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      Nitrate Improves Mitochondrial Function

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      The spinach-eating cartoon character Popeye has much to teach us, new research from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The muscles’ cellular power plants – the mitochondria – are boosted by nitrate, a substance found in abundance in vegetables such as lettuce, spinach and beetroot. Eddie Weitzberg Photo: Stefan...
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      Magnesium Supplement Gives Brainpower a Boost

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      In new research pubished in the journal Neuron, neuroscientists at MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing show that increasing brain magnesium with a new compound enhanced learning abilities, working memory, and short- and long-term memory in rats. The dietary supplement also boosted older rats’ ability to perform a variety of...
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