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ALA – About Alpha Lipoic Acid

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Available in every single cell of the body – much like glutatione – alpha lipoic acid (ALA) is an antioxidant that helps your cells transform glucose into energy. Unlike antioxidants like Vitamin C which can exclusively work in water or vitamin E which only works in fat , ALA operates in both water and fat. It can work anyplace in your body. Like other antioxidants, ALA neutralizes free radicals -metabolic waste – from your cells before they grow to be crowded and toxic from a build up of waste. In contrast to most other antioxidants, Alpha lipoic Acid can help to replenish other antioxidants once they have collected the odd electrons and renders them capable to continue to neutralize more free radicals.

ALA is also used as an abbreviation for Alpha Linolenic Acid which is an omega-3 fatty acid, connected with heart health, but this is not the same as Alpha lipoic acid – also known as Lipoic Acid.
Several studies have indicated that ALA may possibly be able to help lessen levels of blood sugar and combined with it’s antioxidant properties, ALA might be valuable to people suffering from diabetic peripheral neuropathy, relieving some of the discomfort brought about by nerve damage.

Researchers are studying alpha lipoic acid to measure its effectiveness against glaucoma although they are yet to acquire sufficient data, but because it can pass very easily to the brain, it is possible that ALA may well be useful as a protection against brain and nerve tissue damage. ALA is currently being looked at as a potential treatment for stroke and other brain problems with root causes based on free radical damage. Dementia is one such condition.

ALA is an ingredient in both MaxGXL and Cellgevity, both of which are available at Whole Earth Health.

RiboCeine and NAC Can Raise Liver Glutathione Levels

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A next generation product has been brought to market to help your body produce glutathione. In case you’re not familiar with Glutathione, it provides many important benefits to your health including fortifying the immune system, cleaning toxins from your body, helping to combat inflammation and neutralizing free radicals.

Oxy- radicals are a critical issue because the damage that free radicals create in your body has been connected to over seventy four major disorders and illnesses and the main weapon we each possess to prevent the destruction caused by oxidative stress is Antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules that can stop the spread of free radicals, which left alone can create an ongoing chain reaction of incomplete molecules that eventually damage the host cells and the organs in your body. With the many antioxidants that exist, one of them does a superior job of defending your cells from the damage caused by free radicals and it’s the Master Antioxidant, Glutathione.

Glutathione is naturally produced by your body. Unfortunately, aging retards the creation of glutathione and – when you need it most, glutathione is less and less available to you. It would be an easy thing to correct if you could simply supplement with glutathione, but that doesn’t work. Oral glutathione supplements are not effective, because as they pass through the digestive tract, the glutathione is ruined by the gastric juices and can’t be absorbed into the bloodstream.

The strategy that actually works is taking glutathione precursors. Precursors are the necessary nutrient materials that the body requires to make glutathione naturally. By supplying your body with an abundance of the building blocks it requires, blood and liver glutathione concentrations are boosted naturally – and considerably. To date the most effective products that I know of to increase glutathione levels are MAXGXL, MAXONE and Cellgevity from Max International.

MaxONE and Cellgevity are based on compound named RiboCeine, which has been featured prominently in connection with MAX ATP (I’ll write about ATP later). RiboCeine takes the name from D-Ribose – a simple, chemically linear sugar that supports the production of ATP and L-Cysteine, perhaps the most critical of the materials from which we make glutathione. While MAXGXL uses a blend of L-Glutamine and NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine), MAXONE and Cellgevity use RiboCeine, which apparently is better able to protect the Cysteine in its journey through the stomach and get more to the cells, resulting in 300% higher liver glutathione levels.

Cellgevity, which is the newest product takes advantage of the strength of RiboCeine and combines it with other substances – like Vitamin C, Broccoli seed extract and ALA to also help your body better use -and reuse- the glutathione it produces.

