Highly awarded for his research, Bruce Ames, PhD is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and Senior Scientist at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. He joins the program for a discussion of how nutrients protect us from aging and cancer.

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SHOW INTRODUCTION I'm often asked if I recommend taking vitamins instead of relying only on nutrients from food. I always answer that if people read the research on the use of nutrient supplementation in the prevention of disease they would never ask the question. Supplement research goes back more than fifty years and continues today. The results are impressively supportative of the use of a variety of antioxiants, fatty acids, phospholipids, minerals and vitamins to reduce diseases of metabolic disruption and accelerated aging. Today we are very honored to have one of the most cited researchers in biochemistry and molecular biology, Dr. Bruce Ames. His work spans almost fifty years.