Astrazanthin...

[Andipw3]

Hi everyone. This new format is strange, hopefully this gets across. Anyway, my husband, a bit of a science guru found some very interesting data on this particular antioxidant. If my friends who love to research on here take some time to look into this I'd love your feedback. In a nutshell.. This particular agent is able to cross the blood brain barrier to decrease inflammation if there were to be any. Pub med for example has a lot of data on how this works, but not in particular to one disease. I m not suggesting it's a cure by any means, but I'm curious of how it works. Neurological sites seem to also have a lot of info on it supporting the benefits. You tube as well. This asrrazanthin is naturally found in salmon which is why their color is orange. Being natural, it shouldn't interfere with any medication. Anyway... Please check it out. I'm curious your thoughts..
Andi

[supermum_ms]

I think there might be a typo which would explain why i'm having difficulty finding anything.....do you mean 'Astaxanthin'?  

Astaxanthin is from my understanding the natural colour pigment that occurs in wild salmon and due to their natural diet of krill and shrimp but please keep in mind that 'natural' ain't always 'natural', the farm bred salmon (mass market products ie supermarket salmon) actually isn't high in Astaxanthin as it has a natural grey pigment, farm bred salmon have chemical additives, so it's usually artificially coloured to get the same salmon pink colour as wild salmon.

Whilst what neuro related research i could find was interesting, I truly believe It is far too early to speculate at this stage if there are any specific protective benefits for neurological conditions like MS, but i do highly doubt that any dietary changes or supplement alone is ever going to be the key to understanding or changing MS....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4584352/  

Cheers.........JJ

[Andipw3]

Yes! You are correct. Typo. I have a hard time with that it seems! I'm a "hyper Typer"!! You are correct .. I did know the farm raised salmon is not ever the same. We never buy it. The astaxanthin we get is from Hawaii.. And I believe comes from algae that is "stressed ". Anyway.. There are articles on pub med .. Ect. Certainly not a cure,, but I'd love to see research in particular to ms.

[HVAC]

There are many antioxidants which help with MS. I started eating I high antioxiadant diet which is basically a balanced diet when I was diagnosed with MS. Glutithione was one of them as well.

Alex

[Andipw3]

Thx Alex! What do you take daily? Just curios..

[Corriel]

Hi there, I hadn't heard of this one yet.

Thanks for sharing, I am definitely going to have a little research fun with it.

Corrie