Monday, August 20, 2018

Vitamin C Planet

How Long Human may live?

Life expectancy has gotten better in the recent decades. Specially for the people who are living in the improved countries. It is about 90 years in countries like Japan. 
The most long lived people in the world have a record of about 150 years. The question is: How long human may live? Is 150 years the ultimate life expectancy for human? 
Regarding to the religious manuscripts, there are many examples of extraordinary life lengths, e.g. Noah who lived for 950 years!
So, it seems that human can live for centuries! but is it possible from a scientific point of view?

What is determining the life length?
Each human cell is programmed to live for a defined time. Genome has the information of the life period. Human genome is divided in 46 segments called Chromosomes. The end parts of chromosomes called Telomeres. Telomeres have a special structure. There is not any gene in the Telomeres, but Telomeres play important roles in the life length of the cells. 
During the cell proliferation, a part of each Telomere is missing and so, the daughter cells have smaller telomeres than parent cell. The shortening of Telomeres continues until reaching a length of Telomere that could not be shorten more. 
The cell in this stage is alive, but can not proliferate more. It is called "Cell Senescence" stage. The aged cells would be alive for a while and then will die.
Scientific studies have shown that the longer Telomeres, the longer life. However, the more important fact is not the length of Telomeres, but is the rate of the Telomeres shortening. If the rate of the Telomeres shortening was fast, then the cell will be aged sooner. Prevention of Telomeres shortening rate is the key point that scientists are noticing when they are dreaming long life for human. If you can decrease the rate of Telomeres shortening, then your cells will enter in the senescence stage later. 
Many studies and experiments have endorsed this theory. And so, it may be possible for human to live for centuries by controlling Telomeres shortening!
A Chromosome, Telomeres are marked in pink

How to decrease the rate of Telomeres shortening?
There are some complex protocols to change the Telomeres shortening behavior. But, we will discus here the one that is more available for you.
This protocol could be summarized in two key words: Healthy lifestyle!
Having a healthy lifestyle will help you to protect your Telomeres from fast shortening. Eating and drinking healthy foods and drinks and having physical exercise are the key points. In the other hand, Stress, smoking, and unhealthy foods and drinks could fasten the Telomeres shortening rate.


How to have a Healthy Lifestyle?
  • Avoid smoking: there are more than 2000 hazardous molecules in tobacco smoke. 
  • Control your stress: your physician or psychologist can provide you with points helping stress control.
  • Do physical exercise: FDA recommends 250 minutes of physical exercise per week for a healthy life. You can divide it through week days.
  • Eat healthy foods: Limit processed foods like fast foods. Processed foods are rich in free radical producing agents.
  • Drink healthy drinks: Limit alcohol, drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Telomeres Need Some help!
Studies have shown that free radicals are one of the most important reasons promoting Telomeres shortening. Free radicals are chemicals could attack every component in the cell. They may react with DNA, proteins, lipids and other cellular bio-molecules. Free radicals attack may make changes in the structure and function of the targeted molecules. In the case of DNA, free radicals may make changes known as Mutations. Mutations may  be very dangerous for the cell and even for the human! For example, Scientists have found many examples of relations between genome mutation and rise of Cancer.  
Based on the scientific findings, Telomeres are natural free radicals scavenger to protect genome. In the other words, Telomeres scarify themselves to protect vital genes on the genome.
Is it harmful for Telomeres? 
Yes! Scavenging of free radicals makes problems in the structure and function of Telomeres leading increasing in Telomeres shortening rate. 
So, Telomeres need some help! 
What can provide Telomeres with some help? 
Antioxidants!
Antioxidants are proper help for Telomeres because they can react and neutralize free radicals and so, the concentration of free radicals would be decreased in the cell. Lower concentration of free radicals, lower hazardous effects on Telomeres.
So, Take Antioxidants and free radical scavengers like Vitamin C to help your Telomeres! 
Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin and can react with a vast range of free radicals. 
Fresh fruits like citrus fruits and Vitamin C supplements are excellent sources of Vitamin C. 
However, Be advised that the best Vitamin C supplements have natural sources, not synthetic! 

For more information about how Vitamin C could help and how much Vitamin C you should take daily, take a look at our website: www.vitamincplanet.com  

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

3 Tips: 
How to Determine Natural Vitamin C supplements from Synthetic Vitamin C supplements?

People well know about the advantages of a Natural and Organic product versus synthetic ones. They know that the nature could not be mimicked perfectly regarding to the shortage of human knowledge and complexity of the nature!

People trend on natural product is noticed by supplements manufacturers and so, some times you can find examples of artificial or synthetic products pretending to be Natural!

It is enough to take a look at the Vitamins shelf in the pharmacies. Most of the labels on Vitamin C products are showing an Orange!
Yes! Orange is the symbol of Vitamin C, but there is not any Orange Vitamin C in most of those products!
So, How can you determine real Natural products from synthetic ones?

1) Read the Product Ingredients on the label:
Fortunately, FDA and Health Canada have ruled supplements manufacturers to write the ingredients on the product label.
Label is what you need to find out the products source.
If you found ingredients as follows, then be sure that the product is a Synthetic Vitamin C supplements:

Vitamin C
Vitamin C (as Ascorbic acid)
Vitamin C (as Sodium ascorbate)
Vitamin C (as Calcium ascorbate)
and any other ascorbate salts

But on the label of Natural Vitamin C supplements you will find the following ingredients:

Vitamin C from Acerola
Vitamin C from berries
Vitamin C from Camu camu
Vitamin C from Rose hip
and Vitamin C from other natural sources. 

Some manufacturers use a mixture of Natural and Synthetic Vitamin C, and you can see both of the Vitamin C sources on the label. For example, a Vitamin C supplement with Rose hip, means that it is made of synthetic Vitamin C plus a small percentage of Rose hip as a natural source of Vitamin C!

Be advised: Natural Vitamin C supplements should provide you with 100% natural Vitamin C, not a mix!
2) Vitamin C content:
You may think that the Vitamin C content of Natural Vitamin C supplements should be more than synthetic ones, but it is not correct!
The Vitamin C content of Natural supplements is Less than synthetic Vitamin C products! Because the Vitamin C content of natural sources is low. The highest content of Vitamin C in the nature is for Camu camu (2800 mg/100 g) and Acerola (1680 mg/100 g) in comparison with Orange (53 mg/ 100 g).
Regarding to the limitation of the size of the capsules, the maximum Vitamin C content in a 100% natural supplement is about 180 mg (NOAH Vitamin C).
But, in the case of synthetic Vitamin C, the purity of Vitamin C is about 99%! It means that each capsule could contain more than 500 mg of Vitamin C.

So, If there was high amounts (250 mg, 500 mg, 1000 mg, ...) of Vitamin C in each capsule or sachet, it means that the main part of that product is made of Synthetic Vitamin C!

3) Price!  
Right guess! The price of Natural Vitamin C is too much more than synthetic Vitamin C!
The price of a synthetic, made in China Vitamin C with a purity of 99% is about 3 $ per kilogram (0.3 cent/1000 mg)! In the other hand, the price of the natural sources of Vitamin C (25%) is about 85$ per kilogram (8.5 cents/1000 mg). It means that the price of Natural Vitamin C is 100 times more expensive than synthetic Vitamin C (with the same purity).
And so, the price of Natural Vitamin C supplements is higher than synthetic supplements.




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