Below I will tell you about how, using the Internet (mainly Russian and foreign), I found out: Lactomarin gel is a deception or a means to preserve and increase he alth. I hope this "research" will help you draw your own conclusions, and not blindly trust someone's words - neither laudatory nor defamatory.
Along the way, I found out how much a similar product costs in the US - it turned out to be very unexpected knowledge. I think you will be surprised too.
“Another divorce…”, or How can a person without a medical education find out the truth
"My grandmother started using Lactomarin and got pulmonary edema after a month." “A week later I was covered with ulcers!”. “This is a mega lie, comrades: a gel from simple seaweed for several thousand!” “Another divorce for pensioners and housewives”…
Similar reviews of people about Lactomarine - a food gel made from brown algae - although infrequently, they are found on forums and social networks. And even if there are many more positive ones, some of them may turn out to be custom-made (there is such a practice among fraudulent sellers).
Customized from competitors maybe negative, including - reviews of doctors about Lactomarin. What should we, ordinary consumers without medical education, do in such a situation? Understand on your own.
Why? We want to be he althy, young, beautiful. And the product, according to the manufacturer and creators, has directly impressive properties:
- improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract: flatulence, constipation, inflammation in the stomach and intestines, heaviness, discomfort in the stomach (epigastric area) disappear - especially useful for people over 50 in this regard;
- has a positive effect on overall well-being - relieves chronic fatigue, weakness, improves immunity;
- lowers bad cholesterol;
- speeds up metabolism - and this in itself is he alth, youth and beauty;
- stabilizes fat and carbohydrate metabolism, in connection with which (as well as with good functioning of the gastrointestinal tract) there is a loss of excess weight to normal or a significant decrease in it;
- provides the body with iodine - we have big problems with this in our country;
- strong antioxidant and radioprotector - protects against aging and radiation.
In addition to the above, the manufacturer claims that the benefits of Lactomarin are in a record amount of vitamins, trace elements, fiber, which serves as a "broom" for our intestines.
To understand if this is a blatant fraud or a unique product, you need to answer only 5 questions
- Can Lactomarin really help with all these problems?
- Does the composition correspond to the declared - 100% kelpplus tasty, he althy cumin again and not a molecule of something harmful?
- What is the difference between Lactomarine and ordinary cheap seaweed, if it consists only of it? Why is the price of Lactomarin 2 orders of magnitude higher?
- Why is the gel from our Far Eastern algae better than foreign analogues (according to the manufacturers)?
- How does official (evidence-based) medicine treat the gel? Does she approve of the use of Lactomarine?
And we'll start with the last one, because the vast majority of advertised "panaceas" (medicines for everything) are rightly rejected by evidence-based medicine - they only help get rid of money.
Another divorce
First of all, we go to the site of the Unified Register of State Registration Certificates, because it is not worth 100% dealing with unregistered products. As it turned out, medicine does not directly apply to the gel: Lactomarin is a specialized food product for dietary therapeutic and preventive nutrition (https://portal.eaeunion.org/sites/odata/_layouts/15/Portal. EEC. Registry. UI/DisplayForm.aspx?ItemId=10735598&ListId=f7954aaa-b57b-429e-8f39-b7e3158c88d6).
On the website of the Register, in the gel card, we read that the product was tested at the ROSTEST-Moscow Food Testing Center and received an expert opinion from the Research Institute of Nutrition. Simply put, the benefits and harms of Lactomarin were evaluated by scientists and doctors. The conclusions of experts, as we understand it, confirm what is written on the label of the product and is given in the instructions for it. Otherwisethe manufacturer has no right to write about the benefits of the product.
That would be enough to close all 5 questions we are looking for answers to. Unlike dietary supplements (and ignorant people often include Lactomarin among them), food products undergo detailed research and numerous tests, especially recently. Therefore, there is no longer any doubt about the uniqueness of the gel.
But we, as modern and hard-won consumers, will figure it out to the end. It turns out that the gel was developed under the guidance of Academician Alexei Odints, Candidate of Biological Sciences, who even defended a dissertation at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University on new approaches in biotechnology for the production of seaweed products (https://www.bio.msu.ru/res/Dissertation/734 /DOC_FILENAME/Odinets_avtoreferat.pdf). Scientific articles are devoted to the study of the gel - here you will find links to them and other official information on the product.
First conclusion. Official medicine recommends! Doctors about Lactomarin speak very positively. The product is not another dietary supplement, not a drug, it is a specialized food product for dietary nutrition.
"Another "panacea" that will only save you money"
Is it really the composition of the gel, in which - seaweed kelp - helps with many problems (we are told about this by the instructions for Lactomarin and hundreds of publications)?
