Ribose is a naturally occurring substance used by every cell in your body to synthesize and rebuild energy. Ribose is the most fundamental building block of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the primary source of energy for every muscle cell in your body. ATP gives your body the energy it needs to stay healthy, overcome fatigue, and regain the vitality you need to live a normal, active life. That is why ATP is called the "energy currency" of the cell.
Benefits of supplementing with Ribose:
Ribose helps energize your heart and muscles by increasing energy on a cellular level. Aging, strenuous exercise or overexertion, and many metabolic or physiological conditions can drain ATP from your tissue and affect how well your body makes and uses energy. Science has proven that ribose is a necessary ingredient for rebuilding energy in our bodies. So, without ribose we cannot make the energy we need to stay healthy.
Unfortunately, hearts, muscles, and other vital tissues in the body cannot make ribose very quickly, and ribose is not stored in our cells and tissues. That's why supplementing with ribose as directed will help your cells make energy - quickly, safely, and naturally. This means you can feel more energetic, stronger, and healthier every day.
| Grade | pharmaceutical |
| Purity | 99.9%+ purity (HPLC) |
| Taste | sweet |
| Solubility | mixes well. |
| Appearance |
off white powder |
| Odor | slight |
| pH | n/a |
| Classification | sports, ATP |
| Synonyms | Ribose, d-Ribose |
| Molecular Formula | C5H10O5 |
Suggested Use For Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue & Cardiac Health: As a dietary supplement, take 2 scoop (5g) mixed into your favorite beverage 3 times daily for the first 3 weeks, or as recommended by your physician. After 3 weeks the dose may be reduced to twice daily for maintenance.
Suggested Use For Athletics & Endurance: Take 5 grams twice daily. Take 30-45 minutes before and after exercise or physical activity. Additional doses may be taken during the activity if the duration of exercise is prolonged (several hours).
For best results: Use along with creatine to increase ATP levels in muscle tissue.
Warning: KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN. If you are pregnant or breast feeding, consult your physician before using this product. People with known medical conditions and/or taking drugs should consult with a physician prior to taking any dietary supplements. Ribose will temporarily depress blood sugar several points for an hour after ingestion. This is usually sub-clinical. However, it is recommended Ribose be taken with food, juice or around meal time to avoid potential symptoms of hypoglycemia.
Free of the most common allergens such as yeast, dairy, egg, gluten, corn, soy, rice, barley, lactose, fish and wheat. No added sugars, starch, salt, preservatives, salicylates, or artificial or color.
Energy to Power Metabolic Health Wellness: Like a computer, your body needs energy to keep running. Energy keeps your heart beating, your muscles contracting, and your brain and nervous system carrying the messages that synchronize the functions of life. For the most vital task of making the energy you need, your body produces ribose.
a-D-Ribofuranose (D-ribose, or simply ribose) is a five-carbon monosaccharide that is made in every cell in your body. Ribose stimulates the metabolic pathway used by the body to make a class of compounds called purines and pyrimidines. These compounds are essential for the body's production of many vital constituents, including the genetic material DNA and RNA, and the vital energy compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is called the "energy currency" of the cell because it gives our bodies the power to function, survive, and thrive. ATP is critical to health and a healthy lifestyle, and ribose is the essential component in the making of ATP in the body.
Optimizing Energy: Age, illness, strenuous or infrequent exercise, overexertion, or a host of metabolic disorders can seriously drain ATP reserves from your cells and tissues. And that can leave you fatigued, sore, weak, and drained of energy.
To replace this lost energy, your body needs ribose. Ribose forms the structural backbone of ATP, and is the starting point for the synthesis of ATP in the body. Unfortunately, most cells in your body, including heart and muscle cells, lack the metabolic machinery to make ribose quickly or efficiently. Because your body produces ribose at such an extremely slow rate, any one of these health or physiological factors can leave your ATP levels in short supply.
In normal, healthy tissue, several days of rest will allow energy levels to return to normal. But, during the process, muscles can feel tired, weak, and sore. Supplementing with RIBOSE will accelerate the energy recovery process and help overcome the impact of overexertion.
When energy demand continually outstrips supply, such as in chronic conditions associated with many diseases or in repeated bouts of high-intensity exercise, the natural processes of energy recovery may not be able to keep up. In these conditions, the metabolic support offered by RIBOSE will help tissue rebuild the energy it needs to function at a higher level. This may mean higher exercise tolerance, better oxygen utilization and ventilatory efficiency, and a better quality of life.
Ribose can increase effectiveness of creatine and other energy supplements: Ribose can increase the effect of creatine by keeping ATP at full capacity. Creatine works by recycling existing ATP that is already present in the muscle tissue but will not help to build new ATP in the cell. Ribose is one of the building blocks of ATP and supplementing with it can help the body produce new ATP. By combining creatine and ribose the body can keep ATP energy stores at peak levels by increasing ATP production and recycling existing ATP. Supplementing with ribose ensures adequate supply of ATP while supplementing with creatine ensures the quick recycling of ATP which is needed to fuel strenuous exercise