Monthly Archives - February 2020

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Uncaria tomentosa

Uncaria tomentosa is a climbing plant native to the South American continent (Peru, Colombia and Brazil), to which are attributed numerous properties, including those immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antioxidant. Indicated especially in case of cooling diseases also in association with other plants of the genus. The extract of bark is used to fight and prevent infections and graze painful joints, to heal wounds, ulcerations, disorders related to puerperio, degenerative diseases, diseases and gastrointestinal pain.The immunostimulating action of the uncaria is...

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Dysbiosis

Dysbiosis

The term dysbiosis identifies a generic alteration of the human bacterial flora; for this reason it is usually followed by an adjective specifying the affected body district (vaginal dysiosis, cutaneous dysiosis, oral dysiosis, etc.). On the contrary, when we speak simply of disbiosis, we usually make reference to an alteration of the microflora, mainly bacterial, which lodges in the human intestine, especially in the large one (intestinal dysiosis).  At this level there is in fact an extraordinary quantity and variety of...

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Curcuma-longa

Curcuma longa

Curcuma longa is a spice belonging to the Zingiberaceae family widely used in traditional Indian and Chinese medicine.  The part used is the rhizome, of intended orange colour. Thanks to its natural beneficial properties is used to fight the inflammatory processes of the body, for its purifying action, choleretic (stimulating the production of bile by the liver) and cholagogue (promotes the emptying of the gallbladder, preventing the formation of gallstones). It is also a hepatoprotective, antioxidant and blood thinner. The most important...

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Beta glucan

The term Beta glucans refers to a class of indigestible polysaccharides, present in bran, oats, yeasts, fungi and algae.  They are polysaccharides consisting of units of D-glucose, joined together by bonds Beta 1,3 or Beta 1,4 glycosidic: these bonds confer a very low digestibility, hypocholesterolemizing, hypoglycaemic and immunomodulatory activity. In the intestinal environment they reduce the absorption of glucose and cholesterol, which would facilitate their elimination through the faeces.  They are also very important because they activate the immune system by stimulating...

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Green coffee

Green coffee (Coffea arabica) is used raw (not subject to roasting process) because the caffeine present is less and not free, but linked to chlorogenic acid (antioxidant), which causes it to be absorbed more slowly and remains in the circulation for longer periods.  In addition, chlorogenic acid reduces glucose formation from glycogen in the liver.  Green grains contain more polyphenols, vitamins and mineral salts, but especially methylxanthines, substances that have a lipolytic effect and reduced fat absorption. Finally, the green coffee acts...

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Griffonia-Food-supplement-for-mood

Griffonia semplicifolia

The griffonia semplicifolia is a tropical plant of the African tradition, which only in recent decades is used by the herbalist and phytotherapy western.  The griffonia seeds are known to contain large amounts of 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan), the direct precursor of serotonin.  Serotonin is a neurotransmitter fundamental to our psychophysical well-being, involved in the regulation of mood, sense of hunger, sleep (precursor in turn of melatonin) and other important functions.  Our body synthesizes serotonin from the amino acid tryptophan and therefore the 5-HTP...

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Gimnema-silvestre

Gymnema silvestre

Gymnema silvestre is a plant whose leaves are used for therapeutic purposes because they contain a mixture of glycosidic and polyphenol acids. The dry extract contains the gymnemic acid, which exerts its activity at the intestinal level: it blocks the receptor for glucose, as a result, the absorption of sugars is reduced by half and there is an increase in the metabolic transformation of glucose at the cellular level. Gymnema is therefore used as a good aid for diabetes and to...

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Free radicals and Antioxidant

Words such as "free radicals" and "antioxidants" have for some time entered the collective imagination thanks largely to the massive action of the media.  There is no magazine, newspaper, television broadcast on health that has not dealt directly with this delicate issue: a fight between beneficial substances (antioxidants) and harmful substances (free radicals), struggle that in the case of prevalence of the second sees an acceleration of tissue aging and the establishment of cardiovascular and neurovegetative diseases, diabetes, cancer. In reality...

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