Promotes cellular health
• Prevents cellular damage
• Rejuvenates cells
• Protects the heart
• Blocks cancer cell growth

Important for your brain and muscles
Carnosine is found in high concentrations in the brain and muscle. It is important for helping muscle cells to contract and for preventing fatigue. In the brain, it sensitizes neurons to some signals while at the same time protecting them from overstimulation. It also has a role in regulating heartbeat. Carnosine protects the body by preventing cellular damage caused by harmful sugar products and free radicals. Carnosine levels decrease with age, and longer-lived animals tend to have more carnosine in their cells.

Cellular youth
The most exciting studies of carnosine have been done in cell cultures. Researchers found that cells treated with carnosine not only stay younger, but old cells can be rejuvenated. Carnosine also blocks the growth of cancer cells. Carnosine-treated animals live longer, look and act younger and keep their mental faculties sharper.

Protects and optimizes cellular function
In human studies, carnosine is helpful for improving wound healing and dealing with ulcers. It also appears to protect the heart by increasing the heart's ability to contract and helping blood vessels to relax. Overall, carnosine helps protect your body by promoting youthful and functional cells.

Carnosine is a simple molecule made by many cells in the body, especially in muscle, heart, and brain cells. Longer¬lived animals tend to have more Carnosine in their cells than do shorter-lived species, and research suggests that levels of Carnosine decline with aging.

Carnosine plays a central part in muscle contraction and fatigue prevention. It also plays an important role in modulating brain cell function, simultaneously making neurons more sensitive to certain signals and protecting neurons from toxicity from overstimulation. In heart cells, Carnosine appears to be a central player in regulating the heartbeat through its role in regulating calcium ions. But none of that explains its ability to make old cells young.

A Remarkable Rejuvenation
The experiment that raised the recent interest in Carnosine involved cells that were cultured with Carnosine. The Carnosine-supplemented cells survived longer and kept youthful characteristics almost until the end of their lives. Old cells that were moved into the Carnosine bath sprang back into youth again. This suggests that Carnosine is an important component of cellular maintenance mechanisms, and it may have a very important role in regulating cellular conditions to keep them at optimal function.

More Resistant to Features of Aging
Animals studies have found that Carnosine allows animals to live 20% longer on average than their non-supplemented littermates. Animals that are given Carnosine look and act younger throughout their lives, with less loss of hair fullness and colour, fewer skin ulcers, and sharper, longer-lasting mental faculties.

A Promising Agent in the Therapy of Brain Stroke
Carnosine has been shown to reduce mortality in animal models of stroke, and to prevent much of the brain damage and loss of mental function associated with a stroke.

Anti-Cancer Hopes
Cell studies have found that Carnosine is selectively able to destroy cancer cells. In mice, Carnosine reduces tumor growth and mortality, and can even cause tumors to regress.

Multiple Effects
Carnosine is a highly versatile antioxidant, and has indirect antioxidant actions by binding pro-oxidant metals and preventing the destruction of important antioxidant enzymes. In cell toxicity studies, Carnosine's antioxidant effects were stronger than those of other antioxidants including vitamin C, vitamin E, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), and the potent synthetic antioxidant ethoxyquin.

Carnosine protects against the formation of Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs), warped cellular proteins that have been damaged by sugar. Animal studies have found that Carnosine's AGE-fighting ability helps preserve the flexibility of blood vessels, preventing some of the increase in blood pressure that is otherwise suffered under such circumstances. As well, Carnosine also maintains the youthful ability to tear down and dispose of old, defective cellular proteins which interfere with cellular function. Carnosine changes gene expression to improve cellular integrity and structure and enhances various aspects of immunity, including regulating inflammation.

Multiple Benefits
Preliminary studies suggest that Carnosine may prove to be a useful treatment for ulcers, and may improve wound healing. Carnosine also appears to be a remarkable heart-protective nutrient which increases the heart's ability to contract and helps blood vessels to relax. One clinical study found that Carnosine supplementation benefited children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and another found that Carnosine reduced the frequency of seizures and improved brain wave patterns. In vitro studies have found that Carnosine prevents amyloid beta-peptide, which forms the seed of the plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. Continuing research on this remarkable nutrient creates an ever expanding list of potential health benefits.