Flawed Theories
The antioxidant / free radical theory of health and disease is likely another example of flawed theory. Newer research and a deeper understanding of earlier discoveries are changing the current theory of the role of antioxidants in health. Even though millions of people believe that free radicals cause disease, and that taking high potency antioxidants will restore health – the truth is taking high potency antioxidants cause more harm than good. While a proclamation like this seems to go against commonly held beliefs, you will learn that such beliefs are like the “flat earth.”

 
The Antioxidant Myth:
Antioxidant extracts are important substances to consume in high volumes because they slow the aging process by neutralizing free radicals.

 
The Real Truth about Antioxidants
Antioxidants simply are Nature’s way of protecting the important nutritional value of foods until such time as the food is consumed.

 
The Brief History of the Antioxidant Theory

In the 1950’s a theory of aging was promoted which stated that free radical atoms were the cause of accelerated aging. The chemist who proposed this theory, a Dr. Harmon, experimented on rats with a preservative called BHT that had antioxidant properties. While none of the rat populations showed an increase in maximum lifespan, the overall population did show a statistical increase in average life span. From these humble beginnings, the antioxidant theory began to take hold in the minds of the scientific community and the drug companies began the search for antioxidant chemicals.

Fifty Years Later
Today advertisements abound promoting the mythical virtues of antioxidants while the scientific community is now beginning to abandon them. Dozens of research projects have failed to show any benefit from antioxidant extracts added to the diets of sick people. In fact, some research has shown that ingesting antioxidant fractions may actually increase the likelihood of health degeneration!

What IS the Real Truth About Antioxidants?
Antioxidants are Nature’s way of protecting the nutritional value of foods until such time as they are consumed. Antioxidants are an integral part of wholesome foods. But they are only a part of the food – antioxidants alone do not build health. The truth is, whole foods that are high in antioxidants are also very high in many healthful nutrients –

Nature put the antioxidants in to protect the nutrients!
Whole foods are good for our health and should be consumed often! Fruits and vegetables have many vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, some of which are antioxidants. But this inherent goodness is not due to antioxidants, the goodness of fruits and vegetables themselves are coincidental with antioxidants.

Remember this important concept: Whole foods are greater than the sum of their parts. And as Dr. Royal Lee stated 60 years ago, the antioxidant factors in foods seem to be there to protect “the more important factors.” Scientific studies now demonstrate that he was right all along.

Increase Antioxidant Rich Whole Foods

First Step – REDUCE exposure to toxins

• Reduce or eliminate any and all toxic chemicals around your home such as non-biodegradable chemical cleaners, solvents, aerosol sprays, pesticides and perfumed products.
• Eliminate foods that contain fake or damaged fats, additives, preservatives, artificial colors and flavors.
• Reduce inflammation in your body by supporting your digestive and immune systems.
• Reduce the load of toxins in your body through periodic purification.
• Quit smoking and avoid second-hand smoke and smog.

Second Step – INCREASE whole foods

• Eat fruits and vegetables high in antioxidants and other phytochemicals – and a lot of them – 9 or more servings per day!
• Eat organic foods as much as possible – they have up to 30% more antioxidants and up to 97% more phytochemicals on average!
• Enjoy a wide variety of antioxidant and phytochemical- rich foods—the more colorful the better! Good examples are blueberries, plums, broccoli, strawberries and red cabbage.
• Supplement with whole food concentrates known to be high in antioxidants because that is where the important known and as yet unknown nutrients vital to health are found.
• Free Radicals – Unstable molecules with unpaired electrons that set up chain reactions cause biological damage.

We recommend supplementing with high quality whole food concentrates from
Standard Process such as:

• Wheat Germ Oil Introduced in 1939. Is one of the richest sources of complete vitamin E complex. This whole food antioxidant protects, stabilizes, and repairs cell membranes and is beneficial in numerous metabolic processes.†
• OPC Synergy® One of the strongest, natural, phytochemical- rich whole food products available, OPC Synergy® contains a combination of grape seed extract (including Masquelier’s® Original OPC), buckwheat, red wine extract, green tea extract, and bilberry.†
• SP Green Food® Research suggests that we should consume from five to nine servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily in order to meet the nutritional demands of our bodies. SP Green Food is one way to assure your body receives the phytochemical benefits of whole food complexes with their synergistic cofactors to support immune system response, antioxidant protection, and detoxification activities.†
• Cruciferous Complete® Kale and Brussels sprouts contain phytonutrients that protect against cell damage.
• Cataplex® A-C-P combines the vitamin complexes of A and C with the vitamin P complex. The vitamin P complex, a bioflavonoid sometimes known as rutin, is essential for the successful absorption of vitamins A and C, the healthy function of capillaries and connective tissues, and immune system support.†
• Cataplex® A Introduced in 1934 – Cataplex A contains whole food concentrates of the vitamin A complex including beta carotene†
• Cataplex® C Introduced in 1934 The vitamin C complex has long been recognized as an important nutritional compound essential for supporting the immune, cardiovascular, endocrine, musculoskeletal, and blood building systems.†

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Howes, R (2006). “The Free Radical Fantasy – A Panoply of Paradoxes” Ann.N.Y.Acad.Sci.1067:22–26(2006)
† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

Gall Bladder Syndrome is one of the most expensive, easily preventable conditions affecting Americans, causing a reported 3,000 deaths and over 800,000 hospitalizations annually. Over 500,000 people undergo surgery for gall bladder disease each year! Amazingly we bring this on ourselves, and with a few key lifestyle changes this condition could be virtually eliminated.

American Diet is the Cause
The American lifestyle of unnatural foods, refined sugar, white flour and unnatural fats contributes to gall bladder disease. Follow that lifestyle and someday you too may be one of the unfortunate people who suffer a truly avoidable disease syndrome.

What are the warning signs?

• Belching
• Gas
• Indigestion
• Pain between the shoulder blades
• Pain in the abdomen (on right) under ribs and next to the belly button
• Bloating shortly after meals
• Intolerance of fatty foods
• Nausea and vomiting
• Constipation

What is the Gall Bladder? 


The gall bladder contains bile which is produced by the liver and aids in the breakdown and assimilation of fats. The gall bladder holds and concentrates bile until a meal comes along for which the bile is necessary.

Up to 95% of the secreted bile is reabsorbed – virtually all of the organic compounds in bile are taken back to the liver for later use. In addition to these organic compounds, the bile contains toxins and other waste products of metabolism which are released by the body through the bowel.

What does Bile Do?
• Bile emulsifies fats, beginning their digestive process.
• Bile improves the absorption of the fat-soluble vitamin complexes: A, D, E, K and Essential Fatty Acids.
• Bile helps bowel tone and stimulates healthy bowel movement.
• Bile carries certain toxins away from the liver and out of the body through the bowels.

Bile Duct
Bile is carried from the gall bladder to the intestines through a tube called the bile duct. Gall Bladder Syndromes nearly all involve some type of restriction of the flow of bile through this tube. For example, pancreas health is very much involved with bile duct health. When the pancreas has been working overtime helping with refined sugars, carbohydrates and proteins, the pancreas can swell. Pancreatic swelling can restrict bile flow which affects proper digestion and causes symptoms. Additionally, toxins concentrating in the gall bladder are known to scar the bile duct and further reduce the healthy flow of bile.
Natural Approach to Gall Bladder Health
Hundreds of thousands of people have their gall bladder removed every year, yet 25-43% of post- surgical patients continue to have similar pains and digestive complaints after the surgery. That means gall bladder removal may not be the answer to gall bladder pain. In fact, for those people surgery is only a short-lived attempt to resolve a lifetime of symptoms of indigestion.
Gall Bladder Syndrome is associated with other serious health challenges, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. All of these conditions are associated with overeating sugar and unnatural fats, and with lack of exercise. Gall bladder surgery does not protect the patient from cancer, nor from heart disease, diabetes and obesity! For instance, research shows higher rates of colon cancer in patients who have gallstones, whether or not they have had gall bladder removal.
Unless the cause of the Gall Bladder Syndrome is reduced or eliminated – regardless of whether one has a surgical removal of their gall bladder – the problem remains.
Try these steps before you have your gall bladder removed and perhaps you never will.

Natural Approach to Gall Bladder Health

1. Reduce or eliminate refined sugars. Take the Sugar Challenge  a 21-day elimination of all forms of refined sugars, along with some helpful whole food concentrates to improve your sugar metabolism. For many people this is the end of their gall bladder problems. By merely reducing or eliminating sugars, people digest fats better and gall bladder symptoms are eliminated.
2. Eliminate all Hydrogenated and Trans-fats.  These unnatural fats cause undue stress on the body, and block normal, healthy fat metabolism, leading to discomfort and disease.
3. Exercise regularly. Brisk walking for 45 minutes five times weekly has been shown to improve gallbladder function.
4. Consume natural foods – Salads, vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts.
5. Drink water – not soft drinks, no, not even diet drinks. Drink fluids before the meal, not during or after the meal, as this will dilute the digestive “juices” and negatively influence your digestive process.

If Gall Bladder Symptoms Remain?
If you are able to make these lifestyle changes and still have symptoms of gall bladder problems there is very good news. By adding specific whole food concentrates to your natural daily food consumption, gall bladder function and bile flow will likely improve. Gall bladder syndrome could be a thing of the past!

What If I have had my Gall Bladder Removed Already?
The same rules apply to you – it is critical that you change your lifestyle. Do not become complacent, thinking that the surgery solved the entire problem! Research has shown gall bladder removal can increase your likelihood for colon disease. Therefore you must make the change! Eat simple natural foods and take digestive enzymes for the remainder of your lifetime to build the health of your body.

Whole Food Concentrate Nutritional Support†

• AF Betafood – Used by doctors since 1951 This whole food product made from beet leaf juice concentrate is a wealthy source of betaine. Betaine promotes the transportation and use of fats. AF Betafood effectively thins bile so it passes through the bile duct more easily, thereby improving function. Beet tops have been known for centuries to improve the function of the liver and gall bladder and this product is specially prepared with active ingredients for your Health Building.
• Choline – Used by doctors since 1947. Choline is essential to effectively metabolize fat, cholesterol, proteins, and carbohydrates. Experience has shown that SP Choline is been a Nutritional Essential for people who suffer severe gall bladder symptoms and/or after gall bladder removal.
• Cholacol – Used by doctors since 1956. Provides a concentrated source of bile salts, supporting healthy absorption and assimilation of dietary fat for pre- and post-surgical cases.

• Betafood – Since 1946 doctors have used this simple remedy for gall bladder support. Made from beet top juice and beet root – this whole food product may be just what your body needs.
• Betacol – Used by doctors since 1947. Combining the benefits of several of the above whole food products and more. Betacol is specially designed product supporting liver and digestive support especially focused on the metabolism of fats.†

† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

“We must remember that any disease is at first a disturbance in cell metabolism brought about by interference with cell respiration or starvation, and that to survive the way nature intended we must avoid those things which produce these adverse biochemical changes.” Dr. Royal Lee, 1958
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4. Am J Gastroenterol. 2005 Aug;100(8):1813-20. Cholecystectomy and the risk of colorectal cancer.
5. Arch Intern Med. 2005 May 9;165(9):1011-5. Long-term intake of trans-fatty acids and risk of gallstone disease in men.
6. J Clin Ultrasound. 2005 Jun;33(5):218-22. Effects of exercise on gallbladder volume and motility in obese women.
7. Cancer. 2005 Apr 15;103(8): 1606-14 Bile acids induce MUC2 overexpression in human colon carcinoma cells.

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Think calcium and most people think bone health. Growing bones, thinning bones, the risk of breaking bones. More calcium would make bones healthy, right? Perhaps – but our body is quite complex and the right calcium and the right synergists for that calcium are the real answers to calcium health! Let’s learn why.
Calcium is Involved in Over 200 Metabolic Reactions in the Body!
Although over 99% of the calcium in the body is in the bones and teeth, the 1% of calcium that is dissolved in the blood and other tissues is critical to over 200 metabolic reactions in the body!
More than 200 known HealthBuilding interactions of calcium make proper calcium intake and metabolism a Nutritional Essential. Here are just a few important actions:

1. Calcium, in balance with other minerals, regulates nerve conduction and a healthy heartbeat.
2. Calcium activates the immune system’s white blood cells to carry away undesirable microbes and support whole body health.
3. Calcium deficiency leads to muscle spasms. Spasms in the legs or menstrual cramps are uncomfortable, but in the heart – spasms could bring on a deadly heart attack.
4. Calcium initiates blood clotting by activating platelets and clotting factors.
5. Calcium supports ligaments, tendons, 
connective tissue and skin.
6. Calcium strengthens our skin, protecting us from the outside world.
7. 
Calcium Synergists 
A synergist is something that increases the effect of something else: something that works in combination with something else to increase its effect. Whole food is a synergy of elements that work in combination with each other to enhance their mutual HealthBuilding qualities. The whole IS greater than the sum of the parts.

