Living Multi Men's Formula
by Garden of life
WHAT IS IT?
- Living Multi is a complete vitamin and mineral supplement with optimal levels of every nutrient in its preferred "body ready" form.
- The only formula of its kind that has undergone human clinical testing.
- Contains 70 whole foods including 23 fruits, 20 vegetables, 11 tonic mushrooms, 9 ocean vegetables, and 6 botanicals equivalent to 203,150 mg of fresh super foods.
- The only multivitamin/mineral product with Homeostatic Nutrients.
- Contains optimal levels of carotenoids including 20-25 times more lutein and lycopene than other brands.
- Provides balanced levels of all B vitamins.
- Contains naturally occurring probiotics and enzymes.
- Designed to: 1. Enhance energy and performance. 2. Facilitate cellular detoxification. 3. Reduce oxidative stress.
- Living Multi Optimal Men's Formula contains a specially formulated combination of adaptogenic herbs, vitamins and minerals to address men's unique health concerns. Maca, Rhodiola rosea, Rhododendron caucasicum, Aralia racemosa and bee pollen have been added to help reduce stress, boost the immune system, enhance energy, improve sexual function and help maintain prostate health.
Living Multi contains in 6 caplets :
Nine marine and freshwater plant food blend consisting of Spirulina platensis, Chlorella vulgaris, Lithothamnion calcereum, Dunaliella salina, Eclonia radiata, Ascophyllum nodosum, Laminaria japonica, Macrocystis pyrifera, and Alaria esculenta. These sea vegetables are treasure houses of nutrients that provide important immune and detoxification support, increasing resistance to many modern pollutants such as nuclear radiation. 2223 mg.
Poten-Zyme Antioxidant Fruit Blend including acerola cherry, blueberry (leaf), pomegranate, apple (fruit and skin), black currant, apricot, nectarine, prune, white cherry, elderberry, grape fruit (seed, skin and leaf), peach, mango, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, cranberry, pineapple, and papaya. 1725 mg.
Poten-Zyme Antioxidant Veggie Juice Blend including alfalfa grass, barley grass, wheat grass, rye grass, oat grass, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collard greens, Brussels sprouts, carrot, beet, spinach, parsley, cucumber, celery, cabbage, and onion. 1050 mg.
Poten-Zyme Medicinal Mushroom Blend consisting of Ganoderma lucidum (reishi), Grifola frondosa (maitake), Lentinula edodes (shiitake), Agaricus blazei, Trametes versicolor, Cordyceps sinensis, Hericium erinaceus, Poria cocos, Tremella fuciformis, Polyporus umbellatus, Blackeslea trispora.
813 mg.
Poten-Zyme Botanical Blend including yucca, rosemary, garlic, ginger, turmeric, and wild oregano. 93 mg.
Ionic Ocean Trace Mineral Blend. 625 mg.
Poten-zyme Men's Herbal Blend including Maca root, Rhodiola rosea (root,) Rhododendron caucasicum (young leaves,) bee pollen, Aralia racemosa (whole plant.) 1165 mg.
Living Multi contains the following naturally occurring probiotic microorganisms, enzymes and organic acids: Lactobacillus Plantarum, Lactobacillus reuterii, Bacillus lichenformis, Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecium, Streptococcus lactis, protease, amylase, lipase, cellulase, catalase, superoxide dismutase, lactic, fulvic, formic and acetic acids.
Trace minerals from the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Contains all ionic trace minerals without the sodium. It is equivalent to a quarter cup of sea water per serving.
WHAT DOES IT DO?
From the Garden of Life website:
There is a revolution under way in the multiple vitamin and mineral category.
A product called Living Multi is starting it.
Ordinarily, we loathe the term revolution to describe an advancement in medicine because a revolution means a breakage from the past, something so new and different that it cannot be compared with what has come before, a paradigm shift. Most breakthroughs in nutrition and science represent evolutions. But Living Multi, we believe, truly represents a revolution both in the way nutrients are made available to the human body and in its ability to bring the body into dynamic balance, known as homeostasis. Indeed, as clinical study results come in for Living Multi, it will become not only the most thoroughly clinically validated multiple vitamin-mineral formula in America today, but also the only multiple formula to undergo such a wide range of clinical testing.
Back to the Future
There are different schools of thought in the field of nutritional supplementation. Each has its merits, based on the premise that any nutrient is good, but that there are degrees of benefit or goodness to be derived from such nutrients.
The older school, which we can date back to at least the 1930s, utilized whole food concentrates as a source of essential nutrients. Concentrated foods such as wheat and barley grass were considered our first multivitamins. No wonder today these grasses remain such popular health drinks.
