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Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:44 pm  |
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| Topical Skin RNA blend. (Filtered water with RNA nucleotides. Improves levels of RNA nucleotides in skin, preventing DNA degradation and optimising healthy gene expression). Apply 3 drops to face. |
As a scientist, the topical "RNA blend" sounds completely specious and ridiculous. One: what RNA's are they using, what genes are being targeted, how are they claiming to deliver the RNAs to the skin, what species were they extracted from, etc. It's highly implausible that they are turning on or off particular genes. We are only barely starting to understand what regulatory RNAs do...believe me, if we had it more figured out, you'd likely see drugs based on RNAs before you'd see skin care products based on RNAs.
Second, there are RNAses (molecules that cut up RNAs into pieces) everywhere, so any RNAs would be rapidly degraded unless stored in the freezer and with RNAse inhibitors present in the lotion. That is, RNAs are very unstable.
Everything else I believe has some merit or level of "science" in some shape or form behind it.
I hope this helps and was what you were looking for in terms of feedback on your list  |
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maggie6767
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Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:33 am |
| You might change your Soltan suncream for the new TPF50 available at the end of march which supposedly prevents DNA helix distortions.Made by elizabeth arden I believe it will be Rx in the US-you can read evidence etc in march issue of journal of drugs and dermatology (JDD) |
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Sat Mar 15, 2014 7:06 am |
William,
But RNAs are in all the foods that you eat. Honestly, a few grams of extra food per day would give you more than 5 mcg of RNA/DNA/nucleotides. I think you're better off eating more veggies than using this product, which seems specious to me. Have they done any clinical studies on their product? To me, if they haven't, I wouldn't use it due to the nature of the product (the fact that they say there are "proprietary" nucleotides in it). I'm more stringent about needing to seeing clinical studies on something if it's an isolated compound (whether in regards to eating or skin care), than a whole food. Because the more isolated something is, the more drug-like effects (for better or for worse) it is likely to have.
I don't know if you know this but RNAs ARE capable of effectively turning on and off genes.
For example, rice RNAs, especially in Asian populations, appear to be turning on/off a few of our genes. Crazy but yet neat at the same time! |
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