Antioxidant Supplement

Role of Free Radicals and Antioxidants

Free Radicals and Antioxidants should become household words for Americans – particularly those over 50. Free radicals and antioxidants are major players in the body’s aging process. As it turns out, free radicals are the bad guys that attack cells, weaken them, and advance aging. It’s sometimes hard to remember this because free radicals do this with air – oxygen molecules. Antioxidants are the good guys, but they slow down aging by neutralizing oxygen. Since we thrive on oxygen, we would expect users of oxygen to be the heroes.

But not all oxygen use is for good. Cut an apple and leave it to the open air – to oxygen, and the apple turns brown. This is analogous to what free radicals do inside the human body. If you squeeze lemon juice on the apple soon after cutting, it takes much longer for the apple to start turning brown. Also once the apple begins turning brown, you can ‘erase’ the brown by rubbing the lemon over the brown spot. And the spot returns to its original color. This is the role that antioxidants play inside the body.

The Body’s Need for Antioxidant Supplement

I heard a doctor say that people over 50 ought to be taking nutritional supplement that had a strong antioxidant component. He said taking a multivitamin is not enough. In fact, in the face of the relentless attacks of free radicals, taking a multivitamin without a strong antioxidant supplement is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

What’s at stake are the diseases of aging. They may show up as wrinkled skin, digestive problems like acid reflux, joint pain (arthritis) , slow circulation, hypertension, high cholesterol, brain dysfunction, unbalanced sugar. These disorders can become more serious like diabetes, heart disease, or cancer.

Antioxidant supplement benefits

A strong antioxidant supplement can shore up the body’s decreasing ability to garner its own antioxidants from digestion and cell division. A strong antioxidant can provide the body with the extra “troops” it needs to fight, neutralize the oxygen carrying free radicals. With free radicals held in check, the body can then shore up its immune system and self healing properties.

The result of such antioxidant use is a slowing of the aging process. But sometimes there is reversal in aging damage. Sometimes skins smoothes, pain eases, healing happens faster, energy surges. And some people report getting good report cards from doctors on their lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, much better control of sugar, better memory, and the like. An antioxidant supplement can help the body live and operate the way it was designed to work.

Some companies have made a great effort to slow the aging process

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Antioxidant Fruit Juice vs Comprehensive Multivitamins

Antioxidant fruit juices are pricy. So why would someone pay $75 for a month’s supply of super juice when a comprehensive multivitamin and mineral supplement costs $15 plus tax? Both products contain antioxidants. In fact, the lists of their vitamins is very close, both in kind and potency. Both provide the daily nutritional requirements to meet the equivalent servings of fruits and vegetables often shown on food pyramids. So both would supply the vitamins or minerals a person might miss in eating.

Takers of super antioxidant fruit juices respond differently from takers of multivitamins. A recent review of multivitamin users’ comments seemed to dwell mostly on the price of the product. Many complained the product was priced too high. They did say the product was comprehensive; but this comment seemed based more on the label than effect on them. It seemed most were interested in covering the inevitable missed nutrients in their diets. Only one commented on her health. She said she didn’t get sick as often.

Drinkers of super antioxidant fruit juices frequently praise the product for helping to improve their health. They tell others how their blood pressure dropped, their doctor’s cholesterol report showed drops to normal. Some speak of reduced stress, more energy, reduction of pain, and improved brain function. Of course, these improvements are not directly from the antioxidant fruit juice. The vitamins and minerals just fed the body its need so the body could function better

One very stark difference between antioxidant fruit juice and comprehensive multivitamins is that the juices come from powerful antioxidant fruits with more powerful antioxidants. The stronger the antioxidant, the better its ability to eliminate free radicals. Powerful antioxidants can slow the aging process of oxidation in our bodies that “rusts” our organs and gradually making us more vulnerable to disease. Antioxidant fruit juice can play an important role in slowing the deterioration of bodies.

