Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see age-related vascular changes reverse by the equivalent of 15 to 20 years within six weeks, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research.
The study, published this week in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting pharmaceutical-grade nutritional supplements, or nutraceuticals, could play an important role in preventing heart disease-the nation’s No. 1 killer. It also resurrects the notion that oral antioxidants, which have been broadly dismissed as ineffective in recent years, could reap measurable health benefits if properly targeted, the authors say.
“This is the first clinical trial to assess the impact of a mitochondrial-specific antioxidant on vascular function in humans,” said lead author Matthew Rossman, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of integrative physiology. “It suggests that therapies like this may hold real promise for reducing the risk of age-related cardiovascular disease.”
For the study, Rossman and senior author Doug Seals, director of the Integrative Physiology of Aging Laboratory, recruited 20 healthy men and women […]
I am unable to deny or support the claim made in this article. I follow Dr. MIchael Greger at http://www.nutritionfacts.org For years he has been teaching us through the available studies that his group performs meta analysis on, that the whole food is infinitely more important/absorbable than the separated substance, which business turns into a supplement. I eat broccoli every day. My diet/lifestyle is one of whole foods and entirely plant based. Zero animal foods save honey. On January 9th this year, my oncologist discharged me as one of his prostate cancer patients.
I too believe in whole foods over supplements.
Go Vegan!
The critical study would have also compared this product to CoQ10, or Ubiquitol, which it apparently is a variation of.
I’m going to pay the extra $$ and give it a one month try, tho I am questioning if it will turn out superior to the alternatives.
I meant to say “Ubiquinol”