Lycopene and Beta-Carotene: The “Dynamic Duo” of Nutrients for a Healthier, More Beautiful You Every Day
Found in many familiar fruits like tomatoes, Gac, and watermelon, Lycopene and Beta-Carotene offer amazing benefits that help make your body healthier and more beautiful.
Lycopene and Beta-Carotene – Essential Nutrients for Health
Lycopene and Beta-Carotene are carotenoids, a type of natural pigment found in many foods. Lycopene is one of the most powerful antioxidants among common carotenoids, while Beta-Carotene is also a strong antioxidant and a precursor to vitamin A, making it a rich, natural source of this essential vitamin. This nutrient duo has been praised by researchers for its extraordinary health benefits, especially in supporting liver protection.
Scientific studies reveal Lycopene’s outstanding benefits:
- Liver Protection: Lycopene can remove free radicals, one of the causes of cancers (including liver cancer) present in daily food and water.
- Liver Cancer Prevention: Lycopene may prevent the progression to liver cancer in patients with hepatitis and cirrhosis.
- Antioxidant Power: Lycopene effectively neutralizes free radicals, which cause organ and cellular damage, by capturing singlet oxygen, making it one of the most potent antioxidants among 600 natural carotenoids.
- Blood Lipid Disorder Treatment: It inhibits HMG-CoA reductase (an enzyme needed for cholesterol synthesis), significantly reducing total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels, lowering the risk of atherosclerosis and related cardiovascular diseases.
Beta-Carotene is also a strong antioxidant and can convert into vitamin A in the body, helping to prevent diseases associated with Vitamin A deficiency:
- Immune System Benefits: It boosts the body’s resistance, preventing growth delay, rickets, malnutrition in children, and immune decline in the elderly.
- Eye Health: Supports vision enhancement, reducing eye strain, dry eyes, and blurred vision.
- Skin and Mucous Membranes: Supports cellular differentiation in skin and mucous membranes, improving skin brightness and health.
Where to Supplement Lycopene and Beta-Carotene?
Lycopene and Beta-Carotene can be found in various red, yellow, and orange foods, but Gac stands out as the richest source. According to Ishida BK and colleagues, Gac contains the highest levels of carotenoids among tropical fruits, with Lycopene at 222.7 mg per 100 g (approximately 70 times more Lycopene than tomatoes) and Beta-Carotene at 71.8 mg per 100 g (about 10 times more Beta-Carotene than carrots). These attributes make Gac the “fruit from paradise,” as praised by American experts and scientists.
Beyond traditional uses like cooking sticky rice, Gac has been made into convenient products that preserve its maximum Lycopene and Beta-Carotene content, such as Lyco-Prevent Soft-gel.
Lyco-Prevent Health Supplement – contains exceptionally high levels of Lycopene and Beta-Carotene, providing the following benefits:
- Lyco-Prevent supports liver protection against oxidative agents—a common cause of liver cell damage, reduced liver function, and hepatitis.
- Lyco-Prevent also supports increased immunity, anti-aging, vision enhancement, and cardiovascular health.
Notably, the Gac used to extract Lycopene and Beta-Carotene in Lyco-Prevent capsules is organic Gac, cultivated according to European organic standards (EC 834/2007) and USDA organic standards (USDA-NOP).