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Podcast: Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss
Episode: Nutrition Nugget: Luteolin
Description: Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about luteolin. It’s not a new supplement. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been using luteolin for centuries to treat diseases such as hypertension, inflammatory disorders, and as anti cancer. There seems to be a few different biological effects like anti inflammation, anti allergy, and anti cancer. A unique quality of luteolin is that it seems to be able to function as an antioxidant or a prooxidant, but more research is needed to fully understand these functions. Perhaps most beneficial for our modern lives, there is...