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C15

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date August 22, 2024

I have been super excited the last couple of weeks over the discovery of what appears to be a new essential nutrient for human health. To put a context around that, it has been over 75 years since the last such discovery: vitamin B12. Essential means that if we do not get enough of the […]

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B Vitamins

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date November 7, 2021

This story begins back in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. A wonderful new food from the Americas, corn, was brought back to Europe and widely cultivated. It seemed like an excellent food source as it yielded much larger crops per acre than wheat or barley. The problem was that after a while people started […]

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