Report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee For International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)
Key ways it appears to mimic or amplify natural gastrointestinal and tissue repair mechanisms observed in animal studies: Strongly upregulates angiogenesis through multiple pathways (VEGF, EGR-1, FAK-paxillin) in injured tissues, similar to the bodys own response during normal wound healing and tendon/ligament repair
Another theory suggests that the intellectual impairment is caused by the accumulation of phenylalanine in the brain, which becomes a major donor of amino groups in aminotransferase activity and depletes neural tissue of 2-oxoglutarate (-ketoglutarate)
Inhibition of concanavalin A-induced hepatic injury of mice by bacterial lipopolysaccharide via the induction of IL-6 and the subsequent reduction of IL-4: the cytokine milieu of concanavalin A hepatitis
Once it gets into your skin, enzymes cut off that fatty acid tail and boom, youve got active glutathione doing its thing
One study 25 found that taking vitex helped drop prolactin levels and restore normal progesterone levels