Are Xanthones Good For You?

Xanthones are rare in nature. Only 200 types have been discovered. They are a biologically active compound, a type of polyphenol, found in plants. This rarity has meant that they had not been closely studied by biologists, until now.

Scientists are starting to see that there is a strong medical basis for regarding Xanthones as a useful tool in providing health benefits to people. They have long been used by the people of it's native Indonesia, But now the Western world is starting to sit up and take notice of Xanthones.

So the question then becomes, are Xanthones good for you?

Are Xanthones Good For You?

The short answer is yes, very. The long answer?

It should be qualified that because we are only just starting to study Xanthones in any great detail any claims of 100% accuracy are far from the truth. What we are trying to explain in this article is simply the results of initial reports and studies, rather than anything definitive.

That said the initial reports are very promising, with a wide range of reasons to believe that Xanthones are very good for you indeed.

Initial reports have been made so far on a wide range of health benefits including

anticancer
antibacterial
antiviral
boosted immune system
anti-inflammatory
anti-diarrhoeal
helping control blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes

In all these cases they are still at the first stages of understanding what it is that Xanthones can do to help, but the first results are certainly promising and go a long way to showing that Xanthones are very good for you indeed.

All of the above are not just based on testing but on strong scientific understanding. To use the anticancer suggestion as an example:-

The Xanthones are rich in antioxidants. These antioxidants are essential to our bodies in aiding fighting cancer. Free radicals are molecules that are all around us and very dangerous. When they make contact with cells they can mutate the DNA, causing cancer.

Antioxidants are our defence against that as they are able to bond with the free radicals, neutralising their harmful 'power' and disposing of them safely. It is this knowledge that led to scientists testing Xanthones as a potential anticancer weapon in the first place.

Obviously there is far more to be known of Xanthones than we know at the moment, so no definitive answer is even remotely possible as to the benefits. But given the sheer volume and range of theoretical benefits that Xanthones can give it is safe to say they are good for you and your health.