Did you know that as you age, your body and brain lose their ability to defend themselves against everyday stressors and the effects of normal aging? Among the many things that happen as you age…
- The grey matter in your brain shrinks and loses both volume and weight.
- Important brain neurotransmitters, like serotonin and dopamine, decline.
- Nerve cells die at a greater rate.
- Mitochondrial dysfunction increases, leading to more damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS).
- Your body’s natural, protective antioxidant system declines, leading to a reduced life span.
Natural processes occur in your body as you age that – if left unchecked – speed up normal cellular aging and make cells and tissues age faster than they should. When you’re young, a substance known as the ‘longevity molecule’ protects your body from these natural processes that can harm your tissues and organs.
However, as you grow older, levels of this special molecule decline, leaving you vulnerable.
Some of these processes you can control. Others you can’t, like your body’s production of energy. Diet and stress management are two factors that are within your control.
Why Do Some People Look and Feel Older?
These natural aging processes target your body’s proteins, which is why some people can look older – or younger – than their years. Any protein in your body is at risk of breakdown, and that risk increases with age.
Affecting more than just the firmness and suppleness of your skin, nearly every bodily function depends on the survival of your body’s proteins, including the following:
- Muscles tone
- Eye health
- Enzyme production
- Brain health
- Delivery of nutrients to your cells and organs
- Antibody production to protect your body from threats.
Glycation is one of these destructive processes that can damage or destroy proteins. This is when excess sugars in your diet, such as glucose and fructose, bind with the proteins in your body.
Glycated proteins are especially threatening to your well-being, as they generate many damaging free radicals. The binding of sugars to the proteins in your body can also lead to a process called cross-linking, where the proteins stick together.
When proteins or fats combine with sugar, advanced glycation end products (AGEs) can form in your bloodstream.
Protein glycation, cross-linking and AGEs promote faster cellular aging and make you look and feel much older than your biological age.
The loss of non-glycated functional protein affects not only the appearance of your skin, glycation and the formation of AGEs can lead to cross-linking in your collagen, the protein found in all your connective tissue.
How the “Longevity Molecule” Helps Slow Aging*
You have naturally-occurring antioxidant molecules in your body that help defend against the aging process – including vitamin C, a-lipoic acid, resveratrol, carnitine, carnosine and vitamin E. One of these stands apart from the others.
L-carnosine, or more simply carnosine, is a dipeptide, meaning it is made from only two amino acids – alanine and histidine. This peptide possesses special properties and helps protect your proteins from glycation.*
One of the ways carnosine helps protect your body is through its antioxidant properties. Carnosine’s antioxidant properties allow it to neutralize free radicals that can harm your cells and tissues, including the highly destructive hydroxyl radical.*
When you consume high amounts of seed oils in your diet, they can create what’s known as ALEs, or advanced lipoxidation end products. Carnosine binds to these damaging ALEs through its binding properties. It sacrifices itself to protect your proteins.
Here’s what else makes carnosine so unique… Antioxidants typically can’t prevent the cross-linking of collagen by AGEs. However, carnosine not only helps guard against protein cross-linking and AGE formation, but it also helps prevent glycation by binding with excess glucose and sugars.*
In summary, carnosine targets several major aging processes, including the following:
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Mitochondrial dysfunction – Cells die when they don’t receive enough energy or are harmed by oxidation.. Carnosine’s free radical scavenging and chelating properties promote healthy, functioning mitochondria.*
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Cellular aging – Telomeres play a key role in protecting your chromosomes and cellular genetic material. With each replication of DNA, your telomeres shorten, and when they become too short, cells die. Carnosine helps slow the rate of telomere shortening and reduces their damage.*
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Accumulation of excess metals – Carnosine supports your body’s normal detoxification process to remove of excess metals, such as iron, zinc and copper, offering a protective effect for brain health.*
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Glycation – Protein glycation creates oxidative stress and triggers the aging process when excess dietary sugar is present. Glycated proteins form cross-links that cause the proteins to stick together, promoting faster cellular aging and impacting the health of your eyes, brain, heart, blood vessels, muscles, immune system and more.*
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Rejuvenation of fibroblasts – Carnosine supports the health and rejuvenation of fibroblasts, or your connective tissue, and promotes their longevity.*
Could Carnosine Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life?*
Scientists are hard at work demonstrating how carnosine supplementation can help you live a longer, healthier life. These are just a few of the most recent studies:
- Carnosine slows the aging of human cells in lab cultures.*
Researchers added carnosine to cultures of young cells and the cells retained their youthful appearance. But when these youthful cells were transferred to culture dishes without extra carnosine, they quickly developed the aged appearance of the control cells of the same age. Plus, when scientists took old cells at the end of their life span and transferred them into culture dishes with high levels of carnosine, the cells rapidly took on the appearance of young cells.*
- Carnosine extends the life span of fruit flies up to 20% in males.*
Fruit flies are commonly used to study aging, and male fruit flies typically die much sooner than the females. When fed a diet containing a carnosine supplement, the males lived as long as the females.*
- Carnosine extends the life span of rotifers.*
Rotifers are microscopic aquatic organisms that are used in many labs to study aging. Carnosine was found to be one of only four antioxidant compounds that had a significant influence on the rotifers’ longevity.*
- Carnosine extends the life span of laboratory mice.*
Mice are warm-blooded mammals with similar aging features as humans, making them an ideal group to study. When their food was supplemented with carnosine, the mice lived significantly longer and retained the physical appearance and behavioral features of youthful mice.*
How Carnosine Supports Your Heart, Brain, Kidneys, Muscle and Metabolic Health*
Concentrations of carnosine are highest in your most energy-demanding tissues – your muscles, heart and brain. Perhaps this is nature’s way of protecting these vital areas from the oxidative effects of energy production?
