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Pantethine What Is It Is It Good For Candida?

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Channel: CanXida · 2017 · Education

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Pantethine is the active form of Vitamin B5. There are many uses for this amazing B Vitamin, and this video explains fact from fiction. Some people believe that Pantethine is great for Candida because it "lowers acetaldehyde levels", this is untrue.

Is it good for Candida?" Let's talk about what Pantethine is.
Pantethine is the active form of pantothenic acid or Vitamin B5. There are many different types of B vitamins. In the old days, 10 years ago, we had forms that were non-active. They have to be converted by the liver into active forms in order for them to work.

For example, if we look at Vitamin B6, pyridoxal hydrochloride, is a typical Vitamin B6 supplement that was used when I grew up and all through my student years. Pyridoxine was just used. It was normal to use. It's the same as B12. We've got better forms now. 

It's the same as B2 and B3. But now we've got active forms. So now we've got pyridoxal 5 phosphate instead of pyridoxine hydrochloride. It's a much better form. Now we've got pantethine instead of pantothenic acid. B5 is notoriously hard for the body to get into the cell. When they created pantethine, it's a much more easily absorbable form that can bypass liver and go to work directly on the cellular level. It just works faster. 

When I think of B5, I'm thinking about particularly fats and carbohydrate metabolism. B5 is quite a good one for people to use if they want to burn up some fat in their body. It assists the cellular transport of fatty acids. What it does is activate this stuff called carnitine. It helps carnitine, this amino acid, to get fatty acids into the mitochondria, which is the engine of the cell. The intermitochondria oxidation of fatty acids helps to burn fat. Are you still with me on this? Here's a simple one.

Picture a guy with a wheelbarrow and he wants to get a pile of fat from here over to there and he can't really do it because he's fat and lazy himself, so how is he going to get all the fat from there to there. He just gets a half dozen friends over to help him and they use better wheelbarrows, more efficient. Nice plastic ones. 

Pumped up tires. Now, he's got three or four skinny friends and all that fat can be moved from A to B very quickly. That's what pantethine can do. It can move fat more efficiently from one place to another. If you can imagine a guy with a wheelbarrow full of fat throwing into a furnace and what do the flames do, they get hotter and hotter. The fat metabolism works more efficiently with B5. 

That's a simple way to put it, isn't it?

The other key thing with B5 is pantethine, it's very, very good, particularly for adrenal function. B5 is one of the most important B vitamins to activate the production of adrenal stress hormones. 

Your adrenals have to make stress hormones like cortisol. Many other hormones, but cortisol is one of the main ones. Cortisol production is very dependent on B5. B5 is also required to activate co-enzyme A. Co-enzyme A is what drives energy up in the body. The body is very efficient. It's got multiple ways to create energy, but the co-enzyme A pathway is superior. When you give a person pantethine, they're going to produce more co-A and more efficiently convert fat and carbs to energy. 

It's a little bit like old steam engines. Now, we've got petrol engines, which are way more efficient. They give you more power. If you want more energy, if you want to burn more fat, if you want to have less stress and handle stress, B5, folks. A good dose of B5 can be anywhere between 300/400 up to about 1,000 milligrams per day. It's a good to play around with pantethine to see how you feel and it might work quite well for you. 

Just be careful. There are some websites that claim that pantethine actually is good for Candida. That's a load of crap! It doesn't affect Candida at all. I just looked at a very prominent Candida website and the author says that pantethine, in fact, is very important because it helps to remove acetaldehyde from the body. 

One of the by-products of Candida. This is nonsense. You go and look at it yourself. Acetaldehyde, the studies that that person's referring to refer acetaldehyde production from alcohol consumption in people with fatty livers. When you drink a lot of booze, you produce acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is a by-product. 

Your liver is going to mop and clean all that up. That gives you that brain fog kind of feeling. Have you guys ever drunk a bottle of vodka or whiskey before? I saw a lot of that in Las Vegas, people walking around drinking. 

When you drink alcohol, especially hard alcohol, your body produce acetaldehyde. The liver has got to break that down. Pantethine has shown merit in that particular situation, but there is no scientific or clinical proof at all to show that acetaldehyde as a spin off from.

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