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Take a listen to this Podcast that Dr. Guilliams did with Rupa Health. All about the Endothelial Glycocalyx and new research looking at how it can influence how your evaluated risk for Cardiometabolic Disease- and More.

The Frontiers of Endothelial Glycocalyx and Cardiovascular Health with Dr. Tom Guilliams In today's episode with Dr. Tom Guilliams, you’ll hear us take a deep dive on: 1. The secrets of the endothelial glycocalyx 2. Potential biomarkers for assessing glycocalyx activity 3. The role of glycocalyx in cardiovascular health 4. Lifestyle factors that support endothelial health 5. Insights ...

We are delighted to announce that we just went to the printer (in Stevens Point!) to see the printing of our newest book. Here is Dr. Guilliams with Lindsey and Brianna (the primary research assistants for the project) holding up a sheet of printed covers for the greatly expanded and updated Second Edition of our first Roadmap- Supplementing Dietary Nutrients. We will be adding this book to our online Book store soon (print and eBook versions), and sending discount coupons to those of you who purchased the first edition. We will keep you posted.

One of Dr. Guilliams' career goals was to be able to co-write an important piece with his friend and mentor Jorn Dyerberg (a pioneer of omega-3 research). Their co-written chapter has just been published in a newly released textbook (Personalized and Precision Integrative Cardiovascular Medicine)- edited by Mark Houston. Many thanks to Jorn, Mark and the publisher Wolters Kluwer

Perhaps some of you saw this recent report showing that children considered to be high-risk for autism who were born to women who had been consuming prenatal vitamins early in their pregnancy had less than half the incidence of autism compared to those born to women not taking prenatal supplements.

They word their findings this way: In this cohort study of 241 younger siblings of children with autism, the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder was 14.1% in children whose mothers took prenatal vitamins in the first month of pregnancy compared with 32.7% in children whose mothers did not take prenatal vitamins during that time.

Statistically, they attribute much of this effect to the higher amounts of folate/folic acid and iron in prenatal supplements, as these differences were not seen in subject whose mothers consumed generic multivitamins (i.e., non-prenatal multivitamins).

Beyond the most obvious take-away: that taking a prenatal supplement before and during pregnancy is great insurance for a range of issues; perhaps including reducing the risk for ASD, there is something more at play here. These data reveal that many people are likely closer to the threshold of nutrient deficiency (or at least functional insufficiency) than they think. Outside of the vulnerability of fetal development in genetically-susceptible individuals (which accentuated these subtle deficiencies in this study), insufficient nutrient status is likely behind a myriad of metabolic inefficiencies, many of which remain below clinical detectability. How many other conditions, especially in genetically-vulnerable individuals, are likely to be linked with long-term insufficiency in a particular nutrient or group of nutrients for which supplementation might be a simple solution?

Prenatal Vitamins May Help Decrease Autism Risk in Infants A new study found that women who took prenatal vitamins even before they conceived appeared to have less chance of having their child develop autism.