Education
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Can you absorb Vitamin D without a fat source?
What we know from the following study is that “the amount of fat with which vitamin D is ingested does not seem to significantly modify the bioavailability of vitamin D3” A systematic Review on the topic showed “Vitamin D was...
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Converting Apple Juice into Hydration Powder
How we’ve tried to create apple juice powder that mimics half strength apple juice: When choosing our base hydration formula, we took the carbohydrates (g/L), and created a ratio that was the exact same for our recommended serving size....
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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...
