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Hyaluronic Acid
For Skin and Joints
Key Benefits of Supplementation:
- Hyaluronic acid is an Internal cosmetic to hydrate (moisturize) the skin with proven absorption and bioavaibility.
Hyaluronic acid moisturizes the skin from the inside out.
- Hyaluronic acid is for men and women in their 30s and 40s who are just beginning to "feel their age."
- Hyaluronic acid is for people who need to ease the flexing of their joints, especially their knees, by moisturizing: their joints.
- Hyaluronic acid is for seniors who have established joint conditions.
Basic Function of Hyaluronic Acid
As Hyaluronic Acid is present in every tissue of the body; hyaluronic acid's importance
cannot be underestimated. Retention of water is one of the most important biological
functions of hyaluronic acid, second only to providing nutrients and removing waste
from cells that do not have a direct blood supply, such as cartliage cells. With a lower
than adequate amount of hyaluronic acid, nutrients cannot be moved into these cells
and waste cannot be eliminated from cells. Hyaluronic acid is sometimes abbreviated
as HA.
Hyaluronic acid is found in the synovial joint fluid, the viterous humor of the eye, the cartilage,
blood vessels, extracellular matrix, skin and the umbilical cord.
Hyaluronic Acid in the skin
In the skin, the extracellular matrix is composed of hyaluronic acid and other sulfated
GAGs, combined with collagen and alastin. Large amounts of water are held in the
ECM. When elastin is not bathed in water, it becomes dry and brittle, thus the look of
dry, brittle. wrinkled skin.
Half-life is defined as the time required for half of the total amount of a particular
substance to be consumed, broken down, or depleted. The half-life of hyaluronic acid in
the cartilage is 2-3 week, But the half-life of hyaluronic acid in in the skin less than
1 day! Hyaluronic acid is present in both the dermis and the epidermis. 50% of the body's
naturally produced hyaluronic acid that is found in the epidermis is metabolized and excreted
in less than 24 hours. Like hyaluronic acid produced in the body, hyaluronic acid taken as
a nutritional supplement moistures from the dermis to the epidermis -from deeper layers of
skin to the outer layer.
The extracellular matrix fills up the spaces between the skin cells. This makes the skin soft,
smooth and elastic. But as we age, hyaluronic content In the skin changes due to two separate
clinically proven factors
1. There is a decrease in synthesis of hyaluronic acid.
2. Recompartmentalization-from epidermis to the dermis. Both changes leave the epidermis depleted
in hyaluronic acid resulting in thinning, aging and decreased moisture in the skin.
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Hyaluronic Acid
$21.50
60 capsules
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