What is Oral Carbon?
Carbon is characterized as the 4th most abundant element in the universe and 15th most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. In our bodies, carbon is only second (18 %) to Oxygen (65 %). Carbon is quite reactive and forms compounds by covalent bonding. In prehistoric ancient human civilizations (Egyptians and Sumerians around 3750 BC), it was used in the form of charcoal or coal. In 1772, Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur formally discovered carbon as a novel element that could be used to transform iron into steel.
Oral use of carbon for medical reasons dealt with toxicities. Activated charcoal to induce vomiting was introduced to adsorb unwanted toxic stomach contents to remove them from the body. Absorption is like water filling the surface and interior of a sponge. Adsorption involves molecules adhering to the surface of another substance. Our carbon spheres are highly porous, and significantly increase the surface area for adsorption.
What is Activated Carbon?
The process of activation is what leads to the highly porous structure. This is completed by high heat exposure of carbon in an oxygen free environment.
What is Activated Carbon used for?
Activated carbon attracts and holds organic chemicals from vapor and liquid streams cleaning them of unwanted chemicals. In industrial use, it acts in column filters to remove impurities. In medical uses, it functions similarly to remove toxins. The pore size of the carbon spheres determines the items the carbon will adsorb. Our carbon beads at CenteriC Carbon have a pore size that will adsorb Cytokines.
What are Cytokines and why is removing them important?
Cytokines are signaling proteins released in the inflammation cascade. Differing names for cytokines include: lymphokines, monokines, chemokines and interleukins.
In normal concentrations, cytokines are beneficial. But in high concentrations, cytokines are harmful and can lead to autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases, possibly even death.
Pro-inflammatory cytokines have been linked to causing pain. If there is an over-abundance of cytokines, a vicious cycle is started which damages tissues throughout the body.
The answer is to remove excess cytokines and return the body to normalized levels. The pore size of our spherical carbon beads is designed to work in this size range for cytokine reduction.
Is Activated Carbon safe to take?
The size of our porous spheres is too large to cross cell membranes and therefore, in oral form, truly never enters the body. It stays in the intestinal tract removing
substances. In our human trials, no serious side effects were encountered. For those on birth control pills or Eliquis (apixaban) blood thinner, the effectiveness of those medications may be lowered and individuals should exercise extreme caution in using CenteriC Carbon.
What is in CenteriC Carbon?
Our product contains simply carbon. No fillers or additives. Our carbon is contained in a delayed release veggie capsule that releases contents just past the stomach (in an alkaline not acidic environment).
How should CenteriC Carbon be taken?
Basically, each CenteriC Carbon user will adjust their dose based on results achieved.
Maximum benefit in highly inflamed conditions may require up to two capsules three times a day. With lessening of symptoms of inflammation, backing off on the amount of capsules can be pursued as well as going to ‘every other day’ dosing.
Why is CenteriC Carbon different than other carbon on the market?
Our carbon has a larger bead size and surface area for higher adsorption/ removal of substances, primarily targeting cytokines. This leads to greater removals of toxic compounds. The lengthy transit along the intestines allows for extended opportunity to remove cytokines. C60, Buckminsterfullerene or “Bucky Balls,” have only 60 atoms of carbon for adsorption/antioxidant effects. The diameter of our spherical beads exceeds this by 125,000 times. Adding in the porosity of our beads, the contact surface area of CenteriC Carbon is many more times than this. C60 transits across cell membranes. However our beads, based on their size, are designed to safely remain in the intestines to perform their work. We are not adding anything to the body, simply subtracting from it.
Is CenteriC Carbon safe to give my pet?
Similar to action in humans, the beads will travel through the animal intestines collecting toxins along the way. For any inflammatory condition, CenteriC Carbon can be deemed safe for your pet. Anecdotally, during the years of product development, multiple family pets have derived benefits from the product without any adverse reactions.
Your product is so light - why?
While our carbon beads are 100% carbon, they are not solid balls. Each bead contains millions of pores. These pores greatly increase the surface area and power of our carbon. There is no carbon on earth like ours. Our pores are engineered to bind with inflammatory markers and cytokines/chemokines. This makes our carbon very light. So you are not 'buying air', you are buying the most technologically advanced carbon in the world.
What if I open my capsule?
If you open your capsule, do not take the carbon by pouring the beads unmixed on to a spoon. Put the beads into something - you can add water to them, put them in applesauce, yogurt , pudding, etc. Rinse your mouth with water after consuming.