By NuLiv Science
By NuLiv Science
AstraGin® by NuLiv Science
AstraGin® comes from two plants. It's been around for almost 20 years, and it's already in a lot of the products in your kitchen or gym bag: energy drinks, protein powders, pre-workouts, vitamins.
Why do brands add it? Because most of what you eat doesn't actually make it into your body. You eat something healthy, and a big chunk of it just passes through. AstraGin® helps your body absorb more of it. Same food. More benefit.
Everything you eat has to get past your gut before your body can use it. Picture a security checkpoint.
The good stuff gets waved through. The rest gets turned away.
Now picture that checkpoint worn down and not working at its best. Even the good stuff can get stuck outside. That can happen even when you are eating well.
It supports a healthy gut lining. That lining is your barrier. It helps keep what belongs out, out.
When the lining is doing its job, more of the nutrients you eat actually make it in, instead of passing right through.
Your gut is packed with bacteria. Some help you. Some don't. The balance between them shapes your digestion, your energy, a lot more than people realize.
Over a 3-month human study, people taking AstraGin® saw their good bacteria climb. That's the whole story; AstraGin® shifts your microbiome toward the bacteria you want more of.
Over 3 months, in a human study.
Change in three beneficial gut bacteria after 3 months, with AstraGin® versus without, in a human study.
Common energy-drink ingredients, better absorbed.
Uptake of choline, carnitine, and taurine in an intestinal cell model (preclinical research), with AstraGin® versus without.
How well the gut lining holds together.
In a 4-week human study, zonulin (a marker of how well the gut lining seals) dropped further with AstraGin®. Lower zonulin supports the natural integrity of the intestinal lining.
Vitamins, protein, creatine, plant compounds like curcumin (the stuff in turmeric) only help you if your body actually absorbs them. Otherwise you paid for it and your body never got the memo. AstraGin® helps close that gap.
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