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You know you’re stressed when… … someone says have a nice day, and you tell them you have other plans. The relationship between the central nervous system and the GI tract is incredibly complex. We know that high levels of chronic stress can adversely overload the sympathetic nervous system, negatively impacting GI health. This can lead to degradation of the intestinal lining and the production of gastric and intestinal lesions. Here, tocotrienols display gastrointestinal protective properties by up-regulating the protective prostaglandins PGE2 and COX-1. Source: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:804796. Tocotrienol Attenuates Stress-Induced Gastric Lesions via Activation of Prostaglandin and Upregulation of COX-1mRNA.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:08:30 +0000

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