MILDRONATE - Heart And Brain Protection

MILDRONATE® - meldonium (lat. Meldonium, mildronate) is a metabolic agent that normalizes the energy metabolism of cells subjected to hypoxia or ischemia. Supports the energy metabolism of the heart and other organs.

Meldonium was developed in the USSR in the 1970s, is widespread only in Russia and several neighboring countries, in the USA and other Western countries it is not allowed (not certified, not licensed). Produced under the brand name "Mildronat" by the Latvian(EU) company Grindeks.

Meldonium was synthesized in the mid-1970s at the Institute of Organic Synthesis of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR. According to the inventor Professor Ivars Kalvinsh, the substance manifests itself as a cardioprotector in animals, the idea arose to use it in clinical medicine.

In 1976, the preparation received a USSR author's certificate, and in 1984 it was patented in the USA. Since 1984, the preparation has been approved for use in medicine, after which clinical trials have been conducted in the USSR. Even before that, the military became interested in mildronate and, according to the head of the Russian Union of Afghan Veterans, Franz Klintsevich, during the Afghan war, meldonium was sometimes taken by some servicemen of the Soviet special forces before dangerous missions.
In 1992, due to the collapse of the USSR and changes in patent systems, the preparation was re-registered in Latvia.