Not all astaxanthin supplements are effective. MicroActive technology ensures that your astaxanthin supplement is better absorbed to support brain health.
Getting older definitely has its benefits. More time and less stress to enjoy friends, family, and the life you’ve worked long and hard to create. To enjoy every bit of it for as long as possible, it’s important to keep your brain healthy. Many people don’t consider that the brain ages right along with the body. Chronic inflammation is at the root of most age-related diseases that affect the brain, which can range from memory problems or slower time to process information, to more serious neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.
Taking an antioxidant supplement can help to fight inflammation, but only if it’s well absorbed. Unfortunately, many of the leading brands aren’t as effective as you may think, because your body can’t absorb them.
Supplements are only effective if they are bioavailable, which means that they must travel into your small intestine, be absorbed into your bloodstream, and remain in the body long enough to pass into the cells where they’re needed. Not all supplements are able to make it into the brain, because most can’t even make it into the bloodstream.
Astaxanthin, brain health, and bioavailability
Astaxanthin is a natural antioxidant compound that comes from the sea. It’s the pink-red pigment that gives certain fish and shellfish, like salmon, red trout, and shrimp their color, and it’s considered nature’s most powerful antioxidant. It’s more effective at preventing cell damage from oxidation, than all other antioxidants.
Astaxanthin can help fight inflammation throughout the body. More importantly it’s one of the few antioxidants that can cross into the brain, so it provides superior protection for cognitive health. Research studies show that astaxanthin can support memory and other forms of cognitive function, and it may also help to reduce the risk or slow the development of dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
The problem with consuming astaxanthin as a supplement, is that it has poor bioavailability, no matter how much you take. Most astaxanthin supplements are not well absorbed, and end up getting eliminated from your body, so they don’t really do any good. To understand why this happens, it’s important to know how the main parts of the digestive system – the stomach and small intestine work.
What’s going on it there?
The digestive system is the foundation of your health and the gatekeeper that allows nutrients to be released throughout the body. It’s a remarkable 30 feet of dark and mysterious, slow-moving parts that are constantly working. Fluids, chemicals and muscle contractions in the stomach and small intestine break down or digest everything you eat and drink into tiny particles. Every part of your gastrointestinal system works in concert, controlled by hormones and nerves, with millions of chemical and physical reactions occurring every second.
After it’s digested into its simplest forms, the food that you eat is transformed into nutrients, like glucose from carbohydrates, amino acids from proteins, and fatty acids from fat in the small intestine. Nutrients also include vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and the many other compounds needed to maintain health and run the complex machine that is your body.
The small intestine contains millions of tiny finger-like projections called villi. They provide an incredible 2700 square feet of surface area over which nutrients are absorbed and then pass into the bloodstream. From there, they’re carried to each cell in your body. Some nutrients, especially glucose and amino acids, can be absorbed from the small intestine into the bloodstream easily. Fats, and other compounds that don’t mix well with water, require some extra help to be carried across the border of the small intestine. Anything that isn’t able to be absorbed gets passed on to your large intestine and eliminated from your body.
Astaxanthin is one of the compounds that needs some extra help to get into your bloodstream. Astaxanthin is fat soluble, which means it dissolves in fat, not water. Because there’s so much water in the small intestine, regular astaxanthin powder won’t dissolve, so it’s not able to be absorbed. Regular astaxanathin preparations that contain oil can have better, but still limited absorption.
The MicroActive Difference
MicroActive technology uses two processes to help improve the bioavailability of astaxanthin. First, it’s micronized, and the active ingredient is broken into very tiny micro-particles which can more easily be absorbed. Next, a portion of the micro particles are encapsulated in a special coating designed to help astaxanthin release over time.
When MicroActive astaxanthin is ingested, the uncoated particles provide a burst of the active ingredient, followed by a slower release of the remaining coated active ingredient. Because of this patented technology, the small intestine has two opportunities and ample time to absorb the supplement and significantly less is eliminated. This two stage process also helps address any absorption variations between individuals, so everyone can be assured of the same, uniform absorption.
In research studies that compare MicroActive astaxanthin to the leading brand of astaxanthin in oil, all subjects who took the MicroActive formulation absorbed it better, and had nearly 4 times as much of the active ingredient in their system. In addition, all subjects experienced better sustained release, with significantly more of the MicroActive astaxanthin remaining in their system for a full 24 hours.
When more astaxanthin is absorbed and in your system for a longer period of time, more of the active ingredient is able to cross into your brain to protect it. You deserve to enjoy every minute of the wonderful life you’ve created, so don’t risk your brain health by taking an antioxidant that’s ineffective. Make proven MicroActive astaxanthin a part of your health routine. It’s the most effective insurance policy you can find for your brain.