Alpha Lipoic Acid – A Potent Force In Stemulite
by THP
Filed under Sports Nutrition
Your immune system is your body’s defense system against illness and disease.
(THP) WHAT can we do to help our bodies cope better with infectious illnesses?
It definitely helps to have a strong and healthy immune system. Here’s how it works – the immune system is like the security system in your home. This system is continuously monitoring the environment for anything that is out of place, and when an unusual situation is detected, it dispatches the most appropriate defense mechanisms.
The immune system recognizes viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, and mutant cells, and it has a variety of “soldiers” (immune cells such as macrophages, neutrophils and natural killer cells), each with it own weapons and methods of attack to destroy these invaders.
Harmful free radicals and the human immune system
The harmful free radicals from our environment are a major cause of ill-health. These free radicals can come from exposure to the sun’s rays (UV light), pollution, radiation, stress, and poor diet.
Immune cells also suffer from free radical damage. This results in lowered immunity. The good thing is that we are not completely powerless. Antioxidant supplements can help protect our immune system from the damage of free radical “bombardment”.
Antioxidant army
We have our own army of defense against free radicals and they are called antioxidants. Antioxidants have the ability to render free radicals harmless. As long as there are adequate amounts of antioxidants within our bodies to handle the free radicals produced within the cell, there is little or no damage to surrounding tissues.
The body has the ability to make some of its own antioxidants, five of which are Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), Catalase, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Coenzyme Q10 and Glutathione Peroxidase. However, the body may not be able to produce enough antioxidants on its own to neutralize all of the free radicals that are produced.
Although many antioxidants can be obtained from food sources, it is difficult to get enough to hold back free radicals constantly generated in our polluted environment. That is why we need to get the rest of the antioxidants from supplements.
Alpha lipoic acid
Dr Lester Packer, professor of the University of California, Berkeley, department of molecular and cell biology, is among the world’s leading antioxidant researchers and has described alpha lipoic acid as very close to an ideal antioxidant. Alpha lipoic acid can also recharge other antioxidants that have been used up. In the body, it helps regenerate other antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E and glutathione.
In addition to that, alpha lipoic acid is the only antioxidant that can boost the level of intracellular glutathione, a cellular antioxidant of tremendous importance. Besides being the body’s primary water-soluble antioxidant and a major detoxification agent, glutathione is absolutely essential for the functioning of the immune system.
The active ingredients found in standardized extracts of grape seed are Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins (OPCs). Research indicates that OPCs may be 20 to 50 times more potent as an antioxidant than vitamin C and E.
The body produces many types of free radicals – singlet oxygen, superoxides, hydroxyl, hydrogen peroxide, peroxyl, etc, and almost all are damaging to the immune system and other parts of the body. Different antioxidants neutralize different species of free radicals. Hence when it comes to antioxidant supplementation, it makes sense to take a supplement that contains a variety of antioxidants.
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How Alpha Lipoic Acid Aids Weight Loss In Stemulite Supplements
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(THP) Any overweight person who begins an exercise/ fitness program can reduce fat and improve fitness. Recent investigations have demonstrated that the combination of exercise training and antioxidant treatment using ALA in obesity-associated insulin resistance provides a unique interactive effect resulting in a greater improvement in insulin action on skeletal muscle glucose transport than either intervention individually. Moreover, this interactive effect of exercise training and ALA is due in part to improvements in IRS-1-dependent insulin signaling.
These studies highlight the effectiveness of combining endurance exercise training and antioxidants in beneficially modulating the molecular defects in insulin action observed in insulin-resistant skeletal muscle. The insulin-like effects of ALA provide body builders a powerful synergistic effect when used with creatine.
“R”-ALA is prescribed in Germany to treat diabetic and alcoholic neuropathies and alcoholic liver disease, thought to result in part from free-radical damage. As discussed above, there is also evidence that it can help decrease insulin resistance; it speeds the removal of glucose from the bloodstream by enhancing insulin function, and thus helps control blood sugar, underlying many cases of coronary heart disease and obesity.
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Quercitin – An Ingredient In Stemulite Fitness Formula – Reduces Inflammation & More
by THP
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Reduce Inflammation Faster With Quercitin
(THP) Quercitin has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, immunomodulatory, anticancer and gastroprotective activities. It appears to also have anti-allergy activity and activity in preventing secondary complications of diabetes. Quercitin is an antioxidant, and has been shown to inhibit lipid peroxidation. The putative anti-ulcer and gastroprotective effects of Quercitin may, in part, be accounted for by this activity. In vitro and animal studies have shown that Quercitin inhibits deregulation of inflammatory mast cells, basophiles and neutrophils. Thus, quercitin, a special bioflavonoid antioxidant shown to have an antihistamine effect in the body, makes it a natural putative for anti-inflammatory, anti-allergy and immunomodulating activities.
Quercitin adds synergy to the anti inflammatory effects of ALA, SerraPeptase, and Beta glucan reduces recovery time after a hard workout. This helps keep airways open and clear of excess mucus. As discussed above, Quercitin is prescribed in Europe as a mild diuretic, and when used in training should prevent fluid accumulation in other body tissues.
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