Snail Serum - A Biological Immuno Modulating Ingredient

Helix Aspersa Müller Glycoconjugates is the name of the snail serum in the Balms. It is gathered pure from live snails of this species in our own laboratory located in Concon, near the port of Valparaiso in the southern Pacific Ocean, in Chile, where climate conditions are the best in the world for the healthy lives of these little creatures. The secretion is used in our products complete, as it is produced by snails as opposed to isolating or extracting some "active ingredient" from it. It is also immediately homogenized and stabilized by using propietary biotechnology to secure its pureness and avoid hydrolysis of its enzymes and proteins.

The biological serum is embedded in a liposome - microscopic "fat" vessels that are readily taken in by the cells carrying the ingredient inside the target cells, deep within the skin.

It is a complex compound of powerful biological molecular structures: proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, enzymes, copper peptides, antimocrobial peptides and oligoelements (Copper, Zinc, Calcium, Iron some of which act as coenzymes).

Our products are manufactured in a state of the art Cosmetic Laboratory in the USA, based on Helix Aspersa Müller Glycoconjugates collected in Chile.

Serum: 1672, "watery animal fluid," from L. serum "watery fluid, whey," from PIE base *ser-/*sor- "to run, flow" (cf. Gk. oros "whey;" Skt. sarah "flowing," sarit "brook, river"). First applied 1893 to blood serum used in medical treatments. Online Etymology Dictionary.

Serum according to American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary :

1.- A watery fluid, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed.

2.- The clear yellowish fluid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components.

3.- Such fluid from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual.

"The Sweet Science" of Glycobiology

Even as doctors and drug companies struggle to interpret and exploit the recent explosion of data on genes and proteins, yet another field of biology is waiting to break out: glycomics or glycobiology. This emerging discipline seeks to do for sugars and carbohydrates what genomics and proteomics have done for genes and proteins: move them into the mainstream of biomedical research and drug discovery.

glycobiology

Biochemical analysis of the complex natural fluid secreted by snails that we use in our products shows it contains complex glycoconjugates, molecules made mainly of sulfated sugar or carbohydrate chains (sugar= glyco), globular soluble proteins, uronic acids and trace elements (like copper, zinc, calcium and iron)

The major organic (i.e. carbon-containing) components of human cells are proteins, lipids, various carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules, and the nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). The carbohydrate-containing molecules can be quite complex; those in which carbohydrates are attached to proteins or lipids are called glycoconjugates. There are three major classes of glycoconjugates: glycoproteins, proteoglycans, and glycolipids.

Glyco means "sweet" and refers to monosaccharides, or sugars. The role of carbohydrates (sugars) in energy production has been long understood. However, their additional, crucial role in orchestrating the healthy structure and function of the body is a relatively new discovery that is the subject of a new bourgeoning field of science called the “sweet science of glycobiology ”.

Snail Serum - A Biological Immuno Modulating Ingredient

"The Sweet Science" of Glycobiology