But then came along the promises of chemical scientists who claimed they could duplicate these miracle foods nutrients in their laboratories. Thus, with the advent of sophisticated scientific technology, individual nutrients such as beta-carotene, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) could not only be identified in the whole food matrix but, also, simplified imitations created through synthetic means and raw materials.
Such breakthroughs led to the modern multiple vitamin and mineral formulas that utilize, for the most part, isolated or synthetic vitamins and minerals created in the laboratory. These types of formulas rely on USP or United States Pharmacopoeia -type nutrients. These are pulled or isolated from their natural cofactors and, more often, synthesized, much like their pharmaceutical cousins. When they are taken into the human body if sufficient cofactors are not supplied such as other vitamins, minerals and enzymes, then the body might not be able to use them. Sometimes, these nutrient isolates or USP vitamins and minerals are combined with food concentrates and herbs. This is certainly an improvement over the isolated nutrient approach. But can we go further? Thats the question one company, Garden of Life, recently asked. We think the answer will surprise you.
Many epidemiological studies show use of multiple vitamin and mineral formulas provides important health benefits, ranging from improved immune function and fewer days of illness, to reduction in risk of cancer, heart disease and cataracts.
Yet, beyond USP and food-based nutrients mixes, an older (what we think of as revolutionary) school of thought holds that nature offers many unanticipated surprises that cannot be so easily identified in a laboratory. These have been routinely brushed aside or ignored by those scientists, pharmaceutical and nutritional companies who remain devoted to their paradigm, committed to the US- and food-based nutrient mixes.
Old School Updates
Modern Paradigm
We have news: the old school is back. While no one knows for sure, experts put the number of phytochemicals found in foods to be at least 100,000 unique molecular structures. Far fewer of these have ever been adequately characterized, much less synthesized, in the laboratory.
Recently, scientists have learned that synthetic nutrients created in the laboratory are highly simplified imitations of the more complex structures found in nature, particularly in various whole foods. Not surprisingly, scientific studies have also established the inferiority of synthetic vitamins. Synthetic vitamin E is known to be significantly less potent in the human body than its natural counterpart E. Whats more, vitamin E has many closely related natural co-factors, many more potent than so-called vitamin E or the tocopherol compound itself, that synthetic products do not provide. Similarly, researchers focused for a long time on beta-carotene, which could be made synthetically from petrochemical sources, but they neglected important research on related compounds such as lycopene and lutein, also members of the carotenoid family, and that we now know are critical to prostate and eye health, respectively. This begs the question some astute health experts now ask: Why should an isolated fraction of an apple or an orange, such as folate or ascorbic acid, be as beneficial to the human organism as the whole apple or orange? In a sense, Living Multi, as we hope to demonstrate, is far closer to whole foods than any other current multiple vitamin or mineral formula.
State of Our Health:
We Can Do Better
For all the so-called benefits attributed to isolated and synthetic nutrients and all of the progress we think we have made in improving the health of the nation, there are many health experts who say we can do even better. They note that three of four Americans will develop heart disease and half will die from it. Diabetes is striking baby boomers with a vengeance. About six percent of our population presently has diabetes and many gerontologists believe that percentage will increase significantly as the boomers enter their fifties and sixties. (And they say that diet and nutrition will be crucial to helping persons with diabetes maintain their health and reduce their risk of complications.) Already, some 21 million pre-diabetic Americans experience glucose intolerance, leading to Syndrome X, a condition characterized by high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and obesity. Some 200,000 Americans die every year from high blood pressure and stroke. One-third of Americans are obese. To get a better picture of what this means in pure numbers of mortality, more than 4,000 people daily die from heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Synthetic or isolated nutrients may be better than nothing and we encourage taking quality nutritional supplements with such synthetic or isolated nutrients for many reasons, but, perhaps, they are not good enough or no longer represent the leading edge. Adding them to whole food concentrates is better but, still, not the way to get our optimal health back.
Americans are taking supplements and spending more than $1 billion annually on alternative medicine; indeed, more than half of all Americans are now using some type of nutritional supplement, most multiple vitamins and minerals. Yet, as we get older, we become less healthy, more disabled, feeble-minded, fatigued, glucose intolerant, obese and filled with artery-clogging plaque than ever. Since so many people are using one type of nutritional supplement or another, these morbidity and mortality numbers might otherwise be much higher. That, in a sense, is the good news. The great news, and the real challenge, is that we can do so much better. After all, maximum life span has been established to be about 120 years. Why are we being shorted 40 to 50 of those years?
