Picking up from this post by BIGINJAPAN, I think astaxanthin deserves its own thread.
Here is an academic review article from 2012:
Potential health-promoting effects of astaxanthin
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Here is a video of Dr Mercola speaking to a representative of the biggest manufacturer of astaxanthin:
Here is an academic review article from 2012:
Potential health-promoting effects of astaxanthin
The conclusion states: Growing evidence from tissue culture, animal, and clinical studies suggests that astaxanthin has potential health-promoting effects in the prevention and treatment of various diseases,
such as cancers (gastric, colon, breast, prostate, oral, tongue,
bladder, liver cancers, fibrosarcoma, and leukemia), chronic
inflammatory diseases (asthma, sepsis, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and brain inflammatory diseases), metabolic syndrome (obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and insulin resistance), diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, cardiovascular disease (hypertension, atherosclerosis, stroke, atrial fibrillation,
rethrombosis after thrombolysis, and myocardial injury),
gastrointestinal diseases (gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal
ulcer, and ethanol- or drug-induced gastric lesions), liver
disease (fatty liver, hepatitis, liver ischemia-reperfusion
injury, and chemicals-induced liver damages), neurodegenerative diseases (ischemia/reperfusion-induced neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders), eye disease (cataract, glaucoma, ocular inflammatory such as uveitis, choroidal
neovascularization, and eye fatigue from visual display
terminals), skin diseases (ultraviolet A-induced skin
damage, skin cancer, and skin sagging or wrinkling), exercise-induced fatigue (muscle fatigue, delayed-onset muscular soreness), male infertility, and HgCl2-induced acute renal failure.
These protections against various diseases by astaxanthin
are likely to involve antioxidant mechanisms including
prevention of oxidative damage and cellular necrosis or
apoptosis induced by oxidative stress; other potential
mechanisms include decreased expression or production of
inflammatory mediators and cytokines by suppressing the
activation of nuclear factor-kB, decreased expression or
production of transforming growth factor-b1, increased
levels of circulating adiponectin and insulin sensitivity,
decreased activity of the renin-angiotensin system, and
antimicrobial activity against H. pylori, etc. Although the
currently available data and recent findings are very
encouraging, more extensive, well-controlled clinical trials,
especially for 9-cis-astaxanthin, are suggested for each of
these categories.
Sorry for the lousy formatting.such as cancers (gastric, colon, breast, prostate, oral, tongue,
bladder, liver cancers, fibrosarcoma, and leukemia), chronic
inflammatory diseases (asthma, sepsis, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and brain inflammatory diseases), metabolic syndrome (obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and insulin resistance), diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, cardiovascular disease (hypertension, atherosclerosis, stroke, atrial fibrillation,
rethrombosis after thrombolysis, and myocardial injury),
gastrointestinal diseases (gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal
ulcer, and ethanol- or drug-induced gastric lesions), liver
disease (fatty liver, hepatitis, liver ischemia-reperfusion
injury, and chemicals-induced liver damages), neurodegenerative diseases (ischemia/reperfusion-induced neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders), eye disease (cataract, glaucoma, ocular inflammatory such as uveitis, choroidal
neovascularization, and eye fatigue from visual display
terminals), skin diseases (ultraviolet A-induced skin
damage, skin cancer, and skin sagging or wrinkling), exercise-induced fatigue (muscle fatigue, delayed-onset muscular soreness), male infertility, and HgCl2-induced acute renal failure.
These protections against various diseases by astaxanthin
are likely to involve antioxidant mechanisms including
prevention of oxidative damage and cellular necrosis or
apoptosis induced by oxidative stress; other potential
mechanisms include decreased expression or production of
inflammatory mediators and cytokines by suppressing the
activation of nuclear factor-kB, decreased expression or
production of transforming growth factor-b1, increased
levels of circulating adiponectin and insulin sensitivity,
decreased activity of the renin-angiotensin system, and
antimicrobial activity against H. pylori, etc. Although the
currently available data and recent findings are very
encouraging, more extensive, well-controlled clinical trials,
especially for 9-cis-astaxanthin, are suggested for each of
these categories.
TL;DR It's good stuff
Here is a video of Dr Mercola speaking to a representative of the biggest manufacturer of astaxanthin: