Karuah ChancaPlus™ Herb tea capsules

Karuah ChancaPlus™ Herb tea capsules are a rich source of phytonutrients that may support a healthy calcium-magnesium balance. As a herbal tea mix, it is meant to be ingested, not just infused and to make this more palatable and convenient and to also bypass the digestive acid in the stomach, we encapsulate the tea in slow release, vegan capsules.

Ingredients: Chanca piedra (Phyllanthus niruri)(95%), wild rosella, Herbal-Active® (natural flavours: wild crafted Acacia gum, culinary herb and spice essential oils, plant saponins), black pepper, vegetable gelatine (capsules)

Supporting a healthy calcium:magnesium balance

Karuah ChancaPlus™ is a partner product to our Karuah Active Magnesium™ since Mg deficiency leads to Ca loss from teeth and bones. Karuah ChancaPlus™ appears to mobilize Ca from soft tissues and with adequate Mg (from Karuah Active Magnesium™) and sufficient vitamin D, this bone loss of Ca can be reversed and our skeleton remineralized. Read more below.

NEWS FLASH:

Why are our soft tissues turning into bone and why is cardiovascular disease the #1 killer in Australia (and why does dementia overtake this after we turn 75?)

It was traditionally believed that vascular calcification (a cause of cardiovascular disease) was the result of passive precipitation of calcium and phosphate in the blood at high concentrations. 

It now appears that calcium buildup in our soft tissues is a more complicated process involving cells that act like bone-building cells. These cells lay down a matrix to which calcium sticks and accumulates. When this happens in our arteries, the calcification then stimulates the death of the hardened blood vessel cells, it damages the stretchy fibres in the arterial walls and degrades them. Vitamin D3 also induces the deposition of calcium into soft tissues as it does for its important role of providing calcium for our teeth and bones.

Overdosing simple nutritional components such as calcium or synthetic vitamins may help some parts of our biochemistry but negatively and often seriously impact others eg increased mortality from heart attack and strokes.

In regards to dementia, it is worth noting that while calcification starts from an early age, obvious symptoms only begin to be expressed from our 40s and later. Brain scans could provide early detection of future problems but this is preventative and not symptomatic medicine. Additionally, there can be negative cerebrovascular outcomes (stroke, aneurysms, brain bleeds and carotid artery disease) from cardiovascular diseases or independently. 

However, dementia and other conditions of cognitive decline appear to be associated with calcification as are attention deficit conditions eg psychosis, personality changes, mental confusion and difficulty with concentration and focusing.

The fact that we are still advised to take synthetic vitamin D3 (sometimes even laced with calcium) beggars belief. 

Vitamin D is best obtained from food sources eg Karuah Active Magnesium or produced by our own skin and gilled mushrooms (which we then consume). As with nearly all supplements, good nutrition does not come from a bottle of some synthetic chemical.

Calcium supplementation and even foods 'enriched' with added calcium should be avoided. We rely on fewer and fewer food species and some processed products include food fragments. It is difficult to avoid daily consumption of lots of calcium from pharmaceuticals, bakery preservatives, dairy products, sesame seed products (eg tahini), leafy greens (kale, spinach, silverbeet), miso soup and most other soy products, French fries, sweet potatoes … the list goes on.

Calcium granules also get left behind by bacterial infections in, for example, prostate and breast tissue if not all our organs and starting from way back when we were teenagers. These calculi have been shown to be the exact sites of rogue cell growths decades later in life.

Calcium in our food supply is definitely too much of a good thing.

About Karuah ChancaPlus™

By way of academic interest only, chanca piedra has a long history of use among a range of traditional cultures from Ayurvedic Indians on the subcontinent to Peruvian Indians in the Amazon. The herb appears to offer many applications for health maintenance but its ability to gelatinize calcium deposits makes it a sort of a soft tissue rust remover.

The main ingredient in Karuah ChancaPlus™ Herb tea capsules is the focus in this short history of uses of Chanca piedra.

As mentioned in the preamble to this page, Karuah Active Magnesium™ is a paired or complementary product to Karuah ChancaPlus™.  More on this here.

This partner relationship is due to a number of reasons, not least being the benefits from solving our Mg deficiency and reversing the loss of calcium from our bones.

Mg also improves muscle sensitivity to insulin and pairs ChancaPlus's anti-diabetic activity so they are protective against blood glucose levels rising.

Free calcium and magnesium in cerebral blood can modulate neurotransmitter release and uptake in nerves so that our cognitive functions are enhanced.

And so much more.

Please note: We do not offer Karuah ChancaPlus™ as a drug or therapeutic of any kind and the following comments have not been approved by any regulatory body as we do not claim our functional food products treat, mitigate or cure any diagnosed illness or medical condition. If in doubt, consult your sickcare provider or seek informed opinion. Peer-reviewed academic articles are your best source of the latest information.

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