high - dose B3 won't eradicate all glaucoma, they believe it could help a lot of people and help prevent vision loss for millions around the world.

2004: IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy) Program began to deliver high - precision radiation that conforms to the three dimensional shapes of tumors and delivers higher and well defined doses of radiation to tumors, and even specific areas within tumors, while minimizing radiation to surrounding normal tissue.

Increases respiration at low doses, while decreases respiration at high doses (PubMed: 25707796, PubMed: 27828947).

The researchers suggest that, while long - term use and high doses up to 1,500 milligrams a day may be well tolerated by people, some adverse reactions have been observed.

This technique can be used to provide high 3D spatial resolution while also avoiding the toxic effects of high light doses to the cells.

A healthy person needs about 2.0 grams of sodium a day, while this dose is equal to 1.5 grams for people with high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney problems.

While it is possible to achieve this dosage level by ingesting it, this reaction is typically only reported when it is administered at a very high dose of over ~ 2 grams (source).

Some are natural, in the form of herbs or high - dose vitamins, while others are man - made and pharmaceutical.

Iodine, while somewhat controversial in high dose applications (> 3 mg daily), is essential for the production of thyroid hormone, and when used with selenium, can play an instrumental role in recovery.

The case was made that while decreased chronic disease incidence is clearly associated with generous dietary intake of vitamin E (mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols), supplementation with high - dose α - tocopherol alone, whether natural (RRR) or synthetic (all - rac), may promote potentially harmful imbalances in inflammatory and detoxification pathways.

While I think the enthusiasm over Vitamin D is wonderful, I personally do not feel comfortable with the casual way that high dose Vitamin D supplements are being recommended by healthcare professionals and eagerly consumed by an ever expanding public at large.

If you're looking to rebuild some of the tissues in your body, getting really high doses of lecithin into the body for a while works.

Niacin High - dose niacin is effective in lowering LDL cholesterol, Lp (a), triglycerides, CRP, and fibrinogen levels, while raising HDL cholesterol.

While one study suggests that high doses of supplemental vitamin C makes osteoarthritis, a type of degenerative arthritis that occurs with aging, worse in laboratory animals, another indicates that vitamin C - rich foods, such as parsley, provide humans with protection against inflammatory polyarthritis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis involving two or more joints.

Low ratios for these enzymes are associated with obesity and insulin resistance, while elevated ratios are associated with low - renin hypertension, high dose licorice, and exogenous cortisol.

It is important to understand that while at low doses, vitamin C acts an as antioxidant, at high doses, vitamin C switches roles, acting as a potent oxidative molecule.

The low dose works well as a daily preventative, while the high dosage should be taken by anyone at risk for a zinc deficiency.

In these studies, a chronic low dose of aflatoxin produced precancerous lesions in monkeys fed 5 % casein but not in those fed 20 % casein; a chronic medium dose saved the low - protein monkeys from precancerous lesions by — yup, you guessed it — killing them, while the high - protein monkeys suffered neither plight; and a chronic high dose was finally able to give the high - protein monkeys pre-cancerous lesions.

While the dose was not high enough to completely reverse the reduced T4 to T3 conversion seen with obesity, there was a significant reduction in a number of cardiovascular risk factors, including cholesterol and markers for insulin resistance.

While you can get some lutein and zeaxanthin from food, research shows that by supplementing with high doses of these nutrients, you can actually rebuild macular pigment receptors, strengthen eye cell membranes and improve your visual acuity.