He has authored five peer-reviewed publications including a hypothesis on the molecular mechanism of vitamin D toxicity published in Medical Hypotheses, a letter to the editor published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology challenging the conclusions of a widely publicized study claiming to show adverse effects of eating coconut oil, and a letter to the editor published in The American Heart Journal arguing that drugs used to raise HDL-cholesterol should not be considered safe until their potential adverse effects on vitamin E metabolism have been studied, a human study on the effects of vitamin E on sugar metabolism published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, and a review on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease published in Nutrition Reviews
Baj G, Carlino D, Gardossi L, Tongiorgi E
Converting tanshinone IIA into its sodium sulfonate form (sodium tanshinone IIA sulfonate, STS) greatly increases polarity and bioavailability, and indeed STS is used interchangeably with tanshinone IIA in studies and has been approved in China as an injectable drug (Shao et al., 2024
Bar-Sela G, Wollner M, Hammer L, Agbarya A, Dudnik E, Haim N