Mangosteen Xanthones - Secret Revealed!

What's a Xanthone, and How Can I Benefit From it Anyway?

The phytoceuticals of the mangosteen have been widely studied, but none as much as the class of highly active substances called Xanthones.

There are approximately 200 known xanthones in nature, and over 40 of them have now been accounted for in the mangosteen fruit. No other fruit even comes close to that.

The reason this is so exciting is because out of all the herbal products on the market, only two (Garciniacumbodio and St. Johns Wort) have xanthones in them. The mangosteen has many, many more different xanthones than any other product.

In 2000, a pharmacological study from a European university [2] indicated the following pharmaceutical properties in naturally occurring xanthones:

anti-depressant
anti-microbial (bacteria and fungus)
anti-viral
anti-leukemic
anti-tumor activity
anti-ulcer
anti-diabetic activity

The majority of the xanthones found in the mangosteen are located in the rind, or pericarp (outer shell) of the fruit. This is why the XanGo formulation uses the whole entire fruit, ground up into a paste, and transformed in to a liquid supplement. It's the only product on the market that uses the whole mangosteen, packing it full of these amazing xanthones.

2. Peres V, Nagem T, Faustino de Oliveira F. 2000. Tetraoxygenated naturally occurring xanthones. Phytochemistry. 55:683-710


Free Radical Damage and Antioxidants

Xanthones aren't the only biologically active substances in the mangosteen. Before introducing mangosteen's strong antioxidant values, let's take a minute to learn from Dr. J. Frederic Templeman about free radical damage:

There's something called the oxygen paradox, meaning oxygen is absolutely necessary for us to be alive, but extremely dangerous because it produces unstable particles called free radicals - damaging the body in every way you can imagine...

The most popular theory for the aging process is that it is a result of free radical damage.

Pollutants are full of free radicals...Unfortunately we live in an environment where air, water, and food is polluted, so you can't avoid free radicals.

An antioxidant, however, is the counterpart of a free radical. The body has a homemade source of antioxidants... and we have antioxidants that come from our diet, but if you take one of the more common antioxidant substances, Vitamin E, you would have to eat 100 pounds of boiled liver every day to get the minimal amount that you need.

You can't get it [antioxidants] from food alone.