According to America\'s foremost Ethno-Botanist, Dr. James Duke, one of the components of Garcinia mangostana are 3 different xanthone isomers. He lists G. mangostana\'s chemical composition at this site. http://sun.ars-grin.gov:8080/npgspub/xsql/duke/plantdisp.xsql?taxon=1228. Xanthones are known to be extremely powerful antioxidants and therefore provide a host of benefits. Click on \"Activities\" to see the benefits of G. mangostana.

So, now that the beneficial ingredients are known, what does the research have to say? Go to any of the following sites and do a search for xanthone. www.pubmed.com - Free to search but only abstracts can be viewed without purchase or subscription. www.mdconsult.com - Pay site but free 10 day trial period allows you to view entire article. www.bmn.com - Free to search but only abstracts can be viewed without purchase or subscription.

These are physician search engines we use at school which do an international search through 14,000 research journals such as Lancet, JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. This will show you what research has found xanthones do for the body. (I hope you\'ve had a little organic chemistry.) I\'m not going to bother going into all the benefits because there\'s too many. You have to read it yourself to believe it. I\'ve found that skeptics must do their own research in order to be completely satisfied.

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