For people who hate to swallow pills, a month’s supply of MaxONE is only 60 capsules – just two a day to boost your glutathione levels and experience the benefits that the Master Antioxidant will deliver to you.
Click here for more information on Cellgevity and if you would like to take a closer look at the original glutathione precursor MAXGXL- click here

MAXGXL New Packaging

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If you’re a regular Max GXL user you’ll soon have a chance to see the new MAX GXL New Bottlepackaging.  Launched in November and coming as quite a surprise to those who were expecting to see their favorite red box show up with their autoship, the new MaxGXL features all 180 caps in a monthly dose packaged in a plastic bottle.

With the big, bold MAXGXL logo, there’s no question about what product is inside, but the people who loved to carry their afternoon dose of MAXGXL around in their pocket or purse in one of the little 3-cap cello packs will – I’m sorry to say- be disappointed.

I’m not. I love the new packaging for two big reasons.

My MAXGXL takes up less space to store- I moved recently and my new kitchen is a lot smaller than the old one and I really appreciate how much less space this bottle takes over the old boxes in a sleeve.

Less Waste!  What a pleasure it is when a big company like Max International wakes up an stops wasting that cardboard (save those trees) and the non recyclable thermoset plastic from the old packaging.

Natural Relief for Chronic Pain

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I’m not an official health practitioner and so you’ll receive a health consultation from this article .   But what you will get is a considered perspective about something you can check into if you’re suffering because of chronic pain.

Chronic pain – by definition – is long lasting and/or recurrent .  It can continue for months or- happens all too often – for years.  Chronic pain isn’t the immediate result of a traceable injury . The fact is that if you severely twist an ankle when you’re out running , it’s going to hurt the for a while .  Pain is natures way of telling you that something’s physically wrong. For lots of injuries and strains , the pain you feel the next day is caused by the inflammation caused in the cells .

Along this line , the immediate pain and chronic pain share a connetcion . That connection   is inflammation.  Inflammation is frequently common chronic condition that lots of people have even if we don’t know about it. But if a result of the inflammation is pain, we will pay attention .

Inflammation is often a result of an out-of-control action of free radical damage inside our cells.  One explanation for the unchecked damage is that there are not enough antioxidants available to clean up the free radicals.  There are lots of types of free radicals and a variety of antioxidants that can fight them, but not all of them are equally useful and one of the most valuable is an antioxidant called glutathione .

Glutathione is frequently called the body’s Master Antioxidant for the simple reason that it’s found in each cell of your body.  Since it is meant to always be at the scene of the crime , glutathione is uniquely adapted to remove free radicals everywhere .  It’s too bad that , as we get older we make decreasing amounts of the Master Antioxidant .

So getting to the point , one tactic you can try – which has been effective for people suffering from chronic pain is to increase the level of antioxidants in your system in order to eliminate the free radicals and reduce the inflammation.  You can increase your levels of Vitamins C and E . Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and to enhance your  glutathione production you can take MaxGXL or MaxONE.

Try MaxGXL instead of a Glutathione supplement.

Why Your Heart Needs AntiOxidant Protection

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The human heart is certainly a wonderous organ .  Even before your first breath , the muscles that make up the heart are working hard , circulating oxygen rich blood to every part in you and drawing oxygen depleted blood back to your lungs.  On average, your heart will beat 37,869,120 times each year , year after year.  That’s around two and a half billion heartbeats in your lifetime .

Clearly , the heart is your powerhouse and deserves protection. You know , nobody can survive without a working heart and   with an average of 2 deaths every 68 seconds ,  forty percent of all the deaths in the United States are the result of heart disease, the leading cause of which is CAD- Coronary Artery Disease

Because it’s the hardest working organ in your body, the heart muscles will produce a continuous supply    of energy and it’s this massive level of energy creation which renders your heart vulnerable to the threat of free radicals. Hence , the heart is one organ with a high demand for antioxidants  and the most important of which is Glutathione.

Producing Energy for the Heart

The heart’s astounding ability to make energy is rooted within each cell’s power plants known as Mitochondria.  Every cell in every organ has these tiny energy producing sites .  On average, most cells will have a few hundred mitochondria, but the cells found in the muscles of your heart have about 5,000! The power that’s made in your cells, is created in the form of a compound called ATP or adenosine triphosphate.  Unfortunately , producing energy has a price .

