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27.04.2012 |
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Survive the flu season with Aged Garlic Extract
Are those around you dropping like flies with the flu or an ordinary cold? But you of course can't afford to take to spend days in bed. A human study that nutritionists at the University of Florida are about to publish in Clinical Nutrition suggests that an Aged Garlic supplement can boost your immune system.
The subjects started taking the supplement in February and stopped in May. In the US this is the main flu and colds season.
The supplement boosted the concentration of S-allyl-L-cysteine in the blood. The glutathione concentration rose in the immune cells in the blood [Lymphocyte GSH levels]. Glutathione helps enzymes in detoxification processes and makes cells fitter.
The higher concentration of glutathione in the immune cells may have stimulated their development. Active adult immune cells in the innate immune system – the natural killer cells that are the body's first line of defence against pathogens – have more receptors for tracking down intruders than do young and not yet active immune cells. The more receptors, the higher their proliferation index as it's called. The researchers discovered that the Aged Garlic supplement put the killer cells on red alert. The cells developed more receptors.
Supplementation with Aged Garlic didn't prevent the subjects from becoming ill. But the people who took the supplement were sick for less than half the days that the control group were, and their symptoms were less severe.
The Aged Garlic supplement used was from Wakanuga in Japan. [wakunaga.co.jp] Wakanuga funded the research.
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