Astaxanthin is a carotenoid, a chemical found naturally in certain plants and animals, that has antioxidant properties more powerful than many other natural supplements.
Often found in seafood, with salmon having a higher level of the supplement than any other, astaxanthin is responsible for the reddish colour of these foods.
Astaxanthin has become a popular supplement in recent years due to its significant health benefits.
In fact, some studies have shown that taking in on a daily basis can vastly improve your health and reduce your risk of certain conditions, like Alzheimer’s, over time.
Today, we’re going to discuss the benefits to your health that are directly improved by taking astaxanthin on a daily basis.
1. Improves Heart Health
One of the biggest benefits of astaxanthin is that it can provide significant support for the cardiovascular system, specifically the heart, in a few different ways.
The first way it does this is by reducing LDL cholesterol, the bad cholesterol that clogs up arteries and can lead to cardiac arrests, and increasing HDL cholesterol, the good cholesterol. It also increases adiponectin, a protein hormone produced by fat cells that enhances your cells response to insulin.
The antioxidant can also help to prevent liquid oxidation in blood vessels, as well as delaying and reducing blood clotting in the blood vessels, which will increase blood flow over time.
2. Helps The Body’s Immune Response
Are you someone who feels like they’re constantly ill, or are looking for a little extra boost to make sure you remain healthy all year around?
If so, antioxidant astaxanthin may be able to help you. With properties that enhance antibody production and decrease immune response, your body will find it easier to fight off illnesses.
This means that, even when you do get unwell, you’ll be feeling the effects for far less time than someone who hasn’t used astaxanthin as part of their daily routine.
3. Delays The Process Of Ageing Skin
At some point, everyone will have to accept that their skin is ageing, with fine lines, wrinkles, and ageing spots becoming more noticeable.
What you may not know is that exposure to the UV rays from the sun damages our skin, leading to our skin ageing prematurely as it reduces the skin thickening and collagen reduction properties.
Using astaxanthin can reduce the amount of damage you do by going out in the sun. It’s recommended that you use this alongside sun cream for the best results.
4. Reduces Cancer Risk
HealthcareWeekly reports that astaxanthin has been shown to reduce your risk of cancer in some early animal studies.
In one rat-based study, it was found that astaxanthin activates the anti-cancer immune systems. It can also prevent or reduce the amount of tumour cells that grow once cancer has already been established.
It’s thought that the effect will be similar on humans with certain types of cancer, though which ones it will protect against are not yet known.
Even despite this, however, it’s worth giving a go to potentially protect yourself against some kind of cancer in the future, even if it isn’t every single one.
5. Decreases Exercise Fatigue
If you’re looking for a way to continue exercising for longer, or increasing your stamina in the long term, astaxanthin could be the supplement you were looking for.
With antioxidant properties that prevent the mitochondria from experiencing oxidative stress for longer, you will find you have more energy, thus reducing the fatigue you feel from exercise.
It’s likely that you will see the most benefits from this when you are engaging in longer forms of exercise, like the 800m, rather than a sprint.
6. May Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease remains a medical mystery when it comes to causes, treatments and management. It’s a condition that has no current cure, and can deteriorate the quality of lives of patients extremely quickly.
While astaxanthin definitely isn’t a cure, promising studies have shown that astaxanthin may protect those at high risks of developing the condition, reducing someone’s risk over time.
Therefore, if you are at high risk of the condition, taking this more regularly could delay the age at which you develop the condition, or could mean you don’t develop it at all. Many scientists have reported taking both astaxanthin and CBD oil if you’re at risk of developing Alzheimer’s.
7. Reduces Inflammation
Despite being a natural supplement, astaxanthin is so powerful that it can work in the same way as some analgesics to reduce inflammation, without the risk of addition, GI bleeds or heartburn for patients.
It does this by blocking the different chemicals and inflammatory compounds within the body that make your body react the way it does to pain.
Even those who are currently using prescription anti-inflammatory drugs to deal with chronic conditions can see benefits from taking astaxanthin on top, as long as it has been agreed as safe by the doctor handling your case.
8. Manages And Improves Eye Health
Astaxanthin is one of the only antioxidants with the ability to cross through a barrier to reach your retina, helping to manage and improve your eyesight.
Clinical trials have shown that astaxanthin is beneficial for a multitude of different conditions, including diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, eye strain and fatigue. It can also help people to see things in finer detail.
By taking astaxanthin every day, you can maintain your current eye health and avoid wearing glasses into middle-age and perhaps even later.
Conclusion
To reiterate what we said at the start, and what we’re sure you can now see for yourself, astaxanthin is an extremely powerful antioxidant.
The properties from this natural supplement allow us to do many things, including managing our current health in ways that we may not be able to without it.
This includes measures like managing our eye health and protecting them from many scary conditions, or protecting our cardiovascular systems by making certain process more efficient.
More than that, however, taking astaxanthin on a daily basis can help to reduce your risk of suffering from age-related illnesses that affect our current population at worrying rates, including Alzheimer’s and certain cancers.
This news piece comes from Julian Gnatenco @ JGBilling
