National Autism Awareness Month and Mangosteen
The Source and the Power of Xanthones in Autism
#000000;">I attend network marketing conferences throughout the year. During these
#000000;">conferences a time is set aside to hear testimonies from participants regarding
#000000;">their experience and successes using various products. I vividly remember
#000000;">one mother describing the trials and tribulations her family, including their
#000000;">autistic child, had endured while seeking treatments. She spoke plainly yet
#000000;">with progressive emotion as she told about giving her child the same juice
#000000;">of mangosteen fortified with minerals that she was taking. One day the
#000000;">child said, “Mommy, I can think!” This simple dietary supplementation had
#000000;">remarkably changed everything after so many prescriptions and sessions of
#000000;">therapy had had very little impact.
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#000000;">There are numerous twenty-first-century scientific journal articles discussing
#000000;">xanthones and in particular, alpha mangostin, which is present in the mangosteen fruit’s peel.
#000000;"> The peel, called the pericarp, is where the powerful antioxidants and ligands are highly concentrated. The
#000000;">mangosteen pericarp is about one-quarter of an inch in thickness. It is green
#000000;">when unripe and dark purple when ripened. The powerful antioxidants are
#000000;">known as xanthones. There are about forty-plus xanthone phytomolecules in
#000000;">mangosteen pericarp that have remarkable healing properties. The medicinal
#000000;">properties of the mangosteen pericarp have been utilized by many generations
#000000;">of Asians and more recently by those seeking the benefits of the juice in
#000000;">products marketed today.
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#000000;">The standardized extracts of xanthones used in some formulation of
#000000;">mangosteen juices derived from the outer rind, or peel, not from the white
#000000;">“meat” inner part of the fruit. The rind of the partially ripened mangosteen
#000000;">fruit yields polyhydroxy-xanthone derivatives called mangostin and betamangostin.
#000000;">The pericarp of the fully ripe fruit also contains the xanthones
#000000;">gartanin, beta-disoxygartanin, and normangostin (Nguyen, 2005). There is
#000000;">considerable evidence linking prostaglandins with inflammation and pain
#000000;">mediated through arachidonic acid, which is blocked by xanthones (Nakatani,
#000000;">2002). There is also induction of apoptosis (cancer cell death) by the xanthones
#000000;">present in the pericarp of the mangosteen fruit in vitro (Nagagawa, 2007).
National Autism Awareness Month
The references are found in my book
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