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Curcumin: the natural anti-inflammatory
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Curcumin: the natural anti-inflammatory

Chronic inflammation is the number one enemy to which a great deal of medical research is concentrated. In fact, numerous evidences have shown that the persistence of a chronic inflammatory process triggers a sort of domino effect, caused by the overactivation of the immune system. The result of this chain reaction is tissue aggression, which can have dramatic consequences, such as the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque or the development of genetic mutations

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Apple vinegar

Generality Apple cider vinegar (in English Apple Cider Vinegar - ACV), otherwise known as cider vinegar, is a food vinegar made from cider or apple must. Apple vinegar has a medium to pale amber color. The unpasteurized or raw one contains the so-called "mother of vinegar", which is a filamentous sediment made up of a real bacterial colony
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Edible Algae - Algae Supplements

Generality There are many edible varieties of algae and, in some ways, they have sufficiently common nutritional characteristics (with the due differences linked to the specific case). Edible algae come from the waters of the whole world and, according to the local culinary tradition, can be eaten raw, cooked or processed; these products are even object of conservation, marketing and food export of great economic value
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Edible Algae - Supplements

Euchema algae : Latin name Eucheuma , is one of the most commonly used RED edible algae to obtain carrageenan ; the most widespread species are spinosum and cottonii , which grow in Indonesia, although they are currently widely cultivated also in other areas of the planet. Algae Fucus : Latin name Fucus , is an edible BRUNA alga of the Atlantic ocean, rich in fucoxanthin pigment
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Natural anti-inflammatories

Inflammation and anti-inflammatories Inflammation is a process of defense of the organism, aimed at hindering the agents responsible for a lesion (pathogens, toxins, burns, traumas, etc.), starting in parallel with a reparative process. Inflammation is recognizable by the onset of 5 phenomena: redness, increased temperature, pain, swelling and reduced function
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Raw Green Coffee and Gastritis

Introduction Despite the roasted black coffee, some food professionals claim that the raw green coffee drink can also be consumed by subjects with mild gastric mucosa disorders. This statement, which in my opinion is absolutely debatable, is justified by the different chemical composition of the raw green coffee powder compared to the same obtained from the previously roasted seeds
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Raw Green Coffee: Does it Lose Weight?

What is that From the raw green coffee, a completely different drink is obtained, after grinding and infusion than roasted coffee. Raw green coffee, which has not undergone any roasting process, is distinguished from the classic one by: appearance, aroma, flavor and nutritional characteristics; the only common property between roasted coffee and raw green coffee is the presence of caffeine
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Crop and fraud of raw green coffee

The drink obtained from raw green coffee (Green Coffee - Café - Kaffee) is a real nervine characterized by the contribution of a stimulating molecule (in its various forms, both free and tied) called caffeine or, in chemistry, 1, 3, 7-trimethylxanthine - methylxanthines family. Crop of raw green coffee Raw green coffee is obtained by infusing the seeds (contained in the drupes) ground and unroasted with Coffea ( C.
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phycocyanins

What are The phycocyanins (blue in color), together with the phycoerythrin (red), constitute the phycobilines , or photosynthetic pigments responsible for the absorption of light, typical of cyanobacteria (or blue algae). These photoautotrophic organisms (capable of producing glucose through the absorption of solar rays) are among the oldest forms of life on the planet, for which they have contributed to changing the aquatic and subaerial atmosphere by releasing oxygen
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Supplements for anxiety

Supplements for anxiety are over-the-counter products that do not require the prescription of the attending physician or specialist (although this does not mean that they are ineffective or without contraindications); supplements for anxiety are mainly of the herbalist type, therefore based on medicinal plants or their extracts: fresh or dried leaves for herbal teas, dry extract in capsules, tablets, drops, mother tinctures etc
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Sexual supplements

Sexual supplements are useful products to correct some dysfunctions or discomforts typical of the affective-sexual sphere of men and women. Sex supplements are NOT drugs! These are molecules, or sets of active ingredients, useful to compensate for a "physical deficiency" ... or simply to convince the consumer that they are able to do it
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