Calcium has many vitamin and mineral synergists.

• Vitamin D improves absorption of calcium from food and promotes deposits of calcium in the bones.

• Healthy fats carry calcium and its fat soluble vitamin co-factors in the blood and fatty acids control the movement of calcium through cell membranes.

• Parathyroid hormone moves calcium into the blood; calcitonin, a hormone from the thyroid gland, moves calcium into the bones.

• The stress of weight-bearing exercises stimulates strengthening of the bones, sedentary lifestyles (and weightlessness in space!) contribute to thinning of bones.

• Adequate protein is needed to carry the calcium in the blood and through cell membranes. Calcification of bones is dependant upon a strong connective tissue matrix upon which the calcium is deposited, along with numerous other minerals.

Most all vitamins have some role to play in the regulation of calcium, especially Vitamin D, Vitamin F, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E and Vitamin K.
Bone Bank
As you can see, there are many requirements for proper calcium health. Calcium is so important that your body uses your bones as a “bank” to insure that enough calcium is always available to support these vital health functions. Some people think that all one needs for calcium health is to eat enough calcium from any source, but the truth is, organically bound sources of calcium are the way to efficiently build calcium health. Calcium needs to be “bound” or naturally integrated with the synergists which enable the assimilation, absorption and proper use of calcium WITHOUT taking nutrients from other sources in the body bank to assimilate the calcium. Only when the body has more than enough calcium to accomplish its many Health Building tasks is calcium then deposited into the “bone bank” for later needs.

Osteoporosis
Too many “with-drawls” from your “bank” without sufficient deposits leads to osteoporosis. Thinning bones are a critical indicator of the need for Calcium Essentials. Let’s find out what you can do!

Spring Water
One of the easiest forms of calcium to absorb is present in spring and well water – calcium bicarbonate. Unfortunately, this naturally-occurring, healthful calcium becomes denatured when water is boiled or purified. This denaturing causes the calcium bicarbonate to become inorganic calcium “rocks” (such as the “scale” that deposits in our tea kettles), thus becoming less healthful.
Calcium Supplementation
As you can see, calcium in the right form is a Nutritional Essential. Too often the calcium supplements are a “rock” form of calcium that cannot easily be absorbed, such as the calcium carbonate found in antacid tablets, coral, shells and tea kettles. This calcium requires your body to invest its precious nutritional reserves trying to absorb a bit of calcium, then more resources to convert the calcium into a form the body can use. This depletes your body’s nutritional reserves!

What to do:

• Make sure you have good digestive functions so you can absorb minerals from the whole foods you eat. Once your digestion is properly functioning eat:

• Protein to help your body absorb calcium and build a structure to support it.

• Vegetables and fruit for minerals, vitamins and pH balance.

• Fats to help absorb and assimilate vitamins and minerals–calcium and its co-factors.

• Exercise & Sunshine – Get out and exercise 30 minutes three times a week. The exercise will enhance your bone health and the Vitamin D from sunlight on your skin is critical for bone health.

• Supplement your food and exercise lifestyle with whole food calcium and calcium synergists.
• Calcium Lactate – Since 1947 this vegetarian source of calcium contains the proper balance of calcium and magnesium (5:1 ratio).
• Calcifood – Unique whole food product builds and supports bone health.
• CalMa Plus – This product is unique in all the world in that is combines the benefits of whole food calcium and magnesium AND includes parathyroid support. The parathyroid regulates calcium metabolism.
• Calsol – This calcium, magnesium, phosphorus-laden whole food supplement is particularly suited for soft tissue calcium needs.
• Cal-Amo – This product contains acidifying compounds helpful for supporting proper acid / alkaline balance. Particularly suited for respiratory and connective tissues, skeletal structures and the immune system.†

