Mitotrol
The Science behind the ingredients
Mitotrol contains three elements that give it nutritional power: polysaccharides, peptides, and spirulina blue-green algae. In order to understand the power and efficacy of Mitotrol, it is essential to understand the properties of each of its components.
Is a blue-green algae that’s part of the common, traditional diet in certain areas of Mexico and countries in Africa. It is among the oldes forms of life on the planet, in alkaline volcano lakes for around 3,500 million years.
Spirulina contains a significant amount of various proteins, which are easily absorbed by the body. These include:
- Essential amino acids (those our body cannot produce on its own)
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Beta-carotene
- Polysaccharides
- Glucolipids and essential fatty acids
Scientific studies report that:
- Spirulina extract has the ability to increase the activity of the immune system and has anti-viral and cancerogenic properties.
- Consuming spirulina has been linked to decreases in the levels of cholesterol.
- The human consumption of spirulina significantly reduces the concentrations of triacylglycerol and colesterol in the bloodstream, and also reduces bloodpressure.
- Taking spirulina reduces the levels of glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood of patients with type 2 diabetes (Parikh et al, 2001.)
- Spirulina can make the immune system stronger. A Japanese research team administered spirulina extract to a group of humans over the course of two months. They measured various parameters of immune system activity before and after the spirulina was administered. They found that, in 50% of the volunteers, the isolated NK blood cells (a type of cellular immune system that eliminates cells infected by viruses, and others with tumors) were showing more activity.
- Including spirulina in a chicken´s daily diet increased the production capacity of antibodies, and of NK cell activity.
- Some compounds found in spirulina have antiviral abilities. For example, the in vitro application of Spirulina maxima blocked the infection caused by viruses such as herpes simplex, pseudorabies, and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV.)
- Aqueous Spirulina platensis extract, (also known as Arthrospira platensis), inhibits 50% of the replication of the HIV/AIDS virus-1 in lines of human lymphocytes.
- Phycocyanin C, a component found in spirulina, induces death in a cellular line of leukemia. Also, calcio-spirulina, a component found in spirulina, inhibits the tumor invasion of cellular lines of melanoma, carcinoma of the colon as well as fibrosarcoma. It considerably reduces the metastasis of a cellular line in the lungs as well.
- The consumption of spirulina maxima can protect mice against the neuro-toxic effects of MPTP (a drug used to induce a rodent version of Parkinson´s disease.) Researchers found that mice that had consumed spirulina over 14 days showed a considerable reduction in the MPTP effect. This may be due to the antioxidants contained in spirulina.
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