Astaxanthim 250ml

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NATURAL ASTAXANTHIN (“asta-‘zan-thin”). ‘One of the world’s best-kept health secrets’ An amazing anti-inflammatory with no risk of addiction heartburn, or gastrointestinal problems. Keep the blood vessels smooth, supports brain health, healthier eyes, strengthens heart muscles, supports the immune system, increases energy levels, helps the body in recovery from exercise, increases endurance and stamina, less aches, stiffness and swelling, cellular health, healthier skin, better cardiovascular health

“NATURES STRONGEST ANTIOXIDENT”

SAY FAREWELL TO FREE RADICALS

By Danielle Roberts, Nutritionist.

Free Radicals we hear this word a lot, but what are they? Free Radicals are molecules that have an imbalanced charge. In order to become balanced it needs to find a charge to react with. This often means that the free radical will “attack” a cell to steal a charge to balance itself.

This attacking action damages the cell in our body, causes inflammation and can lead to many more serious health issues. This damage and the resulting effect on our health is known as “free radical damage”. This is where those famous antioxidants play their starring role! Their fiction is to donate a charge to the free radicals before they can attack our cells.

HOW DO WE GET FREE RADICALS?

We don’t only get free radicals from toxins and pollutants in the environment, we also create them within our metabolic processes.

• Small amounts of free radicals are created in the processes of breaking down food into energy.

• Exercise increases the need for energy therefore increasing oxidation of food and stored nutrients.

Sun exposure – when our skin is subjected to UV rays and those rays interact with the oxygen against our skin, free radicals are created.

If we are exposed to more free radicals than our antioxidant stores can keep up with, we end up with “free radical damage”.

ANTIOXIDANT SUPERSTAR ASTAXANTHIN

Astaxanthin is an oxygen-containing nutrient from the carotenoid antioxidant family which comes from algae.

Astaxanthin is a special antioxidant as it never gets used up when neutralising a free radical. In this manner it continues to “mop up” free radicals to avoid damage.

Another special ability is that it can merge itself into many layers within our cells; from the outer membrane surface, through to the inner surface of your cells. This allows it to protect the outer cellular wall and simultaneously provide protection to your cells interior structures.

Our endothelial lining contains millions of microscopic secretory cells. A healthy person who has a diet which consists of lots of antioxidants like fruits, vegetables, seafood and is low in refined sugars enjoys less buildup of sticky oxidants on the endothelium leaving any endothelial hormones free from obstruction, Astaxanthin keeps the endothelium smooth.

Japanese researchers discovered that administration of astaxanthin for fourteen days resulted in improved blood pressure. The general conclusion was that astaxanthin could help relax blood vessels, resulting in lower blood pressure (Hussein et al., 2005, 2006). Astaxanthin supports healthy blood flow.

Participants supplemented with 6 milligrams of astaxanthin per day for only ten days showed a significant improvement in blood flow (Miyawaki et al., 2008).

One of the most common blood markers scientists use to detect stress in the body is called C-reactive protein (CRP) and astaxanthin can keep levels within a normal range. CRP is produced in the liver and released into the bloodstream when the body is dealing with the aches and pains associated with excess oxidation.

Astaxanthin seems to protect the heart, and cardiologists now conclude that most of the cardiovascular benefits of astaxanthin are due to its antioxidant effects, by decreasing the oxidative stress on the heart and blood vessels to support cardiovascular health (Pashkow et al., 2008). The eyes are protected by a one cell thick wrapping called the blood retinal barrier (BRB). In studying astaxanthin’s effect on the eyes, researchers concluded that whereas many antioxidants cannot, astaxanthin had the ability to cross the BRB and into eye tissue

Brain tissue and retinal tissue are some of the most fatty in the body and with both having high metabolic cell rates, they need extensive antioxidant protection. The retina and especially the sensitive macula on the retina function like a camera. The tissue is composed mainly of fat and a network of blood vessels highly affected by oxidation. In fact, retinal tissue has some of the highest metabolic rates of any tissue in the body.

Because of its high rate of energy use, it generates lots of waste products, or oxidants, so it needs a powerful antioxidant to deal with the waste. Astaxanthin can also increase blood flow to the retina, further protecting the eyes. A study showed that people who spend heavy amounts of time on computers recovered from their eye fatigue more quickly when they were pretreated with astaxanthin.(Takahashi and Kajita, 2005).

Eye tissue, like brain tissue, is not only hyper vulnerable to oxidation, but is also particularly resistant in its ability to cell repair and regenerate and so one of the reasons that we believe antioxidant protection is important for the eye is that the most sensitive cells of the retina, called the macula, once damaged, are very difficult to repair and regrow.