How it works

Lipoic acid protects the body from both intracellular and extracellular free radicals.

It performs chelating activities against heavy metals such as mercury and lead.

It has a precious metabolic action especially in optimizing glucose metabolism by reducing the formation of advanced glycosylation complexes (protagonists of aging).

In light of the aforementioned biological activities, Alpha-Lipoic Acid is successfully used above all as an antioxidant.

It can also be used in other fields: eg.

• in diabetes to counteract its complications such as diabetic neuropathy (the literature reports the success in reducing some typical symptoms of neuropathy, such as paraesthesia, pain and peripheral burning sensation); in dyslipidemias; in complications of atherosclerosis;
• in neurodegenerative diseases
• and in damage from ischemia which are currently some of the clinical conditions in which Alpha-Lipoic Acid has proved effective

It is also indicated to inhibit the oxidation of LDL cholesterol, a cause of risk for atherosclerotic pathology due to the formation of the dreaded atheromatous plaque.