Ingredient

Arctigenin

Arctium lappa

Interstellar grade B

Preclinical: Mechanistic, cell or animal evidence. No single preclinical driver opens a pathway on its own.

Appears on 3 blend pages, each linked below.

A lignan from burdock seed, arctigenin mutes the inflammatory switch in lung tissue, easing the thickened wall that narrows every breath.

What the evidence shows

Every line below is carried on the blend page that makes the claim. Follow it to the pathway and its sources.

A burdock lignan that turns on the cell's self-clearing machinery through AMPK and mTOR.

The lignan of burdock seed, Niu Bang Zi in Chinese practice, which switches on AMPK, the fuel gauge that tells a cell to burn rather than store.

From burdock seed: nudges AMPK, telling muscle and liver to draw on stored energy rather than hoard it.

3 blend pages carry this ingredient. Open it and you will find this ingredient in the list.

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