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CAASN Big Promotion:

50% discount on tuition fees of the CAASN certificate programs. Yes, you read it!CAASN Big Promotion 3 Canadian Academy of Sports Nutrition caasn As an appreciation to the CAASN followers and visitors, we have lowered tuition fees for the current CAASN programs by 50%.

It is the 5th anniversary of launching the website of the Canadian Academy of Sports Nutrition, www.caasn.com. It was launched on December 15, 2014 after 27 months of working on its contents.

Taking sports nutrition to a new level, we maintain a “competitive edge” in the industry by providing unique and practical guidance. We take pride in ourselves on delivering the “World`s Most Comprehensive Programs in Sports Nutrition”.

The CAASN big promotion starts on December 15 and ends on December 30, 2019.

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Can Anti-Diabetic Medication Beat Cancer?!

The discovery of aspirin in 1897 and penicillin in 1928 has had a tremendous impact on Metformin 3 Canadian Academy of Sports Nutrition caasnmedicine. Aspirin and penicillin were and still are the "miracle makers" in medicine. Would metformin, the famous anti-diabetic medication, be the next miracle maker and join the aspirin-penicillin club to save millions of lives by acting as an anti-cancer?

Lurking everywhere, cancer continues exponentially to expand and so does the medical research to tame it! Clinicians and research scientists are working around the clock to find a way to gain control of the bizarre proliferation of cancer cells. Recent research has centered on the metabolism of cancer cells, and modulators of metabolism are being tested clinically.

Interfering with the metabolism of cancer cells causes "turmoil in tumors", succumbing them to death. One of the metabolism modulators that is under heavy research is the famous anti-diabetic medication metformin. It is being evaluated alone and in combination with other anti-cancer drugs. So far, the results are promising!

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Synergism and Antagonism in Sports Nutrition

Imagine of the comedy duos of Laurel and Hardy or the trios of three stooges. Synergism and Antagonism 1 Canadian Academy of Sports Nutrition caasnThey together are more entertaining than acting individually. This is almost true about certain micronutrients. The field of nutrients, nutrition and particularly sports nutrition is highly dynamic and constantly evolving. It is moving forward at an astonishingly fast pace, affecting every aspects of human health

Outstanding advances in physiology and biochemistry have increased insights into the mechanisms responsible for the effects of every single nutrients taken into the body and their interrelationships. Understanding synergistic and antagonistic effects of nutrients allows practitioners to know positive and negative interactions among nutrients. For better nutritional guidance and to take full advantage of nutrients, it is important to know which nutrients increase or decrease each other effectiveness.

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Kidney Damage from Weight Loss Products:

A successful weight loss regimen has a sound scientific base, and a combination Weight loss nephropathy 1 Canadian Academy of Sports Nutrition caasnof authentic medical-nutritional knowledge, experience, intuition and clinical judgement defines the "art of weight management".

The so-called self- proclaimed weight loss experts mislead and screw many cases, and their learning from Dr Google has no credibility to rely on. Weight loss products is a billion dollars business and it lures everyone or company to formulate some sort of products. When a weight loss practitioner does not have the knowledge and skill to lead someone scientifically, they would use any weapons they have or know of it to generate some results. This gives result to using certain products.

Recently, consuming Chinese herbal products for losing weight is on the rise. One of the ingredients in Chinese weight loss products is "aristolochic acid". It is a very dangerous substance that could lead to significant damage to the kidneys and many cases have been reported. The kidney damage from aristolochic acid is called "Chinese herbal nephropathy" in medicine, as it was first described in a young woman who was taking Chinese herbal preparations as a part of her weight loss regimen.

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