Your muscles, heart and brain can especially benefit from carnosine’s protective effects, along with your eyes and the mitochondria in all your cells.
Carnosine’s effects are especially noticeable in your heart and blood vessels.* Animal studies suggest carnosine can help support normal blood flow in the heart, due to its antioxidant and membrane-protecting properties. Plus, it appears to support normal arterial function, important for healthy blood flow.*
Here are some additional potential benefits from carnosine supplementation:
- Promotes brain health and cognition*
- Promotes a normal inflammatory response*
- Promotes healthy blood sugar levels*
- Protects your body’s lipids from oxidation and glycation*
- Helps protect your eyes from harmful cross-linking in the lens*
- Helps protect your body’s sensory nerve function*
- Supports exercise performance by helping to buffer acid in your muscles*
Are You Getting Enough Carnosine?
Younger people typically have high levels of carnosine, especially in the parts of their bodies that have high energy demands, like their muscles, heart and brain.
However, carnosine levels decrease with age for two reasons.
First, your body makes less carnosine as you grow older. Plus, the carnosine you do have becomes more vulnerable to damage, especially if you have metabolic issues, such as weight or blood sugar issues.
With metabolic concerns, your body ages faster, your production of carnosine is lower, and the rate of destruction is greater.
By age 70, levels of carnosine in muscle decrease more than 60%. This may explain why older individuals not only have more visible signs of aging, but are also more likely to have muscle wastage and reduced muscle mass.
Because carnosine comes primarily from meat, vegetarians and anyone who limits their protein will have lower levels of carnosine. This often includes seniors as they tend to eat smaller portions, including less meat.
Therefore, those with less carnosine are at greater risk for protein damage and will likely have more glycosylated proteins in their bodies.
Studies show supplementing with carnosine can help increase carnosine levels in muscle tissue and also help restore healthy, youthful levels in tissues throughout your body.*
How Carnosine Can Help Protect Your Cells from Excess Iron and Omega-6 Fats
There’s another area where increased levels of carnosine can be beneficial to your health.
Due to the typical Western diet, most people consume far too many omega-6 fats.
Your best way to fix this is to reduce your intake of processed foods and refined seed oils, and thus less omega-6 fats.
Linoleic acid (LA) is the main culprit here. Comprising 60% to 80% of omega-6 fats, LA is a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) that is missing hydrogen atoms. This makes LA and omega-6s highly susceptible to oxidation, which means the fat breaks down into harmful metabolites.
Because PUFAs oxidize, LA metabolites are extremely hazardous to your health – far more damaging than excess sugar.
At a molecular level, excess omega-6 fats damage your metabolism and interfere with your body’s ability to generate energy in your cells’ mitochondria. Too many omega-6s also place your heart and cells at risk.
Carnosine helps prevent the destruction of cells in the presence of excess omega-6s by scavenging the oxidative end products that can damage fats and proteins.
Liposomal Carnosine Provides Greater Results, Thanks to Cutting-Edge Liposomal Technology
Liposomal technology is an advanced technology that helps your body absorb and better utilize a nutrient. We use liposomal technology for many important nutrients, such as vitamins C and D.
And now, we are using this technology for our Liposomal Carnosine supplement.
So, how does liposomal technology work?
This cutting-edge technology works by encasing nutrients in fat molecules called phospholipids to improve absorption in your body. The same cellular complex found in krill oil and egg yolk, phospholipids play many important roles in your body.
Phospholipids are…
- The building blocks for your cell membranes.*
- Regulators of cellular transport, functioning as "gate-keepers” to your cells.*
- Protectors of cell membranes, guarding them against free radical assaults.*
The phospholipids in each capsule of Liposomal Carnosine form liposomes in your stomach. Like a tiny sac of phospholipids, each liposome surrounds a nutrient and carries it through your gut lining and into your cells with ease.
Studies show the movement of water is all that is needed to create some liposomes. With stomach fluids in near constant motion, there is the potential to create large amounts of liposomes in your stomach.
Since liposomes can help the nutrient gain entry across your gut membrane to its target organs and cells bypassing digestion and breakdown in your liver. The creation of more liposomes can lead to an increased rate of absorption in your body.
Soy is often used as a source for lecithin for liposomal technology. However, soy is a highly genetically modified crop.
To ensure you receive a liposomal formula without GMOs, we use phospholipids from sunflower lecithin for our Liposomal Carnosine.
Discover How Liposomal Carnosine Can Help Keep Your Body and Brain at Their Youthful Best*
The cellular aging process isn’t always your best friend, especially if you are like the nine out of 10 of Americans who are metabolically unfit.
Liposomal Carnosine can help you take control of not only your well-being but your longevity as well.*
A simple daily dose can go a long way toward maintaining optimal health for your brain, heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and muscles as well as your metabolic and immune health.*
Liposomal Carnosine is no ordinary carnosine supplement – the cutting-edge liposomal technology allows you to benefit from greater absorption and usability, all without the addition of potentially harmful GMOs.
Look and feel younger by taking control of some of the most damaging natural cellular aging processes in your body, and order Liposomal Carnosine today.