Alpha-Lipoic Acid, Lipoic acid, or thioctic acid, is a powerful antioxidant. Because it is both water and fat soluble, it can move into all parts of cells to deactivate free radicals.

Alpha lipoic acid encourages the body to convert food into energy more efficiently, helps prevent what we eat from being deposited as fat, and eliminates toxins and other by-products of fat metabolism.

Since alpha-lipoic acid relieves stress on the liver and directly supports its detoxifying functions, it has been used in the treatment of chronic hepatitis.

Alpha lipoic acid binds toxic metals and is used for heavy metal detoxification. Alpha-lipoic acid can help eliminate toxic effects of anesthesia, analgesics, or other drugs used in the course of surgery, and to ease subsequent pain.

Alpha-lipoic-acid has been used for over thirty years in Europe to treat diabetic neuropathy in both Type I and Type II diabetics. Lipoic acid fights insulin resistance and markedly stimulates our cells' uptake of glucose. Anyone who is overweight or follows a high-carbohydrate diet risks developing an insulin disorder, so lipoic acid is potentially useful to many people.

Alpha Lipoic may prevent cell damage of Alzheimer's disease.