Protect Your Lungs from Coronavirus
With ProPectin® - Your Butyrate Source
What Coronavirus Does to the Body?
The disease can cast a storm over the whole human body. Unlike their common-cold-causing cousins, these emergent coronaviruses can spark a viral-induced fire throughout many of a person's organs, and the new disease-dubbed "COVID-19" by the World Health Organization-is no exception. For most patients, COVID-19 begins and ends in their lungs, because like the flu, coronaviruses are respiratory diseases that lead to Acute Respiratory Disease Syndrome (ARDS).
It typically attacks the lungs in three phases:
1. Viral Replication
Rapidly invades human lung cells.
Early studies on COVID-19 have shown that many patients develop pneumonia in both lungs, accompanied by symptoms like shortness of breath.
2. Immune Hyper-reactivity
It causes damage to your lungs
which leads to fluid leaking from small blood vessels in the lungs. The fluid collects in the lungs air sacs, or alveoli. This makes it difficult for the lungs to transfer oxygen from the air to the
blood. In severe cases, the lungs become flooded and the patient can no longer breathe
3. Pulmonary Destruction
Lung damage continues to build which can result in respiratory failure.
Even if death doesn't occur, some patients survive with permanent lung damage.
How does your body respond to any infection?
With any infection, the body's immune system responds by attacking the foreign virus or bacteria. While this immune response can rid the body of the infection, it can also sometimes cause collateral damage in the body.
1. Proteins
Are used by the immune system as alarms beacons - recruit inmmune cells to the site of infection
2. Cytokines
The immune cells produce cytokines to fight infection
3. Inflammatory response
The immune cells kill off the infected tissue by creating an intense inflammatory response called "cytokine storm".
A lot of [the damage in the body during COVID-19] is due to what we would call a sepsis syndrome, which is due to complex immune reactions. The infection itself can generate an intense inflammatory response in the body that can affect the function of multiple organ systems. The lungs are the main organs affected by COVID-19. But in serious cases, the rest of the body can also be affected. In patients who become severely ill, a good proportion of those patients also develop dysfunction in other organ systems.
Superhigh-Fiber ProPectin ® Helps to Support Butyrate Levels that Boost Your Immunity and Deliver Anti-Inflammatory Protection to Your Alveoli Lung Cells
Butyrate and the bacterial organisms found in your gut have a dynamic relationship. As a short-chain fatty acid, butyrate is most commonly produced by probiotics (the good bacteria) found in the colon. To have enough butyrate you need to eat plenty of dietary fiber. That's because certain probiotics use dietary fiber as their food source for producing butyrate and other beneficial substances.
As an HDAC inhibitor, butyrate adjusts the immune system in a number of ways. HDAC inhibitors improve the abilities of immune cells like T cells.
The overall anti-inflammatory effects are already an immune benefit - inflammation is an immune response, and controlling inflammation helps keep the immune response properly regulated. Butyrate helps regulate the production and development of regulatory T-cells. Regulatory T-cells help your body distinguish between itself and everything else. Butyrate suppresses the activity of cells and proteins that drive inflammation.
Butyrate is used for energy, especially by mucosal cells that line the wall of the colon. These cells get about 70 percent of their energy needs from butyrate. High fiber diets have been shown to increase butyrate circulating in the bloodstream, therefore supporting two core functions of protection against Coronavirus:
Dietary fermentable fiber and SCFAs set an immune equilibrium, balancing innate and adaptive immunity
"In summary, our data demonstrate that dietary fiber and SCFAs can protect against severe infection by reducing lung tissue damage and by boosting adaptive anti-viral immunity".
Researcher, Aurelien Trompette, (Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne)
Trompette goes on to say that, "By tuning down excessive innate responses, promoting tissue-protective mechanisms, and stimulating specific adaptive immunity, dietary fiber and SCFAs can create an immune balance that ultimately protects against disease."
In a study by Zimmerman MA and Martin PM (American Journal Physiology) on human cells, butyrate drastically reduced the activity of interleukin-12 (IL-12), an inflammatory cytokine, while increasing interleukin-10 (IL-10), which is generally anti-inflammatory.
In a separate study, butyrate-producing dietary fibers counteracted inflammation and illness caused by bacterial toxins. The inflammatory cytokines inhibited by butyrate included interleukin-1 (IL-1),
tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and interferon gamma (INF-y).
This is where we need to support the natural protective function of our body with a functional supplement like ProPectin.
The summary by Trompette indicates that a high-fiber diet resulted in increased bone marrow formation of blood cells, leading to the accumulation of constructive processes (alternatively activated macrophages
- AAM) like wound healing and tissue repair, and those that turn off damaging immune system activation by producing anti-inflammatory cytokines like IL-10 in the lungs
One of the best sources of fiber is apple pectin. And one of the best sources of apple pectin is ProPectin®.
Many aspects of supporting a healthy respiratory system that is under attack by the Coronavirus - especially a healthy and regulated immune system - can be attributed to the amount of butyrate in your body. And increasing the amount of fiber you consume is one way to do it.
6-step
Patented process
Currently there are no other apple pectin products available that are soluble; apple pectin is most effective when dissolved and consumed in liquid form. ProPectin's 6-step patented process turns pharmaceutical-grade apple pectin (derived from the highest quality and purity of apples identified after extensive research) into a highly soluble powder that dissolves immediately in water for quick and easy consumption.
| 250kg of apples | = | 1kg of ProPectin |
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an apple contains about five grams of fiber. It takes 250 kilos of apples to make one kilo of ProPectin, and each sachet of ProPectin contains three grams of fiber. By consuming three sachets of ProPectin a day, you can receive up to nine grams of fiber in the form of pharmaceutical-grade apple pectin that can help support healthy butyrate levels.
4.5x
More Effective than any other pectin product on the market
Made from the highest quality apples, ProPectin's formulation process is very involved and requires a high degree of esterification. Manufactured in micro batches to ensure maximum concentration and potency, each batch of ProPectin contains ingredients in their most potent state minus all unnatural or harmful compounds.
Prevent immune-associated pathology of inflammation as the result of the body's natural immune system fighting off the Coronavirus.
ProPectin also helps to remove harmful toxins from your body, such as dangerous heavy metals found in more and more food and water sources around the world. In addition, the apple pectin contained in ProPectin helps to reduce inflammation associated with bowel disease, assists in reducing overall cholesterol and LDL, supports healthy weight control and is effective in promoting a healthy digestive system, especially intestinal function.
The ProPectin® Advantage as Your Pure Butyrate Source
ProPectin has four important advantages over any other apple pectin product:
