Supplement to promote healthy cognitive and nerve function while providing healthy aging support.

Trehalose is a natural sugar found in many organisms, including bacteria and plants. Research has shown that it may help protect cell integrity against various environmental stresses like heat, cold, dehydration, and oxidation. It may also help promote healthy cognitive and nerve function and provide healthy aging support to nerve tissues against environmental toxins.

Every night when we go to sleep, our brain enters the cleaning cycle. This cycle, known as cerebral autophagy, is the process by which our bodies get rid of old or damaged parts of the cells. The name ‘autophagy’ comes from the Greek words auto (self) and phagy (eating). If we think of the cell as a tiny factory, autophagy is like a cleaning crew that comes in after hours, cleans up the shop floor, and empties the waste baskets.

Autophagy is a critical function. It is inextricably linked with the process of aging, and with many degenerative diseases, such as dementia. Poor sleep quality, lack of sleep, light pollution, stress, and circadian rhythm imbalances can limit the amount of autophagy that occurs at night.

In addition to its wondrous effects on autophagy, trehalose also acts as a cellular ‘chaperone,’ ensuring proteins keep their proper shape. Like a Japanese paper origami figure, our proteins assume certain shapes depending on their amino acid formula. It is this three-dimensional shape that determines their ultimate role in life, be it an enzyme, hormone, part of a blood vessel, etc.

Most metabolic disorders result from processes that cause the cell to manufacture proteins that are not folded correctly; proteins that are ‘misfolded.’ Additionally, high stress states such as infection and inflammation can trigger an uptick in unfolded proteins, which can be quite stressful to the cell, going so far as to cause cell death if unresolved.

This 100% vegetarian product contains no sucrose, fructose, salt, wheat, yeast, corn, soy, eggs or dairy, no preservatives, color or flavors, and no artificial ingredients.