Home Based Business Opportunites

Antioxidant Fruit companies offer home based business opportunities. These businesses depend on local entrepreneurs to find customers and convert them to regular buyers. The companies pay bonuses if the new buyers in turn recruit more regular buyers. Outgoing, “people” buyers have a real advantage here. Shy, purpose-driven people suffer a distinct disadvantage here. They need not stay at a disadvantage, though.

Extroverts – effortless success

For the outgoing person, the extrovert, home based business opportunities just seem to pop out of the air. A mother could be waiting in an elementary school office to bring her daughter’s forgotten lunch, when another mother also waiting sees her hat with a company’s logo. They strike up a conversation, and the next thing you know, the other mother is a new customer. A man could be waiting for his car to be fixed and drinking an iced super juice. He offers one to some guys standing around. They talk, and one becomes a new, regular customer. Effortless success! For these people, home based business opportunities seem easy. What a country!

Introverts -- Fruitless efforts

For the shy, purpose driven people, introverts, the last word “opportunities” of home based business opportunities seems a mirage, a cruel hoax. They could be standing in the same line at a school or waiting room at a repair show, and no one would talk to them – even if they were decked up with company logos all over their clothes like a NASCAR driver! They do all the things their company leaders advise – buy leads, make phone calls, attend company sponsored meetings, attend industry conferences, and make videos that no one watches. Their efforts seemed cursed. They can’t believe that anyone would want to follow their lead. And, of course, neither do their potential customers.

Introverts -- Validation example

Not all is lost for introverts, though. Your efforts do not need to remain futile. Two very successful internet marketers began as shy internet marketers who made almost no money during their early years. Both tell very good stories, but I think the thing that changed their lives and fortunes was that they learned their lines. Both began to study their products, but also the ins and outs of home based business opportunities. They learned the steps needed to go from beginner to successful earner of 7 figures. They learned in detail the information needed at every step, and they became the master of internet software – sometimes writing it.

As they learned the information, their confidence grew inside them. They now knew the information as an “insider” and understood how to use it to their advantage. This shows, and now they are not only on par with the extroverts; they have passed them. So home based business opportunities abound for them as well. What a country!

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Super Supplements

The good life wears thin without super supplements. And a physically miserable life can be uplifted with super supplements. These statements, in a nutshell, comprise basic beliefs among sellers and users of super supplements.

Effective Supplements

Is there any truth to these beliefs? Are they effective supplements? Dr. Mehmet Oz told Oprah that some supplement consumers’ beliefs, like Resveratrol extending one’s lifespan, cannot be measured by the FDA. Dr. Oz said people would have to wait and see if Resveratrol users actually lived longer. Then there would be social evidence, witness.


Supplements effects

Another way to measure the truth of supplements' effects is in the flow of money. It has long been said that you spend money in/on things you believe in (or want to believe in). Super supplements are subject to this measure. It is not a question of whether people spend money on super supplements; it is why. What core beliefs underlay the spending?

David Garfinkle, co-founder of the CopyWriter’s Guild, posited that people buy things for seven basic reasons: (1) save money, (2) save time, (3), save effort, (4) to make money, (5) to relieve pain, (6) to improve their health, and (7) realize their dreams and/or fancies. The witness of super supplements consumers reveals several of these reasons.


Buying As Testimony of supplements effects

Because my experience has been with Vemma Nutrition, I am most familiar with users of Vemma and Verve. Nevertheless, I am certain other super juices could also provide complementary stories of people benefitting from their products. Relief from arthritic pain is a popular testimony. One person reported using Vemma and getting relief, then going off and seeing the paid come back, and finally returning to it and noticing the pain had left. He was dead on convinced.


There are also stories of supplements' effects on improved health. These stories range from reduced cholesterol readings as well as lowered blood pressure to better sleeping, more energy, and a brighter mental outlook.


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Boomers Marketing

The baby boomer generation has been a bubble in the population statistics for a long time. Daniel Moynihan observed years ago, that a demographer looking at the population statistics in the late 1950’s could tell by the size of the baby boom cohort that they would have an impact on society. It was boomers marketing that led to the explosion of rock and roll records and its ensuing impact on society. The Sixties, war protest, and hippies have had a large effect on the United States. Some have argued that the growth of pc computers is an outgrowth of the hippie idealism to undermine established authority and empower individuals, their voices, and freedoms.

