Update from the front lines in food therapy. I just completed a testing protocol for a client who grows, wild harvests, and processes sustainable Amazonian camu-camu. It was deeply gratifying. Why? Because we were able to examine a promising anti-aging natural product through three critical stages of analytical testing:
- First, characterization validates camu-camu’s exceptional vitamin C content – more than 20 times that of oranges)
- Second, broad-spectrum antioxidant testing using Brunswick Labs’ next generation Total ORAC – superb performance against all 5 radicals
- Third, significant performance in a quartet of cell-based efficacy tests – oxidation, inflammation, general aging, and UVA/UVB
This protocol exemplifies the kind of continuity – from harvest to health benefit – that we can now expect to see from premier natural products. And what it shows is the powerful therapeutic effects that ethnobotanists have long proclaimed and new commercial tests confirm!
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