Princeton's Ask the Doctor May/June 2019

Welcome to St. Mary’s Assisted Living

St.Mary’s residents enjoy the privacy of their own personally decorated apartment, & the presence and companionship of having friends & neighbors with whom to share experiences. S t. Mary’s has 78 beautiful suites and apartments for assisted living, including 20 suites in Grace Garden Memory Care Community. Residents receive the care and support they need, and the respect and dignity they deserve. Our multidisciplinary team – including professionals in nursing, medicine, recreation, nutrition, housekeeping, social work and administration customizes a care plan for each resident. St. Mary’s offers individualized levels of care, from largely independent to comprehensive, defined by the resident’s need for: • Assistance with meals and activities, bathing and dressing • Medication management Other important daily routine supports can be arranged as needed from our experienced, compassionate staff. Our services include restaurant-style dining, most utilities, and housekeeping services, as well as round-the-clock staff and emergency call response. Residents have access to transportation, recreation, health care, nutrition and spiritual support. Catholic Mass is offered daily in our beautiful chapel.To help residents get the most out of life, we offer an ongoing and engaging calendar of activities, including outings throughout the region – assuring days as full and enjoyable as each resident chooses. QUESTION: I Take Vitamin E for it’s antioxidant effects. How do I get the most benefit from this? ANSWER: • Diabetic monitoring • 24-hour nursing care

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Medical research is always bringing new information to us including new recommendations for taking Vitamin E. Discovered in 1922, Vitamin E was found to be an antioxidant. The drop of Vitamin E in your bottle of olive oil prevents the oil frombecoming rancid. This is an antioxidant effect. Vitamin E is naturally found in plants (where it acts as an antioxidant) and exits as a family of compounds with similar structure. There are four tocopherols and four tocotrienols in this Vitamin E family. Researchers learned that after eating green leafy plants, humans kept recycling the alpha tocopherol in their blood so it was thought to be the most important of the eight compounds. Alpha tocopherol was then synthesized from soy and sold as a supplement for cardiovascular protection. This “new” antioxidant would be expected to have benefit in the prevention of coronary heart disease, macular degeneration, cognitive health and cancer. But research on the benefits of alpha tocopherol have been equivocal and often disappointing. Researchers began looking at the other tocopherols and tocotrienols. One thing became clear: toomuch alpha tocopherol can inhibit the benefits of the other tocopherols and tocotrienols.

The most beneficial compounds in the Vitamin E family appear to be delta and gamma tocopherol and especially delta and gamma tocotrienols. Research using tocotrienols have finally shown the promise of Vitamin E: cholesterol lowering, anti-inflammatory, lowering blood pressure, anti-cancer, and improving: insulin sensitivity, fatty liver, macular degeneration, cataracts, skin and bone health. Food higher in tocotrienols include rice bran oil, palm oil and the Amazonian Annatto plant seeds (which are 100% tocotrienols!!) The American diet is low in tocotrienols so look for a natural Annatto based high delta-tocotrienol supplement. Dose would be ~ 100mg/day taken with a meal. Dr Kate Thomsen’s office for holistic health care is located in Pennington, NJ. She is trained in Family Medicine, and Board Certified in Integrative Medicine, and is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner. She has been practicing Functional Medicine for 20 years. For more information see www.drkatethomsen.com or call the office at 609-818-9700.

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