Can Living Multi Help?
Part of the solution might well be Living Multi. This vitamin and mineral formulation takes us way past USP, food-based or even so-called whole food vitamin and mineral products. It takes us back to a more primitive form of nutrition, one paradoxically far more sophisticated and wondrous in its nutritional offerings and health benefits than typical multiple vitamin and mineral formulas.
Living Multi fits our philosophy to its core. Healthy Living has been carrying on what is almost a crusade for reliance on a whole food rather than drug- or isolated nutrient-based strategy for combating nutrient deficiencies. As a team of experts notes there is so much new knowledge regarding the interrelationship of nutrients and regarding the multiplicity of beneficial phytochemicals besides conventional nutrients present in todays food supply. What has served to strengthen our plea is that it is now clear that no single nutrient, or even a combination of such laboratory creations, can mimic the beneficial effects achieved through overall dietary improvement.
Back to Basics
with Living Multi
Before the advent of widespread modern agriculture, the human diet consisted mostly of fruits, vegetables, wild grain and seeds, and fish, and meat from wild animals. No matter how far we have progressed socially and technologically, our bodies crave the foods of our ancestors. Our genetic constitutions and nutritional requirements were established during our distant past. People living during primitive times were optimally adapted to the types of foods that they could gather, and theres no evidence to suggest that modern humans are any different. We are literally designed to eat the same foods in the same forms as thousands of years ago. Our physiology and biochemistry cry out for a primitive diet with its plentiful amounts of healthy meat, fish, fruit, vegetables and nuts. We have departed so far from the wisdom of our forefathers that fully 55 percent of the American diet is new food not eaten by our ancestors.
So how do you do it? How do you move from the modern diet to ancestral foods? Living Multi is formulated to provide the levels of nutrients found in our ancestors diet in a body-ready form. Not only is Living Multi putting back the amount people received from ancient foods but also in a form similar to what people once received. It goes beyond isolates, food based, or even so called whole food nutrients. Lets look at some of the key innovations in Living Multi:
Homeostatic Nutrient Complexes
Living Multi utilizes homeostatic nutrient (HN) complexes, vitamins and minerals liberated and potentiated by probiotic microorganisms and their byproducts including enzymes and organic acids. This isnt simply mixing but rather nutritional alchemy. The process of turning ordinary vitamins and minerals into living whole food structures can be called organic transmutation. Organic, plant-derived vitamins and minerals are able to be safely used by our body because of the fact that nature has acted upon them and transformed them into organic material rather than allowing them to remain in their elemental form. Whenever vitamins and minerals come into contact with the beneficial byproducts of probiotic fermentation in a water medium, they are naturally dissolved into an ionic form. These nutrients literally become part of the whole food complex. This is what takes place during the production of the homeostatic nutrient complexes contained in Living Multi.
In 1927 Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi discovered vitamin C, using paprika and orange to isolate a white crystalline powder. Szent-Gyorgyi began concentrating this powder and was finding better and better results with scurvy patients until the powder became too pure, at which time responses declined. Clearly, the scientist observed, isolated vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid was probably not optimal. Szent-Gyorgyi received the Nobel Prize for his work, but it wasnt until 1955 that he discovered a whole other set of phytochemicals, now known as vitamin P or bioflavonoids, provided for the effective utilization of pure vitamin C in the human body. These are some of the co-factors missing from the vitamin isolate.
A student of Szent-Gyorgyi, Andrew Szalay, came to the United States in the late 1930s. At that time, pure ascorbic acid and other vitamins and minerals were already being sold as chemicals in isolate form, which distressed him. Szalay, acutely aware of the diminished results of pure isolates, began taking these isolates and recombining them with whole foods. For example, some companies now combine inorganic selenium under reactive conditions with live yeast. The selenium becomes part of the yeast whole food matrix to produce a selenium-yeast matrix. At the end of the process, outer membranes of yeast cells are removed and a supplement is produced known as selenium yeast. Absorption, bioavailability and utility can be dramatically increased.
