Supporting your gut and intestinal health naturally
Botanical Medical Foods for Treating Cardiometabolic Diseases
“We have developed a patented range of natural botanical medical food products using powerful flavanols with a heart health claim. They target Vascular & Cardiometabolic conditions and other immunity conditions linked to food intolerances and gut health. Flavanols have a major impact on inflammatory and cardiometabolic health conditions.”
The Challenge
The challenge is how to deal with the increasing incidents of death caused by Vascular and Cardiometabolic diseases many of which are linked to life style choices and poor nutrition. The current treatment of these conditions are based on two options. Either pharmaceutical drugs or surgical intervention. These interventions have a number of side effects, are incredibly invasive and detrimental to our body’s natural rhythms and extremely costly. Prior to these condition a range of metabolic conditions will be present and co-exist along side the vascular issues. Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Hypertension and a range of immunity issues linked inflammation.
We have developed a new approach using pure cacao which has complex chemicals [cacao flavanols] powerful stimulants and array of dense nutrients as well as dietary fibres that contain probiotics. Our approach recognises that diet and nutrition, the gut microbiome have a major impact on the immune system and inflammatory diseases.
Consumers are looking for products that address their inflammatory and cardiometabolic needs and want products that:
Products that can help to achieve a daily level of between 400 – 600mg of cacao flavanols to impact Cardiometabolic Diseases
Products that satisfy the EFSA Heart Health Claim of 200mg of cacao flavanols.
Products that Influence the immune system, in particular the inflammatory innate response and the systemic and intestinal adaptive immune response modifying T cell functions that conduce to a modulation of the synthesis of systemic and gut antibodies.
Products that high levels of Dietary Fibre, Probiotics and Protein.
Products that are natural and powered by plants.
Products that are Gluten and Diary free.
Products with natural levels of Magnesium, Chromium, Potassium, Zinc, and Iron.
Products that will have Neuroprotective benefits.
We Have Developed A Range Of Powerful Botanical Medical Foods Targeting Heart Disease
We have pursued a technology over the last thirty years that has allowed us to leave behind the secular views of individual components of natural foods, characterised by the pursuit of either protein, prebiotics or particular extracted synthetic nutrients or individually powerful ingredients. The attainment of these have been at the expense of the bioactivity of the components parts compromising their effective impact and marginalising their efficacy by the heat applied through the manufacturing process and the requirements of stabilisers in bulk production.
- Our pure cacao has the highest levels of nutrients, powerful stimulants and complex chemicals [flavanols]
- There is an abundance of other nutrients such as protein omega three and pre and probiotic that impacts the Gut Microbiome .
- Our natural novel platform technology allows us to begin in foods as a platform to enter the body via the gut and to fortify the gut by having products with out the intolerances that affect our immunity therefore minimising the inflammatory impact that leads to chronic diseases and poor cognitive health and neurodegenerative conditions.
Personal Nutrition
We recognise that everyone’s body is different and that their nutritional needs will be equally as diverse. We therefore accept that we have to personalise our nutritional and medical food offering.
We have begun to target our offering accordingly through our botanical medical foods which start their journey through the microbiome and the trillions of bacteria in our bodies that play a crucial part in our daily internal operations. Gut health provides the critical links between our immunity system, inflammation and cardiovascular and metabolic issues. It is now accepted that these issues can impact our cognitive health.
Complex Chemicals Powerful Stimulants and Dense Nutrients.
Increasing unhealthy lifestyles due to a lack of exercise, poor diet and everyday stress, coupled with an aging population has seen age-related cognitive decline becoming a progressively urgent public health issue that globally has to be addressed.
It is clear that there are links between metflammation [low grade inflammation] to more severe inflammatory conditions such as MS, Celiac disease, Diabetes and IBS, producing noticeable pathways towards Cardiovascular diseases which then leads to Alzheimer’s diseases and certain cancers.
These links between modern food, how we eat and when we eat, and degenerative diseases, have become a priority scientific challenge, mainly driven by the need to detect and develop preventive agents for cognitive decline and dementia.
At the same time, immediate cognitive enhancement is often desirable in cognitively demanding environments. Stimulants such as caffeine are indeed commonly used to sustain cognitive performance during periods of fatigue.
In the last few years, the field of nutraceuticals and functional food has developed along with the interest in the potential modulatory effects of food constituents on human health. In this context, there has been increasing interest in the biological effects of flavonoids, a class of polyphenolic compounds, as potential nutraceuticals with several beneficial biological actions, including cardio protection, neuroprotection, and neuromodulation.
The Cacao bean has long been recognized as one of the richest source of flavonoids, mainly the flavanols subclass in the form of epicatechin and catechin. Cacao also contains other functional ingredients, such as the methylxanthine [caffeine and theobromine], with the potential to influence neurocognitive function.
Traditionally it was thought that the low levels of caffeine and theobromine relative to total flavanols content was not enough to have a significant pharmacological impact. However our patented process has levels of Theobromine up to 10634mg/kg and Caffeine 1273mg/kg and total Procyanidin of 19013mg/kg. These levels mean that strong pharmacological effects take place.
Amyloid precursor protein processing and the subsequent generation of amyloid beta (Ab) are central to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Numerous epidemiologic studies indicate that a regular intake of flavonoids could be associated with improved cognitive function higher neuroprotection, decreasing risks of dementia and cognitive decline by impacting amyloid protein plaque.