The by- products of creating energy are free radicals and with so many mitochondria in the cells of the heart , there will also be a matching population of by-products . Without the intervention of antioxidants , free radicals can create a cascading response within the heart cells that can kill them and their components – like cellular DNA.

CAD and Heart Disease

Arteriosclerosis – Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) which is generally called hardening of the arteries or loss of arterial elasticity is a leading cause of Heart disease. It’s been linked to a substance called lipid peroxidase. That’s what you get when the lipids in your heart are converted into free radicals.  Lipids, are a large group of molecules which include waxes, sterols, fats and the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E & K.  In addition to   raised levels of Free radicals, patients with CAD have also been found with depressed levels of antioxidants including Glutathione.  Missing a sufficient supply of antioxidants to scavenge free radicals in your heart, this organ and your arterial system will eventually suffer from oxidative stress.

Our systems are designed to manage free radicals created by normal processes, but most of us are subject to extra stresses that were not part of the original plan . They include environmental chemicals ( like cigarette smoke!), lousy diets, the unhealthy pace and emotional stress of our busy lives and poor conditioning of our muscles from not enough exercise.  We have placed our antioxidant reserves at a terrible disadvantage.

Why You Need More  Glutathione and Other Antioxidants

As we age , our chemistry starts to slow down. The mitochondria in our cells inevitably produce less energy and we also naturally begin to produce less glutathione – which is vital for a healthy heart.  Boosting glutathione supply can’t make us live forever, but given how important your heart is , it only makes sense to  eat better ,  live a healthier lifestyle and take concrete steps to boost our natural production of glutathione.

Oral Glutathione supplements are not effective, but you can increase your glutathione with a glutathione precursor like MaxONE.

Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress

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Presenting all the connections that exist between aging, DNA damage, chronic pain, inflammation,  oxidative stress, the role of antioxidants and our metabolism and immune systems is a long and very complex process.  However, there is a definite link between the prevention of oxidative stress and the avoidance or at least delayed onset of many degenerative and often painful illnesses that we expect to be a part of normal aging.

Oxidative stress is  a killer- even if it doesn’t sound like one and its associated with many conditions and diseases like  Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myocardial infarction (a heart attack that prevents blocks the blood supply to a part of the heart muscle causing it to die) other forms of heart failure  and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Oxidative stress is the resulting condition when there is either an uncontrolled increase in peroxides and oxy-radicals/free radicals (collectively referred to as reactive oxygen species)  or a significant shortfall in the body’s antioxidant defense systems, one of which is glutathione.

When your body can’t use its supply of antioxidants to protect itself- at a cellular level- from oxy-radical damage, you have oxidative stress.

Reactive oxidative species originate in different ways – both internally and externally.

Externally, free radicals are caused by; introduced toxins and pathogens, cigarette smoke, pollution, chemotherapy, UV damage, radiation, vigorous exercise and stress.

Internally, oxy-radicals are a standard by-product of your metabolism.   Even our own immune system used oxy-radicals to defend us against toxins and pathogens.  Normally, our natural reserves of antioxidants will scavenge these damaging by-products.   However, when aging and/or poor health and nutrition interfere with our usual ability to prevent oxidative stress the damage builds up and our defenses are eventually overwhelmed.

Oxidative stress and reactive oxygen species are also responsible for damage DNA damage which can lead to mutation.  Unfortunately, just as our production of antioxidants like glutathione decreases as we age, so too does our natural ability to maintain our DNA in good repair. One obvious example of the damage caused oxidative stress is  aged appearance (at best) to the skin of people who have not been protected from the sun’s harmful rays.

According to the Free Radical Theory of Aging , the accumulation of damaged cells caused by the unchecked action of free radicals is a primary contributor to the process of aging and while we cannot stop that, no one will debate that good health practices can contribute to a increased quality of life through what are supposed to be the golden years.  Antioxidants like glutathione which you can support with supplements like MaxGXL® and MAXONE can also play a key role in the avoidance  of chronic inflammation by reducing oxidative damage.