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Red Raspberry Ellagic Acid

What is Ellagic Acid and How Does It Work?

Ellagic Acid is a phenolic compound that has become a known as a potent anti-carcinogenic/anti-mutagenic
compound. It also has anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Ellagic acid itself is not thought to be naturally
present in plants. Instead, polymers of gallic acid and hexahydroxydipenoyl (HHDP) are linked to glucose
centers to form the class of compounds known as ellagitannins. When two gallic acid groups become linked
side-by-side within a tannin molecule and HHDP group is formed.

Ellagic acid is the result when the HHDP group is cleaved from the tannin molecule and spontaneously
rearranges. It is the ellagitannins that are present in red raspberries. Some articles in which ellagitannins
are quantified refer to ellagic acid because quantitation of ellagitannins is done by breaking them down
into ellagic acid subunits and quantifying the subunits.

Actually, raspberry does not produce any ellagic acid content at all. Claims to this effect are totally
meaningless. What is produced, is an amount of Ellagitannin, and this in turn is able to produce
ellagic acid, only when it is consumed in the body.

Healthy cells have a normal life cycle of approximately 120 days before they die. This process is called
apoptosis (natural cell death). The body replaces these dying cells with healthy cells. Conversely, cancer
cells do not die. They multiply by division, making 2 cancer cells, then 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on. In lab tests,
ellagic acid caused the cancer cells to go through the normal apoptosis process without damaging healthy
cells. Chemotherapy, radiation, and most conventional treatments cause the death of cancer cells and healthy
cells indiscriminately while destroying the immune system in the process.

Ellagic acid is clearly the sensible choice. However, eating vast quantities of the correct type of fresh raspberries
each day is not only impractical but would be horrendously expensive. Our brand uses the latest technology
to extract the maximum amount of ellagitannin from a given amount of raspberry seeds.

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