Benefits: Powerful antioxidant support
Current medicinal chemistry , 19 1, 126-32
A small pilot study designed to evaluate the safety of lipoic acid in 30 people with relapsing or progressive multiple sclerosis found that treatment with 1,200 to 2,400 mg/day of oral lipoic acid for two weeks was generally well tolerated (see Safety) (95)
In addition to facilitating weight loss, it can help men and women with an elevated body mass index (BMI) at risk for weight-related medical conditions
Animal studies suggest it works through specific cellular signaling pathways (FAK-paxillin and ERK1/2) to ramp up this repair process
Teskey, G., Abrahem, R., Cao, R., Gyurjian, K., Islamoglu, H., Lucero, M., Martinez, A., Paredes, E., Salaiz, O., Robinson, B., & Venketaraman, V