Benefits of Super Carnosine
- Supports strong and healthy cells
- Contains antioxidant properties
- Helps reduce glycation
- Promotes muscular retention
- Supports heart health and efficient circulation
Super Carnosine from Life Extension combines carnosine with multiple forms of vitamin B1 to provide high quality antioxidants that help heal and protect the body’s cells from environmental damage. Super Carnosine specifically works as an anti-glycating agent to reduce the negative effects of aging on the body.
Carnosine is a multifunctional dipeptide, a compound made up of the amino acids beta-alanine and L-histidine.1 It is found both in food and in the human body. Cells in the body that live for longer periods of time, such as nerve cells (neurons) and muscle cells (myocytes), contain high levels of carnosine.1 Muscle levels of carnosine correlate with the maximum life spans of animals. Animals that have longer life spans are found to have more carnosine in their muscles than those with short life spans.
Carnosine has a number of antioxidant properties and has been shown to be an anti-glycating agent.2-8 This nutrient has the ability to suppress formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and inhibit the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS),9-12 a culprit in oxidative stress that can lead to age-related conditions.13-15 Carnosine levels are known to decline with age. Muscle levels decline 63% from age 10 to age 70, which may account for the normal age-related decline in muscle mass and function.16
Aging damages the body’s proteins. One underlying mechanism behind this damage is glycation. Glycation involves the non-enzyme controlled cross-linking of proteins or lipids and sugars to form non-functioning structures in the body. The process of glycation can be superficially seen as wrinkled skin. Glycation is also an underlying cause of age-related neurologic, vascular, and eye problems.18-29 Carnosine is a unique dipeptide in that it can interfere with the glycation process.2-8
Since carnosine acts as a pH buffer, it can keep on protecting muscle cell membranes from oxidation under the acidic conditions of muscular exertion. Carnosine enables the heart muscle to contract more efficiently through enhancement of calcium response in heart myocytes.17
Benfotiamine, a derivative of thiamine (vitamin B1), provides additional protection against glycation reactions. Even people with normal glucose levels encounter damaging sugar reactions over a lifetime. Benfotiamine protects against glucose-induced cell damage via several mechanisms.30-36
Together these make Super Carnosine a premiere supplement for supporting healthy life cycles in our cells and helping to reduce muscle loss, wrinkles, and other age related conditions normally caused by a decline in carnosine and by damage over time.
- If pregnant, nursing, or undergoing treatment for a medical condition, consult your physician before taking this product
- Keep out of reach of children
- Do not exceed recommended dose
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