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Ingredient

Protocatechuic acid

Protocatechuic acid
Interstellar grade B

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

Appears on 2 blend pages, each linked below.

A phenolic acid found in hibiscus, olives and green tea, whose paired hydroxyl groups hold metal ions tight and help lower what the body retains.

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.

Out-scored its parent acid at quenching radicals, then raised NRF2's defense genes in human colon cells within nine hours.

NRF2 Activator (Endogenous Antioxidant Induction) →

Where it appears

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

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