by Bill E. Cham, Ph. D. Abstract A member of many scientific societies, Bill E. Cham, Ph.D., is frequently invited to speak at conferences on his research topics. His research interests cover a wide range of disciplines resulting in publication of over a hundred articles on topics ranging from pharmacology, iron metabolism, mineral research, lipidology […]
Abstract Progressive pituitary hormone deficiency is characteristic of aging, and the hypothalamic-GH-IGF-I axis is the first hormonal system affected. Daily GH secretion peaks around puberty, begins to decline by age 21, and by age 60, most adults have total 24-hour GH secretion rates indistinguishable from those of hypopituitary patients with organic lesions in the pituitary […]
Vitamin K’s effectiveness in the prevention and treatment of osteopenia/osteoporosis has just been discounted in a WebMD review1 (“Vitamin K: No Help for Bone Density”) of research published Oct. 14, 2008, in PLOS Medicine (Cheung A, et al.)2 In this two-year study, which involved 440 post-menopausal women diagnosed with osteopenia, Canadian researchers, not surprisingly, found […]
