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Superoxide dismutase

18-Mar-2015 - Last updated on 21-Sep-2023 at 11:45 GMT

Clinical studies have already shown that supplements of the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase - or SOD - can ease stress, fatigue and improve cognitive function, and it is now garnering attention within nutricosmetics.

Thanks to its ability to protect cells from free radical damage and stimulate the production of collagen, it has been praised for slowing down the ageing process.

French company Bionov’s range of dietary supplements and powdered drinks contains SOD B, derived from a variety of French melon, as well as two other primary antioxidants - catalase and glutathione peroxidase. Together they work in synergy to aid absorption and boost bioavailability.

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Tocotrienol

Posted by CM Lai, 25 March 2015 - 03:50 GMT

In reply to Dr. Jorge Ruiz-Carrascal, tocotrienol’s evidence to address skin health via oral or topical route is as follows.
1. Tocotrienol vitamin E has been shown to be a more antioxidant than the regular tocopherol vitamin E. It is a super vitamin E. (Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 1991; 10 : 263 – 275)
2. Fluidity property of tocotrienols to allow it to latch on and cross cells’ membrane bi-layer (Biochemistry, 1993; 32 : pp : 10692 –10699; Biochemistry, 1993; 32 (40) : pp : 10692 – 10699).
3. Tocotrienol is naturally and preferentially absorbed and accumulated into the skin (stratum corneum) (Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1997; 6(1) : 63 – 67; J. Nutr. Sci. Vitaminol., 2000; 46(3) : 141-3).
4. Tocotrienol reduces scar formation as well as accelerate wound healing (on-going clinical trial https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00700791 & https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01579227
5. Tocotrienol promotes hair growth in androgenic alopecia US Patent No : 7,211,274; Tropical Life Sciences Research, 2010; 21(2): 91-99).

For further information on tocotrienols, please visit the educational website : www.tocotrienol.org

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Posted by Jorge Ruiz-Carrascal, 18 March 2015 - 19:10 GMT

This is supposed to be a forum for technological and scientific information. No scientific support for this "nutricosmetic" claiming is shown in the article. In fact, some of them make no sense (enzymes are mostly or totally inactivated during digestion; proteins, like collagen, are hydrolized to amino acids during digestion, so that it results difficult to see any potential involvement in any effect that cannot be ascribed to its amino acid composition; and so on)

It would be interesting to have the references for this alleged studies.

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