Education
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Why Use Apple for Hydration?
Why Apple? A lot of companies make claims about how their product effects the body on a biochemical or cellular level. Companies use textbook understanding of physiology, to make claims about how their ingredients could act on that physiology. For...
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Why we include Vitamin D in Juice Doctor
Why Vitamin D? *Content revised and edited from NIH website About Vitamin D: Vitamin D (also referred to as calciferol) is a fat-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in a few foods, and added to others. It is also produced...
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Why We Put Magnesium in Juice Doctor
Why Magnesium? A study published in Nutritional Health by Thomas et. al in 2003, estimated that 75 percent of Americans do not meet the recommended dietary allowance of magnesium. When you look at the literature to determine why this is,...
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Why not Hydrate with Salt?
Why not salt? We get it, we lose salt when we exercise - so it makes sense in theory, to have salt in a hydration drink – but, it’s not that simple when the USDA Guidelines state that 90% of Americans...
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Why We Don't Include Vitamin C
Why not Vitamin C? There is no question about efficacy at this point. We have a plethora of high quality evidence summarized by the Cochrane Systematic Review, stating that prophylactic Vitamin C supplementation does not decrease pneumonia or viral illness in...
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Why we don't include zinc
Why not Zinc? Despite commonly being used as a daily supplement to prevent illness, the findings suggest that zinc supplementation has no effect on the prevention of colds, with an increase in adverse events among those who use the supplement...
