In an interesting development for health supplements, a company has developed a test to allow people to decide if supplements may be improving their health. The company has produced a measuring tool that applies Resonance Raman Spectroscopy to give a “Skin Carotenoid Score (SCS)” as evidence of carotenoid antioxidant activity levels. What do researchers think about this development, the Raman test and using skin carotenoids to track medically –relevant levels of antioxidants?
This method is being investigated by
Jürgen Lademann who developed such a device.
http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/16/12/10491/pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21366698
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/lebensstil-im-licht-des-sensors.676.de.html?dram:article_id=28195
However it is not clear whether it is always a good
idea to raise the level of antioxidants.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/killian-lecture-0308.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/uom-ids061510.php
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?l=en&d=130&a=117963&newsdep=130
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2807%2900256-2
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/yu-frc082411.php
Regards,
Joachim
RiverD markets a system that besides the cartenoids quantifies a set of molecules togehter kown as the natural moisterizing factor (NMF) a degradation product of the skin protein filagrin. Where the significance of the cartenoid levels is not clear, low NMF concentration has a strong correlation with atopic dermatitis and other skin problems.
The system is in use by the R&D of all major cosmetics companies.
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