What Is Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) IV Therapy Treatment?
Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) is an sulfur-containing fatty acid that is naturally present within the body. Lipoic acid stands out in comparison to other antioxidants since it is both water-soluble and fat-soluble.
You can get small amounts lipoic acid from greens like collards and spinach as well as beef, broccoli, and organ meats.
Lipoic acid is depleted in your body as we get older, which is why it's important to supplement your diet with Alpha-Lipoic Acid in order to reach the levels that your body requires to operate optimally and age well.
What Are The Health Benefits Of IV Alpha Lipoic Acid?
Alpha Lipoic Acid has super antioxidant powers when given intravenously. It also regenerates other antioxidants that have been depleted due to the constant battle with free radicals within your cells. It lets you use the your body's supply of antioxidants Vitamin C and E, glutathione, and CoQ10 over and over again.
Alpha-lipoic acid is incredibly effective in what it does, by increasing energy levels of your cells, while also decreasing inflamamation and removing heavy metals and detoxing cells.
In the brain, alpha-lipoic acid increases the production of the neurotransmitter Acetylcholine. In addition, it increases the uptake of glucose within brain cells. Giving you an increase of mental stamina.
Alpha-Lipoic acid is utilized throughout the body. It aids in increasing insulin sensitivity which decreases the risk of developing diabetes mellitus. Furthermore, alpha-lipoic acid lowers the risk of metabolic syndrome, which is a complication of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and weight gain.
As a master antioxidant it combats harmful free radicals and boosts the functionality of the other antioxidants. Athletes commonly use it in supplements to increase their athletic performance, endurance, and strength. It increases brain power, improves the focus of the mind, improves skin, and helps in weight loss or fat reduction. It has been a useful treatment for neuropathy and diabetes also.
Lipoic Acid can also be referred to by the name of Alpha-Lipoic Acid or ALA and Thioctic Acid. Alpha-Lipoic acid is a potent free radical scavenger, as well as a powerful antioxidant that is produced by the body is found in every single cell. One of its key features is that, unlike the majority of antioxidants, it's also water-soluble and fat-soluble. This permits it to guard the entire spectrum of physiological conditions across the entire body.There is little free floating alpha lipoic acid in the bloodstream, which means it is essential to supplemention of it is necessary, especially as we age or develop chronic diseases.
Like other antioxidants Alpha-Lipoic acid is both hydrophilic and lipophilic (fat-soluble as well as water-soluble) Evidence suggests that it can help replenish other antioxidants like Vitamin C. Vitamin E can also increase levels within the cell of glutathione.
Alongside the antioxidant properties and free radical scavenging properties Alpha-Lipoic Acid also has antihyperglycemic, neuroprotective, cytoprotective, anti-inflammatory, as well as anti-viral actions.
Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is a distinctive vitamin-like antioxidant which can combat radiation sickness, treat damaged livers and treat diabetes-related diseases (polyneuropathy) as well as also protect against oxidative processes that cause premature aging and degenerative conditions. ALA is being increasingly known as a "mitochondrial antioxidant" due to its effects within the cell itself. There is now a stronger form of ALA called R-lipoic acid is now available. Research has shown the fact that (R)-lipoic acid has a higher bioactive version of ALA that provides greater antioxidant and neuroprotective properties at significantly lower doses than synthetic versions of lipoic acid that are currently available.
Alpha Lipoic Acid - Water And Fat Soluble Antioxidant
While lipoic acid is made naturally in the human body however, scientists were not aware that it existed until around 1930. When isolated pure samples were first discovered from the late 1950s ALA initially was believed to be a novel vitamin.
Then, researchers found out that ALA is actually an essential coenzyme that plays an essential role for mitochondrial electron transportation reactions that are involved in the conversion of glucose into ATP for energy production.
In 1988, researchers had discovered that ALA is a potent biological antioxidant, one that has distinctive health properties. What really impressed researchers was their discovery that ALA is a fat- and water-soluble antioxidants that easily pass through cell membranes. Therefore, ALA can provide protection against free radicals to both cell structures both in the interior and out.
Regenerating Vitamins E And C With Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA)
Human aging is characterized by a decrease in the concentration as well as the synthesis and recycling of antioxidants including Alpha Lipoic Acid, vitamin E and vitamin C, co-enzyme Q-10 (CoQ10), as well as glutathione. This decline in antioxidant activity severely hampers the body's ability of controlling free radicals.
