Benefits of Velvet Capsules
Here is how Velcaps may help you...
- Increased athletic performance
- Anabolic and growth stimulating effects
- Immune system boosting
- Anti-inflammatory properties
- Anti-cancer effects
- Effects on anæmia
- Effects on blood pressure and cardiovascular function
- Other health promoting benefits of Velcaps
Increased Athletic Performance
Sports people are on a continuous search to strive for a faster, higher, stronger, performance. In that search they are constantly exploring new training methods, psychological strategies, equipment technologies, and nutritional programmes.
Velcaps is an example of such a product which can impact on your sports medicine and nutrition programme and can be used as a training aid, a performance booster, a recovery promoter from physical activity, a treatment for injury, and possibly an injury preventative. Velcaps should be incorporated into the nutritional plan of the athlete rather than used as a pharmaceutical.
The athletic performance benefits of deer velvet are complex and are likely to be related to both dosage, and product quality and type.
It has been shown that the specific benefits do vary from individual to individual and from one sporting code to another.
Velcaps may improve athletic performance by:
- Increasing strength
- Improving muscular endurance
- Increasing the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood
- Repairing minor tissue damage occurring either during training or competition
- Boosting the immune system compromised by heavy training and competition
Anabolic and Growth Stimulating Effects
Deer velvet has been extensively used by oriental medical doctors to promote growth and development in children and is now being used as a weight gaining aid for invalids and athletes.
Its weight gaining applications also transcend to its use as an anabolic to improve muscular strength and also for strengthening patients weakened by degenerative diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis.
Research has shown the antler tip contains many growth factor genes such as insulin-like growth factors 1 & 2 (IGF-1 and IGF-2), transforming factor ß (TGFß) and epidermal growth factor (EGF). It is hypothesized that these small peptide factors are responsible for the growth activity.
Immune System Boosting
For centuries deer velvet has been used to prevent illness and disease through its stimulation of the immune system. How does it work? Deer velvet increases the number of white and red blood cells making it a potent immuno-stimulatory agent. Deer velvet helps to combat disease by improving the ability of the immune system to fight off illness.
It is believed that deer velvet acts primarily to promote antibody production. Its precise mechanisms are unknown at this stage, however it is thought that it could be due to an increased number of antibody secreting cells in response to an immune challenge from a pathogen.
Much research has been done in New Zealand and Korea and it is widely concluded that deer velvet possesses an immuno-stimulatory effect.
Anti-inflammatory Properties
The western medicine approach to pain management has resulted in the increased use of anti-inflammatory. The problem with these pharmaceuticals is that the side effects can be severe, they often can’t be used in conjunction with other medicines and their long-term usage can desensitise the body to the active chemical agent. Deer velvet has been shown to have anti-inflammatory activity and this is without the associated drawbacks of other more commonly used anti-inflammatorys.
Studies have demonstrated deer velvet to show strong anti-inflammatory effects. One particular study showed deer velvet treated subjects felt muscle soreness for a shorter period following damaging exercise than those given a placebo.
Anti Cancer Effects
The anti-cancer effects of deer velvet are related to its ability to act synergistically with anti-cancer drugs. That is, velvet antler is thought to amplify the action of anti-cancer drugs and also reduce their side effects. Its health benefits are therefore to improve quality of life, increase life expectancy, and perhaps improve the prognosis of cancer sufferers. Velvet antler may act to marshal the body’s defences together rather than a separate effect of its own.
Effects on Anæmia
Anæmia is a common ailment of many people, especially women, and has many implications on human function: general weakness, fatigue, and listlessness are but a few. Deer velvet has been shown by Russian, Chinese, and Korean research as being helpful against these factors.
Deer velvet’s effects on red blood cell count are also helpful to athletes. Sports people, especially endurance athletes, have recently been using the drug EPO (erythropoetin) to increase red cell numbers and hence enhance oxygen carrying capacity. However, EPO is a banned substance by all international sporting bodies. Deer velvet though is a naturally occurring supplement that can safely be taken to increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood.
Studies have shown that deer velvet can firstly speed up recovery from anæmia and secondly it appears to be able to raise the erythrocyte number, hæmoglobin, and packed cell volume over previous resting levels.
Effects on Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Function
Deer velvet’s effects on blood pressure are quite remarkable.
Its methods are unclear at this stage.
Research is currently underway to establish its exact actions.
Its actions have been shown to:
- Decrease blood pressure on patients with normal blood pressure
- Reduce the blood pressure on patients with high blood pressure
- Normalize blood pressure in low blood pressure subjects
Other Health Promoting Benefits of Velcaps
Deer velvet has also been used as an anti-aging preparation in traditional chinese medicine. Studies have also shown there to be gonadotrophic effects of taking deer velvet. This is often associated with the increased sexual function deer velvet offers and is frequently used as an aphrodisiac. There is a small amount of evidence that deer velvet is also an aid in reducing cholesterol levels.