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Ester C...                                     Summary,  Details

Chelated Mega Minerals...      Summary,  Details

Meg-Epa-Caps...                       Summary,  Details

Co-Enzyme Q10 -    

The nutrient Coenzyme Q10 is found in every cell in the body. Because the body must have energy available to perform even the simplest operation, Coenzyme Q10 is considered essential for the body’s cells, tissues and organs.

Supplementation of the coenzyme helps one guard against a possible deficiency. Aging is considered one reason for a deficiency, since the liver loses its ability to synthesize Coenzyme Q10 as one gets older.

Known results of using Coenzyme Q10 as an oral supplement are energy increase, improvement of heart function, prevention and cure of gum disease, a boost to the immune system and possible life extension. AIDS is a primary target for research on coenzyme Q10 because of its immense benefits to the immune system.

The greatest amount of the coenzyme (and, therefore, the greatest need for the enzyme) is contained in the heart and liver, which accounts for its positive results in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, angina pectoris, congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, hyperthyroid heart failure, mitral valve pro-lapse and hypertension.

Coenzyme Q10 may prove of benefit to those who are overweight because it improves the efficiency of energy production at the cellular level. It has also demonstrated excellent results in clinical trials on periodontal disease by speeding up healing time, reducing gum pockets, and improving other factors associated with gum disease.

Coenzyme Q10 has the ability to protect the heart during periods of ischemia (lack of oxygen). This lack of oxygen occurs in heart disease and is usually caused by narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries.

CoQ10 is particularly useful for patients undergoing heart surgery. People living with high blood pressure also benefit from CoQ10 supplementation.

Because of its immune-enhancing and antioxidant effects, CoQ10 has been used in treating cancer. CoQ10 supplements help obese people better utilize the calories they consume. CoQ10 provides extra help for athletes, who experience higher oxidative stress. CoQ10 may help prevent some of the side effects of beta-blockers, drugs that help decrease blood pressure.

The Superior Vitamin C

Protect Your Cardio-Vascular & Immune System...

Ester C -

“Vitamin C must be considered the preeminent nutrient supplement. It seems to have the capacity to protect us against coronary heart disease, arthritis and other inflammatory disorders, iron deficiency, allergies, adrenal insufficiency, infections, radiation, air pollution, and even aging”.....Michael Rosenbaum, M.D.

The extensive and beneficial effects of vitamin C are well known. Vitamin C is essential for the immune system function, tissue growth and repair and adrenal gland function. It protects against infection and the harmful effects of pollution enhances the immune system and helps the body resist cancer. Vitamin C is also an antioxidant; studies show that antioxidants help muscles recover and regenerate more quickly following exercise. Recent research has uncovered further benefits of vitamin C in the fight against cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, cataracts, male infertility, stress, and possibly AIDS.

Vitamin C has a major, intricate role in your body’s complex immune system. Vitamin C controls the production of T-lymphocytes (T-cells), increases the antibody levels and increases the production of interferons.

T-cells are white blood cells that fight off infection. Colds, cigarette smoking, birth control pills, steroid therapy, and stress severely deplete vitamin C levels, rendering the individual more vulnerable to secondary infection. Increasing vitamin C intake helps correct the situation.

Studies show that increasing vitamin C intake produces an increase in antibody levels.

Interferons are proteins with anti-viral activity. Recent evidence confirms that increasing vitamin C intake results in increased interferon levels, making vitamin C a natural anti-viral treatment.

Vitamin C is an antioxidant. Vitamin C neutralizes harmful oxidants and free radicals and keeps the mineral portion of certain enzymes in their proper reduced state.

Vitamin C is essential in the metabolism of other nutrients needed by the body like folic acid, tyrosine and phenylalanine.

Vitamin C has anti-inflammatory properties. Vitamin C inhibits the production of certain hormones which are involved in tissue inflammation and the accompanying swelling, pain, tenderness and heat.

