Glutathione14 – Made from 3 Amino Acids – HUGE BENEFITS

 

Benefits:

• Liver Health: helps detoxify the liver and protect it from diseases such as fatty liver

• Immunity: activates immune system cells to fight infections and cancer

• Cell Repair: repair cells damaged by pollution, stress, and other harmful factors

• Detoxification: helps the body remove toxins, including drugs and pollutants

• Heart Health: protects heart health by lowering cholesterol and blood pressure

• Exercise Performance: neutralizes free radicals formed during exercise, improving performance and reducing muscle fatigue

• Brain Health: helps keep brain cells healthy and may help prevent brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease

 

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Methionine1 – Essential Amino Acid – body cannot produce – must be obtained through diet or supplement

 

Benefits:

• Regulates metabolic processes and digestive functioning

• Important for growth, immunity, and energy metabolism regulation

• Protects the body from damage caused by ionizing radiation and may detoxify harmful substances like heavy metals 

• It may also help prevent liver damage from acetaminophen poisoning

 

Ascorbic Acid15 – Vitamin C – Body cannot store this vitamin       

 

Benefits:

• Growth and repair of tissue in all parts of the body

• Wound healing, maintaining bones and teeth

• Strong Antioxidant – protects against free radicals

• Decreases blood sugar in people with diabetes

• Lowers the risk of blood pressure and heart disease

• Reduces effects of Osteoarthritis by building collagen

• Improves vision and reduces risk of macular degeneration

• Boosts immunity to fight infection

 

Inositol2,3 – Essential Carbohydrate – Natural isomer of glucose       

 

Benefits:

• Balance chemicals in the body to help with mental conditions such as anxiety, panic disorder, and depression

• Helps with regulating insulin and binding neurotransmitters

• Provides increased weight loss in women with PCOS

• It may also reduce high cholesterol and blood pressure

• Lowers risk for Metabolic Syndrome

• Helps body to better process insulin

 

Levocarnitine3,4 – Derived from an Amino Acid – Essential Nutrient

 

Benefits:

• Helps your body turn fat into energy

• Promotes weight loss by transporting fatty acids into mitochondria

• Plays critical role in energy production

• Important role in maintaining the health of your brain, muscles, and heart

• Lack of carnitine can lead to liver, heart, and muscle problems

• It may also modestly improve glycemic control

 

L-Lysine5 – Essential Amino Acid – body cannot produce – must be obtained through diet or supplement.

 

Benefits:

• Essential building block for making proteins

• Involved in production of hormones and energy

• Helps body absorb calcium

• Plays important role in the formation of collagen

• It may also help prevent herpes virus by supporting immune function

 

Thiamine6 – B1 – Essential Water-Soluble B-Vitamin.

 

Benefits:

• Helps the body convert food into fuel and energy

• Helps the body metabolize fats and proteins

• Essential for healthy liver, skin, hair and eyes

• Helps nervous system function properly

• Essential for good brain function

• "Anti-stress" vitamin because it may strengthen the immune system and improve the body's ability to withstand stressful conditions

 

Niacin7 – B3 – Essential Water-Soluble B-Vitamin.

 

Benefits:

• Helps the body convert food into fuel and energy

• Helps the body metabolize fats and proteins

• Helps improve circulation in the body

• Shown to suppress inflammation in the body

• Helps the body make various sex and stress-related hormones

• Niacinamide may improve arthritis symptoms, including increasing joint mobility and reducing the amount of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) needed

 

Dexpanthenol8 – B5 – Analogue of Vitamin B5 – Essential Water-Soluble B-Vitamin.

 

Benefits:

• Helps the body convert food into fuel and energy

• Helps the body metabolize fats and proteins

• Critical to the manufacture of red blood cells

• Critical to the manufacture of sex and stress-related hormones produced in the adrenal glands

• Vitamin B5 is also important in maintaining a healthy digestive tract

• Preliminary research suggests that vitamin B5 has moisturizing effects on the skin, especially when combined with Vitamin C

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Riboflavin9 – B2 – Essential Water-Soluble B-Vitamin.

 

Benefits:

• Works as an antioxidant – fight damaging particles that contribute to the aging process

• Riboflavin might help prevent cataracts

• Cut the number of Migraine attacks in half

• Helps the body convert food into fuel and energy

• Helps the body metabolize fats and proteins

• Essential for healthy liver, skin, hair and eyes

• Helps nervous system function properly

 

Pyridoxine10 – B6 – Essential Water-Soluble B-Vitamin.

 

Benefits:

• Essential for normal Brain Development and Function

• Helps the body make serotonin and norepinephrine, which influence mood, and melatonin, which helps regulate the body clock

• Controls the level of Homocysteine in the blood – Elevated Homocysteine is associated with heart disease

• Helps the body convert food into fuel and energy

• Helps the body metabolize fats and proteins

 

Cobalamin11 – Vitamin B12 – Essential Water-Soluble B-Vitamin.

 

Benefits:

• Increased energy levels and reduced fatigue

• Needed for red blood cell formation – prevents anemia

• Needed for DNA Synthesis

• Improves mood and reduced depression

• Reduced risk of macular degeneration of the eyes

• May support bone health and reduce risk of osteoporosis

• Helps the body convert food into fuel and energy

• Helps the body metabolize fats and proteins

• Essential for healthy liver, skin, hair and eyes

• Helps nervous system function properly

 

Choline12 – Essential nutrient – body does NOT produce enough

 

Benefits:

• Your brain and nervous system need it to regulate memory, mood, muscle control

• Breaks down fats and removes them from your liver

• Essential component in how your liver and muscles work

• Reduces levels of Homocysteine in the body

• Increased fat burning

• Increased energy levels and reduced fatigue

 

Leucine13 – Essential Amino Acid

 

Benefits:

• Increases feelings of fullness and satiety – increasing weight loss

• Helps build lean muscle

• Helps stabilize blood sugars by improving insulin response

• Increases testosterone and decreases cortisol

• Helps with muscle recovery and regeneration after workout

• Increased fat burning

• Increased energy levels and reduced fatigue

 

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Amino Acids – Essential Amino Acids – body does NOT produce enough

 

Benefits:

• Increases weight loss and burns fat

• Building blocks of DNA and protein

• Increases feelings of fullness and satiety – increasing weight loss

• Helps build lean muscle

• Helps stabilize blood sugars by improving insulin response

• Increases testosterone and decreases cortisol

• Helps with muscle recovery and regeneration after workout

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