Let's go in a simple but proven way - let's turn to Wikipedia, but not Russian, but English, where information is checked, unlike us, stricter and more scrupulous. If you don't ownEnglish, Google Translate will translate the text quite readably.
So, the English "Wikipedia" about kelp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminaria) writes that the plant:
- major source of iodine (for humans) needed to maintain thyroid he alth;
- contains mannitol, which reduces intracranial and intraocular pressure;
- contains laminarin - a substance with high (!) antitumor activity, which is also used in the treatment of antibiotic-resistant nosocomial infections - those that a person caught directly in the hospital;
- (and again) contains laminarin - it normalizes metabolism in the intestines, improves the process of digestion of food, eliminates putrefactive phenomena in the intestines;
- relieves completely or significantly of heartburn and dyspepsia - a variety of digestive disorders;
- source of alginate (alginic acid) - an antacid that neutralizes excess hydrochloric acid in gastric juice; an adsorbent with a high ability to bind heavy metals, radioactive elements (plutonium, radium, strontium, etc.), toxic substances, and then remove them from the body; in addition, alginate is a wound healing substance.
Another detailed description of the medicinal properties of kelp we found on the website of the electronic scientific library "CyberLeninka", where scientific articles and monographs are posted with the permission of the authors. It is contained in an article by scientists from the Northern State Medical University of Arkhangelsk O. G. Strusovskaya andO. V. Buyuklinskaya “Possibilities of using laminarin in medicine” (https://cyberleninka.ru/article/v/vozmozhnosti-ispolzovaniya-laminarina-v-meditsine-obzor-literatury). We will not retell the content of the work - you can read it yourself, however, we note that the authors fully confirm everything previously said about the healing properties of kelp.
Kelp reduces the risk of developing hormone-dependent cancer, and scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, whose study was published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry in 2000.
English "Wikipedia" is silent about fucoidan - another substance found in brown algae and arousing great interest of scientists around the world. This silence is understandable: research on fucoidan is in an active stage, so the authors of the article on kelp have not yet reported anything to readers who are accustomed to trusting the "public encyclopedia".
However, the equally respected Japanese Wikipedia already offers us a rather detailed description (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/フコイダン) of fucoidan. Below I will give a free retelling of the most interesting moments.
Fucoidan
The sulfated polysaccharide fucoidan has been studied since the 1970s. In 1996, the Japan Cancer Association reported the anti-cancer effect of the polysaccharide, after which interest in kelp as a food product increased tremendously.
In 2002, already French scientists stated that fucoidan inhibits the development of cellular hyperplasia (excess formation of new cells and new tissue structures). They have carried outexperiments, during which the anti-cancer properties of the polysaccharide, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, immunomodulatory, the ability to stimulate angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels) were manifested and confirmed.
Both French and Japanese scientists (in particular, from the University of Kyushu) note the following properties of fucoidan:
- antioxidant activity;
- antibacterial action;
- wound healing effect (for example, with a stomach ulcer);
- ability to lower the level of bad cholesterol in the blood.
Vitamins, minerals and another authority
Information about vitamins, trace elements in the composition of kelp can be found on thousands of sites in Runet. However, here we went more complicated, but reliable way.
In the United States in 1996, American cyclist Lance Armstrong created a charitable foundation to fight cancer. And on the page of this foundation, I found information about kelp (https://www.livestrong.com/article/186803-liquid-kelp-he alth-benefits/), which in itself is significant, because serious experts work on the materials there.
As part of the culture - vitamins A, E, K and C, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, folate, choline, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium. But the main thing is iodine!
Pay attention! 1 tablespoon of raw kelp contains the daily amount of iodine for an adult.
Quite unexpectedly for myself, I found an article on the foundation's website about the benefits of kelp gel over all othersseaweed products (link above), but - more on that below.
But the gel is not fresh kelp. How does it work?
It is logical to assume that the effect of lactomarin should be similar to the effect of seaweed on the body.
Research (https://lech-delo.by/wp-content/uploads/arxiv/ld/lech_delo_2_(48)_2016.pdf p. 35) conducted at the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Problems at the Russian Academy Sciences, at the Riga University Clinical Hospital. Paula Stradynia, at the Minsk Academy of Sciences of Belarus, confirmed that with a 10-day course of taking the gel, almost 80% of patients experience the disappearance of symptoms of functional dyspepsia syndrome - feelings of pain and burning in the epigastric region, feelings of fullness in the epigastrium, bloating, belching, nausea, general weakness, constipation, etc. This result was achieved with the minimum dose of Lactomarin - 50 grams per day.
