I’ve brought you some powerful healing information in the past year. But this month takes the cake. It even blew me away when I first learned about it. You see, researchers have discovered a new antioxidant that is many times more powerful than anything else you may be taking.
This new wonder from the sea could transform almost all of your health problems. It has the power to reverse heart disease and osteoporosis. Ive seen incredible testimonials on cancer. And there are many studies on its effectiveness for everything from fibromyalgia to diabetes, dementia, and much, much more.
You may remember some of the evidence Ive shown you through the years of the effectiveness of flavonoids. Flavonoids are a well-known class of plant-made chemicals that act as antioxidants. We also call them polyphenols.
You already know how important antioxidants are to your health. The power of an antioxidant rests in its structure, which is made up of rings. Nature puts rings together for many different purposes. Polyphenols use the rings to capture stray electrons from free radicals. So the more rings a polyphenol has, the better it works.
Most flavonoids have three interconnected rings. Catechins from green tea have four. But the ring structure of all these pales in comparison to this newly discovered polyphenol called Seanol. And it has up to eight interconnected rings.
That makes the Seanol molecule a veritable electron (i.e., free radical) trapping machine! These molecules beat the free-radical scavenging ability of most polyphenols by 10-100 times. That means they far outshine even the extremely powerful green tea catechins.
The name Seanol comes from the source of the compounds — the sea. We find these compounds in several red and brown algae, in particular cava Ecklonia. This seaweed grows at a depth of about 100 feet.
This fact gives Seanol another major difference from the other polyphenols. Virtually all polyphenols from land sources are water-soluble. Water-soluble polyphenols have a short half-life in your body. Water-soluble compounds also have less ability to penetrate your blood brain barrier. Seanol compounds are 40% fat-soluble. This means they have a greater ability to get into your brain and protect it.
Like fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A and D), it also means a much longer half-life in your body. The half-life of Seanol compounds is up to 12 hours compared to 30 minutes for water-soluble polyphenols.
Dr. Haengwoo Lee, a Korean biochemist now living near Seattle, Washington, found this difference makes Seanol much more effective in its treatment ability. He and his team of PhDs and MDs have researched the properties of Seanol compounds for the past 14 years. And they have the resources, with more than $30 million of public and private funding, to do highly credible work. Their research has included test-tube experiments, animal models, and now more than seven human trials. I am amazed at the stunning results his team of scientists has found.
First, consider safety. The team has not found any toxicity at any level. In a fibromyalgia study, there were some cases of diarrhea. But the patients already had a pre-existing tendency for the same. However, the Seanol supplement they used also contained magnesium, which can stimulate diarrhea. Researchers in Korea conducted the animal studies needed to register Seanol as a safe food substance with their FDA. They found no toxicity.
Now that you understand how Seanol works and how safe it is, lets look at how it effectively works on so many health problems.
Starting with your heart, Seanol can work wonders with vascular disease or hypertension. One of the big causes of both of these could be thick blood. Theres a special protein in your blood that dissolves unwanted clots. We call it plasmin. Unfortunately, many people have inhibitors (called antiplasmin) of this protein. That could be due to genetics, excess weight, toxins, diet, and more. Seanol compounds block antiplasmin. That can fix a tendency toward clots and thick blood!
PT is a common measure of thickness of your blood. A higher PT means thinner blood. If you are taking coumadin (rat poison), your doctors will definitely be following your PT to make sure your blood is not too thin. But Seanol naturally thins your blood without danger of thinning it too much. One study on Seanol compounds found a small but significant rise in the PT and a fall in fibrinogen levels. Fibrinogen is the precursor protein to a clot. Generally, a lower fibrinogen level means less inflammation and a normal clotting system. Just this effect alone will have profound favorable effects on all circulatory and inflammatory diseases!
If you have hypertension, its likely your doctor tried to put you on the popular ACE inhibitors. ACE inhibitors block a kidney enzyme system than can generate hypertension. Seanol compounds can potently suppress your ACE similar to the drug (enalapril) Vasotec, but better. When researchers gave rats the drug, they had rebound hypertension after stopping the drug. Seanol rats did not!
