Yesterday I was making up an order for vitamins, and I noticed several with zeanthine. I checked to see if zeanthine might be better than the Astaxanthin (ASX) I have been taking with Lutein to successfully reduce my so-called “incurable” cataracts. They are now 75% better than 2 years ago. At any rate I determined ASX is much stronger than zeanthine. Then I noticed a comment that while ASX reduces apoptosis (normal cell death) in normal tissues, it may increase apoptosis in cancerous cells.
Further searching found that this seems to be true for a number of cancers and ASX also reduces metastases. So I will probably get this for my partner with prostate cancer, and my brother with colon cancer, as well as me with my imroving cataracts, A bit more research on these cancers before I place the order.
I think colors have similar effects.
Greens, orange, watermelon red. These colors are similar because they can be dissolved in fat.
I had no idea what Astaxanthin (ASX) was, so I looked it up - here’s the info for anyone else who was mystified ...
Astaxanthin is a blood-red pigment and is produced naturally in the freshwater microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis and the yeast fungus Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous (also known as Phaffia). When the algae is stressed by lack of nutrients, increased salinity, or excessive sunshine, it creates astaxanthin. Animals who feed on the algae, such as salmon, red trout, red sea bream, flamingos, and crustaceans (i.e. shrimp, krill, crab, lobster, and crayfish), subsequently reflect the red-orange astaxanthin pigmentation to various degrees.