Boost your health with bioactive peptides
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Bioactive peptides
In daily life people are continuously exposed to many stress factors, like environmental stress and chemicals, medicines and indulgence foods (e.g. alcoholic beverages). NIZO has expertise in a broad range of methods from in vitro tests to in vivo trials. These tests are used to assess the functionality of, for example, bioactive peptides.
Cysteine Peptide in fighting oxygen free radicals
Due to stress conditions, it could be you have a low glutathione level. This antioxidant is a cysteine-containing tripeptide that helps to keep you healthy by detoxifying free oxygen radicals and other toxicants such as pollutants, explains Dr. Corinne Sprong. DMV International commissioned NIZO food research to carry out the first functionality tests on Cysteine Peptide. “These were done using a paracetamol model’, explains Dr Sprong. The results underpinned the boosting effect of Cysteine Peptide on liver glutathione and thus in turn its protection against toxicants.”