Building on and advancing this knowledge, Garden of Life has uniquely and naturally complexed each vitamin and mineral in Living Multi using a wide range of beneficial microorganisms in a process that lasts three to six weeks (and resulting in a product that is yeast free). Whereas other so-called whole food vitamin and mineral products can contain up to 75 percent yeast, a common allergen, Living Multi provides enhanced benefits with no drawbacks. Perhaps the most unique and exciting result of this probiotic fermentation is the fact that the beneficial microorganisms and enzymes created in Living Multi remain alive in the product; hence, the name Living Multi. Whereas yeast containing vitamin and mineral supplements must destroy the live yeast due to its potential health hazards, Living Multi provides an abundant array of live probiotics and enzymes that not only expertly deliver nutrients but continue to work in the body, providing many health enhancing benefits. Living Multi contains a wide range of effective whole food concentrates, including twenty-three different fruits, twenty vegetables, nine different ocean plants, eleven different medicinal mushrooms, six botanicals, and more than 100 naturally occurring fulvic acid and ocean based ionic minerals to create an unprecedented health tool. The amount of whole food nutrients contained in Living Multi is up to ten times more than other nutritional formulas.
The process of creating homeostatic nutrient complexes is called Poten-Zyme. Predigestion with Poten-Zyme is essentially an ancient method of fermentation, incorporating beneficial microorganisms (probiotics) and their byproducts including enzymes and organic acids into the nutrients and foods to gently meld them into one. It brings these nutrients to life and provides them in their natural complexed form.
Poten-Zyme fermentation lasts three to six weeks (whereas other fermentation methods last as little as four hours). This longer fermentation time allows for the probiotics to create a much larger variety and concentration of novel health-promoting compounds. The end result is that the nutrients have been complexed into their preferred form and made body ready, not only predigested but also activated with all necessary co-factors such as enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Also created are multitudes of essential biochemicals that the body craves, including the bodys master antioxidant superoxide dismutase, as well as various immune-supportive beta-glucans; antimicrobial peptides; bacteriocins; biosurfactants; biotins; coenzymes; conjugated linolenic acids; glutathione; chromium compounds; hydrogen peroxide; lactic acid; and lysozyme.
Importance of Trace
Mineral Activators
Vitamins are groups of chemically related compounds. But in nature they come to us with activators, those trace elements necessary so the body can assimilate the vitamins. During the Poten-zyme fermentation process, Living Multi utilizes a mineral-rich liquid substrate obtained from the Great Salt Lake of Utah. This mineral mix is so concentrated the amount in one serving in Living Multi is the equivalent of one-quarter cup of seawater (with 99.5 percent of the sodium removed). The Great Salt Lake, where this mineral source comes from, is the largest body of concentrated seawater in the world and over thousands of years has concentrated many of the minerals found in the sea through geothermal and evaporative processes. It is rich in certain minerals and trace minerals, like magnesium, selenium, lithium, and boron that are vitally important to human health and compatible to human physiological needs. Also, because of its high concentrations, the Great Salt Lake is uniquely low in toxic heavy metals and detectable trace contaminants. (That the trace mineral mix is free from heavy metal contaminants has been determined by laboratory testing at low detection limits.) The minerals are not only ionic but also highly concentrated in a balance almost identical to that found in healthy blood plasma and in the lymphatic system. Among the minerals contained in Living Multi are magnesium, chloride, sulfate, potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, bromide, iodine, rubidium, scandium, boron, phosphorous, manganese, chromium, cobalt, zinc, copper, iron, silicon, indium, molybdenum, gallium, gold, silver, cesium, beryllium, selenium, vanadium, and many others.
As we mentioned, this substrate is added during the fermentation process, and the microorganisms utilize and complex these minerals and convert them to even more usable and soluble substances. Thus, these ionized conductors of the bodys electrical currents support necessary bodily functions as catalysts and activators of other nutrients, building blocks of enzymes, hormones, and other natural body chemicals used by the body to perform specific functions. Also, it is known that in the absence of certain trace minerals, certain heavy metals are likely to accumulate. (Trace minerals are often administered in hospitals as part of treatment in such disorders as lead poisoning.) Thus, we see that Living Multi influences our health in a polluted environment.
The Power of Fulvic
Acid-based Minerals
During the fermentation process, many of the minerals in the trace and major mineral substrate become complexed with organic acids including fulvic acid, which is thought by leading natural health experts to be one of the most important missing links in the modern human food chain. Medical and agricultural research continues to conclusively point to one fact: fulvic acid either directly or indirectly holds the keys and solutions to many of the worlds health problems.
Important for microbial processes that drive many ecosystems in our world, fulvic acid and related humic substances have been documented to interact in some manner with over 50 elements from the periodic table. Consider that nearly every pharmaceutical drug, herbal extract, health supplement, or therapeutic substance from nature, can somehow be traced to the functions and actual makeup of fulvic acid. Consider that the DNA of every living or extinct species of organism on earth, whether plant, animal, or microbe, has eventually become a highly refined component of fulvic acid.
