MARINE INGREDIENTS
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Novel marine magnesium and trace minerals for skin
Brian Fitzpatrick - Oriel Marine Research & Development, Ireland Dr Ronan Murphy - Dublin City University School of Health & Human Performance Andrea Mitarotonda – Independent Consultant, UK
Dietary macro and trace minerals like magnesium, calcium, copper, zinc, nickel and manganese are nutrients critical to human skin and general health, performance and welfare. Skin health and nutrition for immunity, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and reproductive health, to name a few, depend on optimal macro and trace mineral nutrition. In recent years, magnesium is proving to be far and above the most important of these minerals, playing an important role in skin, hair and general health and wellbeing. Almost everything we know about mineral
nutrition, from inclusion levels to effects on skin health to performance, has come from studies using earth-sourced mineral salts. These mineral salts are made from a trace mineral loosely bound to a charged ion and have been the basis of trace mineral science and research since the 1930s. Recent studies, however, have been using a different form of macro and trace minerals, liquid marine minerals from a living deep sea source (organic and sustainably harvested source) and the results of those studies are challenging ideas once considered fundamental to skin, nutrition and health. The evidence points to marine sourced free
ion macro and trace minerals as a superior source of minerals, but beyond that, we have observed unprecedented effects in humans using Oriel’s Magnesium Mineral Extract (INCI: Sea Water Extract) as the optimally formulated free-ion marine minerals. Free-ion, organically sourced minerals and trace elements are changing the way we look at skin health and nutrition overall as they exist in the free ionic form protected by a hydration shell (passive ionisation).
Historically, land-sourced crystallised
minerals have been the primary form of minerals for use in skin care and nutrition whether transdermal or oral. Their inexpensive synthesis, however, produces a bound source (ligand and mineral) that is not absorbed efficiently via transdermal or oral application. When used transdermally, the absorption and efficacy is compromised as the bound form must become disassociated for efficient absorption, a process that is not conducive to transdermal efficacy. Employing integrative cell and molecular
biology techniques, including real-time cellular analysis, we demonstrate Marine Magnesium Mineral Extract to have potent cell health and functional benefits, including the regulation
of genes involved in dynamic reciprocity and tensegrity of the dermal environment. The in vitro findings were found to translate into improved skin health and function in vivo, improving hydration and barrier function. Scientific studies and published research
provides extensive evidence of widespread magnesium deficiency and the potential need for magnesium repletion in diverse medical conditions, including that of the skin. Indeed, the role magnesium and minerals play in the health of the skin is now being becoming more widely understood and studied. Magnesium is an essential core element
that is required as a cofactor for more than 600 enzymatic reactions and pivotal for the
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