Skin Restoring Phytoceramides with Lipowheat 350 mg, 30 Liquid Caps
Skin Restoring Phytoceramides with Lipowheat® offers the skin-nourishing benefits of wheat-derived ceramide oils in a convenient oral supplement designed to support dermal elasticity, proper hydration, and lasting comfort!
Benefits at a Glance
- Concentrated oral formula for youthful-looking skin
- Promotes healthy skin hydration and comfort
- Encourages healthy ceramide levels in aging skin
- Addresses the challenge of poor ceramide absorption
- Skin Deep: the benefits of ceramide oils
Ceramides comprise 35%–40% of the binding matrix that maintains moisture balance and protects the surface of your skin.1,2 These skin-nourishing oils are an important lipid component of the skin’s membrane, where they provide protection from the elements and lock in moisture.2-5 But one of the challenges of maintaining supple, healthy skin is that ceramide levels naturally decrease as we age!6,7
Using wheat oils as a natural moisturizer
The ceramides that give younger skin its supple appearance are identical to those found in wheat. That’s why wheat-derived oils have been used topically as natural moisturizers for centuries. However, you can’t get enough ceramides from topically applied wheat germ oil to have a long-term impact on your skin’s appearance.
What’s worse, you probably won’t be able to obtain enough wheat ceramides from your diet to make a difference, either. The good news is we’ve combined these skin nourishing oils in a proprietary, highly concentrated ceramide Lipowheat® blend.
Clinically researched Lipowheat® formula
What makes Skin Restoring Phytoceramides with Lipowheat® such an excellent complement to topical products you may already use? Japanese women have had access to ceramides as a functional food since 2000.8 Ceramides were shown to be so effective that they’re now approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA.
Study verifies improvements in hydration and comfort
In one study, 95% of participants taking 200 mg of Lipowheat® a day reported dramatic improvement in the look and feel of their skin and exhibited improved skin hydration, with results verified by electrochemical analysis. Better yet, the study participants who experienced itching at the onset of the study reported sharp decreases or completely eliminated itching by the study’s end.8
Enjoy ageless, healthy-looking skin and replace the ceramides you lose as you age with Skin Restoring Phytoceramides with Lipowheat® – only from Life Extension®!
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- Biophys Chem. 2010 Aug;150(1-3):144-56.
- Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. Apr 2007;146(2):67-75
- Int J Cosmet Sci. 2011 Apr;33(2):138-43
- Am J Clin Dermatol. 2005;6(4):215-23.
- Robert Baran, Howard I. Maibach. Textbook of cosmetic dermatology. Third Ed. Taylor & Francis. 2005:177.
- Accessed February 25, 2013.
- J Med Esth et Chir Derm. 2007 Dec; 34(136):239-42.
Additional Information
Life Extension Skin Restoring Ceramides with Lipowheat 350 mg – 30 Liquid Capsules
Life Extension has brought together skin-nourishing oils in an oral formula with Skin Restoring Ceramides with Lipowheat a proprietary ceramide blend that offers nutritional support for aging skin, to complement topical products you may already use. Life Extension Skin Restoring Ceramides with Lipowheat helps maintain healthy skin hydration. Life Extension Skin Restoring Ceramides with Lipowheat has proven so effective in clinical trials, they’re now approved as a dietary ingredient by the FDA. For example, after three months of ingesting 200 mg a day of Life Extension Skin Restoring Ceramides with Lipowheat, a group of people suffering from dry, flaking skin reported dramatic improvement in the look and feel of their skin. These results were verified by electrochemical analysis showing that 95% of participants exhibited improved skin hydration. Better yet, all subjects who experienced chronic itching at the onset of the study reported sharply decreased itching or complete elimination of the problem by the end of the study!
Ceramides play a central role in preserving healthy-looking skin. They are an important lipid component of the skin’s membrane, where they provide protection from the elements and lock in moisture. In fact, they make up 35%-40% of the binding matrix that maintains moisture balance and protects the skin’s surface. The problem is that the body’s production of ceramides declines with age.
The ceramides that young skin naturally produces to retain its supple appearance are identical to those present in wheat which is why wheat-derived oils have been used topically for centuries as a natural moisturizer. But you can’t get enough ceramides from topically-applied wheat germ oil to have a long-term impact on your skin’s appearance. And they don’t appear in sufficient concentration in your diet.
Benefits at a Glance
- Concentrated oral formula for youthful-looking skin
- Promotes healthy skin hydration and comfort
- Encourages healthy ceramide levels in aging skin
- Addresses the challenge of poor ceramide absorption
- Gluten-Free
- GMO-Free
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Why do some companies refer to these excipients as a threat to your health?
Claiming any product is “pure and free of excipients” can be deceptive advertising, too frequently used to draw attention away from inferior active ingredients! The right inactive ingredients used in the right way do important things … like ensuring that a tablet disintegrates in your GI tract rather than just passing through your system without benefit, or keeping a product from breaking down and being susceptible to microbes. Take Life Extension blueberry extract, for example. It contains AuroraBlue wild-harvested, Alaskan blueberries. To retain their nutritional complexity, these berries are freeze-dried and carefully milled for capsule formulation. But being a whole fruit raw material, it tends to want to reconstitute itself with moisture, which would make it a breeding ground for bacteria. So Life Extension uses a drying excipient to keep the milled blueberry material dry, so it can safely deliver its superior nutritional value compared with other, less costly blueberry extracts in most commercial formulations.
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Should I be concerned about the use of stearic acid?
Stearic acid functions as a flow agent in the manufacture of quality products, and stearic acid also occurs naturally in the foods you eat. For example, four ounces of dark chocolate contain 3,625 mg of stearic acid; a cup of kidney beans contains 1,655 mg of stearic acid; an ounce of raw ground beef (grass-fed) contains 2,063 mg of stearic acid; and a half pound of lean raw turkey contains 1,642 mg of stearic acid. Even a tablespoon of allspice contains 1,513 mg of stearic acid! Life Extension supplements, on the other hand, typically contain no more than 10 mg per capsule. They always use the lowest level of magnesium stearate possible.
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Does the gelatin used in softgels and capsules contain MSG?
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What’s the difference between tablets, capsules and softgels?
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Why aren’t Life Extension products organic?
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