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    User's Guide to Carnosine
    User's Guide to Carnosine
    User's Guide to Carnosine
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    User's Guide to Carnosine

    By Marie Moneysmith and Jack Challem

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    Carnosine, one of the most powerful antioxidant nutrients ever discovered, can rev up the immune system, fight inflammatory diseases, speed healing of wounds, and enhance recovery from surgery. Supported by hundreds of scientific studies, carnosine is now emerging as one of the key anti-aging nutrients, capable of slowing down the aging process. Marie Moneysmith explains everything readers need to know about carnosine supplements, including how and when to take them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateMay 1, 2004
    ISBN9781591206736
    User's Guide to Carnosine
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    Marie Moneysmith

    MICHAEL D. SEIDMAN, MD, FACS, lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan. MARIE MONEYSMITH lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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    User's Guide to Carnosine - Marie Moneysmith

    INTRODUCTION

    Carnosine may be one of the best-kept secrets in the supplement world. In fact, it has such a low profile that when people first hear its name, they often confuse it with carnitine , which is a very different substance.

    Technically, carnosine is not a vitamin or mineral. It is a is dipeptide, but don’t be put off by the unfamiliar terminology. A dipeptide is simply a compound created by the union of two amino acids, in this case, alanine and histidine.

    Amino acids are best known as the building blocks of protein. But in the case of carnosine, the pairing creates a compound substance with a special synergy that takes it far beyond protein creation. Carnosine has shown great promise for improving all-around health, slowing the aging process, and even treating such difficult conditions as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

    Why is a supplement as powerful as carnosine not better known? Even though there are more than 1,000 studies focusing on carnosine, most of them were done abroad, primarily in Russia, and more recently in Europe and other parts of Asia. As a result, American medical experts and the media have largely been unaware of the extensive research on this potent substance. That is likely to change in the near future, however. Carnosine simply has too much to offer to a wide range of the population to remain in the background.

    Take, for example, the baby-boom generation, composed of millions of men and women born between 1946 and 1964. The baby boomers are taking the clichés about growing old and turning them upside down. Thanks to advances in anti-aging medicine, not to mention plastic surgery, the baby boomers are not going to go quietly into old age. In fact, they seem to be determined to actively engage in hand-to-hand combat with Father Time and Mother Nature, with no plans to surrender any time soon.

    Not surprisingly, anti-aging medicine is the fastest-growing segment of preventive health care in this century, a multibillion-dollar business fueled in large part by the baby boomers’ reluctance to grow old. For some people, anti-aging is not a matter of quantity but quality. They’re more interested in how well they live, rather than how long, so staying healthy and robust is the primary goal. For others, maintaining youth means avoiding wrinkles and gray hair, as well as creaky joints and senior moments.

    Where does carnosine fit into this picture? Everywhere. Let’s start with heart disease, the nation’s number-one killer. Carnosine enhances heart health in several ways, including interference with the production of LDL (low-density lipoprotein, or bad) cholesterol. It helps keep blood vessels supple and young, as well.

    Aside from heart disease, carnosine helps us maintain good health in other ways. For example, carnosine has special antioxidant abilities that enable it to protect our cells and their contents, including our genes, from damaging rogue molecules known as free radicals. Although assaults by free radicals affect us on a microscopic level and aren’t immediately apparent, illness will eventually result. Cancer, for example, is a disease that by and large takes years to develop. During that time, the body’s cells are quietly being altered by compounds that could be eliminated by substances such as carnosine. In fact, many experts say carnosine could become a potent weapon in the war against cancer.

    Carnosine also has an important function with regard to aging. According to one theory of aging, free-radical damage is linked to many of the devastating diseases associated with advancing years. All antioxidants play a major role in good health at any age, but become increasingly important as the years pass. Vitamins A, C, and E and the minerals selenium and zinc are well-known antioxidants. A powerhouse antioxidant, carnosine supports the work of these and other free-radical fighters.

    However, carnosine goes a step further, by preventing a serious form of protein damage known as glycation. Free radicals and antioxidants have become household words, but many people are unaware of the harmful effects of glycation, an irregular bonding of sugar and protein with extensive health consequences, including hastening the aging process. Recognizing how glycation occurs and how it can be prevented—or at least minimized—with carnosine can help avoid the damage that accrues with time.

    But carnosine’s antiglycation benefits don’t end there. People with insulin resistance, a major factor in a condition known as Syndrome X, and those with diabetes are also prone to glycation. In their cases, glycation stimulates the aging process, but fortunately, they can gain protection from carnosine.

    Carnosine provides other anti-aging benefits. For instance, although scientists are not sure exactly how it works yet, carnosine has been shown to rejuvenate old cells and also help them live longer, an ability that could help keep the body in peak shape in later years. Carnosine also interferes with the creation of beta-amyloid, a substance associated with Alzheimer’s disease, and carnosine eyedrops fight the formation of cataracts, the leading cause of vision difficulties in the elderly. Additionally, as a cream, carnosine can be applied to the skin to minimize wrinkles and age spots.

    Although osteoporosis is now a household word, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently named a condition known as sarcopenia as one of the top five health risks among older adults. Sarcopenia is a combination of the gradual erosion of lean muscle and the accumulation of fat that eventually causes frailty in older people, and is believed to contribute to bone-breaking falls. After age forty, the typical adult loses from one-fourth to one-third of a pound of muscle each year and gains about the same amount in body fat. The result: overall weakness that can be immobilizing. Stairs become a challenge. Even getting up from a chair may require assistance. Strength training is the best-known way to counteract sarcopenia, and carnosine can be a valuable ally. Studies have shown that carnosine can rejuvenate and strengthen muscles, as well as increase energy and endurance, among athletes and nonathletes alike. For a generation of aging baby boomers, carnosine may help them avoid falling victim to one of the most common indignities suffered by the elderly—loss of independence.

    Similarly, inflammation has recently been acknowledged to be closely linked to a wide range of serious, chronic health conditions and diseases. Here again, carnosine can help minimize inflammation through its role as an antioxidant

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