Fulvic acid production is, in essence, natures perfect recycling process, where the end product, fulvic acid, provides a steady increase in health to subsequent generations of living organisms. Fulvic acid contains all of the phytochemical protective substances, amino acid peptides, and nucleic acids from the original plant matter, highly concentrated, refined, transformed, and enhanced by the actions of innumerable microscopic plants. Even small strands of RNA, DNA, and plant photosynthetic materials remain still intact. Many of the original components become complex enzymes, which have seemingly miraculous functions. Nature meant for small amounts of fulvic acid to participate at every level and link along the food chain. It contains latent solar energy, remnants of plant photosynthesis. Fulvic acid even bridges the gap between inert minerals and living matter, and it participates in the spark of life. Fulvic acid mineral complexes like those in Living Multi serve as premier electrolytes, improving energy function. Fulvic acid minerals are also excellent chelators of heavy metals and provide phenomenal protection from free radicals by acting as a chief antioxidant. The consumption of fulvic acid also aids in balancing our human microflora by providing antimicrobial substances. While fulvic acid is of paramount importance to the human body, our American diet has become nearly void of this miraculous substance.
Georgian Longevity Foods Rhododendron caucasicum, Blueberry Leaf, Apple Skin and Pomegranate
In the course of recovering from his illness, as related in Patient Heal Thyself (now with over 200,000 copies in print), Living Multi formulator Jordan Rubin, N.M.D., C.N.C., learned many of the healthy living secrets of the longest-lived peoples of the world. Thus, Living Multi contains clinically therapeutic amounts of famous Georgian longevity foods.
In the Republic of Georgia, formerly part of the Soviet Union, it is not unusual for people to live beyond 100 years of age as active members of society. When Russians marry, the bride and groom are often toasted with the gifting of Georgian longevity, notes one expert.
For over 2,000 years, Georgians have consumed alpine tea as a daily ritual along with pomegranate juice, mineral rich water, and probiotic-infused beverages as a part of their daily diet.
It has been theorized that their long lives may be attributed to regular consumption of these foods. Alpine tea is brewed from the young leaves of Rhododendron caucasicum. Thirty years of research and many clinical studies indicate that this adaptogen improves physical abilities, increases activity of the cardiovascular system, and increases blood supply to muscles and brain. Studies have demonstrated that it confers resistance of the organism to unfavorable chemical, physical, and biological imbalances. Rhododendron caucasicum has been shown to enhance the bodys ability to burn fat and has been proven in studies to aid in healthy weight management. Rhododendron caucasicum has been shown to reverse acidity and has a marked anti-inflammatory effect.
Caucasian blueberry leaves are also regularly consumed. Results of many clinical studies show that Caucasian blueberry leaves are especially rich in chlorogenic acid, invaluable for helping to normalize blood glucose levels, prevention of heart disease, and normalizing lipid profiles (cholesterol and triglycerides). Caucasian blueberry leaves high chlorogenic acid content also aids in protection against radiation. Because Caucasian blueberry is ecologically harvested from the wild, it isnt sprayed with pesticides (most domestically cultivated blueberry crops are intensively sprayed with pesticides).
Georgian pomegranate is a powerful antioxidant-rich fruit and source of ellagic acid, which inhibits many types of chemical carcinogens, including tobacco smoke. Georgian pomegranate also reduces blood pressure and risk of coronary artery disease. Pomegranate has been shown to provide effective protection against parasitic infestation.
Of course, you should eat apples. Maybe even more than the one a day the age-old adage advises us to consume to keep away the doctor. Everything you learned about apples is true. In fact, if apples were newly discovered, they would be the nutrient of the century. Apples (both their fruit and skin) contain a diverse range of active phytochemicals that are strongly medicinal. Apples reduce heart disease, contain phytoestrogens, reduce cancer risk, reduce allergic reactions, improve lung function, prevent dental caries, and have excellent antioxidant powers. Georgian mountain apple skin extract has also been shown to improve skin appearance and aid in the regulation of blood sugar levels.
