- Determine the function and role of vitamins and essential minerals
(micronutrients) and chemicals from plants (phytochemicals) in promoting
optimum health and preventing and treating disease
- Determine the role of oxidative and nitrative stress and antioxidants in human health and disease
- Help people everywhere achieve a healthy and productive life, full of vitality, with minimal suffering, and free of cancer and other debilitating diseases
LPI's Response
Read our response to a recently published article regarding vitamins C and E and heart disease.
Vitamin C
in the News!
Many of us take vitamin C to ward off a cold, but research is finding that in large doses, the antioxidant might also be a cancer killer.
Read more...
See a commentary on the
original article published in PNAS.
Major areas of research encompass cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancer, aging, and neurodegenerative
diseases. Specific research projects address:
- Antioxidants, lipoic acid, and metals in atherosclerosis
- Vitamin E metabolism and biological functions
- Nitrative and oxidative stress in Lou Gehrig's disease
- Oxidative stress, lipoic acid, and mitochondrial dysfunction in aging
- Cancer chemoprevention by phytochemicals in tea and vegetables
- Transplacental cancer chemoprevention
- Zinc and antioxidants in prostate cancer
- Novel biological functions of vitamin C
- Antioxidants and gene expression in diabetes
- Dietary fats and whole body carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
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