Dear Healthy Friend,

Where do you store your meds? In the medicine chest in the bathroom? In the pantry cupboard perhaps? What about next to your bed? Everyone has their own preference as to where they keep there daily doses... There's no wrong place... Or is there?

According to new research, there is a wrong place... So where is the right place you might ask? Keep reading to find out...

In the name of good health,

Taryn Strugnell
Managing Editor of Nutrition & Healing

P.S. Long-term readers of Health Bytes and Nutrition & Healing will already know the mammoth benefits of D-Mannose... But is it safe for diabetics? Dr Wright tells us...

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How to prevent your supplements from losing their potency...
Jenny Thompson
Director, Health Sciences Institute

When dark spots develop in supplement capsules, you know that can't be good. But this is a common problem when supplements are exposed to one or more of the three thieves of potency: Temperature, humidity and light.

Fortunately, there's an easy step you could take to control those thieves. And you'll not only avoid dark spots, you'll also be sure to get the very highest potency out of your daily supplements.

The one place in the home that's specifically designed to store medicines - namely, the medicine cabinet - turns out to be the worst place to store drugs and supplements.

Humidity is the primary culprit. After a shower, your bathroom is damp and muggy and because humidity like that can be penetrating, Perdue University researchers conducted an experiment to see how vitamin C holds up under various temperature and relative humidity conditions.

The quick answer: Not so good... High temperature and humidity (especially humidity) had significant effects on degradation of vitamin C supplements. Needless to say, when you're in the midst of the cold and flu season, you want to get every bit of the potency from your daily vitamin C.

The Perdue team writes: "This research highlights the importance of considering phase transformations when constructing shelf life models and maintaining vitamin C in the solid state for enhanced stability."

That's a scientist's way of saying, "Get the supplements out of the bathroom - now!"

More specifically, it's the water soluble vitamins that degrade when exposed to bathroom humidity.

Here are the eight water-soluble items you should worry about:

• Vitamin C
• Vitamin B1
• Vitamin B2
• Vitamin B6
• Vitamin B12
• Niacin
• Folate / Folic acid
• Pantothenic acid 

 
Of course, a good multivitamin will contain all or most of those vitamins, so the multi-vitamins have to leave the bathroom too, as do any pills in capsule form because they all contain powders.

So... Where do you go after the bathroom?

The kitchen may seem like a logical choice because most supplements are taken with food and that's where the food is. But kitchen temperatures and humidity are often just as intense as they are in the bathroom.

The Perdue team suggests the bedroom is probably the best spot. And for some bedrooms that might be true. But even there you'll get temperature swings. And if you use a humidifier, well... Humidity follows.

My vote for best place to store and protect the potency of your supplements might seem a little bit odd, but hear me out...

If your linen closet isn't in the bathroom, that's the one spot in your home that probably maintains the lowest humidity and most even temperature year-round. And linen closets are dark, which is a plus because light is the third thief of supplement potency.

And there's one more benefit. Sometimes - let's face it, it happens - visitors to your home might be tempted to take a peek in the medicine cabinet when they use the bathroom. But what happens in the linen closet stays in the linen closet.

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Sweet relief - even for diabetics!

Q: I know you've written about eliminating bladder infections with D-mannose. My wife has type II diabetes - since the D-mannose is a sugar, will it affect her blood sugar? She's afraid to take it.

Dr. Wright: Despite being classified as a simple sugar, D-mannose is very safe. Very little of it is actually metabolised by the body. Large doses are washed away in the urine (along with the E. coli bacteria that cause most bladder infections) and the amounts not excreted into the urine are so small that they do not affect blood sugar levels - even in diabetics.

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