The Power of Chlorophyllin
The blend of rye, wheat, oat, barley and alfalfa grass juices with spirulina and chlorella provides a whole gamut of chlorophyll rich foods that, when fermented in the presence of copper, produce highly beneficial compounds such as chlorophyllin, a water-soluble chlorophyll derivative produced from fermented green foods. Chlorophyllin has anti-cancer, anti-mutagenic, antioxidant, and life-extension benefits that may exceed even chlorophyll. For example, chlorophyllin can cross cell membranes organelle membranes, and blood-brain barriers; chlorophyll cannot. Chlorophyllin even enters into the mitochondria, the energy producing organelles of the cell, and where the majority of free radicals are produced. Chlorophyllin quenches all major reactive oxygen species, such as superoxide, hydrogen peroxide, singlet oxygen, and even the dangerously reactive hydroxyl radical, at very low dosages. It has been shown to be a potent mitochondrial antioxidant that not only protects mitochondria from their own auto-oxidation (which is considered to be a possible cause of aging) but also protects the mitochondria from a variety of external, chemical, biological, and radiation insults. Since the mitochondria are the energy factories of the cell, protecting them is a key aspect of optimal health as we age. Mutagenic research has shown chlorophyllin suppresses mutagenic activity of carcinogens and fried pork, diesel emissions and coal dust by more than 90 percent.
Homeostatic Calcium
Complete with Co-factors
The form of calcium used in Living Multi is not simply an isolated inorganic mineral. Rather, it is derived from seaweed that is harvested off the southwest coast of Ireland. A wide variety of body-essential nutrients, including calcium, magnesium, boron, zinc, phosophorous, boron, fluorine, sodium and copper are found in this homeostatic calcium. Again, we return to the fact that no nutrient is designed to be used by the body without co-factors. Magnesium is involved in calcium metabolism and in the conversion of vitamin D into its active form, as well as maintaining bone integrity. Boron plays a role in converting Vitamin D into its active form, thus participating in the calcium absorption process.
The Power of Alpha-lipoic Acid
Living Multi has extremely high levels of antioxidant nutrients and provides 150 mg of alpha-lipoic acid, much higher than most of the other formulations (if they even have this vital antioxidant).
Levels are known to be lower in people with heart disease and diabetes, and studies show alpha-lipoic acid to be of critical importance in the treatment of liver problems. Supplementation may be beneficial in virtually all of the chronic diseases. Benefits to athletes include enhanced energy production in muscle tissues, decreased glucose uptake by fat cells, and improved muscle recovery.
Lutein and Lycopene
for Added Protection
Lutein is an important carotenoid now known to be widely protective against chronic diseases affecting vision such as cataracts and age-related macular degeneration. Lycopene reduces the risk of prostate cancer and its spread to other tissues and can be an important nutrient for heart health. Living Multi contains up to 25 times more lutein and lycopene than other multiple formulas.
The Coup de Grce:
Extensive Clinical Validation
for Living Multi
It might surprise readers to learn that few, if any, multiple vitamin and mineral formulas have ever been clinically studied. Many epidemiological studies (which are always retrospective) have been conducted that show us these formulas work, generally speaking. Thus, the investigational studies that have been underway on Living Multi would seem to make it the most clinically studied multiple vitamin and mineral formula today, surpassing even those from some of the major pharmaceutical companies.
One study now underway is a double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial taking place at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences (a National Institutes of Health-approved research facility) in collaboration with Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
From our research and what weve gathered, this will be the first multi-nutrient study on humans that looks at multi-nutrient formulas for what they are designed to do, notes co-investigator Lee B. Dexter, microbiologist, food technologist, research scientist and president of Dexter and Associates, a technology and compliance consulting firm in Austin, Texas. If nearly 70 percent of our country takes a vitamin and mineral or a multi-nutrient of some kind, it is for two reasons: to increase energy and performance and prevent diseases that are created by our poor dietary habits, imbalanced lifestyle and environmental stresses. What was really shocking to me when we first contemplated the Living Multi clinical studies, is that when you look at the peer-reviewed publications that are out there, there is a shocking paucity of studies that have examined whether multiple vitamin and mineral formulas do what theyre supposed to do. And, so, this is truly a premiere study.
We wanted our study to look at the risk factors for coronary artery disease and for cancer. But we didnt want to take 20-year olds, because there wouldnt be much wrong with them in general, so we instead enrolled people between 45 and 65 years of age with a family history of cancer, and who have risk factors for heart disease (measured by the Framingham Risk Assessment Profile). But were also bringing in a really exciting technology to qualify the subjects. And that is the technology of genomic markers. As we now know there are known genomic markers for people with cardiovascular disease and cancer that signify people at higher-than-normal risk. There are also genetic toxicity markers, which are related to how well the body can clear toxins that can lead to cancer. We have further qualified these subjects with these genomic markers which will be, I believe, the very first time that they have been used in a nutritional study of any kind, let alone with a multiple vitamin and mineral formula.