Just as boomers spawned the sixties’ culture, they now find themselves facing the ravages of aging. Because they are still a large cohort in the population, they will have an impact on the sale of anti aging remedies. The thirst for the Fountain of Youth lives on, and the marketing to boomers promises to be a lucrative one.

One such market is for restoring youth lost in old age. DHEA is sold in grocery stores and drug stores as way of restoring the body beautiful lost in the storms of time. However, The New England Journal of Medicine has recently reported that DHEA had no beneficial effects on the elderly in their tests. Though their body levels of DHEA had been restored to the levels of normal young people, the seniors enjoyed no turn around. There was no change in body composition (fat mass, muscle mass), insulin sensitivity (glucose tolerance), or physical performance (muscle strength, peak performance).

Another goal of boomers marketing is to help boomers stave off chronic diseases of aging that lead to death. The list of chronic diseases is made up of obesity, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, cancer, and other chronic disease of the elderly that cause death. Other chronic diseases, in the Senior’s Journal’s list, include Alzheimer’s, stroke, asthma, bronchitis, joint pain and mobility, liver and kidney diseases, hypertension, The top ten chronic diseases for men are, hypertension, arthritis, other chronic joint problems, heart disease (all types), coronary heart disease, cancer (any type), diabetes, prostate cancer, and ulcers. The top ten chronic diseases for women are arthritis, hypertension, joint problems, heart disease (all types), cancer (any type), sinusitis, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and ulcers.

The conventional wisdom for fending off these chronic diseases is to eat a healthy diet. Make sure the diet includes lots of fruits and vegetables. The Harvard School of Public Health, of course, also advises people to exercise and eat plant foods (fruits, vegetables, breads & fiber), nuts, fish, poultry, and some dairy products. But they also advise taking a multivitamin as “a good nutrition insurance policy.” Dr. Mehmet Oz, on the Oprah show, seemed to be doing just that. He said people could expect to live longer (20 years) by eating a healthy diet along the lines of the food pyramids like that from Harvard. Dr. Oz went on to say that he also takes multivitamins from A – E. He even advised challenging the body’s anti-aging gene sirtuin by taking resveratrol.

With advice from such sources like Harvard and celebrity doctors, it is no wonder that boomers marketing is going to accelerate.

Check out the choice of the author for “nutritional insurance.”

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Categories: Boomers Marketing, anti aging, Healthy eating, chronic diseases for aging, reversing aging, Food Pyramid, Effects of demography

Antioxidant Benefits & Dangers

Antioxidant Benefits & Dangers

What is this hubbub about antioxidants? Many people don’t realize this, but the insides of our bodies are like metal swing sets left outside – they are at the mercy of nature’s elements. We can see that if the swing set is not properly painted, it will rust. And if left uncared for, the swing set will eventually rust away. Rusting is nature’s way of using oxygen to break down metal and return metal to the ground.

Antioxidant Dangers – Oxidation

Another name for rusting is oxidation. Oxidation is nature’s way of using oxygen to rust out the insides of our bodies. And like the metal swing set, oxidation is nature’s way of breaking down the human body for its return to the ground. Like rusting, oxidation takes its time and toll. It also leaves tell-tale signs like aches and pains, arthritis, dry or patchy skin, acne & rashes, diabetes, heart problems, clogged arteries, heart burn that antacids won’t relieve and won’t take a vacation, high cholesterol, cancer, stroke, and death. Do these consequences of old age qualify for some hubbub?

Antioxidant Benefits.

It certainly did for our ancestors who searched for foods that seemed to forestall these consequences. They were the first seekers of what we now know as antioxidant fruit and vegetables – like mangosteen fruit, red grapes, broccoli and cabbage, among others. In theory, antioxidants from antioxidant fruit and vegetables help our bodies fight oxidation. At first, we relied on single supplements like vitamin E, C, or B tablets taken separately. Then we graduated to super supplements like the multivitamin tablets or even liquids. These, it turns out, are not doing the job for some.