If left unchecked, free radicals (dangerous non-paired electrons) can proliferate throughout a patient's body. causing damage to organs and cell membranes which can impair immune function. damaging DNA strands, and aiding in the development of cancer as well as other degenerative illnesses.
Recent research has discovered that alpha-lipoic acids recycle Vitamins E as well as C to prevent free radical harm.
One of the key elements of an antioxidant system is vitamin E which is a potent biological antioxidant that can stabilize highly reactive free radicals found in the lipid (fatty) cells and in membranes (lipoproteins).
In mitigating free radicals, Vitamin E is transformed into a radical itself, but one that is less destructive or reactive than the orignal radical it neutralized.
It is believed that the vitamin E radical is transformed via the vitamin C (ascorbic acid). The process recycles vitamin E from a radical to an antioxidant, but creates a brand new free radical that takes the form of vitamin C that is unstable as a semiascorbyl radial.
Vitamin C is then recycled by glutathione which is which is a compound known as a thiol (sulfur-containing chemical). To this point, the vitamins E, C, and glutathione function in tandem to fight free radicals and protect cells from damage.
However, this is also a crucial phase where the antioxidant regeneration cycle becomes limited by glutathione availability in the body.
Alpha Lipoic Acid Raises Intracellular Glutathione Levels
Alpha Lipoic Acid can raise glutathione levels in the intracellular space. ALA is easily absorbed even when taken orally and exponentially better when given as "IV Alpha Lipoic Acid Therapy". Once inside cells, it's rapidly transformed into its most potent form dihydrolipoic acid. This is an even more potent neutralizer of free radicals.
Since both alpha-lipoic acids and dihydrolipoic acids are antioxidants, their actions together give more antioxidant capacity than any other antioxidant known at present.
Alpha Lipoic Acid Clinical Research
Alpha-lipoic acid plays a crucial function in the mitochondria. The energy source of our cells. Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine discovered "Alpha Lipoic Acid increases telomerase length", a key factor in living longer and healthier.
The effects of a variety of chronic illnesses can be traced to telomere shortening. (Telomeres are the caps at the end of every genome's chromosome) and are protective of the DNA, much like the hard cap on the end of a shoelace protects it from fraying.
Alpha-Lipoic Acid is Critical For Cellular Energy
Cellular energy is the reason behind every single activity that takes place within your body. Including in your brain. Cellular energy is needed for muscle movements, creating new cells, wound healing and for thinking.
The mitochondria inside every cell are the energy source. The continuous energy production process is known as the "Krebs Cycle". Alpha-Lipoic acid is an important cofactor in two crucial chemical reactions in the Krebs Cycle.
In the simplest terms, without Alpha Lipoic Acid, producing cellular engery is not possible. Without cellular energy, existence is not possible, so Alpha Lipoic Acid is necessary for us to live. Period.
Any treatment that helps restore healthy telomeres is a huge advantage to fight chronic diseases and for increasing lifespan.
In a different study scientists found that Alpha-Lipoic Acid increased the production of PGC1 alpha. Which helps to increase telomere length (life extending), and it occured with just one day of treatment.
How Does Alpha-Lipoic Acid Work In The Brain?
Alpha-Lipoic acid improves brain functioning and health in many ways, here are two areas that are key.
Alpha-Lipoic Acid increases acetylcholine levels, one of the neurotransmitters that are linked to memory and brain function.
- ALA enhances the production of acetylcholine through activation of choline acetyltransferase , which boosts glucose absorption. This process provides more Acetyl-CoA for the production of acetylcholine.
2. Alpha Lipoic Acid could be a powerful tool to fight neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and Dementia.
Oxidative stress plays an important role in cognitive disorders as neurons are extremely susceptible to damage caused by free radicals.
A recent study revealed that the use of alpha lipoic acid may aid in slowing down the progression of Alzheimer's Disease. A field where thepharmaceutical companies have yet to come up with a sufficient treatment.
The study involved 43 people suffering from dementia, where they were treated with 600 mg of Alpha-Lipoic acid every day for four years. Researchers concluded that Alpha Lipoic Acid for Alzheimer's may have a neuroprotective effect and be a therapeutic treatment option, though more research is needed.
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