Phycotene™

How would you like to take one supplement that provided the wide array of plant phytonutrients now studied for their roles in protecting the health of the eyes, colon, breast, skin, lungs, and prostate?

Phycotene™ Nanoclusters™ is a concentrated extract from two of the richest species of water plants found in the ocean. These plants contain higher levels of important antioxidant pigments than most land vegetables that we eat. Pigments such as lutein, lycopene, alpha-carotene and zeaxanthin are being researched today for their affects towards supporting specific organs of your body that are prone to weaken as you age.

Some of the unique benefits of Phycotene™ Nanoclusters:

• A gentle, patented extraction procedure concentrates 17 valuable phytochemicals from the richest sources of nature
• RBC Life Sciences is the only company that exclusively distributes this patented extract from Spirulina and Dunaliella algae
• Harvard University in 1987 published the miraculous protection of phycotene in peer reviewed scientific publications1
• Research shows that the body responds better to a variety of naturally occurring plant carotenes rather than beta-carotene by itself^1,2,3
• Synthetic beta-carotene alone may do little good and may be questionable in present studies⁴
• Phycotene has more natural vitamin A than a bunch of carrots or a cup of spinach
• Ocean plants evolved a variety of antioxidant plant pigments for survival over billions of years; whales and sea animals thrive on these algae
• Phycotene, in peer reviewed studies, was able to target unwanted cells with no toxic effects to healthy cells¹
• Phycocyanin, the blue pigment in blue-green algae, shows antioxidant properties towards joint soreness and stiffness⁵
• Spirulina extracts increase activity of immune cells that engulf foreign material⁶
• Recent peer reviewed research shows how these phytochemicals may help protect cells of the mouth, colon, lungs, breast, skin and prostate ^1,2,7,8,9,10
• Lycopene has shown functions towards protecting eye and macular tissue^3,7
• Lycopene is being researched for supporting the health of the prostate⁸
• Lutein has shown a correlation in helping to protect the colon and breast ^2,9,10,11
• Phycotene™ provides this variety of amazing phytochemicals in a concentrated natural form

References

1. Schwartz, J et al. Prevention of experimental oral cancer by extracts of Spirulina-Dunaliella algae. Nutrition and Cancer, 1987, 11:2, 127-34.
2. Narisawa T. et al. Inhibitory effects of natural carotenoids, alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, lycopene and lutein, on colonic aberrant crypt foci formation in rats. Cancer Letter, Oct 196, 107:1, 137:42.
3.Cooper, DA. et al. Dietary Carotenoids and certain cancers, heart disease, and age-related macular degeneration: a review of recent research. Nutrition Rev, July 1999, 57:7, 201-204.
4. Xue, KX et al. Comparative studies on genotoxicity and antigenotoxicity of natural and synthetic beta-carotene stereoisomers. Mutat Research, Oct 1998, 418:2-3, 73-8.
5. Romay, C. et al. Further studies on anti-inflammatory activity of phycocyanin in some animal models of inflammation. Inflammatory Research, Aug 1998, 47:8, 334-8.
6. Mal TK, Van de Water J, Gershwen ME. Effect of Spirulina on the secretion of cytokines from peripheral mononuclear cells. J Medicinal Foods 2000,3;3,135-40
7. Perlman, Mares JA. et al. Serum antioxidants and age-related macular degeneration in a population-based case-control study. Archive of Ophthalmology, Dec 1995, 113:12, 1518-23.
8. Rao, AV. et al. Serum and tissue lycopene and biomarkers of oxidation in prostate cancer patients: a case controlled study. Nutrition and Cancer, 1999 33:2, 159-64.
9. Murakoshi, M. et al. Potent preventative action of alpha-carotene against carcinogenesis: spontaneous liver carcinogenesis and promoting stage of lung and skin carcinogenesis in mice are suppressed more effectively by alpha-carotene than by beta-carotene. Cancer Research, Dec 1992, 52:23, 6583-7.
10. Park, JS. et al. Dietary lutein from marigold extract inhibits mammary tumor development in mice. Journal of Nutrition, Oct 1998, 128:10, 1650-6.
11. Chew, BP et al. A comparison of the anticancer activities of dietary beta-carotene, canthaxanthin and astaxanthin in mice in vivo. Anticancer Research, May 1999, 19:3, 1849-53.