D-Ribose
Energy to Power Metabolic Health Wellness
Like a computer, your body needs energy to keep running. Energy keeps your heart beating, your muscles contracting, and your brain and nervous system carrying the messages that synchronize the functions of life. For the most vital task of making the energy you need, your body produces ribose.
D-Ribofuranose (D-ribose, or simply ribose) is a five-carbon monosaccharide that is made in every cell in your body. Ribose stimulates the metabolic pathway used by the body to make a class of compounds called purines and pyrimidines. These compounds are essential for the body's production of many vital constituents, including the genetic material DNA and RNA, and the vital energy compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is called the "energy currency" of the cell because it gives our bodies the power to function, survive, and thrive.
ATP is critical to health and a healthy lifestyle, and ribose is the essential component in the making of ATP in the body.
Optimizing Energy
Age, illness, strenuous or infrequent exercise, overexertion, or a host of metabolic disorders can seriously drain ATP reserves from your cells and tissues. And that can leave you fatigued, sore, weak, and drained of energy.
To replace this lost energy, your body needs ribose. Ribose forms the structural backbone of ATP, and is the starting point for the synthesis of ATP in the body. Unfortunately, most cells in your body, including heart and muscle cells, lack the metabolic machinery to make ribose quickly or efficiently. Because your body produces ribose at such an extremely slow rate, any one of these health or physiological factors can leave your ATP levels in short supply.
In normal, healthy tissue, several days of rest will allow energy levels to return to normal. But, during the process, muscles can feel tired, weak, and sore. Supplementing with Bioenergy RIBOSE will accelerate the energy recovery process and help overcome the impact of overexertion.
Bioenergy RIBOSE is safe, effective and patent protected. Bioenergy has a family of issued and pending patents covering all known applications for ribose in nutrition, medicine, and veterinary healthcare. Information on the science of Bioenergy RIBOSE is also available.
Bioenergy RIBOSE™ Suggested References
Published research shows that Bioenergy RIBOSE may be an effective adjunct in promoting cardiovascular, skeletal muscle, and neurological health. In the heart and with heart patients, D-ribose has been found effective in restoring energy, improving ventilatory efficiency, oxygen uptake, stroke volume, diastolic function, physical performance, and quality of life. In neuromuscular disease, D-ribose helps to reduce pain, overcome fatigue, increase exercise tolerance, and help patients live more normal, active lives.
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