WHY DO YOU NEED SUPPLEMENTS – FOOD, DIETARY OR FUNCTIONAL FOODS

HYPOTHESIS

  1. IF YOU EVER NEED ANY OF THE ABOVE, IT IS OBVIOUS THAT YOU ARE NOT TAKING SUFFICIENT POLYPHENOLS
  2. WHAT ARE POLYPHENOLS:

Polyphenols are a large family of naturally occurring organic compounds characterized by multiples of phenol units. They are abundant in plants and structurally diverse. Polyphenols include flavonoids, tannic acid, and ellagitannin, some of which have been used historically as dyes and for tanning garments.

 

For more details about Polyphenols see the link below:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/polyphenols

  1. See the list of 100 plants with highest polyphenols:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ejcn2010221.pdf?origin=ppub

 

  1. THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF POLYPHENOLS:
  • ANTIOXIDANT
  • ANTI-INFLAMMATORY
  • IMMUNO-MODULATORY
  1. ALL DIETARY, FOOD SUPLEMENTS, FUNCTIONAL FOODS FORMULATED TO ADDRESS ONE OR MORE OR ALL OF THE ABOVE
  2. THEY ALL HAVE POLYPHENOLS AS THE ENGINE ROOM/POWERHOUSE OBTAINED AS EXTRACTS FROM DIFFERENT POLYPHENOLIC RICH PLANTS LIKE GREEN TEA, BLACK TEA, CURCUMIN , POMEGRANATES, OLIVE OIL, BERRIES, ETC.
  3. IN SOME CASES,THE POWER OF THE SUPPLEMENTS ARE BASED ON THE ANTI-OXIDANT RATING.

POLYPHENOL EXTRACTS IN DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS  VS. POLYPHENOL FOODS CONSUMPTION.

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