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Product Code: NHP-376-5620120 capsMaintain the integrity of your gastrointestinal tract
GI Cell Support helps maintain the integrity of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract with ingredients that nourish and soothe intestinal cells, reduce inflammation, and repair and maintain the mucosal barrier. Your body?s intestinal tract is a highly selective barrier that allows for proper absorption of nutrients while rejecting bacteria, toxins and other pathogens. Many chronic health conditions can be traced to a breakdown in this barrier system.
Diagnosed GI health conditions are just that, confirmation of disease being present. This amounts to finally there is officially enough symptoms and a confirmatory diagnostic test to document either anatomical or functional dysfunction. However, it can take tens of thousands if not millions of cells to be sufficiently damaged prior to having the ability to perceive there is a problem. Proactive GI health care is of paramount importance in the endeavor to minimize the risk of becoming one of the 6 million diagnostic and therapeutic in-patient hospitalization procedures conducted annually or one of the approximately 45 million outpatient visits. This has a dramatic impact on quality of life with 1.9 million people disabled due to GI disease.
Glutamine:
Glutamine is the most abundant free amino acid in the body. Though it is classified as a non-essential amino acid, glutamine is absolutely essential for maintaining intestinal structure. Glutamine serves as metabolic fuel for enterocytes that line the colon and affect cell proliferation. The GI tract has the largest demand for glutamine in the body. Insufficient glutamine can present with atrophy, ulceration, and necrosis of the colon lining.
DGL:
Most of the research on deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL) has been focused on upper GI health, including ulcer healing. Colon health is directly dependent upon the proper functioning of the entire GI tract. DGL seems to be similar to carbenoxolone, a semisynthetic derivative of glycyrrhetic acid used outside the US for treating gastric and duodenal ulcer disease. DGL utility is not limited to upper GI health, in the clinical setting it has demonstrated great utility in lessening intestinal irritation and related symptoms.
N-Acetyl-Glucosamine:
N-acetyl glucosamine is the acetylated derivative of the amino sugar glucosamine. In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), N-acetylation of glucosamine is relatively deficient, possibly reducing the synthesis of the gastric and intestinal mucosa?s protective glycoprotein cover.
Marshmallow:
Marshmallow leaf and root contain mucilage polysaccharides that soothe and protect mucous membranes from local irritation by creating a protective layer. The mucilage properties can also have antimicrobial, spasmolytic, and wound-healing effects.
Berberine:
Maintaining healthy GI flora is essential. Berberine possesses antimicrobial effects including antibacterial, antifungal, antimycobacterial and antiprotozoal activity. Berberine has demonstrated activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Eschericha coli, Shigella boydii, Vibrio cholerae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporum gypseum, Cryptococcus neoformans, Sporotrichum schenkii, Entamoeba histolytica, and Giardia lamblia.
Berberine also helps control inflammation in the GI tract by selectively inhibiting cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 expression and blocking the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 (IL1)-beta and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha as well as nuclear factor-kappaB, the transcription factor responsible for regulation of cytokine production.
Cabbage:
Historically called vitamin U, cabbage does not meet the official criteria to achieve vitamin status. However, cabbage constituents offer significant protection to the GI tract and thus the body in general. Individuals who consume large amounts of cabbage and other Brassica vegetables have a lo