And then were providing the recommended dose of Living Multi to twenty test subjects and twenty control subjects who will take the formula for a sixty-day period. We are measuring all the lipid parameters (cholesterol and triglycerides), as well as homocysteine, fibrinogen, and lipoprotein A, various inflammatory markers (C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate), and glucose tolerance.
Additionally, were looking at the subjects ability to physiologically cope with stress by evaluating their cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) levels.
And, then, we look at one of my real intereststhe bodys ability to detoxify. It turns out that many of the polysaccharides and other nutrients contained in Living Multi not only provide food for the probiotic organisms, which, in themselves, help the body to detoxify, but they actually can help reduce ammonia and other cancer-causing compounds in the colon. We use ammonia and fecal pH as markers for effective detoxification. We also look at the ability of the liver to cope with toxins like caffeine and acetaminophen. We look at the bodys ability to produce detoxification agents such as cysteine and plasma sulfate. And then we look at the oxidative status of the people themselves and their ability to produce glutathione peroxidase, lipid peroxidases, superoxide dismutase and hydroxyl radical activity, to see if we are able to improve the bodys antioxidant capability, which will be very exciting because that will apply both to coronary artery disease and cancer.
Additionally, weve come up with a novel way of looking at their micronutrient and mineral profile, both in the blood and within the cells. We also use hair analysis for long-term mineral assimilation and toxin displacement. In addition, we are looking at urine analysis for minerals to see how many minerals and how much of them are being lost or retained. And then, in order to really see whats going on, we use an intracellular vitamin mineral scan which will be done by collecting blood from the subjects so that we can see what minerals are actually available for cellular metabolism. Thats going to be really exciting, since both minerals and vitamins bioavailability will be tested.
To look at cancer risk, obviously were going to look at various immune profiles and interleukins and so on. But, one exciting assay that were using is a whole blood assay. And essentially, what this assay will look at is various mutagens and stresses and see how well those cellsor the serum in generalcan respond to that kind of stress. And that will be a marker of how well a person will be able to eliminate toxins that may be cancer causing, or how well the person may be able to react to abnormal cells. We are also testing the Living Multi against various cancer cell lines in vitro. So, thats going to be really exciting.
Achieving Maximum Health With The 3-3-9 Plan
We like to use the 3-3-9 concept to explain some of the functional aspects of Living Multi. |
The key to achieving optimal health can be accomplished by doing three things, physiologically speaking:
1 Supercharge Cellular NutritionAs we will show below, the nutrients in Living Multi are far more able to interact at the cellular level to provide body-ready nutrients where your body needs them most. Simply forcing larger amounts of nutrients is not the answer. The answer lies in the delivery of these nutrients across the cell wall where we need them most. As an example, 500 milligrams of an isolated nutrient like vitamin C might be far less potent than half that amount when delivered with the properly integrated co-factors.
2 Facilitate DetoxificationLiving Multi homeostatic nutrient complexes aid the bodys detoxifications processes like no other multiple vitamin and mineral formula, reducing overall toxic load, neutralizing sub-acute microbial infestations, and even aiding removal of poisons such as xenobiotics (for example, estrogenic pesticides) and heavy metals from our internal environment. Living Multi with its naturally occurring blend of probiotics, enzymes and organic acids enhances the bodys elimination of wastes through the normal elimination channels, such as the kidneys and bowels.
3 Reduce Oxidative StressThe free radical theory of aging, although recently superseded by the immune and growth factor theories of aging, remains a key to optimal health in our later. Implementing the free radical theory of aging is best achieved through a high intake of antioxidant or free radical fighting nutrients. Free radical damage or oxidative stress has been implicated in no less than 60 health disorders. Living Multi contains optimal doses of the most effective antioxidants known to man and those yet to be characterized or perhaps even discovered.
Studies at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston suggest that consuming fruits and vegetables with a high ORAC value may help slow the aging process in both body and brain. ORACshort for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacitymeasures the ability of foods, blood plasma, and just about any substance to subdue oxygen free radicals in the test tube. Getting plenty of foods into your diet with | high ORAC activity, such as spinach, strawberries, and blueberries, has been shown to raise the antioxidant power of human blood, prevent loss of long-term memory and learning ability, and protect blood vesselscapillariesagainst oxidative damage. Based on the evidence so far, experts suggest that daily intake should be at least 3,000 to 5,000 ORAC units to have a significant impact on plasma and tissue antioxidant capacity. In fact, preliminary results from Brunswick Labs, of Wareham, Massachusetts, show that a daily serving of Living Multi provides a whopping 16,000 ORAC units. This is incredibly important to your health.