Raising the Ante Against Oxidation.

Some are craving the strength of super supplements of antioxidant fruit. Super supplements of acai berry, mangosteen fruit, green tea, resveratrol. Many super supplements now combine these major-league fruits to get a combo antioxidant power of antioxidant fruit. The stakes are high – antioxidant fruit has been pitted against the free radicals of oxidation. Super supplements house these alliances and are taken daily to fend off the ravages of aging in hopes of prolonging a quality life.

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Body Cleanse Program

Body Cleanse Program

Before I read Rodale Health Books’ The Purification Plan, I thought a body cleansing program would entail the regime doctors put patients through the day before a colonoscopy. However, body detoxification involves more than just cleaning the colon. It includes the whole body. A body cleanse program includes three stages: absorbing the nutrients, neutralizing free radicals (toxins), and ushering toxins from the body. Absorbing nutrients is so important because a neglected colon’s inner wall can become so encrusted with old waste that the colon has difficulty in doing its digestive role

Step one of a body cleanse program includes picking foods that are effective in cleansing the body, especially the liver, kidneys, and colon. Some top foods include garlic, lemons, green tea, watercress, cabbage, vinegar, whole psyllium husks, and broccoli sprouts. These foods are sometimes in a top ten listing. Milk Thistle can be used to protect the liver from pollutants like solvents, fertilizer, paint and the like. Use the elder flower to stimulate sweating as a way to push toxins from the body. Finally, dandelion root can jump start a sluggish digestion. Common foods and specialty ones all have a place in a good body cleanse program.

Step two of the body cleanse program is to focus on helping the body fight the free radicals that toxins introduce into the body. There are a couple of points to remember here. Don’t go for the jugular and try to undo years of build up and damage over a weekend. Make your body cleanse program a change in your lifestyle. Be patient. Introduce a body cleansing food that is death on oxidants (free radicals), at a measured pace – like one new one per week. This will give the body a chance to adjust without embarrassing body reactions. Finally, drink antioxidant fruit juices rather than a soda or coffee. Antioxidant fruit in juice form are especially easy for the body to absorb as I explained in my earlier blog, “Vitamin Absorption.”

Step three of a body cleanse program is the elimination of toxins. Ideally, toxins would be neutralized in the digestive, circulatory cycles. Better choices of foods in a body cleanse program would lower the toxins in the body to eliminate. However, not all toxins will be neutralized. Some need to be eliminated via the colon and kidneys, while others may be passed through sweat glands. It is best for a body cleanse program to work with the body’s liver, kidneys, sweat glands, and immune system to kick the toxins from the body. Some cleansing kits not only remove toxins, but also remove friendly bacteria and flora as well. Many may think first of colonic cleansing – as in flushing a toxic colon. Colonic flushing in a body cleanse program belongs in the hands of a professional.

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Life Expectancy Rate

Life expectancy rate

Top internet stories of life expectancy rates center around survival rates from country to country. One of the highest in the world is among Jews, both in North America and Israel. Israel’s men are said to have the second highest life expectancy rate, behind males in Japan. One reason given for Israeli men’s high survival rate is their general satisfaction with their life in old age. Life expectancy rate in the US has reached a record high of 78.1 years of age for a child born in 2006. Dr Mehmet Oz claimed in the famous Oprah interview that it is quite possible for people to live to 125. People can extend their life expectancy by 20 years if they eat real food in moderation and exercise.

The longevity diet.

Dr Oz also advised Oprah’s audience that people can extend their lives more by eating less to activate the sirtuin-age-slowing gene. Dr. Sinclair is among the anti aging doctors and has done foundational research to support Dr. Oz’ advice. Drs. Oz and Sinclair both knew of a longevity diet proven in research: great calorie restriction activates the otherwise dormant gene in the body to call the body’s defenses and healing faculties to fend off age-related diseases like arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and even cancer. What Dr Sinclair found is that the component resveratrol from red wine can induce the body to mimic the effects of calorie restriction. Thus, in animals, this change in the longevity diet allows rats and monkeys to eat heartily, gain weight, but still not suffer the disease of seniors.

