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Did you know? The Blue Ling fish is the king of stress. It thrives in the sea at depths of up to 3000 feet where there is essentially no oxygen and pressure of up to 100 atmospheres. Stabilium is an extract made from the natural autolysis of the Blue Ling's vital organs conveying its amazing stress adaptation to you. |
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Stabilium® 200 - For Optimal Stress Balance
THE STRESS OF LIFE
The word that perhaps best describes modern life is STRESS. While the ancient world was no stranger to stress, their stresses were predominately physical. In the 21st century, our stresses have shifted to become predominately mental, emotional, and social.
To illustrate this fact, it may be helpful if you make a short mental list of the things you found “stressful” today. [Go ahead, I can wait...] Chances are you did not list the archetypal example of stress, that of a lion jumping out from behind a tree looking for its lunch (this is an acute physical stress). Nor were you likely to list famine, drought, pestilence, or 18 hours of hard labour in a coal mine or a wheat field (these are examples of chronic physical stress). Most likely, your list included things like noise, intrusive advertising, a disobedient child, an ungrateful spouse, an unhelpful co-worker, a belligerent boss, an unkind passerby, financial pressures, overdue bills, traffic congestion, or maybe even, yes it’s possible, an impenetrable government or corporation bureaucracy – the list can grow quite long, indeed (...all of these are examples of chronic psychological or social stress). What all types of stress have in common, however, is the perception that our safety and wellbeing is under immediate threat.
Ironically, just thinking about any of types of stress can make your muscles tense, your pulse quicken, your breath become shallow, and your emotions turn noticeably toward the darker side. We humans have the extraordinary ability to imagine stress and by doing so produce the same biological responses as if we had actually experienced a real physical threat. We even occasionally find it entertaining to do so – witness the popularity of action, suspense and horror movies, or amusement parks. In this, we appear to be unique among all creatures on this planet: we can literally worry ourselves sick.
To make matters worse, the biggest problem with stress in modern life is that it almost never ends – if it’s not one thing, it’s another, and they just go on and on and on. We may find yourself occasionally thinking: stop the world for a just a minute, I really need a break from all this. In a word, stress is what you feel when life’s demands exceed your ability to meet those demands. Stress is a feeling of being overwhelmed by outside forces beyond our control.
Unfortunately our biological mechanisms for dealing with stress have evolved to deal mostly with physical stress. The shift to chronic psychological stress takes a severe toll on our health over time. Indeed, odds are that you will live long enough and be healthy enough to die very, very slowly of some chronic disease, like heart disease, or stroke, or diabetes, or cancer, or senile dementia. Chronic stress has been shown to play a role in the development and progress of all of these diseases. Simply put, your stress can make you sick.1
During the 20th century, humanity made great strides in hygiene, in medicine, and in industrialization and mechanical automation. There has been a progressive shift in industrialized countries toward less physical labour. At the same, however, there has been a parallel shift towards increased mental labour. This shift has brought with it many benefits: longer life, more leisure time, more food, goods, services and conveniences. But nothing comes without cost and this shift has also brought less community, disturbed natural rhythms, more mental exertion, more psychological stress and a pervasive free-floating anxiety that each of us combats on a daily basis. The end result is that we are anxious, irritated, frustrated, absent-minded, and exhausted. It is safe to say that most of us are constantly wired and tired.
3,000 YEAR SUPPLEMENT FOR MODERN HEALTH
An extract made from naturally fermenting fish and fish vital organs, known as GARUM®2, was used by the Celts as food and as a food supplement to help maintain health. The ancient Celtic peoples of Western France and Spain had long produced GARUM® when the Romans invaded. Each region produced its own GARUM® from its own local fish, and each GARUM® had its own unique properties. Most GARUM® in Roman times was used for cooking (the modern equivalent is Thai fish sauce), and was highly prized and often expensive. Specialized GARUM®, made from specific, often more rare, species of fish was known to have health-promoting properties and was used by the Romans to treat a variant of ailments, as a general health tonic, and also for Roman soldiers to enhance their stamina in long forced marches and extended military campaigns.
