DWQA QuestionsCategory: Healing ModalitiesCan you help us understand the merits and any liabilities of using AstaVida, a supplement marketed by Solaire Nutraceuticals, which combines ubiquinone (also called CoQ10), selenium, astaxanthin, and alpha lipoic acid? They claim it will be rejuvenating because it supports body energy production in every cell, supports the heart to decrease mortality and help people live longer, provides antioxidant protection to improve vision and make skin healthier, and supports brain and memory function. Are these claims valid and significant, and are there any unstated benefits?
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
These substances are effective and safe to be ingested at the current dose levels. The claims are not exaggerations, they, in fact, are all based on objective clinical evidence from human testing of these natural products to determine what they do on cells and tissues of the body. If anything, they are the bare minimum of what can be gained through a regular lifelong exposure to this compilation of substances and the benefits they will bring. The basic physiologic mechanisms of energy production are key in many, many settings where there are irregularities, and especially decline in function as with aging, where energy deficit enters the picture and leads to many kinds of difficulties, including onset of new chronic illnesses that have an energetic component in their very origin, and once certain dysregulations commence, through lack of energy to keep them better regulated, they can take on a life of their own and be impossible to heal spontaneously because there is not sufficient wherewithal in the regulatory mechanisms to apply a sufficient level of corrective measures. Similarly, the consequences of sufficient antioxidant potential within critical cells and tissues can be lifesaving at times and prevent many kinds of chronic problems from developing that have oxidative damage as a theme. We hesitate to give you specific examples because of the tendency of humans to overgeneralize and suddenly build up in their mind a huge expectation with a subsequent claiming of "wonder drug actions" that might be assumed to be a given when it might be an occasional benefit in particular individuals with a particular set of inadequate physiologic functioning and regulation. There are many specific circumstances where this combination of ingredients will restore enough inner balance to prevent highly adverse consequences, including a fatal outcome. They are not a panacea but are well worth the investment for the symptomatic benefits and life enhancements promised from what is stated as the benefits in and of themselves, let alone many, many other unseen benefits that will be occurring but not perceived and traceable to the use of these supplements. That is commonly the case when using natural products because these substances from nature itself often have multiple roles and will synergize in particular ways, given together, in supplying restoration of ideal levels or used as a kind of therapy in providing an extra measure at times, of combined powers. So this approach has our full endorsement as a kind of basic strategy that will help most people to an extent that is worth the investment. Given the current state of the world and all people must endure from the many stresses of life, seen and unseen, the many toxic substances people are subjected to, and the adverse energies that undermine cellular functioning and perturb biological regulation within the body, resulting in many abnormalities and long-term adverse destructive influences that are ongoing and causing a systematic decline and contributing to seemingly irreversible aging, much of this can be thwarted or even reversed by taking the appropriate nutritional substances that provide a kind of antidote supporting a rejuvenation of the body. Many things can be undone and that is effectively what happens in every healing—you are undoing a state of disorder leading to dysfunction. So this kind of natural approach taps into the natural mechanisms used by the body for homeostatic regulation, and that is often all that is needed to maintain a state of good health and wellbeing.