Another study, https://vvmr.ru/archive/2015/6-2015/, conducted by a group of scientists - A. G. Odinets, O. I. Orlov, V. K. Ilyin and others, confirmed that the gel retains the radioprotective and antioxidant properties of seaweed.
A clinical trials of Lactomarin, conducted in the Khabarovsk branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences under the guidance of Professor V. K. Kozlov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, showed that the gel:
- 100% natural food product;
- derived by low temperature hydrolysis - no sterilization, no preservatives;
- contains alginate, fucoidan, laminarin (I described their properties above);
- effective forimmune disorders, iodine and iron deficiency;
- effective for digestive disorders;
- effective in metabolic syndrome with impaired carbohydrate, lipid, purine metabolism and arterial hypertension.
Second conclusion. Lactomarin is really able to normalize the digestive tract, lower cholesterol, speed up metabolism, cleanse the body, provide it with trace elements and vitamins, increase immunity, protect against radiation, heavy metal poisoning.
“A simple seaweed for a thousand. How many fools there are in the country!”
I agree. And it is still unknown which side they are on. But everything is in order. Now we have to find out: why the cost of Lactomarine is so much higher than any other kelp product and whether the gel is really he althier than seaweed salad.
And along the way, we will answer the question of whether the composition of Lactomarin corresponds to the declared one, that is, it does not contain preservatives, dyes, and does not deteriorate. To find out all of the above, let's see how the gel is made.
Gel production
And let's start our search with … the production of seaweed salad, with which skeptics usually compare Lactomarin. Curious material (https://www.1tv.ru/shows/dobroe-utro/otk/morskaya-kapusta-14-01-2014) on this topic can be found on the website of Channel One on January 14, 2014.
You don't even have to watch the video, but read its description. It says that experts call frozen kelp the most useful, in which useful substances are preserved to the maximum. And here's the saladwe buy in stores, canned cabbage does not contain anything useful…
It's all about sterilization, in which the product is heated to 120 °C. Both iodine and vitamins, other unique substances and compounds described above, are destroyed during heat treatment. And preserves that are not sterilized are "stuffed" with preservatives, which is not much better: they also kill all the benefits of the plant.
Should I be glad that seaweed in the form of salad and canned/preserved food is inexpensive? You pay for packaging, for someone else's labor, transportation, but not for your own he alth.
How is kelp gel made?
Raw materials for the gel are mined in the Far Eastern Bay of Terney. Algae are collected in early autumn at a temperature of + 10 ° C … 13 ° C: the peculiarity of kelp is that the colder the water and air temperature, the more useful substances the plant accumulates. The collected algae are not dried, but aired in the cold - this is how all its benefits are preserved in kelp.
Important! To turn the raw material into a gel without destroying the unique fucoidan, vitamins, antioxidants, amino acids, the manufacturer - Siterna - created and patented a new low-temperature technology: patent No. 2323600 "Method for the production of brown algae gel for dietary and preventive nutrition."
Of course, the details of production are not disclosed, but the presence of a patent and numerous serious studies of the product (about them above) says: manufacturers do not lie about the safety of up to 90% of nutrients and nutrients! And this is the third conclusion.
It must be admitted that liquid / semi-liquid extracts from brown seaweed are not only made by us. Let's return to the American website of the LIVESTRONG. COM Cancer Foundation. It features material on the benefits of the liquid extract over other seaweed products.
The authors write that, in addition to a large amount of fiber, the gel contains a huge number of substances useful for humans, preserved from a living plant.
How much does "liquid algae" cost, for example, in the US?
Here is an example of a similar product (https://store.newwayherbs.com/kelp-atlantic-ascophyllum-nodosom-p55.aspx) - Kelp-Atlantic (Ascophyllum nodosom). Please note that it is made on the basis of alcohol, which already casts doubt on its special usefulness, and therefore our Lactomarin immediately wins over the American "liquid algae".
Interesting and - unexpected! Now - cost. A bottle of 2 ounces (a little over 50 ml - the average bottle of perfume) costs $ 21.40 - about 1,300 rubles at the rate of 60 rubles per dollar. And in a jar of Lactomarin - 500 ml, i.e. - 10 times more. Consequently, the price of the gel in the US in terms of rubles would be 13,000 rubles per 1 (!) jar. Now you can tell yourself whether the price of Lactomarin is high, which is also much more useful than foreign analogues.
The high cost is due to the complexity of extraction, production of the product. It is much easier to stuff kelp leaves into a jar, sterilize and sell: the most expensive thing in this case is a tin, but we buy it to throw it away.
And therefore:
Fourth and final conclusion. I think, based on my own investigation, that lactomarin is a worthy, honest and, most importantly, very useful product.
