2014/04/29

Where Does Xylitol Comes From?


Xylitol is begin broadly in nature, a lot of of the fruits and vegetables that we eat on a circadian base accept baby amounts of xylitol. For bartering purposes xylitol comes from two sources: corncobs or trees. Even admitting the end consistent artefact is the same, the action to abstract it from these two sources is not.
Corncobs are our adopted antecedent for xylitol, it is abundant added acceptable and environmentally friendly. Corncobs are a renewable ability and are commonly decay at the end of the season. Application corncobs that yield 5 months to abound as a antecedent for xylitol is abundant added acceptable than application copse that yield 20 years to abound as a antecedent for xylitol.
There are a amount of xylitol assembly accessories about the world, but a lot of of them are in China. In China a lot of blah is harvested by duke and so at the autumn there are big bags of corncobs that charge to be disposed of. To get rid of this they body xylitol assembly facilities. One would anticipate that we would accept an glut of corncobs actuality in America with all the blah we grow, but aback we autumn with accouterment the cobs are befuddled aback out into the acreage and not collected.
Dupont Chemical is the alone aggregation that makes xylitol from wood. If you are purchasing xylitol that claims to be fabricated from balk you are affairs xylitol from Dupont Chemical. They accept assembly accessories in China, North America and Europe.
Again we wish to accent that xylitol extracted from copse is the aforementioned as the aforementioned as from the added sources, xylitol from copse is the aforementioned as that extracted from corn. The alone acumen we anticipate blah sourced xylitol is bigger is because it is abundant added sustainable. 

2014/04/24

What is the evidence of Pine bark extract?


There are not abundant abstracts from analytic trials to abutment a lot of of the bloom claims fabricated for any anatomy of ache case extract, although absorption in proanthocyanidins a part of medical advisers is growing. There are letters from baby animal studies that Pine bark extract may be accessible in alleviative apportionment disorders. One analytic balloon began in August 2003 to acquisition out whether pycnogenol helps abate lymphedema (swelling from aqueous buildup, which can action afterwards procedures in which lymph nodes are affected) afterwards analysis for breast cancer. This abstraction was still recruiting patients as of aboriginal 2007.
A baby animal abstraction begin that a individual top dosage of Pine bark extract in the anatomy of a bioflavonoid admixture was able in abbreviation platelet clumping in smokers for added than three days, which would be accepted to abate claret clotting. This may beggarly that Pine bark extract could lower accident for achievement or affection attack, but analytic studies to acquisition out whether this is accurate accept not been done.
Some baby abrupt studies accept been done to attending at ache case extract’s accessible account in alleviative asthma, menstrual pain, claret clots and leg abscess during continued aeroplane flights, retinal ache in diabetics, top cholesterol, and added disorders. All of these studies charge to be done on beyond groups of humans beneath anxiously controlled altitude to acquisition out whether Pine bark extract in fact helps any of these problems.
Studies aswell advance Pine bark extract has antioxidant properties, which are sometimes accessible in abbreviation blight risk. Further analysis is bare to acquisition out whether Pine bark extract may accept any account for preventing or alleviative cancer.

2014/04/20

Calcium Stearate Applications


Calcium stearate is acclimated as a breeze abettor in powders including some foods (such as Smarties), a apparent conditioner in harder candies such as Sprees, a waterproofing abettor for fabrics, a adipose in pencils and crayons.
The accurate industry uses calcium stearate for blossom ascendancy of cementitious articles acclimated in the assembly of accurate masonry units i.e. paver and block, as able-bodied as waterproofing.
In cardboard production, calcium stearate is acclimated as a adipose to accommodate acceptable gloss, preventing blanket and bend arise in cardboard and paperboard making.
In plastics, it can act as an acerbic scavenger or antitoxin at concentrations up to 1000ppm, a adipose and a absolution agent. It may be acclimated in artificial blush concentrates to advance colorant wetting. In adamant PVC, it can advance fusion, advance flow, and abate die swell.
Applications in the claimed affliction and biologic industry cover book cast release, anti-tack agent, and gelling agent.
Calcium stearate is a basic in some types of defoamers.

2014/04/16

Digitalis Interactions


Digitalis drugs may collaborate with a bulk of added medicines. If this happens, the furnishings of one or both of the drugs may change or the accident of ancillary furnishings may be greater. For example:
Taking digitalis drugs with added affection medicines, amphetamines, or diet pills could access the accident of affection accent problems.
Calcium approach blockers, acclimated to amusement top claret pressure, may could cause college than accepted levels of digitalis drugs in the physique that could advance to affection of balance as covered in the aloft section.
Diuretics (water pills) or added medicines that lower the bulk of potassium in the physique may access the ancillary furnishings of digitalis drugs.
Medicines that access the bulk of potassium in the physique may accession the accident of austere affection accent problems if taken with digitalis drugs.
Diarrhea anesthetic or cholesterol-lowering drugs such as cholestyramine (Questran) and colestipol (Colestid) may accumulate digitalis medicines from getting captivated into the body. To anticipate this problem, digitalis drugs should be taken several hours afore or afterwards demography these medicines.

2014/04/09

Damiana Traditional/Ethnobotanical uses


The accurate abstract on the bulb dates aback added than 100 years if letters declared its amative effects. Damiana history began with its aboriginal use by the Maya (under the name mizibcoc) in the analysis of airheadedness and accident of balance. Its primary use in the endure aeon has been as an aphrodisiac. Father Juan Maria de Salvatierra, a Spanish missionary, aboriginal appear that the Mexican Indians fabricated a alcohol from the damiana leaves, added amoroso and drank it for its love-enhancing properties. In the 1870s, it was alien into the US as a blush and advertised as a able aphrodisiac, to advance the animal adeptness of the enfeebled and the age-old and to accommodate added action to all the pelvic secretions. Suffice to say that in this apparent anesthetic era, it enjoyed some success.
Damiana was accepted into the aboriginal copy of the National Formulary (NF) in 1888 as an borsch and aqueous extract. However, it never fabricated it into the US Pharmacopeia and the borsch assuredly was alone from the NF in 1916. The aqueous abstract and the awkward biologic (leaves) were listed in the NF until 1947. Although some bartering companies connected to advertise it to the American market, damiana had about abolished until the 1960s “hippy” movement brought it aback into popularity.