Benefits:

• Antioxidant protection
• Fights free radicals
• Recycles other antioxidants in the body

Benefits:

• Helps to reduce stress
• Promotes healthy brain function
• Reduces anxiety and depression
• Enhances immune system
• Supports healthy adrenal gland function

PS belongs to a unique class of fat-soluble nutrients called phospholipids. PS is a building block for nerve cell membranes and through that revitalizes all nerve cell functions. Although it is contained in each cell membrane, PS is most highly concentrated in brain cells. PS may benefit most people because we are all subject to free radicals formed from breathing in cigarette smoke, alcohol consumption, environmental pollution, and/or chronic emotional stress, factors that have a cumulative negative effect on the brain. PS can affect our mood as well. A double-blind study on elderly women showed that PS helped their memory and their behaviour.

Normally the brain can manufacture sufficient levels of phosphatidylserine, but there is evidence that insufficient production in the elderly may be linked to depression and/or impaired mental function in the elderly. Good results have been obtained in numerous double-blind studies where phosphatidylserine supplementation has been shown to improve mental function, mood, and behaviour in elderly subjects including those with early stages of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Unlike typical antidepressant drugs, phosphatidylserine does not influence serotonin and other neurotransmitters suggesting another mechanism of action such as a reduction in the secretion of the stress hormone cortisol.

Natural Factors PS is derived from soy phospholipids. In clinical studies, plant-based PS is just as effective as animal-based PS with none of the concerns associated with prion (i.e. Mad Cow disease) diseases. Clinical studies on humans verify PS safety.

Benefits:

• Positively affects mood and mental attitude
• Necessary for proper digestive function
• Promotes a restful sleep
• Beneficial affects on concentration and learning

Benefits:

• Supports proper eye function
• Helps prevent headaches and migraines
• Reduces eye light sensitivity
• Involved in the production of energy

Benefits:

• Helps to reduce "bad" cholesterol levels
• Promotes HDL, good cholesterol
• Aids in the metabolism of fats, proteins and carbohydrates
• Supports the cardiovascular system

Features:

Vitamin B6 has often been called "the woman's vitamin" because it is so helpful for premenstrual syndrome, and may help the depression associated with the use of oral contraceptives. Vitamin B6 may help prevent certain complications of pregnancy including nausea and vomiting, gestational diabetes, intrauterine growth retardation, and toxemia.

Research has shown that vitamin B6 (usually in doses of 50 to 200 mg/day) can prevent or relieve the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome and may be helpful for asthma. Vitamin B6 supplementation, in conjunction with folic acid and vitamin B12, can lower homocysteine levels, thus reducing the risk for cardiovascular disease. By inhibiting the production of oxalate, vitamin B6 may prevent calcium oxalate kidney stone recurrence.

Persons at risk for vitamin B6 deficiency: anyone with a malabsorption problem (such as lactose intolerance or celiac disease); diabetics; elderly; women who are pregnant, nursing or taking oral contraceptives.

Benefits:

• Helps to alleviate PMS
• Support for certain pregnancy conditions like nausea and vomiting
• Prevents and relieves symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome
• May inhibit the formation of kidney stones

Beta carotene is an excellent antioxidant and source of vitamin A, with no danger of buildup in the liver.

 

Bacteria can cling to the walls of the urinary tract and multiply, causing painful, frequent urination. Research shows that cranberries contain compounds that stop bacteria from sticking, making cranberry juice a popular way to help treat and prevent infections. But you can get 3 times the antioxidant activity of cranberry juice and none of the sugar with CranRich Super Strength Cranberry Concentrate, the natural treatment for urinary tract infections.

CranRich has a concentration of 36 to 1. This means that 1 gram of CranRich extract equals 36 grams of cranberries. It is made with 100% natural cranberry fruit solids, without any solvents, preservatives, added sugars, water, flavourings or colour.

This is the only echinacea extract proven to increase immune response. The patent pending extract contains guaranteed levels of three key actives for consistent, potent immune support. Echinamide contains these actives in a base of the whole herb, so that none of the minor actives are missing. Each capsule of Echinamide Anti-Cold Fresh Herb Clinical Strength extract is equal to 2,000 mg of fresh echinacea herb.

Echinamide is the first echinacea extract that meets the scientific rigueur demanded of pharmaceuticals. It is the culmination of eight years of immunological studies done by the scientists at Factors R & D Technologies Ltd. in collaboration with researchers at the universities of Alberta, British Columbia and Dalhousie in Canada, as well as Heinrich-Hein University in Dusseldorf, Germany and Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria. Echinamide is the only echinacea product that has completed two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trials with statistically significant and reproducible evidence of effectiveness as an immune stimulant in combating upper respiratory infections, such as the common cold and flu.