Pycnogenol & Its Synergistic Effect on Antioxidant Vitamins

Pycnogenol is regarded as a ‘super antioxidant’. This is because in addition to it’s standalone antioxidant benefits, it also works to improve the effectiveness of other antioxidants, such as Vitamin C and Vitamin E. The primary role it plays is to help other antioxidants stay in the body longer and hence increase their effectiveness.

Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin well known for its role in supporting a healthy immune system. Because your body cannot make vitamin C, it must come from the foods you eat every day

Steve McKenna has recently been knock about with sickness which has effected his training, however he has since been taking Modex due to it ability to support a healthy immune system

This role as a super antioxidant means Modex's formulation can also be used as a nutritional supplement to improve your bodies’ uptake and use of key vitamins and other antioxidants and in turn supporting your immune system for the upcoming cold season. 

Whilst many nutritional supplements have little scientific basis to them and suffer from being fads, Pycnogenol has been studied in laboratory and clinical trials for over 40 years, resulting in the publication of over 280 scientific papers.

Pycnogenol’s History with Vitamin C

During the winter of 1535, French explorer Jacque Cartier became stranded in the middle of the ice-bound St. Lawrence River. There, his crew fell victim to scurvy, caused by severe vitamin C deficiency. Friendly Quebec Indians recommended they drink tea made from the bark of native pine trees. Miraculously, the crew was cured within a week. Cartier later wrote about his experience in a book called Voyages au Canada.

Approximately 400 years later, Professor Jacques Masquelier read Cartier’s book and wondered how the bark from this tree, which has little vitamin C, could cure scurvy. He theorized that pine bark must contain flavonoids that enhance the effect of tiny amounts of vitamin C. Masquelier eventually proved his theory and discovered that this particular species of pine bark contained substances, commonly known today as pycnogenols. This study confirms his earlier findings.

How Modex & Pycnogenol Improve the Effectiveness of Certain Nutritional Supplements and Boost Immunity.

Below is a summary of research explaining how Pycnogenol can work as an important nutritional supplement.

Key points:

• Antioxidants are chemicals that deactivate free radicals — highly destructive chemicals that damage cells and contribute to many diseases.
• Pycnogenol is among the most potent antioxidants.
• Pycnogenol extends the lifetime of vitamin C in the body, prolonging its beneficial effects as an antioxidant.
• Pycnogenol was the most potent of the natural substances tested in extending the lifetime of the vitamin C.
• Pycnogenol is a good supplement to take along with vitamins C and E, and lipoic acid.