Lipid Replacement Therapy with a Glycophospholipid-Antioxidant-Vitamin Formulation Significantly Reduces Fatigue Within One Week in Chronic Fatigued Patients: Implications for Neurodegenerative, Neurobehavioral and Fatiguing Illnesses.
Garth L. Nicolson, Rita Ellithrope and Robert Settineri
Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, California 92647; Tustin Longevity Center, Tustin, California 92780 and Sierra Research, Irvine, California 92606
Purpose: Fatigue occurs naturally during aging and in most degenerative diseases, including neurodegenerative and neurobehavioral diseases as well as fatiguing illnesses, and is the most common complaint of patients seeking general medical care. Lipid Replacement Therapy administered using an all-natural nutritional supplement containing membrane glycophospholipids and antioxidants (NTFactor®) can reduce or prevent fatigue [1-3] and restore mitochondrial function [4] in patients with a variety of chronic conditions.
Results: Recent clinical trials using patients with chronic fatigue have shown the benefit of Lipid Replacement Therapy in restoring mitochondrial electron transport function and reducing moderate to severe chronic fatigue [2]. In the current study, an online survey on fatigue was used to assess the effects of a membrane glycophospholipid-antioxidant-vitamin mixture on fatigue. Fatigue was reduced within one week by a mean of 36.8% (p < 0.0001) in a group of 67 subjects of mean age 57.3 years with various fatigue levels. There was no difference between the response of males and females to the supplement, and no adverse events occurred during the study [5].
Conclusions: These results provide evidence that this new glycophospholipid-antioxidant-vitamin supplement significantly reduces fatigue within one week in subjects with a variety of fatigue levels and clinical diagnoses.
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5. Nicolson GL et al. Lipid Replacement Therapy with a glycophospholipid-antioxidant-vitamin formulation significantly reduces fatigue within one week. J Am Nutraceut Assoc 2010; in press.