Forever Young: Protandim, the Live-to-120 Pill?
Right now you can buy a pill that may make you feel younger while extending your life to 120 years or more, according to its more enthusiastic promoters. It's called Protandim, and it's available from a Colorado company called Lifeline Neutraceuticals.
Protandim purportedly causes the body to produce more of its own antioxidants to fight the damaging effects of free radicals. While many people--including me--already take various antioxidant supplements, these must pass through digestive and other barriers, losing potency and effectiveness in the process.
Protandim, on the other hand, is claimed to spur an increase in the body's own internal defenses.
Company president Bill Driscoll calls Protandim "the first true antiaging pill that the market has very eagerly been waiting for," and says it is "measurably better than any combinations of currently available antioxidant supplements."
The one-a-day pill costs about $50 for a month's supply--cheap, if it does what some of the people hyping it claim.
But you might want to wait before sending off your check. According to a report on the Better Humans web site (an excellent resource for antiaging news and analysis, by the way), it's still not certain what consumers should expect from Protandim.
"Recent research questions the effect it might have in humans. With so many supposed antiaging products on the market already, jaded consumers can be forgiven for skepticism. Protandim may overcome these challenges but for now ... its future's uncertain," says Better Humans.
I note that the Lifeline Neutraceuticals web site is somewhat cautious with its claims. There are no references, as far as I can see, to 120-year lifespans. It merely calls Protandim "'the better approach' for antioxidant therapy compared to current category offerings."
Here's how the company claims the pill works:
Instead of pumping the body full of indigestible, uncertain, unproven mixes of exogenous compounds that are poorly absorbed and might be contraindicated against one another ... there is a much better option: a breakthrough formulation that turns on the body’s system to naturally produce its key antioxidant enzymes at the sub-cellular level, where they are needed the most.
An antioxidant enzyme may neutralize up to 1,000,000 free radicals (oxidants) per second without being used up and is, therefore, a catalytic antioxidant. Traditional antioxidant molecules such as vitamin C, or vitamin E, or glutathione, on the other hand, are chemically consumed when they react with just a single free radical (oxidant) molecule — thus they are consumable antioxidants. The enormous advantage of catalytic antioxidants over consumable antioxidants is obvious – and Protandim induces catalytic antioxidants in its unique approach to restore proper oxidant-antioxidant balance.
Protandim™ is a unique proprietary blend of botanicals from ancient traditions. They have been combined and balanced to cause the body to produce and co-regulate its natural antioxidant enzymes, Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), Catalase (CAT) and Glutathione Peroxidase (GPX). ...
Protandim™ has been scientifically-proven to reduce oxidative stress, through studies at a world-renowned antioxidant/anti-aging research institute.
You can also read more here.
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Protandim purportedly causes the body to produce more of its own antioxidants to fight the damaging effects of free radicals. While many people--including me--already take various antioxidant supplements, these must pass through digestive and other barriers, losing potency and effectiveness in the process.
Protandim, on the other hand, is claimed to spur an increase in the body's own internal defenses.
Company president Bill Driscoll calls Protandim "the first true antiaging pill that the market has very eagerly been waiting for," and says it is "measurably better than any combinations of currently available antioxidant supplements."
The one-a-day pill costs about $50 for a month's supply--cheap, if it does what some of the people hyping it claim.
But you might want to wait before sending off your check. According to a report on the Better Humans web site (an excellent resource for antiaging news and analysis, by the way), it's still not certain what consumers should expect from Protandim.
"Recent research questions the effect it might have in humans. With so many supposed antiaging products on the market already, jaded consumers can be forgiven for skepticism. Protandim may overcome these challenges but for now ... its future's uncertain," says Better Humans.
I note that the Lifeline Neutraceuticals web site is somewhat cautious with its claims. There are no references, as far as I can see, to 120-year lifespans. It merely calls Protandim "'the better approach' for antioxidant therapy compared to current category offerings."
Here's how the company claims the pill works:
Instead of pumping the body full of indigestible, uncertain, unproven mixes of exogenous compounds that are poorly absorbed and might be contraindicated against one another ... there is a much better option: a breakthrough formulation that turns on the body’s system to naturally produce its key antioxidant enzymes at the sub-cellular level, where they are needed the most.
An antioxidant enzyme may neutralize up to 1,000,000 free radicals (oxidants) per second without being used up and is, therefore, a catalytic antioxidant. Traditional antioxidant molecules such as vitamin C, or vitamin E, or glutathione, on the other hand, are chemically consumed when they react with just a single free radical (oxidant) molecule — thus they are consumable antioxidants. The enormous advantage of catalytic antioxidants over consumable antioxidants is obvious – and Protandim induces catalytic antioxidants in its unique approach to restore proper oxidant-antioxidant balance.
Protandim™ is a unique proprietary blend of botanicals from ancient traditions. They have been combined and balanced to cause the body to produce and co-regulate its natural antioxidant enzymes, Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), Catalase (CAT) and Glutathione Peroxidase (GPX). ...
Protandim™ has been scientifically-proven to reduce oxidative stress, through studies at a world-renowned antioxidant/anti-aging research institute.
You can also read more here.
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7 Comments:
Why would you want to live for 120 years. I suppose the really wealthy could afford it.
The Protandim that Lifeline is selling is not the Protandim originally uncovered by Ceremedix that showed promising results in mice:
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/000412.php
What Lifeline is currently peddling is nothing new; same old anti-aging nonsense trying to hide under name association with Ceremedix's work.
What Reason says is correct. I discovered that after I made my original posting on this. I will do a follow-up post to try to clarify.
Why would someone want to take Protandim when you can take a product like megatropin, regenatropin, or secretagogue one? At least they are backed by credible scientific studies and they don't rely on media hype. I am tired of reading about Protandim and there is nothing available that you would consider scientifically valid and conclusive evidence that it in fact works.
Well you wanted credible scientific studies...well here it is: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060117/cgtu054.html?.v=38
These guys bashing Protandim are idiots that have never even tried Protandim. I started taking it 6-10-05. Since then i haven't suffered one sick day. Now that the peer review study is published everyone can judge for themselves who to believe.
New Scientific Data Demonstrate Protandim(R) Improves the Body's Natural Ability to Reduce Oxidative Stress by Increasing Activity of Antioxidant Enzymes
DENVER, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lifeline Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LFLT - News) announced data from a human study just published in the scientific journal, Free Radical Biology & Medicine (Jan. 15, 2006), demonstrated Protandim® was able to reduce oxidative stress in men and women.
In this study, before starting Protandim®, study participants, who ranged in age from 20 to 78, showed a strong age-related increase in TBARS. After 30 days of taking Protandim®, a 40 percent average decrease in TBARS was seen, and the age-related increase was eliminated. By 120 days of supplementation, Protandim® also significantly increased activity of SOD and CAT antioxidant enzymes by 30 percent and 54 percent, respectively.
No other antioxidant can prove this claim. Here is a link to the news release.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060117/cgtu054.html?.v=38
www.protandim.com
Credible Studies!
That yahoo news blurb is a press release from Lifeline...
Sheesh
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