I’ve mentioned the problem of hyaluronic acid beforehand, what I name a “miracle nutrient” due to its many diversified advantages, a listing of advantages that’s increasing quickly. Whereas many individuals are conversant in hyaluronic acid as a topical agent, making use of it to pores and skin doesn’t yield the complete vary of advantages, however merely supplies superficial moisture that’s shortly washed away and yields not one of the potential dermal, joint, or metabolic advantages. It could be like waxing your car and anticipating it to run higher consequently—it doesn’t. Ingested orally, quite a few advantages develop with hyaluronic acid. And, given the proof, we are able to add results on “molding” the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome to the record.
Hyaluronic acid is a nutrient that’s largely absent from the fashionable American food plan, given our aversion to organ meats, pores and skin, and boiling the carcasses of animals that releases parts of connective tissue. (Are you able to consider something extra misinformed than boneless, skinless hen breast?) The dearth of dietary hyaluronic acid is one more mistake prompted by dangerous dietary recommendation resembling “lower your fats and saturated fats,” eat extra “wholesome entire grains,” “the whole lot moderately,” coupled with the proliferation of processed comfort meals and predatory advertising practices of Massive Meals.
Hyaluronic acid is a ubiquitous element of the physique, an necessary think about joint lubrication, eyes, arteries, coronary heart valves, mind, uterus, prostate, and pores and skin. Failure to soak up hyaluronic acid due to this fact has potential penalties in all these organs. In arteries, for instance, we might count on acceleration of wall stiffness with getting old, or lack of moisture and suppleness within the pores and skin with accelerated improvement of pores and skin dryness, lack of flexibility, and wrinkles. Conversely, rising proof means that elevated oral consumption of hyaluronic acid reverses lack of pores and skin moisture and reduces joint ache in individuals with osteoarthritis.
The size of the hyaluronic acid molecule varies extensively, a phenomenon that has prompted debate over what measurement of the molecule is right for absorption. Nonetheless, it’s turning into clear that just some hyaluronic acid is degraded by human hyaluronidase enzymes and {that a} main portion of ingested hyaluronic acid is damaged down into smaller fragments by microbes resident within the colon (and small gut?) which might be then absorbed and arrive intact in varied organs.
Experimental proof additionally means that hyaluronic acid ingestion provokes a considerable bloom in a number of microbial species within the gastrointestinal tract, particularly Akkermansia muciniphila and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii that, in flip, improve manufacturing of protecting intestinal mucus and antimicrobial peptides, main components in intestinal well being and immunity. Additional, manufacturing of useful short-chain fatty acids, together with butyrate, is considerably elevated. This final impact, the elevated manufacturing of short-chain fatty acids, additionally results in systemic advantages resembling lowered blood sugar and blood strain, lowered blood triglycerides and fatty liver, improved sleep and temper. Bifidobacteria and Bacteroides species additionally proliferate within the presence of hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid additionally will increase safety from intestinal pathogens.
Pores and skin, joint, arteries, metabolic and psychological well being are due to this fact all impacted by hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid was meant to be a element of food plan and ingested and metabolized by intestine microbes to expertise the complete vary of advantages. The perfect amount of hyaluronic acid shouldn’t be but clear, however pores and skin advantages have been documented with intakes of 120 mg per day, larger doses of 200-240 mg per day for joint well being. Or, in fact, you can embrace extra pores and skin, organs, and broths/soups made by boiling the stays of meats you purchase.
