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What is Asthma?

Asthma is a periodic inflammatory disorder of the airways that causes "wheezing" attacks. This sometimes life-threatening illness often affects people with a hereditary predisposition and many forms of asthma are triggered by breathing in allergy-causing substances.

Treating asthma involves rebuilding the immune system and helping it to react "normally" to triggering environmental factors. Clinical evidence supports the ability of certain natural nutrients (see below) to eliminate asthma symptoms or to reduce them significantly.

Which natural ingredients can have an effect on asthma?

Carotenoids, grape seed extract, quercetin, N-acetylcysteine, ginkgo biloba, coenzyme Q10, fish oils (EPA/DHA), vitamins B5, B6, B12 and C, selenium, magnesium and molybdenum.

What effects do these ingredients have?

  • Prevent asthma attacks.
  • Reduce bronchial spasms.
  • Reduce allergic symptoms.
  • Reduce the severity of allergic symptoms.
  • Improve overall condition.

For the reader with a deeper interest:

How do these ingredients work?

  • Treat and prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
  • Inhibit the pathological release of histamine.
  • Inhibit the production of bronchial constrictory LTB4 and IL.
  • Reduce the secretion of saliva.
  • Inhibit the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
  • Significant anti-inflammatory effect.
  • Reduce oxidative stress.
  • Stimulate ATP synthesis of mitochondria (energy).

The information above is based on more than 32,000 articles published in scientific journals and which are available at MEDLINE, the world’s largest medical database. Below you will find a few of them listed:

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