By bolstering cellular nutrition, facilitating detoxification and reducing oxidative stress and damage, we may be able to reduce the risk factors for three of our most deadly diseases:
1 CancerNow striking greater than one in three Americans, epidemiological studies indicate that without a doubt your cancer risk is not fixed but rather can be modified at any age. Your cellular DNA responds to its environment on an immediate basis, no matter whether your 20, 30, 80 or older. Feeding cells protective nutrients, and detoxifying the body from harmful fat-soluble and other types of toxins can modify your risk.
2 Heart diseasePreventing the oxidation of cholesterol prevents plaque. Preventing plaque build-up helps to maintain arterial flexibility and avoid dangerous blockages. The combination of effective levels of vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid, contained in Living Multi, can help lower elevated homocysteine levels, a key to reducing cardiovascular disease risk.
3 DiabetesRestoring the bodys ability to utilize insulin (insulin sensitivity) with the mineral- and enzyme-rich homeostatic nutrient complexes in Living Multiespecially the potent botanicals such as reishi and other tonic mushrooms, as well as Rhododendron caucasicum and Caucasian blueberry leafhelps reduce sugar cravings, thereby lowering blood sugar and preventing diabetic-related syndromes, including hypertension, obesity, and elevated blood lipids. |
| We also accomplish nine essential functional health goals with Living Multi: |
1 Modulate Immune System FunctionAmong the most important immune modulators in Living Multi is the blend of 11 medicinal mushrooms, Rhododendron caucasicum, and the many immune enhancing compounds created by the probiotic microorganisms during fermentation. The polysaccharides (including beta-glucans) in these mushrooms and bacterial cell walls support the activity of the bodys white blood cells (macrophages), and NK (natural killer) cells, increasing natural resistance. The entire blend provides powerful adaptogenic qualities that allow the body to more capably handle environmental and psychological stresses.
2 Promote optimal digestion and eliminationAs we shall discuss (below), Living Multis homeostatic nutrient complexes support the bodys digestive processes with live beneficial probiotics, enzymes, and organic acids. This aids in the bodys absorption of nutrients and helps to reduce symptoms of indigestion such as gas, bloating, heartburn, and constipation.
3 Control blood sugarThe addition of Caucasian blueberry and apple skin, as well ionized trace minerals and many other thousands of phytochemicals present in the formula, promotes optimal blood sugar balance.
4 Improve energy and performanceThe combination of nutrients present in green foods and medicinal mushrooms as well as the highly absorbable B-complex vitamins and over 80 trace elements in Living Multi, unlock stored energy in the body and make it available to us. The digestive, food and metabolic enzymes contained reduce the amount of energy needed for digestion, thus tapping into a normally unattainable source of energy.
5 Reduce risk factors of age-related neuro-degenerationThe powerful antioxidant complexes contained in Living Multi have been shown to reverse age-related neuro-degeneration in animals. There is evidence that our ancestors experienced sound mental and cognitive function even into their old age. Today, we see far too many of our elderly population suffering | with memory loss with approximately 15 percent or more of their lives robbed of virtually all significant brain power.
6 Reduce risk factors for obesityNormalizing blood sugar by increasing insulin sensitivity and improving glucose intolerance is perhaps one of the most important factors in reducing food cravings, thus reducing caloric intake and weight gain. The Russian botanical Rhododendron caucasicum has been shown in studies to enhance fat burning and prevent the absorption of excess dietary fat.
7 Reduce stress and improve emotional well-beingOne particular green grass in the Living Multi vegetable blend, oat grass, is a nervine tonic, meaning it is nourishing and strengthening to the nervous system, useful in nervous exhaustion, stress, and depression, as well as being restorative to the endocrine, nervous, muscular, skeletal, and immune system. The blend of 11 tonic mushrooms has been proven to enhance the bodys ability to fight stress, as has rhododendron.
8 Lessen allergic responsesBy enhancing nutritional uptake, reducing inflammation, modulating immune function, facilitating proper detoxification and providing optimal antioxidant protection, Living Multi reduces the allergic response common in so many individuals prone to allergy. Many nutrients contained in Living Multi also reduce gut hyper-permeability (leaky gut syndrome), which will greatly lessen the incidence of allergies.
9 Reduce inflammatory markersLiving Multis live probiotic mixture (including homeostatic soil organisms or HSOs) along with turmeric and ginger has been shown to lower bodily inflammation. Many other nutrients in Living Multi, including alpha-lipoic acid, have been shown to reduce inflammation by quenching free ra |
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