Vitamin Lecithin

A recent method that s still under development is to take vitamin lecithin. This vitamin breaks down your stored fat and disperses it into your blood stream, to help clean out drugs that store themselves in lipid tissue, such as THC. NORML recommends taking Lecithin right up to the day of the test. To me it sounds as though this would work against you because by putting THC back in your blood stream, you are increasing metabolites in the urine. 

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One excellent UV protector for foods is PABA, a B vitamin. Likewise, many of the same antioxidants we ingest as health supplements—such as vitamin C and a similar chemical, erythorbic acid vitamin E and lecithin, a source of the important nutrients choline and inositol—occur naturally in food. 

Lecithin is often taken as a dietary supplement, since it contains the B vitamin choline. 

Vitamins and lipids are often required for animal cells to grow in serum-free medium. Phosphoethanolamine and ethanolamine are key additives that facilitate the growth of the mammary tumor cell line 64024 (Kano-Sueoka and Errick, 1981). In addition, ethanolamine promotes the growth of human lymphocytes and mouse hybridoma cells. Short-term cultures of human diploid lung and foreskin fibroblasts grow in medium that includes among its supplements soybean lecithin, cholesterol, sphingomyelin, and vitamin E. 

The selection of an appropriate antioxidant depends on factors such as stability, toxicity, efficiency, odor, taste, compatibility with other ingredients, and distribution phenomena between the two phases. Antioxidants that give protection primarily in the aqueous phase include sodium metabisulfite, ascorbic acid, thioglycerol, and cysteine hydrochloride. Oil-soluble antioxidants include lecithin, propyl gal-late, ascorbyl palmitate, and butylated hydroxytoluene. Vitamin E has also been used, but its virtue as a natural antioxidant has been the subject of some controversy. 

Sesamum indicum L. Wu Ma (Sesame) (seed) Olein acid, linolein acid, pahnitine acid, stearin acid, myristic acid, sesamin, sesamol, pentosan, phytin, lecithin, choline, calcium oxalate, chlorogenic acid, vitamin A, vitamin B.49 A nutrient, laxative, hyperchlorhydria, a lenitive in scybalous constipation, as nutrient tonic in degenerative neuritis, neuroparalysis. 

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Retinol (vitamin A) is found in foods of mammalian origin in the form of retinyl ester, or in fruits and vegetables as carotenoids with provitamin A activity, especially P-carotene (provitamin A). In enterocytes, retinol binds to cellular retinol-binding protein type II (CRBPII), which directs the esterification by the enzyme lecithin retinol acyltransferase (LRAT). 

Triglycerides, lecithin, and ergosterol are the main constituents of yeast lipid (feu. Oleic and palmitic acids predominate in yeast fet. These resemble the composition of common vegetable fats. Ergosterol. the precursor of calciferol (vitamin D2) varies from 1 to 3% of yeast dry matter. 

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Extracted from the bean and often called Soyabean oil. A versatile carrier suitable for all skin types. It is comparatively high, up to 17%, in unsaturated fatty acids with the unsaturated linoleic (54%), oleic (24%), palmitic (10%), linolenic (7%) and stearic (4%). It also contains the highest amount of lecithin of any vegetable oil and the cold pressed oil is particularly high in vitamin E. It needs careful storage as it oxidizes easily. Soya oil may cause allergic reactions and has been reported to damage hair. 

Avocado produces a rather viscous oil that penetrates the upper skin layers well and is beneficial for dry skin and is often found in sun preparations. It is versatile, with applications ranging from soothing nappy rash to an ideal choice for damaged, dry and mature skin. It is a mixture of monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids, with oleic (60-70%), linoleic (8-15%), palmitoleic (4-7%), linolenic (2%), palmitic (12-16%) and stearic (2%). Vitamins A, B and D are found along with lecithin. Lecithin is one of the major phospholipids (a lipid combined with a phosphate group) of the body. Phospholipids are vital chemicals needed in the body for structural and metabolic functions. 

Studies on the antioxidant properties of anthocyanins on human low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and lecithin liposome systems in vitro showed that the inhibition of oxidation increased dose-dependently with antioxidant concentration. The oxidation was catalyzed by copper in the LDL system and the effects of the anthocyanins were explained by several antioxidant mechanisms including hydrogen donation, metal chelation and protein binding [33]. Anthocyanins also prevented the oxidation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), through chelate formation with the metal ions, and finally by the formation of an ascorbic (copigment)-metal-anthocyanin complex [49]. 

Liposomes have been successfully used to deliver a range of oil-soluble bioactives. Banville et al. (2000) showed that incorporation of Vitamin D in cheese was improved with liposomal delivery compared to the use of a water-soluble preparation, but after long term storage (3-5 months) the stability of the liposome-encapsulated vitamin decreased. Multilamellar liposomes made from soy lecithin will incorporate P-carotene. Using a lecithin to P-carotene ratio of 1 0.05, efficiencies of up to 99.7% were obtained (Rhim et al. 2000). 

Zolfaghari R and Ross AC (2000) Lecithin retinol acyltransferase from mouse and rat liver. cDNA cloning and liver-specific regulation by dietary vitamin A and retinoic diCid. Journal of Lipid Research 41, 2024-34. 

Vitamins B, (pantothenic acid), Bg (pyridoxine). By (biotin), Bg (inositol), B,o (para-aminobenzoic acid), Bn (choline), lecithin, and Bi5 (pangamic acid) are Usted here for sake of completeness but not shown in the table.The reader is referred to http //www.acu-ceU.com for examples. 

Soybean oil is richly endowed with several minor components that can be recovered during the refining process. These include phospholipids recovered as lecithin, mixed sterols that serve as a starting material for production of valuable pharmaceutical products, and tocopherols (vitamin E) (10). 

Nutritional and health-related applications. Lecithin has long been known in the worldwide nutritional community. Dietary supplement lecithin is generally derived from soybean lecithin. Because of its composition of various phospholipids, vitamins, and fatty acids, lecithin is involved in numerous physiological actions that... 

Lecithin is the main dietary source of choline. The U.S. National Academy of Science s (NAS) Food and Nutrition Board recently underscored the importance of lecithin in human nutrition by assigning chohne (the vitamin component of PC) a dietary reference intake (DRI) in 1998 (244). Although it is true that lecithin and choline are present in a variety of foods, the specific amount of lecithin and choline in foods is currently unknown. At this time, no comprehensive analysis of choline in the food supply exists. Such an analysis is, however, underway and it is estimated that the extensive USDA database of foods will be fully analyzed for choline content by 2005. The analysis will include all forms of choline found in food. 

A malformed infant was born to a mother who had taken daily doses of pyridoxine during pregnancy (50 mg for the first 7 months) and unknown doses of lecithin and vitamin B12. The girl was bom with neartotal amelia of her left leg at the knee (40). 

Choiine. Choline is a component of many biomem-hranes and plasma phospholipids. Dietary sources include eggs. fish, liver, milk, and vegetables. These sources provide choline primarily as the phospholipid lecithin. Lecithin is hydrolyzed to glycerophosphorylcholinc by the intestinal mucosa before absorption. The liver liberates choline. Choline can be biosynthesized by humans con.sequcntly. it cannot be con.sidcred a (rue vitamin. Biosynthesis involves methylation of cthanolamine. The methyl groups arc provided by methionine or by a reaction involving vitamin B12 and folic acid. Therefore, deficiencies can occur only if all methyl donors are excluded from the diet. 

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