Seniors
How a proactive approach to health that includes astaxanthin can help support mobility, vision, cardiovascular health, and cognitive function.
Meeting the Body’s Changing Needs
The nutritional needs of our body change as we age, calling for our habits to evolve so we can continue a path of personal growth, movement, and better quality of life. The challenges that our bodies face with aging can be described as a progressive loss in biological efficiency and resilience. We produce just as many, or more free radicals daily, but our body’s antioxidant internal defense is diminished. We try to keep active and maintain muscle, but our body responds less to exercise than it used to and recovers more slowly. The balance has shifted towards more biological stress, and we need to expand our healthcare toolkit in order maintain and promote good health.
Astaxanthin can be a powerful tool in that toolkit, given its powerful antioxidant activity, its capacity to modulate markers of inflammation in clinical studies, its ability to promote nourishing blood flow, and its presence in energy-producing mitochondria.
Dietary Sources of Astaxanthin
Natural astaxanthin is an antioxidant found in red colored seafoods, especially in wild salmon. It’s a member of a family of colorful pigments found in foods, like beta-carotene from carrots and lutein in leafy greens. As an antioxidant, it is one of nature’s most powerful – even among carotenoids. Because astaxanthin is scarce in our diet, supplementation with AstaReal® Astaxanthin from algae provides a vegetarian and vegan friendly solution to the gap of astaxanthin in our diet.
The Clinically-Studied Healthy Aging Benefits of Astaxanthin
AstaReal® Astaxanthin has been studied in over 80 human clinical trials, with positive outcomes related to healthy aging, including support for antioxidant capacity, healthy inflammation response, cognitive function, mobility, cardiovascular health, skin health, visual function and eye strain, and immune health.
Mobility
AstaReal® Astaxanthin supports muscle strength, mass, and quality, and boosts the effects of functional training in the elderly. AstaReal® Astaxanthin together with functional exercise, produced better results than exercise alone this sarcopenia study – giving people a better chance to stay more mobile, healthier, and living independently for longer.
Cognition
The brain contains more than 100 billion neurons. To keep those neurons firing, the brain needs healthy blood flow for a steady supply of oxygen and constant nourishment. As we age into our 50s, cognitive functions are challenged by reduced blood flow, increased free radical production, and reduced antioxidant capacity. Chronic inflammation triggers neuroinflammation, which impacts neuron health and cognitive function if left unresolved.
Cardiovascular Health
A healthy cardiovascular system means better nourishment and oxygenation for the whole body. Clinical evidence showed that AstaReal® Astaxanthin promoted good blood flow, blood vessel health, and capillary circulation.
Vision
Visual focus is mediated by changes in the shape of the lens at the front of the eye. The lens shape is controlled by muscles framing the lens, called ciliary muscles. Astaxanthin helps support dynamic focus, promotes nourishing blood flow to the back of the eye, and helps ocular comfort during digital device use.
Skin Health
Our skin is the largest and the most visible organ of the body. AstaReal® Astaxanthin is a beauty from within supplement that reaches all skin layers throughout the body, helping to support skin hydration, elasticity, and smoothness.