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Lutein Has a Role to Play in Eye Health
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Lutein is an organic yellow pigment, technically known as a carotenoid vitamin and related to beta carotene, synthesized by plants and thus stored in the fat of herbivore animals. It gives chicken fat its colour, for instance. The pigment accumulates in the human retina, where it helps protect against the cellular damage caused by the sun's radiation, specifically the free radicals created by the ultraviolet wavelength that produces the colour blue. Lutein absorbs the light from that portion of the spectrum. Lutein is particularly concentrated, due to selective filtered accumulation from plasma, in the macula, the retinal area dedicated to...
5HTP Effectiveness on Anxiety and Depression
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5HTP is a naturally occurring chemical byproduct of a protein building block called L-trypotophan. This substance is also commercial produced using the seeds of an African plant called Griffonia Simplicifolia, whose seeds have 20% naturally occurring 5HTP. The difference in the commercial produced and the kind naturally occurring in our bodies, is that the ones coming from these seeds is smaller. This smaller size is the main factor behind why it works so well in the human population. Since the 5HTP molecules in the seeds are smaller, they are able to pass what is known as the blood-brain...