Ask me what would be best for you!
† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

“One of the main costs of refining foods is their De-mineralization, white sugar being devoid of its mineral components, white flour having lost most of its mineral components as well. The intricate mineral-protein complexes are also disrupted by cooking and heat . . . In the face of these abuses of natural foods, is it any wonder that mineral deficiencies and imbalances rank as high as vitamin deficiencies as causes of malnutrition?” Royal Lee 1960

There is a natural order to life on earth. The sun appears each day on the eastern horizon, bathing the earth in sunlight. From the water, air, minerals and sunshine, life flows into the lifeless earth. The air breathes life into plants, energized by the sunshine on the bright green leaves. Minerals, dissolved by the fungi of the soil, flow with the water into the roots of plants. Plants turn lifeless minerals into essential nutrients for animals and humans.
Every part of nature is orderly, organic, integrated and whole.
When one considers nature, we see that nutrients have a natural progression through the environment—from the mineral kingdom to the vegetable kingdom, then on to the animal or human kingdoms. These are referred to as “kingdoms” because they are distinct and have natural laws that govern each of them. At the same time, all of nature follows universal laws.
An example of this distinction is in the food that is appropriate for each kingdom. An animal will not eat rocks for its essential mineral needs. Directly or indirectly, animals are only fed through the plants. Animals are governed by the laws of nature, and no matter how nutritionally deficient they become, they do not break these laws in search of nutrition. Cows grazing in a field do not begin eating the dirt when the grasses are all consumed. They find another field or starve.

Nature Teaches
The Natural Laws reveal that the mineral kingdom must be “prepared” for animal and human consumption. One type of preparation is done by the vegetable kingdom. Minerals from the soil are absorbed through the roots of the plants. Plants are nourished by these minerals and the health of the vegetable kingdom is “rooted” in the mineral kingdom. The health of the animal kingdom is “rooted” in the vegetable. Even carnivorous animals eat animals that ultimately were sustained in the vegetable kingdom. The common denominator in this natural order is organically-bound minerals.
Organically-bound minerals are more than rocks and dirt. They are minerals that
are part of a whole. Organic minerals are bound to proteins, fats, trace minerals, vitamins, enzymes and as yet unknown organic nutritional essentials. Organically bound minerals are essential to the function of the plant or animal— no other form will do!
Minerals that have not become “organic” by passing through the vegetable kingdom are considered inorganic minerals. Some inorganic minerals are nutritionally essential for animals and humans, such as the calcium bicarbonate found in spring or well water. But boil or cook that water and the calcium is altered into a form which is unhealthful.
MOST inorganic minerals, however, are challenging to one’s health. Let’s learn why.

Inorganic Minerals Can Cause Nutritional Debt

Inorganic minerals which enter the body as nearly insoluble compounds require many more metabolic processes to become assimilated in the body. In other words, some inorganic minerals draw more nutrition FROM the body than they give to the body. This causes a nutritional debt. Imagine that the body is similar to a bank. Your body can store some of the nutritional essentials in your “health bank.” When vitamins or minerals or enzymes or co-enzymes are required to complete a metabolic process, the body draws from the “bank.” Continuous consumption of inorganic minerals can create a nutritional debt that leads to the breakdown in health.
Examples of Inorganic Minerals
Some so called, “supplements” are made from inorganic minerals and are not readily available for use in the body. Some examples are:
• Calcium carbonate,
    • Zinc picolinate, sulfate, or zinc oxide
    • Potassium chloride, citrate, or gluconate • Magnesium oxide, magnesium sulfate
    • Ferrous sulfate, fumarate, or gluconate
Do you recognize any of those minerals in your supplements? If so, they may be contributing to a nutritional debt (not improving health but degenerating.)

Organic Minerals Enhance Healthy Function

Organic Minerals Enhance Healthy Function
Healthful foods are actually complex combinations of minerals, trace minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, vitamins, fatty acids and proteins, integrated into functioning organic mechanisms. In this way nature provides completeness. The body can take from these complete nutritional complexes what it needs and store or eliminate the rest without creating a nutritional debt.
A brief list of Nutritionally Essential Minerals:

• Calcium: Known for its important role in bones and teeth, virtually every other function of the body has some relationship with calcium such as: muscle contraction, blood vessel contraction and expansion, secretion of hormones and enzymes, activation of the immune system, sending messages through the nervous system and more. Calcium needs to be in balance with magnesium and phosphorus.

