Monthly Archives - August 2020

Magnesium

Magnesium is a very important mineral for our body, it is the eighth element in order of abundance on our Earth, essential for the production of energy and necessary for the assimilation of phosphorus, calcium and potassium. In an adult person, Magnesium is generally present with an amount that varies between 20 and 28 grams, 50-60% of which is concentrated in the bones, 39% in soft tissues and only 1% in the blood. It intervenes in over 300 cellular...

Arginine

Arginine is an essential amino acid for muscle growth and recovery, it helps to improve cardiovascular health and kidney function, to fight inflammation and migraine, to reduce the risk of heart attack and muscle pain. It represents a natural precursor of nitric oxide and therefore has the function of vasodilation, with a consequent increase in erective performance. For adults, arginine no longer represents an essential amino acid to be taken: after the first years of life, the body is...

Cysteine

Cysteine, also known in scientific jargon as L-Cysteine, is a non-essential amino acid, which can guarantee a very important nutritional contribution since it is an element that is highly recommended especially for children and the elderly. It facilitates the body's absorption of proteins: proteins, in fact, are a "macronutrient" that is truly fundamental for well-being, consequently guaranteeing the body the ability to absorb significant quantities of it can only have very effects positive from this point of view. Cysteine...

Vitamin-B3

Vitamin B3, also known as Niacin or vitamin PP, includes pyridyl-β-carboxylic acid (nicotinic acid) and its derivatives, which exhibit the biological activity of nicotinamide. Nicotinic acid is found in plants and nicotinamide is characteristic of animal tissues. The biologically active forms of Niacin are nicotinamide adenin dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide adenin dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) which act as coenzymes, intervening in most electron and H + transfer reactions in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fatty acids and amino acids. Niacin is a...

Theanine

Theanine is a natural amino acid that is not incorporated into polypeptide chains (proteins). Tea represents the main source of theanine, however, its presence has also been revealed in some plants belonging to the Camelia genus and in some mushrooms of the Boletus badius species. Theanine has numerous properties: relaxing, sedative and anxiolytic; adjuvants antitumor chemotherapy; hypotensive (observed only on experimental models); neuroprotective; immunomodulatory. The best known property of Theanine concerns its relaxing, anti-stress and anxiolytic effects: this substance is able to act as an...