Astaxanthin for mold illness? Its a super anti-oxidant carotenoid

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For a long time, as many know, I've been looking for supplements that

seem to help reduce my

inflammation and fatigue, and have tried a lot of things, most of

which don't help, but some of which do.

Noticing that it DID seem to help, recently, I've been making it a

point to regularly take a low dose (~4mg daily) of astaxanthin, which

is a sort of super antioxidant..

Its a " Carotenoid " (chemically related to beta-carotene) and it is red

in color.. (its often used to make farmed salmon redder..also

increasing its nutritive value, IMO)

Anyway, again, astaxanthin seems to really help.

I think I have posted about this before..

I was just trolling PubMed and I came across this, VERY RELEVANT piece

of information.. Note that it also applies to plain old

beta-carotene..

(but I am sure at much higher doses..)

***Note the " mycin " ***

Anticancer Res. 1993 Jul-Aug;13(4):1007-10.Links

Carotenoids reduce the chromosomal damage induced by bleomycin in

human cultured lymphocytes.

Bianchi L, Tateo F, Pizzala R, Stivala LA, Grazia Verri M, Melli

R, Santamaria L.

C. Golgi Institute of General Pathology, University of Pavia, Italy.

The supplementation with beta-carotene and canthaxanthin, two

carotenoids with and without pro-vitamin A activity, reduced in vitro

the number of micronuclei induced in human cultured lymphocytes by the

chemotherapeutic radiomimetic drug bleomycin. The genotoxic activity

of this substance is supposed to be mediated by a free radical

mechanism. The reduction of micronucleated cells was in correlation

with donors' carotenoid blood levels. It has been observed that 20

weeks are needed, following the end of carotenoid supplementation, in

order to return to the high levels of micronuclei induced by

bleomycin. It is suggested that this protective effect is due to the

antioxidant properties of carotenoids acting against free

radical-mediated genotoxic damage.

PMID: 7688937 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE