<p>This product contains the alkaloid berberine, supplemented with the essential amino acid leucine for maximum potency.</p> <p>Berberine from <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a style="color:#78509a;" href="https://morgenisnu.nl/merk/enzymedica/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Enzymedica</a></span> contains the bioactive substance berberine combined with the essential amino acid leucine. Both are pure ingredients of vegan origin. Berberine is isolated from various medicinal plants in order to be used as a food supplement. In this product, isolation from the Indian barberry was chosen for sustainability reasons. This product is guaranteed clean, sustainable and effective based on certification, research and control by independent laboratories.</p> <h4><span style="color:#78509a;">Sustainable source of berberine</span></h4> <p>Berberine is a bioactive substance from plants, which is chemically classified in the alkaloid group. The substance occurs in various popular medicinal plants, such as the <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a style="color:#78509a;" href="https://morgenisnu.nl/products/goldenseal/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Canadian turmeric</a></span> (botanical: Hydrastis canadensis), the creeping mahonia (botanical: Mahonia repens), the three-leaved goldthread (botanical: Coptis trifolia) and the barberry (botanical: Berberis vulgaris). Spread all over the world, these plants have been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years. And even today, the plants are still popular.</p> <p>So popular that the survival of some of these plants is currently threatened by excessive wild harvesting. It is therefore important to choose berberine from a sustainable source. Enzymedica attaches great importance to sustainability. In this product, the substance is isolated from the Indian barberry (botanical: Berberis aristata). This plant is in no way endangered. The plant grows abundantly and the harvest is sustainable. The plant extract used is standardized to 95% berberine.</p> <h4><span style="color:#78509a;">Research on berberine</span></h4> <p>Since the early 2000s, there has been increasing interest in science for the substance berberine. Extensive research is being conducted into its properties and mechanisms of action. When we look at PubMed, the internet database of medical-scientific articles, we see that the number of scientific publications is still increasing every year. The number has risen from 18 in the year 2000 to 368 in 2020 (<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a style="color:#78509a;" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=berberine%5BTitle%5D&amp;filter=years.2020-2020" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">source</a></span>). This means that in the year 2020 there was more than 1 publication per day!</p> <h4><span style="color:#78509a;">Berberine from Enzymedica, highest quality</span></h4> <p>The manufacturer, Enzymedica, has quality written in capital letters. They do everything they can to guarantee that their nutritional supplements <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a style="color:#78509a;text-decoration:underline;" href="https://enzymedica.com/pages/explore-our-mission" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">clean, sustainable and effective</a></span> are. Enzymedica uses the purest ingredients that can be found on our planet. They take the well-being of the earth as seriously as the health of humans. And they do extensive research into the effectiveness of the supplements. To be fair, you don't accidentally make the most powerful supplements in the world. A lot of research, control and development precedes this.</p>