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http://www.alsearsmd.com/2014/01/powerful-skin-restoring-nutrient-from-ancient-root/
Baicalin stops skin cell senescence by restring the telomere length of their chromosomes.
Then your skin can make healthy, youthful new cells and keep your skin acting years
younger.
Obtained from the roots of scutellaria baicalensis, baicalin increases skin cell working life by
about 10 per cent, delaying aging. Part of the way it does this is by restoring their telomeres.
In one study, researchers blasted skin cells with sunlight-like UV-A radiation. Skin cells
without baicalin had their telomere lengths reduced by almost 70%. Baicalin was able to
restore the telomeres to 65% of their original length, despite the damaging radiation.1
Baicalin also helps activate a set of anti-aging genes in skin cells called P53 genes that
prevent cells from becoming senescent.
Baicalin can help repair DNA breaks and keep your skin cells youthful and healthy.2 This
increases skin firmness and elasticity, improves skin restructuring, and increases the number
of fibroblast duplications.
And in a recent study, baicalin protected skin from UV-B radiation that can cause photo aging
and even skin cancer.
When researchers tried to age skin cells with ultraviolet radiation replicating overexposure to
sunlight, the fibroblasts of skin cells treated with baicalin remained youthful and normal.3
The antioxidant power of baicalin completely protected the skin cells from free radical
damage that causes premature aging of skin.
Another study found that pre-treating skin cells with baicalin protected them from the DNA
damage caused by ultraviolet radiation.4
Baicalin has many other benefits, too its a known memory-enhancer, for instance. What it
does is keep the active peptides in your brain working for longer, keeping your memory fresh
and sharp.5
Here are a few key points to know before you use baicalin:
1) You can buy fresh or dried scutellaria baicalensis leaves and dried powder online and in
specialty stores.
2) There are 10 mg of baicalin in every gram of scutellaria baicalensis leaves.
3) As a supplement, you can get baicalin in an extract of scutellaria baicalensis. Its known in
Traditional Chinese Medicine as Huang Qin, and as skullcap in the U.S.
4) Some extracts are in liquid form, as a tincture, and you can also get it as capsules.
Make sure you are buying the leaves, or an extract of, scutellaria baicalensis. There is another
kind of skullcap called Scutellaria lateriflor, but its not the same and does not have the same
biological effect.