Vitamin C is essential in the formation of collagen, the connective protein which binds tissue together. This Collagen is vital for the repair of the endothelium or inner layer of the arterial walls. Lack of Vitamin C can cause weakening of the arterial walls that can lead to aneurysms and cardio vascular disease. Studies suggest that regular vitamin C intake may alleviate the pain and stiffness of arthritis.

One of the primary advantages of Ester C is that it has been shown to stay in the body for up to 72 hours - which makes it a perfect companion to the powerful antioxidant grapeseed extract as well as Pycnogenol, that also remain in the body for about 72 hours. Ester C is known as the body ready vitamin C, because the body changes some of the vitamin C we ingest into metabolites that perform important physiological actions different from those of vitamin C, so it can be more readily transported and utilized.

Ester C has another huge advantage over ascorbic acid and other forms of vitamin C, and that is it is non-acidic or pH neutral, making it gentle on user’s stomachs. It does not cause upset stomachs like ascorbic acid can.

Ester-C ascorbate is 2-4 times as efficient as other forms of vitamin C. It is both water and fat soluble. Like water, it is totally non-acidic and produces no side effects. The presence of metabolites makes Ester-C more bioavailable, it enters the bloodstream and tissues faster, stays there longer, and is used more efficiently at the circulation and tissue levels. Tests show ascorbate levels in white blood cells are increased up to 4 times with Ester-C that with ordinary vitamin C!

Co-Enzyme Q10 & Ester C

When you combine Co-Enzyme Q10's ability to protect the heart, and Ester C's rejuvenative qualities for the arterial system you have an indispensable combination that will ward off Heart Disease.

Fights Osteoporosis & Heart Disease

Contains:

Calcium - strengthen bones & teeth

Magnesium - help prevent heart attacks & high blood pressure

Zinc - optimal healing function, wound healing, vision

Selenium - quick repair of free radical damage to the DNA molecule

Iodine - essential for thyroid health, proper metabolism

and much more....

Fights Osteoporosis & Heart Disease

Calcium is absorbed through your small intestine into your blood and the amount of calcium in your blood is regulated by your levels of parathyroid hormone. With adequate calcium intake, you produce less parathyroid hormone, so bone does not have to be broken down to provide calcium.

Magnesium is a cofactor for over 300 enzyme reactions in the body. It helps turn food into energy, keeps muscles from cramping, helps prevent heart attacks, high blood pressure, heart arrhythmia, asthma and kidney stones.

Zinc appears in every body cell and is a component in over 200 enzymes. Adequate zinc levels are essential to good health, particularly to optimal immune function, wound healing, vision, male sexual function and skin health.

Potassium functions in the maintenance of water balance and distribution, muscle and nerve cell function, heart function and kidney function.

Selenium facilitates the quick repair of free radical damage to the DNA molecule.

Selenium appears to kill cancer cells before they replicate, thereby short-circuiting the generation of malignancy, tumor growth and cancer spread.

Chromium is essential for carbohydrate control and insulin action and is a safe and extremely beneficial supplement for specific use in the treatment of diabetes, weight loss, and reduction of blood lipid levels.

Iodine is essential for thyroid health, proper metabolism, endocrine system function. Iodine deficiencies have been linked to mental retardation and breast cancer.

An iron deficiency can cause pallor, hair loss, brittle nails, dizziness and anemia.

Manganese is vital for proper bone growth . It is recommended for lactation, diabetes, asthma, muscle and mental fatigue, epilepsy, PMS and digestion.

It is essential for bone and tooth development, heart muscle contraction and proper kidney health. Good for tooth and gum disease, sterility, impotence, equilibrium, muscle disorders and bone formation.

1000 mg...

Essential Fatty Acids...

Give Your Body the EFAs it can't produce on its own!

Important For...

Regulation of blood pressure, heart function, gastrointestinal function, kidney function, blood clotting, nerve transmission  and steroid production.

