leky-latky/pycnogenol/ucinky
Antiastmatický
- Helps fight against hayfever and asthma
- Demonstrated to help asthmatics improve their breathing ability.
- Allows easier breathinig
- Allergens, such as in hay-fever
- Commonly pollen, dust, mite and animal hair.
- histamine in turn triggers sneezing, nasal congestion, coughing, wheezing, itching and bronchial swellings [2]
- Pycnogenol® found to inhibit the release of histamine from mast cells that were aggravated by an irritant
- An anti-inflammatory
- Inhibits production of pro-inflammatory mediators
- Helping to relieve swelling and making breathing easier [2]
- Pycnogenol® also exhibited promise in the management of childhood asthma
- 60 children aged 6 to 18 years with mild to moderate asthma
- Significantly reduce or discontinue their use of rescue inhalers when they supplemented with Pycnogenol®
- Placebo group experienced no benefit [2]
- Pycnogenol improves breathing ability (FEV1) [2]
- Pycnogenol® Reduces Critical Asthma Symptoms In New Clinical Trial read more [2]
- Study Demonstrates The Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Pycnogenol® on Inflammatory Mediators COX-2 [2]
Antidestičkové účinky
- Helps make blood platelets less «sticky»
- Reduce blood clots
- Enhances the body’s own response to counteract blood vessel constriction
- Helps maintain blood pressure that is already in the normal range
Snižuje cholesterol
- Natural option for maintaining healthy cholesterol levels
- Supplementing with Pycnogenol® was found to lower the «bad» (LDL) cholesterol
- Increasing the «good» (HDL) cholesterol [2]
Improves cognitive function
- Studies reveal Pycnogenol® improve both numerical and spatial working memory using a computerized testing system.
- Pycnogenol® was found to improve memory and test scores in college students
- Clinical trial has shown Pycnogenol® to improve mental performance and decrease test anxiety by 17 %
- Several recent research studies on Pycnogenol® studied the extract's effects on Attention Deficit Disorders including ADHD
- Reduce symptoms in children [2]
Significantly delays uptake of complex sugars such as starch
- Potently inhibits the digestive enzyme alpha-glucosidase in the duodenum
- Inhibitors such as green tea extract, pure catechin and the oral medication acarbose (Precose, Glucobay) are dramatically less potent
- Pycnogenol® delays the uptake of glucose from a meal 190 times more potently
Kůže a kolagen
- Pycnogenol® has a high affinity to the amino acid hydroxy-proline
- Pycnogenol® (and also its metabolites) protects these proteins from free radical damage and enzymatic degradation.
- Enhanced collagen synthesis with Pycnogenol® in skin of human volunteers
- Increased synthesis of hyaluronic acid in women‘s skin
- Better skin elasticity and water retent
- Pycnogenol® enhances blood micro-circulation in the skin
- Enhances generation of endothelial nitric oxide (NO)
- Key mediator facilitating arterial relaxation and consequently allows for optimal blood flow.
- Pycnogenol® was found to increase blood perfusion of the skin and oxygen partial pressure increased
- Carbon dioxide concentration decreased
- Improved healing of wounds (ulcers) in individuals with micro-circulatory disorders [2]
- Improved skin respiration
- Improve Psoriasis Symptoms Including Redness, Skin [2]
- Improve Visable Signs of Aging [2]
Strengthens retinal capillaries and preserves eye sight
- Pycnogenol® strengthens retinal capillaries
- Helps control leakage of fluids and blood into the retina [2]
- Early stage retinopathy Pycnogenol®
- Stop leakage and improve retinal perfusion
- Corresponding significant restoration of vision [2]
- Five clinical studies
- With over 1000 patients
- Proprietary bilberry extract
- Ingredient combination normalizes intraocular pressure
- Significantly reduces the likelihood of developing glaucoma [1]
- Lutein and Pycnogenol®
- Antioxidant protective effect of the retina
- Combination showed additional synergistic protection of retinal lipids from oxidation [2]
Účinky
- Powerful antioxidant
- Natural anti-inflammatory
- Helps generate collagen and hyaluronic acid
- aids in the production of endothelial nitric oxide
- Helps to dilate blood vessels [1]
Increasing vasodialation
- Improving blood flow
Proti otokům nohou
- One of the earliest discoveries about the extract was its ability to strengthen capillary walls
- In both pre-clinical and clinical studies to strengthen capillary walls and prevent edema
- Seals the brittle capillaries
- Stops the outflow of blood into tissue which causes the swellings, edema and microbleedings
- Coupled with
- Anti-inflammatory properties
- Reducing platelet aggregation
- Fundamental mechanisms of action behind Pycnogenol® for venous health.
- 15 clinical studies with a total of 784 patients on venous insufficiency and Pycnogenol
- High efficacy of Pycnogenol® as a venous insufficiency treatment was so obvious
- German double-blind comparative study with 40 CVI patients
- Pycnogenol® more effective in a lower dosage in reducing edema of the lower limbs and alleviating the symptoms of CVI than horse chestnut seed extract.
- 70 patients in treating venous insufficiency x troxerutine, a water-soluble derivative of rutine
- After 60 days of treatment
- Combination of troxerutine coupled with Pycnogenol® produced more significant results in alleviating CVI symptoms than troxerutine alone [2]
- One of the more recent clinical studies on swelling found that
- Pycnogenol® can have a positive effect on leg swelling (edema) during long airplane flights lasting 7-12 hours
- In-flight ankle swelling of 169 participants
- Passengers who supplemented with Pycnogenol® experienced less leg and ankle swelling and discomfort [2]
- Study of 211 passengers on a long-distance flight (7-12 hours)
- Ability of Pycnogenol® to help prevent thrombosis:
- Two 100 mg Pycnogenol® capsules 2 - 3 hours prior to departure
- Another two capsules 6 hours later during the flight
- Another capsule was taken the following day after arrival [2]
- Five cases of thrombosis in the control group taking the placebo
- None of the passengers supplementing with Pycnogenol® [2]
- Study Shows Pycnogenol®
- Can Help Improve Endothelial Function in Cases of Borderline Hyperglycemia
- Effective to Naturally Improve Varicose and Spider Veins Following Pregnancy [2]
Zmírnění symptomů menopauzy
- Is demonstrated to be safe
- Does not incur any hormonal alterations in menopausal women
- Defies visible signs of ageing
- Improving skin elasticity
- Smoothness and moisture
- Elevation of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid synthase in menopausal women [2]
