Curcumin

• The clinical study met both primary endpoints:
  Change from baseline at day 56 in ocular symptoms measured by OSDI score.
• The study also met secondary endpoints, showing statistically significant improvements in tear-film break-up time (TBUT), osmolarity, ocular surface health and presence of an inflammatory marker.
• “More than 150 million people experience dry eyes in the U.S.,” said Yehia Hashad, M.D., executive vice president, Research & Development and chief medical officer, Bausch + Lomb.
• “This could represent a significant opportunity for consumers looking for options when it comes to long-lasting dry eye symptom relief.”

• The Spanish Health Brand's CURARTI COLAGTIUM Brings Together a Unique Combination of Natural Ingredients That Effectively Support Joint Health.
• FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Joint health is a common concern among multiple demographics.
• That is why PLAMECA's unique and natural joint health solution, CURARTI COLAGTIUM , is turning heads — including in America, where the Barcelona-based health and wellness brand recently expanded its product offerings.
• "CURARTI COLAGTIUM is an ideal way to address the prevention and treatment of joint discomfort in adults," explains Óscar Fernández, managing director of PLAMECA.

• There has been an explosion in nutritional supplements that promise a
  superior product because they contain nanoparticles called liposomes.
• But there’s a lot of misleading information and outright myths about these being shared online, so it’s important to understand how liposomes work before you spend money on an expensive new food supplement.
• Liposomes can fuse together to form a similar structure to human cell membranes while retaining a liquid core.

Pharmaceutical vs food supplement liposomes

• This means food supplement companies are having to work harder to convince people their products can overcome this problem.
• It may seem logical that if liposomes work well for medicines, they could help your body absorb vitamins and other supplements too.
• In the food supplement industry, there are a multitude of products on the market that are of poor quality or downright fake.
• In contrast, the liposomes used in food supplements are often the most basic, delicate type.

Do liposomes enhance oral absorption?

• There are conflicting reports about whether liposomes enhance gastrointestinal absorption.
• Food supplement liposomes may enhance absorption by improving the ability of the nutrients they contain to fuse with other substances in your food.
• The same goes for claims that conventional liposomes are absorbed into your bloodstream and remain intact.

Can liposomes be used with any type of nutrient?

• Even in pharmaceutical research, where more advanced techniques are used, some drug molecules are difficult to fit inside liposomes.
• Furthermore, liposomes are not an impervious plastic bag, but more akin to a cotton bag through which water can pass.
• This means if you take a dose, only 10% of it will consist of the drug molecules encapsulated in liposomes.
• While it might be possible to see larger liposomes using a quality light microscope, the smaller and more effective liposomes are measured in nanometres.

• They outline the clinical rationale for a proposed three-pronged regimen aimed at degrading or countering the COVID spike protein, which likely drives adverse events through immunologic and thrombotic mechanisms.
• Nattokinase, a naturally occurring enzyme found in natto cheese, can cleave the spike protein, and it also inhibits blood clotting.
• It has been shown to modulate the body’s production of proinflammatory or anti-inflammatory compounds, and to have an anticoagulant effect.
• Mechanistic studies suggest it may have antiviral activity against multiple viruses, and may inhibit cell entry of SARS-CoV-2 by blocking spike protein binding sites.