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Pycnogenol keeps skin young
The supplement Pycnogenol rejuvenates the skin. Researchers at the German Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine came to this conclusion after performing a small study in which twenty women participated. According to the Germans, Pycnogenol activates genes that prompt skin cells to make collagen and hyaluronic acid.
Pycnogenol
If you give Pycnogenol to diabetics with wounds it speeds up the healing process. [Clin Appl Thromb Hemost. 2006 Jul;12(3):318-23.] Diabetes delays wound healing, probably because the blood supply to skin cells is worse in diabetics. The same is the case for some cardiovascular diseases, and in these Pycnogenol also speeds up wound healing. [Angiology. 2005 Nov-Dec;56(6):699-705.] Animal studies have also shown that gel containing Pycnogenol helps the process of wound healing and also reduces the formation of scar tissue. [Phytother Res. 2004 Jul;18(7):579-81.] It looks as though Pycnogenol improves the blood supply to the skin cells.
Study
Results
In skin cells Pycnogenol boosted the activity of the genes HAS-1, COL 1A1 and COL 1A2. HAS-1 is involved in the production of hyaluronic acid; the other two genes are involved in the production of collagen. The effect on COL 1A1 and COL 1A2 was not statistically significant, but the researchers put that down to the small size of their experimental group.
Conclusion
"In addition, we provide some evidence that collagen de novo synthesis may be stimulated. The latter observation should prompt further studies to more closely evaluate the potential of Pycnogenol supplementation to counteract human skin aging."
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