Undecylenic Acid (Formula SF722)

Maintaining a healthy balance of gut flora is a key component of overall health. Studies going back 50 years demonstrate that fatty acids are effective in supporting a healthy gut flora. The undecylenic acid in Thorne’s Undecylenic Acid is six times more effective than caprylic acid in fighting candida and other fungal infections. Its efficacy has helped make this product one of Thorne's best-selling products for more than two decades.

Benefits of Thorne’s Undecylenic Acid: 

• Promotes optimal functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
• Vital to the absorption of nutrients, the elimination of waste, and proper immune function.
• In women's health, the relationship of a healthy balance of gut flora has corresponding benefits for vaginal flora.
• Supplementing with Undecylenic Acid helps maintain a healthy balance of the microorganisms that live in the gastrointestinal tract that can be out of balance due to an unhealthy diet, inadequate digestive enzymes, oral contraceptive use, or taking various prescription and OTC drugs.
• Six times more effective than caprylic acid.

SF722 against Candida fights Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida tropicalis, Candida parapsilosis and Candida krusei to name a few different candida strains. SF722 against Candida is also active against other Candida strains and other fungi. SF722 against Candida also contributes to maintaining a good vaginal flora free from fungi.

Unhealthy diets, antibiotics, cortisone and stress can affect the intestinal flora which can result in an overgrowth of candida and other fungi. Lauric acid, caprylic acid and undecanoic acid (Undecylenic acid) fight candida and fungi. Undecylenic acid is one of the most effective antifungal fatty acids known to man. 

Undecylenic acid found in SF722 against Candida also prevents morphogenesis in Candida Albicans, that is, going from a yeast form to a form of candida with hyphae - cell threads that form a network called mycelium.