While GARUM® indeed has a rather pungent odour, it is not from putrefaction of the fish. Rather, GARUM® is the result of natural fermentation, whereby the fish’s own enzymes (proteases) break down organic substances into simpler compounds. Stimulated by exposure to the sun, this enzyme hydrolysis, or autolysis, dissolves the proteins into small molecular weight polypeptides and individual amino acids. The process is hastened by the fish being packed in salt, which draws water out of the tissue by osmosis, producing a briny pickle that, in turn, inhibits oxidation and spoilage during the process3
STABILIUM: GARUM® FOR THE MODERN WORLD
In the 1960s, Yalacta Laboratories in France rediscovered the ancient secrets of making GARUM® for its ability to support human health. The active ingredient in Stabilium® is GARUM ARmoricum®. It is highly specialized GARUM® produced from the Blue Ling fish (Molva dypterygia), a distant relative of the cod, found only in deep water off the Armorica peninsula of Brittany. Living at depths of 1500 to 3000 feet where there is almost no oxygen and the hyperbaric pressure is extremely high; up to 100 atmospheres of pressure. The Blue Ling fish evolved a highly specialized physiology and metabolism able to cope with the stress of these extreme environmental conditions. It is believed because the Blue Ling has been able to adapt to such extreme stress, eating its autolysed polypeptides can also help us support a healthy stress response. (The scientific study of this type of conferred benefit from one species eating another is known as xenohormesis).
Stabilium contains
- A very high percentage of small polypeptides: 61% of its protein content is in polypeptide chains less than 18 amino acids long and a molecular weight < 700 Daltons.
- Omega-3 polyunsaturated essential fatty acids, including EPA and DHA
- A natural antioxidant complex of vitamin E and selenium.
COMPOSITION OF GARUM ARMORICUM®
Nutritional Analysis
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| Per 100g | Per Capsule |
| Energy (Kcal/KJ) | 534/2232 | 1.9/7.9 |
| Protein | 49.93g | 177mg |
| Carbohydrate | 14.83g | 53mg |
| Fat | 30.58 | 109mg |
| Essential Fatty Acids | 17.41 | 62mg |
Amino Acid Composition
- 25% Free Amino Acids
- 75% Polypeptides
- 61% under 700 Daltons
- 35% 700-5000 Daltons
- <4% over 5000 Daltons
Each capsule of Stabilium® contains 200mg of GARUM ARMORICUM®
Minerals (mg per 1000g)
Calcium 300
Iron 5
Phosphorus 4
Magnesium 3
Selenium 3
Copper 3
Zinc 2.5
Cobalt 1
Molybdenum 1
Arsenic 1
Vitamins (mg per 1000g)
Vitamin E 500
Vitamin A 15,000 IU
Stabilium® 200 for Stress Support
Ingredients: each capsule of Stabilium® contains 105mg GARUM® ARMORICUM®, 85mg virgin sunflower oil, and 10mg lecithin (derived from soy) encased in a hard fish gelatin capsule.
Recommended dosage range: take 1-3 capsules once or twice daily. Clinical trials have used dosages of either 3 capsules in the morning or 2 capsules morning and evening. Do not chew (remember, they contain fish extract inside).
Cautions: Stabilium® 200 contains products derived from fish, sunflower, and soya. Do not use if you have a known allergy to any of these ingredients.
Stabilium® is a food supplement and not a medication. Stabilium® is designed to support health, wellbeing, and balance but it is not intended to treat any disease or medical condition. The information included on this website is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any illness.
Stabilium® meets all European Union requirements established for food supplements to ensure safety, purity, and potency. Stabilium® is produced by Compagnie Générale de Diététique – Laboratoire Yalacta, 97 Rue Général Mouton, 14000 Caen, France; and is distributed in the UK by Integrative Health Solutions Ltd, registered company #5248830.
[1] For an excellent discussion of stress and health, pick up a copy of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M Sapolsky. 2004 3d ed. Henry Holt & Co. New York, NY.
[2] Pliny, XXXI.93ff and Isidore of Seville, Origines, XX.3.19-20 indicate that the word GARUM® is derived from the Greek word for the first type of fish the they used to make GARUM®.
[3] Grout, James. Encyclopedia Romana, at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana
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