2009 Supplement Product Merit Award: Pure Prescriptions
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Pure Prescriptions' Cardiokinase delivers a potent nattokinase supplement to the U.S. market
It sounds like a story straight out of a science fiction novel: A Japanese researcher was in the lab testing foods in search of a natural clot buster — something that could dissolve the mesh-like protein, or fibrin, that serves as a clot's skeleton and can cause life-threatening health events. The researcher had just sat down for a lunch break of traditional Japanese “natto,” a dish made from fermented soy beans, when a thought occurred to him. He hadn't tested this yet.
Moments later, Hiroyuki Sumi, MD, looked on in amazement as the beans from his lunch ate away at the artificial fibrin in a petri dish. Of the hundreds of compounds he'd tested, this one — which Sumi dubbed “nattokinase” — worked the best. “It was a very serendipitous discovery,” explained Ralph Holsworth, DO, a family practice physician and nattokinase researcher in Colorado.
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