CosMedix Eye Believe Liquid Crystal Serum Winning Ingredient

And the Winner is: Spin Trap!

Spin Trap (Phenyl Butyl Nitrone - PBN) is the most interesting inclusion in this formula. Several nitrones have been found to act as free radical “spin traps”. Dr. Nicholas Perricone wrote about spin traps in two of his books: The Wrinkle Cure and The Perricone Prescription.



In the 1990’s, scientists trying to better understand how free radicals damage cells, found that certain nitrones would attach themselves to free radicals and send out a signal which could be measured by electronic spin resonance. Thus the name “spin trap” – the nitrones trapped free radicals which could then be monitored by spin resonance.



Rather than allowing scientists to track how the free radicals laid their path of destruction, some of the nitrone spin traps were found to rehabilitate free radicals into useful oxygen and release the molecules back into the system to support bodily functions and tissue repair.



PBN is used to arrest stroke damage and has been tested and found efficacious in certain myocardial (heart) inflammatory conditions. Topically, it has been studied as a hair loss treatment.



In The Perricone Prescription, Dr. Perricone wrote, “The new spin traps are bound to be an integral part of new antiaging topicals and should be available to the general public by the time you are reading this chapter.” (© 2002)



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