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This is the best time of day to take iron, vitamin D and B12 supplements

This is the best time of day to take iron, vitamin D and B12 supplements

Published by Daniella Wilson

Supplement shelves can give the impression that almost everyone needs something. Yet for generally healthy adults, a review of 84 studies found that routine vitamin and mineral supplements offered little or no protection against cardiovascular disease, cancer or early death. Taking a supplement without a clear reason may also cause harm. High doses of some water-soluble vitamins can cause harm, and too much vitamin B6, for example, has been linked to nerve damage. Some fat-soluble vitamins, particularly vitamin A, can accumulate and cause toxicity when taken in excess. A diagnosed deficiency is one reason to take a supplement. Other evidence-based reasons include folic acid before and during early pregnancy, vitamin B12 for people who cannot obtain enough from food and the ten micrograms of vitamin D that UK guidance recommends people consider during autumn and winter. Once there is a sound reason to take a supplement, timing can sometimes affect absorption. Usually, “timing” concerns meals, drinks and other medicines rather than a perfect hour on the clock. Iron: the fussiest supplement Iron supplements are used …

Daredevil and Iron Fist Actress Was 82

Daredevil and Iron Fist Actress Was 82

Published by Daniella Wilson

Wai Ching Ho, best known for her role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing crime boss Madame Gao in Daredevil, Iron Fist and The Defenders, has died. She was 82. Ho’s death was confirmed by two of her former co-stars, Peter Shinkoda and Judy Lei. Her cause of death wasn’t immediately available. Shinkoda, who played Nobu in Daredevil, took to his Instagram to pay tribute. “I won’t ever forget you. I learned every minute from you when we were together on and off set. I know wisdom – I’d hang on your every word. We will meet again, my friend. You were beautiful,” he wrote. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to her rep for more details on her death. Born on Nov. 16, 1943, in Hong Kong, Ho found herself working across film, television and the stage. Her first onscreen credit was in the series One Life to Live in 1983. She later landed the role of Madame Gao in the Marvel series Daredevil in 2015, before reprising the character in the spin-offs Iron …

Is A New Iron Curtain Inevitable?

Is A New Iron Curtain Inevitable?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Andrew Korybko, Russia’s consequent focus on the western front might embolden US-backed NATO member Turkiye to accelerate its power play in the south at the risk of sparking another regional crisis after Ukraine. Russian Ambassador-at-Large Artyom Bulatov warned in a recent interview that “Westerners, with energy worthy of a better cause, are erecting a new ‘Iron Curtain’, seeking to make irreversible the rupture – provoked by themselves – of socio-economic, trade, transport, interpersonal, cultural, and historical ties that have been built in the region not over years, but over centuries.” He also condemned the weaponization of regional interaction mechanisms like the Council of the Baltic States against Russia. Truth be told, a new Iron Curtain is inevitable and has been since summer 2024 when the Baltic States and Poland combined their respective border fortification plans along NATO’s Eastern Flank to unveil what they now officially refer to as the “EU Defense Line”, which readers can learn more about here. This initiative will likely be expanded to include Finland too, thus stretching from the Arctic to Central Europe. Even …

Ballet’s New Iron Curtain

Ballet’s New Iron Curtain

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In July 2017, as the U.S. was racked by revelations that Russia had interfered in its presidential election, a group of envoys from both countries quietly brokered a peace accord in New York. They met at Lincoln Center. There, Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet joined the New York City Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet to perform Jewels, a landmark work by the American company’s Russian-born co-founder, George Balanchine. At the end of the performance, the dancers gathered onstage and took their bows—united, it seemed, by a shared commitment to virtuosity in ballet, and by their entangled roots. This was the last time that the Bolshoi Ballet visited America. The company—which is largely sponsored by Vladimir Putin’s regime—may never again tour here, or in any Western country. Shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, theaters in London and Madrid canceled the Bolshoi’s scheduled performances. In 2024, dancers from another top Russian company were barred from a …

Who is on the Iron Throne in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’?

Who is on the Iron Throne in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’?

Published by Miika Tikkanen

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms delivers a first for HBO. It’s a Game of Thrones spin-off without the Iron Throne. In both Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, characters want nothing more than to park their butts in that spiky chair so they can rule the Seven Kingdoms — and they’re willing to start brutal wars to get there. But in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, there is no war for succession. There isn’t even a shot of the Iron Throne! SEE ALSO: ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ trailer promises epic Westerosi jousting action Instead, the series focuses on a time of relative peace for Westeros, when hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his new squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), venture to a tournament at Ashford Meadow. At first, most of the people they’ll cross path with are smallfolk, none of whom have the kingly or queenly aspirations of Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon‘s leads. Instead, they’re most concerned with making coin and enjoying …