Natural Fish Oil

Meg-Epa-Caps-1000 mg -  

Protect Against Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Arthritis & Cancer

Ultra Potency Natural Fish Oil Concentrate supplying Optimum Percentage of Omega-3 Fatty Acids.....

While saturated fats have gotten a bad reputation—and rightly so—not all fats are bad. Certain unsaturated fats called essential fatty acids (EFAs) are vital to the functioning of your body. The membranes of every one of your cells are made of fatty acids. When there is a deficiency of EFAs in your diet, your cells must use other fats, such as saturated fats or trans fatty acids. Cell membranes made with these other fats are more rigid and less efficient at letting nutrients enter, which contributes to many health problems.

EFAs are also precursors to prostaglandins, hormone-like substances that are important to the regulation of blood pressure, heart function, gastrointestinal function, kidney function, blood clotting, nerve transmission, steroid production and hormone synthesis.

EFAs are made up of omega-3 (alpha-linoleic acid or LNA) fatty acids. Because your body can’t manufacture these fatty acids, it is important to supplement your diet with EFAs. This is especially true of omega-3 fatty acids, because we eat so few natural sources of omega-3 fats—cold-water fish oils and flax seed oil. Omega-3 oil supplements can reduce the incidence of high cholesterol, stroke, heart attack, angina, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.

By substantially increasing your intake of essential fatty acids, you can get a much more favourable ratio of polyunsaturated fats to saturated fats. This can have long-lasting and often dramatic health benefits. Fish and flax seed oils are an important source of omega-3 fatty acids—eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and dodecahexanoic acid (DHA).

For healthy adults, 1,000 mg of fish oil is recommended (with 180 mg EPA and 120 mg DHA) omega-3 fatty acids.

If you have heart disease or lipid disorders or are diabetic, discuss EFAs with your physician before taking them.

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Super B-Complex -

Prevent Heart Disease by Lowering Your Homocysteine Levels!

Improves Brain Function & Lowers Stress Levels

The B Vitamins.... The B complex vitamins are essential for proper functioning of your nervous system, including proper mental functioning. In addition, they are necessary for metabolizing homocysteine.

You may not have heard much about homocysteine yet—but you will. Atherosclerosis (the accumulation of cholesterol and other deposits in your arteries) is actually initiated by homocysteine, a toxic byproduct of the conversion of the amino acid methionine into cysteine. When homocysteine builds up inside your cells and spills into the bloodstream, it damages arteries and reduces the integrity of vessel walls, laying the ground work for the accumulation of deposits and blockage of the arteries. Elevated homocysteine levels are likely responsible for 30% to 50% of the heart attacks and heart deaths that occur each year.

Vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid play a crucial role in preventing the buildup of this toxic substance. Because of the interconnectedness of these three vitamins, the best approach to lowering homocysteine levels is to supplement all three.

B1 (thiamine) is essential for normal functioning of nerves, proper energy production in the brain and synthesis of a key neurotransmitter involved in memory.

B2 (riboflavin) is essential for energy production and in regenerating glutathione, one of the main cellular protectors against free-radical damage.

B3 (niacin) is an antioxidant and is involved in the regulation of blood sugar and detoxification. It has been shown to exert a favourable effect on cholesterol levels.

B5 (pantothenic acid) is involved in energy production and is considered the “antistress” vitamin because of its importance for optimal adrenal function.

B6 (pyridoxine) is extremely important for the formation of proteins and structural compounds, neurotransmitters, red blood cells and prostaglandins. It is also critical in maintaining hormonal balance and proper immune function.

B12 (cyanocobalamin) plays a critical role in proper energy metabolism and immune and nerve function. It is essential to the manufacture and normal functioning of blood cells and production of nucleic acids which make up DNA. B12 also helps maintain proper mental functioning and mood. Only tiny doses of B12 are needed to experience its benefits, but it is essential that you get enough B12 daily.

