Nanoemulsions: Tiny Drug Carriers with Big Potential
Imagine tiny droplets, so small they're almost invisible, carrying medicine through your body! These are called nanoemulsions, and Ascential Nutrition is revolutionizing how they deliver nutritional supplements to the bloodsteam.
Ascential Nutrition has developed its patent-pending Clear Advantage™ nanoemulsion delivery system to overcome the major drawbacks associated with conventional dietary supplements, which are poorly absorbed and quickly metabolized by the body.
What are Nanoemulsions?
- Super-small droplets: Nanoemulsions are like tiny bubbles, but much smaller than regular emulsions. So small in fact that they can only be seen with an Electron Microscope.
- Tiny size: The key is their size – typical pharmaceutical nanoemulsions are between 20 and 200 nanometers (that's incredibly small!). For Truemeric, Ascential’s Clear Advantage™ system has achieved a uniform particle size of 27 nanometers.
- Stable: Unlike regular emulsions, which tend to separate, nanoemulsions are stable and don't separate.
- Transparent: Because of their small particle sizes, nanoemulsions appear as clear or translucent solutions. Ascential Nutrition’s Clear Advantage™ system is an ideal demonstration of this!
Why are Nanoemulsions Special?
- Improved delivery: They can help active ingredients reach their target areas more effectively.
- Increased absorption: Their small size allows for vastly better absorption into the body.
- Circulate through the blood stream longer: Their small size also makes them difficult for the liver to recognize and target, thus delaying their breakdown.
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Reduced side effects: By delivering supplements more precisely, they can minimize side effects.
Versatility: They can be formulated into different forms like creams, sprays, and liquids.
How are they used?
Nanoemulsions are used by the pharmaceutical industry to deliver a variety of compounds, including those for:
- Treating infections
- Cancer therapy
- Delivering vaccines
- Delivery of nutrients
In a Nutshell
Nanoemulsions represent a significant advancement in drug delivery, as their tiny size and unique properties offer the potential for more effective and safer treatments. At Ascential, we recognized this potential and wondered if the concept could be applied to nutritional supplements. Rigorous research, along with much trial and error, led Dr. Gill to successfully develop our proprietary Clear Advantage™ nanoemulsion delivery system, specifically formulated to most effectively transport difficult to absorb plant compounds. The result, in the case of Truemeric, is a 150 fold increase in bioavailability of curcumin - many times greater than any other product on the market.
Reference: Nanoemulsion: an advanced mode of drug delivery system - PMC