Inflamed blood vessels near your nerves will often cause nerve pain (neuropathy). Researchers recently studied Seanol on 40 patients with neuropathy. It reduced the nerve pain by a stunning 40% in just four weeks. And 80% of the patients responded favorably. (Ill have more on how this incredible nutrient helps diabetes next month.)
Seanol also helps improve coronary artery disease (CAD). As a reader of Second Opinion, you may know that coronary disease is not due to cholesterol, as the statin peddlers want you to believe. Damage done to your arterial walls is determined more by how your body handles cholesterol than by the cholesterol itself. You do not want your LDL cholesterol to oxidize. When it does, it will definitely damage your arteries.
Researchers discovered that Seanol is more potent at inhibiting the oxidation of LDL than green tea catechins! It can actually scrub the plaque off your endothelial lining. And it can reduce vascular inflammation.
So it stands to reason that Seanol would protect you from cholesterol and it lowers it, too. Look at these results: Researchers gave 39 adults (average age 55.6) 100 mg Seanol compounds for six weeks. Their average cholesterol dropped from 228 to 224. LDL dropped from 141 to 135. The hard-to-raise HDL rose from 46.5 to 50.7 (highly significant). Triglycerides fell from 215 to 195. And the atherogenic index (a key atherosclerosis score) dropped a whopping 12.5%. All this with no lifestyle changes! (And remember that Seanol blocks oxidation of the bad LDL cholesterol.)
How can Seanol work so well? A human study showed that Seanol can regenerate your all-important vascular endothelium. These cells are the critical inner lining of your blood vessels. They generate the chemical nitric oxide (NO), which keeps the arterial wall relaxed and dilated. In one study, CAD patients were given Seanol for six weeks. Then the researchers measured blood flow controlled by NO. Flow increased 50-60%. This suggests Seanol can rejuvenate damaged endothelial cells to make NO.
How important is NO? You know that Viagra works by increasing NO in the penile artery. Scientists studied 31 men with erectile dysfunction for over six months. They compared eight weeks of Seanol use to Viagra. They looked at: orgasmic function, intercourse satisfaction, overall satisfaction, and erectile dysfunction. Over those eight weeks, Seanol scored 87%, 74%, 62%, and 66% respectively. Viagra scored 27%, 44%, 39%, and 66% respectively. No side effects were reported with Seanol. Seanol soundly beat Viagra at its own game! That strongly supports Seanols optimization of NO.
Because Seanol improves blood flow so well, it makes sense that it would improve your memory. Eight million Americans are believed to have mild cognitive decline. All the approved drugs are highly toxic. So its vital for you to find powerful nutrients that can get into your brain and help it work more efficiently. Ive already shown you how Seanol can cross over the blood-brain barrier. Now lets see how Seanol works once its in there.
Memory is dependent on the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh). Seanol increased rodent ACh by 140% in brain regions responsible for learning and memory. And it did this after just seven days administration! Seanol compounds can easily neutralize the neurotoxic free-radical peroxynitrite. But its power is even more fantastic than that.
NIH scientists at aging research labs in Baltimore studied Seanol in rats. They found it inhibits beta-amyloid deposition in their brains. That is the nasty stuff that accumulates in Alzheimers brains. These rats also learned maze challenges faster. That shows improvement in short-term memory, so vulnerable in cognitive decline.
Your carotid arteries feed your brain. Dr. Lees group found that Seanol can increase the velocity of blood flow in this important artery from an average of 36.68 cm/sec. to 40.09 cm/sec. The placebo showed no improvement. An EEG study on brain waves on healthy middle-age volunteers found that Seanol compounds increase alpha waves. Alpha waves are an indicator of relaxation. So this is a good indication that Seanol is relaxing the blood vessels and balancing your brains activity.
And yet another study found that Seanol compounds prevented sleepiness in bus drivers and in high school students during daytime activities. Again, this is likely due to increased blood flow and oxygen delivery.
Obviously, Seanol is an incredible nutrient. But there is so much more. Next month, Ill show you how Seanol can help with diabetes, allergies and lung disease, cholesterol metabolism, arthritis, and fibromyalgia. Yes, this is one nutrient that can do it all. My favorite brand of Seanol is FibroBoost. At my urging, we are adding it to the Healthy Resolve product line.