Folic Acid. Even though folic acid is not a B vitamin, it functions together with vitamin B12, and is one of the most important of these water-soluble nutrients. Like B12, it is a methyl donor that reduces homocysteine and its damaging effects. Folic Acid deficiency is the most common vitamin deficiency in the world. Studies have demonstrated that it is difficult to get an adequate amount of folic acid from food alone and the folic acid obtained from food is only 50% absorbed. As a supplement, however, folic acid is 100% absorbed.

Taking 400 mcg of supplemental folic acid, along with vitamins B6 and B12 will substantially reduce our homocysteine levels. This amount of folic acid is especially important for women of child-bearing age to guard against one of the worst tragedies a new mother can face—giving birth to a child with spina bifida or other neural tube defects. Only folic acid taken as a supplement has been shown to substantially reduce this risk.

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Natural Vitamin E available in one capsule (D-'Alpha Tocopherol Acetate)

Vitamin E-400 I.U. Complex -

Protect Against Heart Disease & Free Radical Damage

Natural Vitamin E Available In One Capsule

(D'Alpha Tocopherol Acetate)

Vitamin E.....Vitamin E is a family of compounds called tocopherols that work together to protect you against the damage from free radicals. Tocopherols are the liquid (oil) form of vitamin E and are comprised of alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherol. Until recently, it was thought that alpha, the most common and active form, was that most important tocopherol, but research has shown that the other forms of tocopherol also help fend off free radicals.

Today most of the news about vitamin E concerns the benefits of taking it in large doses. In one study, 400 to 800 I.U. daily reduced the incidence of coronary heart disease by 77%.

A recent European study found that low blood levels of vitamin E were far more predictive of health disease than high levels of blood cholesterol and high blood pressure. High cholesterol levels were predictive 29% of the time and high blood pressure 25% of the time, but a low blood level of vitamin E was predictive of a heart attack 69% of the time! In 1997, the American Heart Association hailed the discovery of vitamin E as one of the top ten developments related to heart health.

Vitamin E also gives the immune system a significant boost, as reported in a 1997 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Healthy volunteers, all over the age of 65, took vitamin E supplements for 235 weeks. Afterwards, tests showed that their immune systems were much more active.

Other studies have shown that vitamin E helps protect against cancer, improves blood flow in people who have severe pain when they walk because of clogged arteries and relieves leg cramps.

When taken along with vitamin C, it helps prevent cataracts. It also slows the progression of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. And this is only a partial listing of the benefits of Vitamin E!

To get enough vitamin E from food alone, you would have to consume two quarts of corn oil and 22 cups of peanuts a day. Clearly, that isn’t possible or even advisable, given the high amount of fat you’d be ingesting at the same time. The only practical way to get the levels of vitamin E you need is through supplementation.

800 I.U of vitamin E per day is recommended, either as tocopherols (oil form) or tocopherols (powder form). There is some concern about toxicity, but no toxicity has been reported from even larger doses of vitamin E. In fact, in one study, 3,200 I.U of vitamin E—along with 3,000 mg of vitamin C per day—was used for years to treat patients in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. No toxicity was reported and there was a significant slowdown in the progression of the disease.

Natural or Synthetic Vitamin E?.....Your body can tell the difference between natural and synthetic vitamin E, so you should try to take it in the natural form. Because natural vitamin E is identical to what your body makes and what is found in food, your body absorbs it better, and it stays in your system longer than synthetic E.

Natural vitamin E is made from vegetable oils, while synthetic vitamin E is made chemically. Synthetic vitamin E also often contains fillers that oxidize quickly and produce free radicals that cancel out the vitamin’s antioxidant powers.

You can differentiate between natural and synthetic vitamin E in supplements by looking for d-alpha-tocopherol. Dl-alpha-tocopherol (note the “l”) indicates a synthetic version. Look for supplements that have only the "d".  Natural vitamin E is expensive, but it is the best, most effective form of Vitamin E.