The influence of a whole food vegan diet with nori algae and wild mushrooms on selected blood parameters

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2039-2050

  Schwarz, Joachim ^a   Dschietzi, Thomas ^b,c   Schwarz, Jens ^d   Dura, Andreas ^e   Nelle, Esther ^e   Watanabe, Fumio ^f   Wintgens, Karl Florian ^b   Reich, Michael ^b   Armbruster, Franz Paul ^b  

^a Health Clinic Dickendorf Dickendotf   (Germany)

^b IMMUNDIAGNOSTIK AG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood count; Dietary supplements; Mushrooms; Nori algae; Vegan; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL; CREATININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ERGOCALCIFEROL; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HOLOTRANSCOBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; IRON; METHYLMALONIC ACID; PYRIDOXINE; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D; ZINC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRANSCOBALAMIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON METABOLISM; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MUSHROOM; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PORPHYRA; PORPHYRA YEZOENSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; VEGAN DIET; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WHOLE FOOD VEGAN DIET; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; AGARICALES; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; MEAT; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TIME; VEGETARIAN DIET;

ALGAE; BASIDIOMYCOTA;

AGARICALES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOLECALCIFEROL; CREATININE; DIET, VEGETARIAN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ERGOCALCIFEROLS; FERRITINS; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBINS; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MEAT; METHYLMALONIC ACID; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PORPHYRA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMMENDED DIETARY ALLOWANCES; THYROTROPIN; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCOBALAMINS; VITAMIN B 12; ZINC;

EID: 84922041936     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2014.140527     Document Type: Article

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