Nutritional Fundamentals for Health

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Garlic (Allium sativum) is traditionally used in herbal medicine to help reduce elevated blood lipid levels/ hyperlipidemia and to help maintain cardiovascular health. Garlic is enriched with a plethora of volatile, water-soluble and oil-soluble organosulfur bioactive compounds. Allicin is considered one of the most potent broad-spectrum antimicrobial compounds in freshly cut or crushed garlic t...

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Commonly known as sweet wormwood, ‘Qinghao’, Artemisia annua has been used as a staple ingredient in Chinese traditional medicine due to its numerous therapeutic properties, with descriptions in texts from 168BC. Artemisinin, the primary component of Artemisia annua, has been widely used as an anti-malarial drug. The Artemisia annua plant apart from artemisinin, contains other bioactives such as s...

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Antioxidants protect the body against free-radical damage. Free radicals are molecules which are produced through the breakdown of food during digestion, or by environmental exposures such as smoke, pollution, and radiation. Vitamin C is an essential nutrient which acts as an antioxidant and is involved in numerous metabolic functions in the body. Vitamin C supplementation is effective to mai...

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Astragalus is a complex combination of polysaccharides, triterpene glycosides, flavonoids, amino acids, and trace minerals. Astragalus may restore T-cell (a specific type of white blood cell) counts to relatively normal ranges in suppressed patients. Astragalus polysaccharides have also been shown to stimulate pituitary-adrenal-cortical activity and restore depleted red blood-cell formation in bon...

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Berberine is an active constituent found in a variety of species of plants. Newer studies have found berberine has biological effects in several pathways in the body, indicating it may be a potential treatment for metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is hypothesized as beginning with an accumulation of lipids in nonadipose tissues, known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Berberine als...

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Black cumin (Nigella sativa) is an herb native to the Middle Eastern and South-Asian regions of the world, and has long been used in traditional healing systems for a variety of treatments. These seeds contain a number of substances attributed to their bioactive properties including thymoquinone, saponins, alkaloids, and high levels of beneficial fatty acids including linoleic acid and oleic ...

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Chaga SAP is a hot water-extract medicinal mushroom, known by its scientific classification as Inonotus obliquus. Chaga is parasitic on birch and other trees, and the conk presents as a mass of mycelium with the appearance of burnt charcoal, due to large amounts of melanin. Chaga is nutrient-dense, concentrated with polysaccharides, flavonoids, betulinic acid, polyphenols, minerals, enzymes, ...

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Cordyceps SAP is a hot water-extracted mushroom used in herbal medicine to support the immune system and as a source of antioxidants. Cordyceps sinensis has traditionally been used for a variety of concerns including treating patients with fatigue; in athletics; for liver, kidney, and respiratory protection; as well as for immune support. The majority of the research focuses on the active ingredie...

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Coriolus Versicolor SAP is a hot water-extracted medicinal mushroom that helps support healthy immune function and is a source of antioxidants. Coriolus versicolor is one of the most extensively researched of all the medicinal mushrooms. Two of the extracts within Coriolus versicolor are PSK and PSP, both of which have clinical trials on a variety of cancers including gastric/colorectal, lung, and...

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Ginger SAP is a standardized extract of Zingiber officinale that is used to help a variety of conditions. Ginger has been used for centuries in the Indian, Chinese, Arabic, and Tibetan systems of traditional medicine to treat nausea and vomiting induced by different stimuli. Ginger has been clinically shown to help prevent nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness and/or seasickness...

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Borage oil contains the omega‑6 fatty acid gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) at a higher concentration than any other oil source. The essential fatty acids contained in borage oil, when absorbed by the body, are converted to prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are important for regulating many functions in the body including inflammation, the allergic response, as well as hormone and steroid production....

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Grape seed extract (GSE) contains proanthocyanidins, which have been demonstrated to exhibit a wide spectrum of pharmacological, therapeutic, and chemoprotective properties. Studies have demonstrated that GSE can reduce inflammation by inhibiting the formation of inflammatory cytokines and reducing inflammatory mediators. GSE can ameliorate atherosclerosis by reducing inflammation, decreasing MDA-...