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Ingredients

Chondroitin sulfate

Effects
As a natural component of healthy joint cartilage, this vital substance helps to keep the whole joint healthy and functional, as it is particularly important for the stressed joint cartilage and the synovial fluid.


Copper

Occurrence
Foods particularly rich in copper include oysters, liver, nuts, cereals (bran!), wheat germs, and wholemeal products.

Effects
Copper activates phosphatases (i.e. specific enzymes) and is a component of at least 16 essential metalloproteins. These protein compounds protect the body against toxic trace elements such as cadmium and mercury.


Folic Acid

General
Folic acid is a hydrophilic vitamin of the B-group.

Occurrence
The vitamin received its name folic acid based on the fact that it is abundant in large quantities in leaf vegetables (Latin: folium = leaf). Aside many kind of vegetables, wholemeal products, meat and some kinds of cheese also liver and yeast are good suppliers of folic acid.

Effects
The vitamin folic acid is involved in many essential metabolic processes: It carries the genetic information from cell to cell. Folic acid has many important functions in the protein metabolism and is thereby substantially involved in all growth- and development processes – also of red blood cells.


Glucosamine sulfate

Effects
As a natural component of healthy joint cartilage, this vital substance helps to keep the whole joint healthy and functional, as it is particularly important for the stressed joint cartilage and the synovial fluid.


Manganese

Occurrence
Large amounts of manganese are contained in rice bran, buckwheat bran, barley bran, wheat germs, walnuts, spices, wholemeal flours, and legumes.

Effects
Manganese activates various enzymes (aminopeptidases, arginase, enolase, and glucokinase). The manganese-containing enzymes have an influence on the synthesis of blood lipids and the biosynthesis of mucopolysaccharides. The latter are components of connective tissue; they also occur in various substances related to blood coagulation, blood types, and the immune system.


Selenium

General
Selenium is a trace element which is active in very small doses in the organism.

Occurrence
Selenium is taken up from soil and stored by plants, especially cereals. Selenium containing plant foods are sun flower seeds, cereals, soy beans, linseed, pulses, selenium-rich bread. Within animal foods, main suppliers are innards, meat, fish and eggs.

Effects
Selenium strengthens the immune system by preventing the formation of aggressive oxygen compounds, the so-called free radicals. It helps to protect the cells from negative environmental influences Fluorine is especially important for a healthy bone metabolism.


Vitamin B₁₂ (cyanocobalamin)

Occurrence
The natural occurrence of vitamin B₁₂ is limited to animal foods. Some yeasts are, however, able to synthesize the vitamin. That’s why some fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kefir and brottrunk (fermentation product of cereals or bread) are good sources.

Effects
Vitamin B₁₂, also known as cobalamin, is responsible for the formation of blood in the bone marrow and provides normal blood agglutination through thrombozytes (= blood platelets). It helps with the formation of the entire nervous system and is thereby also involved in the function of the sensory and locomotor system of our limbs.


Vitamin B₆ (pyridoxine)

Occurrence
Vitamin B₆ is very common in plant as well as animal foodstuffs. Good vitamin B6 sources are e.g. germs, salmon, soy beans, walnuts, liver, whole rice and millet.

Effects
As it is the case in all other B vitamins, vitamin B₆ functions as a coenzyme. It catalyses numerous reactions within the amino acid and protein metabolism and controls the distribution of individual protein components in the body. In addition, it is involved in cell division and thereby serves to a healthy growth.


Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Occurrence
Ascorbic acid occurs in fresh fruits and vegetables. Good vitamin C suppliers are e.g. blackcurrants, bell peppers, broccoli, straw berries and citrus fruits.

Effects
Vitamin C is an antioxidative vitamin, this means it protects cells but also other vitamins from destruction by aggressive oxygen – the so-called free radicals. It regulates the oxygen supply of the cells and stimulates the body defence activity of white blood cells.


Vitamin E

Occurrence
Vitamin E is a lipophile vitamin which can be found e.g. in wheat-germ oil, linseed, sun flower oil, corn oil, hazel nuts, germs, olive oil, peanuts, shrimp, tomatoes, whole-rye bread and poultry.

Effects
Vitamin E is effective as a cellular defence mechanism. It prevents the formation of so-called free radicals (aggressive oxygen compounds) which cause cell damages.

• This natural antioxidant protects the cells against destruction caused by free radicals
• For improvement of vitality

Zinc

Occurrence
Copious amounts of zinc can be found in yeast, oysters, rye and wheat germs, wheat bran, oatmeal, innards, and cheese. Milk, nuts, vegetables, and drinking water contain a little less zinc.

Effects
Zinc activates 70 enzymes that are essential to the human body; it enhances the effectiveness of insulin, has an influence on sexual hormones, and is also involved in twilight vision and wound healing. It plays an essential role in amino acid metabolism and assists in the production of antibodies for the immune defence system.


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