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A narrative review of UCLA spice research found associations between common culinary spices — cinnamon, turmeric, red pepper, and spice blends — and glucose regulation, gut microbiome composition, and cognitive markers, though most findings stem from small trials and in vitro work using supratherapeutic doses.

Daily peppermint oil supplementation was associated with reduced systolic blood pressure and resting heart rate in a small placebo-controlled trial of adults with elevated or stage 1 hypertension.

Brain glucose levels regulated oligodendrocyte progenitor cell proliferation and maturation in mouse and cell models, with ketone bodies restoring myelin production when glucose use was disabled.

A retrospective ADNI cohort analysis found that omega-3 supplement users showed faster cognitive decline over 5 years than matched non-users, with FDG-PET evidence of reduced brain glucose metabolism.

Brain endothelial cells exposed to a single sugar-free drink’s worth of erythritol shifted toward a pro-thrombotic state. Here’s how to talk about it without overstating the signal.

Higher Healthy Eating Index scores and elevated oral contraceptive use co-occurred with young-onset lung cancer in a 187-patient nonsmoker cohort presented at AACR.