Controversy Over Resveratrol’s Effectiveness

There is some controversy over the exclusive effectiveness of resveratrol on humans. Some claim that resveratrol does not remain potent after digestion. Others disagree. Still others figure that resveratrol cannot be separated from the influence of any other antioxidant fruit. A study published in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research (ISSN 1613-4125) concludes, that their study “raises some doubts about the health effects of dietary resveratrol consumption and suggests that the benefits associated to red wine consumption could be probably due to the whole antioxidant pool present in red wine.”

It is the power of antioxidant fruit, especially in a liquid supplement form, that enhances vitamin absorption along with other minerals and nutrients. Antioxidant fruit feeds the body at the necessary cellular level so that the body can call up its defenses against age related diseases. The longevity diet needs a chorus of antioxidant fruit to have its full impact. It is then that the longevity diet can feed the body in its quest to extend its life expectancy rate.

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Vemma Nutrition

The Vemma Nutrition Company is a private, family-run business that has two basic products to sell: Vemma Nutrition drink and Verve – the energy drink.

Vemma Nutrition Up Close

The Vemma Nutrition Program sells two super supplements to help people get the needed nutrition, perhaps lacking in their daily meals. The first product, Vemma, is a super juice made from an antioxidant fruit with the third highest antioxidant rating (ORAC value). It is combined with antioxidant gusher green tea, aloe vera (rich in Glyconutrient), trace vitamins, and minerals. The Vemma Nutrition offered with this combination is the equivalent to eating 2 oranges , 9 avocados,19 bananas, 2 large watermelons, 17 oz of cherries, 3 stalks of broccoli, 1 cup of spinach, 3 cups of peas, 5 large potatoes, 61 cups of tomatoes, 37 medium mushrooms, 62 oz of cheddar cheese (for vitamin B-12), and 55 eggs (for Vitamin D). Mind you, all these equivalent nutrients are condensed into a 2 oz liquid serving. So it has vitamin absorption like other liquid vitamins.

Verve

The second super supplement of the Vemma Nutrition Program is its energy drink Verve. Verve comes primarily in an 8z can. Verve contains all the nutrients of Vemma super juice, but it has an added energy kick as well. It has 80 mg of caffeine (about the same as a cup of coffee). It also includes Taurine, Inositol, and choline chloride for energy boosts.

Criticisms of Vemma

Vemma Nutrition has its drawbacks. Not everyone is sold on the need for super supplements. And many are uncomfortable that there is no FDA approval or endorsement of any of the online products from antioxidant fruits like Vemma, Mona Vie, Xanou, and ResVPure. Some people, doctors included, are convinced that people can and should eat healthy foods they buy or grow. They discourage using super supplements and see them as a waste of money. Still, more critics see these supplements as a waste of time. They say even if the products work (marginally, I guess in their minds), the products would require spending more time than they wish on the internet. In addition, these super supplements tend to be pricey. Finally, the greatest complaint is potential users' having GREAT difficulty in finding someone else who has enough interest in trying super supplements or getting involved in a home-based-business.

Final Words

Despite the criticism of Vemma Nutrition, I think the potential for all of the antioxidant fruit products listed above is there. I ran across an Answerbag posting awhile ago. The question was whether Vemma worked in helping people get healthy again. The responses were varied, and opinions from both ends of the spectrum were represented. Three things struck me. Those writing against did not oppose because they had tried Vemma Nutrition and it failed. They disagreed based on an a priori principle. Those favoring saw the super supplement as effective in their lives. In other words, they had tried the product, and it had worked for them. Finally, those who wrote positively for Vemma and Xanou were very passionate about their beliefs.

It was the passion and conviction of those who tried the antioxidant fruit products that convinced me that these people saw some effect in their lives.

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