Dr. Perricone’s Top 10 Super Supplements – #2 – Alpha Lipoic Acid
Super Supplement #2: Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA)
Alpha lipoic acid is a superior anti-inflammatory, that penetrates all portions of the cell because it is both fat and water soluble. On a cellular level alpha lipoic acid exerts a wide variety of positive actions, all of them anti-inflammatory. In addition to its function as a powerful antioxidant/anti-inflammatory, alpha lipoic acid increases the body’s ability to take glucose into the cells. This increased sensitivity to insulin results in decreased blood sugar levels and accelerated weight loss.
DOSAGE RECOMMENDATIONS: Because alpha lipoic acid is found only in trace amounts in food, it must be taken as a supplement. Twenty-five to thirty milligrams is adequate for a young healthy person. I recommend anywhere from two to four hundred milligrams of alpha lipoic acid per day to my patients with specific health problems, or who are trying to lose body fat.
Alpha Lipoic Tips:
In the metabolic cycle, Alpha Lipoic Acid acts as a coenzyme in the production of energy by converting carbohydrates into energy (ATP).
ALA is the only antioxidant that can boost cellular levels of glutathione, the body’s most important antioxidant to overall health and longevity.
Take with meals.
Perricone MD products with this super supplement (click below to shop PerriconeMD.com)
Perricone MD Alpha Lipoic Acid
Perricone MD Skin & Total Body
Perricone MD Health & Weight Management
Perricone MD Super Antioxidant
Well, It seems like there is still debates going on whether this “Super Berry with Acai” is promoting weight loss or not.
Yes. It might be designed to prevent free-radical and not for weight loss as one of you says….However,
I think slightly different. In the middle of the day, when you start to feel a little hungry you take this Superberry, I don’t know how it affects others, but for me it is a perfect dose. I don’t feel hungry anymore. For one or two hours I don’t feel hungry. Well, let’s say it gives you only 30 minutes. Even if it deters your appetite for 30 minutes, it creates a big difference within our chemical factory in our body! Getting one’s insulin level or blood sugar level under control is one of the most consistent challenges in this American diet industry! Also, it is at the core of Dr. Perricone’s weight-loss diet philosophy, as far as I understand! What are anti-oxidants for? That is one of the most cherished components of Dr. Perricone’s anti-inflammatory diet. Even though this product might be designed to prevent free radical —– and what does that mean? That is to prevent inflammation from the cellular level to overall whole body.——–Whatever it is designed for, the result is it helps us to avoid digging into carbohydrates suddenly from hunger and cravings in the middle of the day and make us keep steady in the fluctuations of our hormones! This is a big difference! I am sure you all know how all those hundreds of different kinds of nutri-bars were born over the past decades? What about all those nutri-shakes in the can in the super market? And all those protein drinks, too. All these things were for people who are on a diet to get over this small but disturbing uphill mountain that they have to go over each day and one more day …and one more day to lose weight, the cravings and the ups and downs of our hormone level.
Don’t be afraid of saying this product does help “Weight-loss diet” in addition to promote overall health by promoting anti-inflammatory state of the body!
Through Dr. Perricone, these all sorts of berries got recognized and truly appreciated its nutritional values-anti-oxidant ability.
Dr. Perricone introduced this small berry from the “Amazon rain forest”, Acai. It seems like some others get all that credit which should go to Dr. Perricone these days with Acai diet.
But, it Doesn’t matter. We are proud of you , Dr. Perricone!
p.s. Alpha Lipoic Acid is another great example of Dr. Perricone’s triumph !!!
Thank you!
p.p.s. Dr. Perricone, I miss those days when you put little tips and thoughts and Q&A, here and there, twice, three times, four times, through out the day. It made me to keep coming back to your blog and it was exciting. I could tell your spirit. Don’t get me wrong. I love your articles about these super ingredients as well. It makes me to learn a lot. When I initially asked you whether you could be like our daily coach, I just thought it would be nice if you could add some tips for weight loss diet on going as well, like we actually are doing a diet together with you daily, while you were continuing whatever you were doing at the same time. If so, I thought, this blog can be really part of daily routine for many more people out there who are interested in weight-loss diet and healthy life as well and at the same time, it would still benefit to those like me who visit this blog anyway by learning extra information…. This is a long winter, isn’t it….. but it’s also refreshing having a real winter, too. …. we thank your time and your dedicated spirit to the very best whatever it may be and whatever you do. This is your blog. Enjoy it. (you know I have been translating your blog into other language…. of course I won’t do anything with it without your permission.) I am just trying to help. And we need you! ^_^