Corvalen is a medical food containing pure D-ribose, a simple sugar present in all living cells and essential to life. Because ribose does not exist as a free standing compound in foods, it must be produced in the body from other dietary nutrients.
Corvalen is used, under the direction of a licensed healthcare practitioner, in the dietary management of diseases in which energy depleted tissues cannot produce ribose quickly enough to meet cellular energy (ATP) demands. As such, Corvalen fulfills a distinct nutritional requirement that can not be addressed through diet alone. Clinical research has shown that conditions such as congestive heart failure, chronic ischemic heart disease, post open-heart surgery or myocardial infarction, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, AMP deaminase deficiency, and mitochondrial dysfunction, can benefit from Corvalen administration.