ActivAMP provides many of the same benefits as exercise, including healthy glucose levels, reduced body fat, and a healthy weight.
Paul Clayton, PhD, chief scientific advisor for ingredients supplier Gencor, discussed the company’s new ActivAMP ingredient, introduced at Natural Products Expo West. By activating an enzyme called AMPk (AMP-activated protein kinase), ActivAMP provides many of the same benefits as exercise, including healthy glucose levels, reduced body fat, and a healthy weight.
“Exercise switches on an enzyme called AMPk, which you can think of as a metabolic master switch,” Clayton explains. “When you do physical exercise, whether it’s fight or flight, you’re telling your body, through this enzyme system, don’t store calories; burn them, because we need energy. So when you switch this enzyme on, you stop depositing fat and you start burning it. You start increasing mitochondria activity and muscle performance and you start experiencing more glucose uptake, so you become insulin sensitive once again. You start losing belly fat. And your arteries become more flexible and your blood pressure comes down because your resting glucose is normalizing.”
ActivAMP is extracted from the adaptogenic herb Gynostemma pentaphyllum, which Clayton says is used traditionally in Korea as a tea for the elderly and infirm. Gencor offers the ingredient as a free-flowing powder, including for tablets and capsules. ActivAMP can take advantage of several health claims:
1) Helps reduce body fat
2) Helps promote moderate weight loss
These are backed by clinical research, including a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study on 80 overweight human subjects that showed benefits, in the treatment group, for body fat mass, percent body fat, body weight and BMI, and total abdominal fat.
Judge denies CRN’s motion for preliminary injunction but its lawsuit against NY state will proceed
April 23rd 2024The judge in CRN's lawsuit against NY state's law banning the sale of weight management and muscle building supplements to minors has denied its motion for a preliminary injunction, but determined that CRN has standing to sue on behalf of its members.