Last month, I told you about a brand new antioxidant called Seanol. I showed you how Seanol works to reverse high blood pressure, vascular disease, coronary artery disease, sexual dysfunction, and memory problems.
This month, I am going to show you how much more Seanol can do. You will see that it also can help with diabetes, weight loss, inflammation, and even fibromyalgia.
If you are overweight, you already know how difficult it is to lose weight. The enzyme DGAT is a big reason why. It is the final step in the synthesis of triglycerides. You have probably seen triglyceride measurements as part of your cholesterol panels. Triglycerides are circulating fat bodies that ultimately wind up in your fat cells. They are almost always elevated in diabetes. They also have emerged as a major risk factor in vascular disease.
Dr. Haengwoo Lee, whom I mentioned last month, found that Seanol compounds inhibit DGAT by more than 50%. Dr. Lee used Seanol to control DGAT in laboratory mice. His research shows that Seanol reduced their body fat and increased their physical activity. But, most importantly, it encouraged leanness in the animals and resistance to a high-fat diet. Obese mice lost more than 10% of their weight in just 120 days! They had shiny skin, no side effects, and were more alert.
In another study, 141 young adults were given a beverage containing Seanol at a daily dose of 200 mg daily. In just two weeks, their average weight dropped nearly two-and-a-half pounds, muscle mass increased by two-and-a-half pounds, and body fat dropped over four pounds. Body fat in this group dropped a stunning and highly statistically significant 7.48%. Seanol blocks fat creation and stimulates the body to burn it by increasing muscle mass.
We already know that dietary fat directly impairs your insulin metabolism. Fat blocks your pancreas from making insulin. A recent mouse study showed that Seanol reverses fat deposition in liver and pancreas cells. The yet unpublished data was produced by Dr. Lee at the University of Washington Pathology Department. His team fed Seanol to genetically engineered fat mice. It caused a 10% reduction in blood glucose and literally removed fat. Controls fed the same diet got 10% worse. Does not it make sense that a substance that reduces pancreas fat accumulation might restore insulin production and reverse type-2 diabetes? But the good news does not stop there.
How effective is Seanol at treating high blood sugar? My friend Ronald MacDonald has had a long-term problem with diabetes. Ron had followed my strict dietary suggestions. He got a splint from Dr. Robson for his life-threatening sleep apnea. He took supplements. We managed to eliminate his two diabetic drugs, Glyburide and Metformin. We completely eliminated his craving for two pots of coffee down to a maximum of just one cup. But Ron continued with morning blood sugars in the range of 140 mg. (Of course, this was down considerably from the 300 level when we first met.)
Within two weeks of starting Seanol, his blood sugar approach 100 mg. Furthermore, it rapidly normalized after he cheated and ate wedding cake. Before the Seanol, that indiscretion would have sent his glucose to over 300. It would take more than two days to normalize, even with the two drugs and diet adherence.
And here is one final point about Seanols ability to treat diabetes. You may know that high blood sugar leads to vascular complications. One way that happens is through an enzyme called aldose reductase. This enzyme is present in your eyes, nerves, and many other parts of your body. When your blood sugar gets too high, this enzyme converts some of the excess glucose into a sugar alcohol called sorbitol. Sorbitol can build up in these critical cells and damage them.
In fact, recent research found that animals deficient in this enzyme were protected from retinal complications of diabetes. Seanol compounds are potent inhibitors of this enzyme. So if you have metabolic syndrome, syndrome X, or diabetes, this is one supplement you want to have in your medicine cabinet.
Seanol also has the ability to treat fibromyalgia. As you may know, this is a tricky condition. I believe there are many factors in its development. So there is no uniform therapy. Ive had excellent results in tailoring treatment to the physiology of each individual patient. But if you do not have access to a doctor who can do this for you, you might consider Seanol.
Heres why: Fibronol, which is a supplement used to treat fibromyalgia, is rich in Seanol. When studied, researchers gave it to 36 participants. Of those, 29 completed the eight-week study. And the results were startling.
Seanol cut the time it took the participants to fall asleep by 47 minutes. It increased total nighttime sleep by 1.6 hours. It improved soundness of sleep by 80%. It boosted their energy level by 71%. It gave them 2 1/4 more good days per week. It helped reduce their pain by 31%. And the general condition improved by 39%.
Amazingly, all this improvement came at all doses. Patients given the placebo had no improvement during their two weeks on it. You can see a summary of this information at www.fibronol.com.
Now when you think about the improvement in sleep for fibromyalgia patients and the increased alertness for high school students and bus drivers, you might wonder what is going on. Are the results conflicting? Hardly. The product is stimulating ideal function. If you sleep better, you will be more alert when you need to be.
The more than 50 million Americans with various sleep disorders might well benefit from Fibronol, without the fears of addiction from prescription sleep aids.
I do not know if Ive ever seen one nutrient that could do more for you than Seanol. You know I ALWAYS recommend dietary changes first. Unfortunately, the average American looks for a quick fix. Seanol is not the whole answer, since it is not a whole diet. But it may dramatically help slow or reverse the damage inflicted by a lifetime of dietary and lifestyle mismanagement.
And, finally, there is growing evidence that Seanol can treat arthritis, allergies, asthma, and even cancer. At this point, the research is all on animals, so its very preliminary. But Dr. Haengwoo Lee, who conducted the research, is convinced Seanol will have the same effects on humans.
How can Seanol possibly work on all these illnesses? They all have one thing in common — inflammation. Here are a few things Dr. Lee found in his Seanol studies:
Seanols ability to treat arthritis is comparable to Celebrex, the prescription drug that reduces inflammatory cox enzymes. These enzymes can get out of control due to bad diet, stress, injury, infection, and toxins. Seanol significantly reduced pain in a group of knee arthritis patients. But unlike Celebrex, Seanol does not cause heart attacks. Instead, it protects your heart.
Seanol reduces inflammatory enzymes, which means it can help improve your allergies. Dr. Lee and his team found that Seanol significantly reduces allergic inflammation in mice. Specifically, Seanol reduced the migration of allergy cells (eosinophils) to the lungs by 75%. Inflammatory white blood cells were reduced by 50%. And mucus plugs in the airways were reduced by 50%.
These findings suggest that Seanol can free your lungs of gunk and acute inflammation. And collagen-causing fibrosis in lung tissue and smooth muscle cell thickness was reduced by 20% and 32% respectively. These latter findings suggest that Seanol compounds can prevent or reverse the progression of chronic lung disease (such as asthma and COPD).
Millions of Americans are afflicted with solar induced basal cell skin cancers. Dr. Lee conducted a study on the effects of Seanol compounds on mice exposed to UV rays. The results were remarkable. Tumor cell division was reduced by 50%. Inflammatory chemicals were reduced by 50-80%. That is huge! Well need more studies to determine Seanols ability to treat cancer, but this is very encouraging.
I believe Seanol could be the biggest nutritional discovery we have seen in a generation. If you have any health condition — or just want to stay healthy — Seanol is for you.