Stroke Recovery : GPC is documented to help with accelerating the recovery of focal neurological deficits including space time orientation, improved degree of consciousness, language, motor capacity, improved general wellbeing.
Alzheimer’s and Age Related Dementia: GPC may improve cognitive function, such as orientation and language improved memory and attention, improvements in behavior and activities of daily living.
Vascular Dementia: GPC may improve cognitive function, memory and attention, mood, reduced disorientation, irritability, emotional liability, and indifference to surrounding, reduced fatigue and dizziness.
Cognitive Function in Young and Middle-Aged People: GPC may improve mental performance, word cell, working memory capacity.
Male Fertility: GPC may improve sperm mobility and endurance.
Growth Hormone: GPC may increase release of growth hormone from the pituitary gland, and higher levels may improve physical endurance in sports.
Liver Health: GPC may boost liver health by increasing lipotrophic choline and aids in the utilization and breakdown of foods and supplements.
GPC is a mixture of essential phospholipids made from (lecithin) soybeans. It is present in all our body cells, and as a nutrient, it has many functions in the body.
GPC was originally researched in Europe and is available in IV and capsule form. The most important effects of GPC is that it may improve cognitive function, including memory and attention span, in people of various ages.
GPC is also known as glycerophosphocholine, glycerylphoshorycholine, choline alfoscerate, or choline alphoscerate.
GPC has a major involvement in the human biochemistry.
It provides a unique form of non-antioxidant protection for our body’s cells. It is a rare water-phase phospholipid which is the building block for the membranes that form and drives all cells.
Furthermore, GPC is a source of the key nerve and muscle neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and is the body’s main reservoir of the essential nutrient choline, making GPC very important to the nervous system.
GPC readily crosses the blood-brain barrier to support numerous brain processes. GPC is well absorbed into the blood stream, and circulates throughout all tissues, and has defined roles in the essential functions of many body systems including the autonomic nervous system, the reproductive system, the endocrine system, the skeletal muscles, and the kidney and liver systems.
The use of GPC over the years by chelation doctors worldwide has proven that GPC is extremely useful in helping patients with various conditions.
GPC therapy is given by IV infusion at our clinic. Your naturopathic doctor will review your health history and assess whether it may be recommended for you.
Each IV treatment time varies and is given with the patient seated in a comfortable recliner chair, in which they can read, work on a laptop, or visit with their neighbour.
Of the more than 4000 patients who received GPC by mouth, intra-muscularly or intravenously in clinical trials, not one was reported to experience a life threatening adverse effect. Metabolically, as shown from numerous human and animal studies, GPC functions in harmony with vitamins and other orthomolecular supplements, and is also compatible with most prescription drugs.
Adverse effects most commonly reported with the use of GPC includes dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and sometimes a sensation of over-excitation. Often this can be improved by lowering the daily oral or IV dose. No adverse GPC to prescription drug interactions were noted in any of the elderly and middle-aged patients participating in the trials. Also, these individuals continued to take their typical variety of prescription medications or natural supplements while receiving GPC.
The main differences are in their uses. PPC is more commonly used in cardiovascular conditions like atherosclerosis and heart disease, while GPC is more commonly used in cognitive function (memory) conditions and in helping post-stroke patients.
Soy allergy is the only contraindication to the use of GPC.
