The brains of young rats raised in an enriched environment (EE) (consisting of toys, tunnels, and ladders placed in a two-level cage) show increased dendritic branching, increased cortical thickness, and improved cognitive performance (Ip et al., 2002)
Gut Health Supports the lining of the stomach and intestines, which may benefit conditions like leaky gut or inflammatory bowel disease
Excessive or sustained endoplasmic reticulum stress: one of the culprits of adipocyte dysfunction in obesity
14 The APC protein is located in the cytoplasm, and mutations in this protein cause Wnt pathway activation in human cancers
These chondrocytes displayed a telomere erosion in the range of 900 bp, which was comparable with 30 years of native aging (Parsch et al., 2002)
Reported benefits (per available research): Studied for its ability to raise GH and IGF-1 toward youthful levels and blunt age-related loss of fat-free mass, based on a 2-year randomized, placebo-controlled trial in 65 healthy older adults (Nass et al., 2008, Annals of Internal Medicine, PMID 18981485)