• Magnesium: Needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body, magnesium helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart rhythm steady, supports a healthy immune system, and keeps bones strong. Magnesium also helps regulate blood sugar levels, promotes normal blood pressure, and is known to be involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis. There is an increased interest in the role of magnesium in preventing and managing disorders such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.

• Manganese: strengthens tendons, tissues, ligaments and tissues supporting organs. Production of sex hormones is aided by manganese, which also can help reduce menstrual cramps and PMS. Manganese increases resistance and recuperative ability and, like iron, aids in oxygen transfer from lungs to cells. Manganese, also called the “brain mineral,” is important for all mental facilities/ functions.

• Zinc: stimulates the activity of approximately 100 enzymes, supports a healthy immune system, wound healing, helps maintain your sense of taste and smell, and is needed for DNA synthesis. Zinc also supports normal growth and development during pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and for men – prostate health.

† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.
All minerals have diverse health building functions, just like calcium, magnesium, zinc and manganese. A few brief examples are:

• Iron for healthy blood and vitality
Potassium for an efficient nervous system and stable heart

• Iodine for a healthy thyroid and energy

• Cobalt for healthy blood and vitality

• Copper for enzyme and energy production

What you can do to enhance your mineral health:
√     Eat plenty of wholesome, fresh vegetables and fruit. Greater consumption of fruits and vegetables provide vitamin/mineral complexes.
√     Avoid sugar, refined foods, all of these “foods” contribute to nutritional deficiency and “debt.”
√    Avoid toxins in your food, water, air and environment. Toxins require nutrients and lead to “debt.”
√ Support your health with organic minerals from whole food concentrates from Standard Process.
Standard Process offers at least 57 products that are rich in minerals. Some examples are:

• Catalyn – The HealthBuilding Catalyst

• Calcium Lactate – Pure vegetable, non-dairy source, made by fermentation on plant sugar. Calcium Lactate (CL) contains the proper ratio of calcium and magnesium (5:1). CL is extremely soluble, making it highly bioavailable and an excellent source for nutritional support.

• Organically Bound Minerals – OBM is a multi-mineral food product containing potassium and a variety of alkaline ash minerals. Made from dried alfalfa juice and kelp.

• TraceMinerals-B12 – Kelp, alfalfa, magnesium citrate,dried pea (vine) and buckwheat juices, bovine orchic and bone, defatted wheat germ, oat flour, carrot root and peanut (bran). Iron liver chelate, zinc liver chelate, copper liver chelate and cyanocobalamin. Provides an extensive variety of trace minerals which act as catalysts and cofactors in countless enzymatic processes throughout the human body.

Ask me which ones are right for you!

Vitamins are complexes, they are parts of enzyme systems – Like a watch which is a timekeeping mechanism – it is functional, organic, interactive – a watch is not a hunk of brass – Vitamin C is not ascorbic acid – it is more – it is complex – organic – functional – whole, not inorganic chemical parts.

Are You Really Taking Vitamin C Complex?
Ask a friend if they take vitamins and they are likely to answer,
“Sure, I take Vitamin C, when I think I am getting a cold.”
But are they actually taking a complete “Vitamin C,” and why does it matter? Aren’t all “Vitamin C” products the same? NO!! The complete Vitamin C-Complex has many actions within our bodies—fighting infection, building tissues, regulating inflammation, preventing cancer and heart disease 1, 2 —to name a few!
But are you, your family and friends taking true Vitamin C-Complex?

Or are you merely taking a large dose of a partial factor of the Health Building Vitamin C-Complex – ascorbic acid?

Read the labels in any market or drugstore and you might think that ascorbic acid IS Vitamin C, and that Vitamin C is nothing more than ascorbic acid. But this is far from the truth. Even Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, MD, PhD (1893-1986), the Nobel Prize winner who “discovered” ascorbic acid, believed very soon thereafter that ascorbic acid in a whole food form was the true beneficial health factor, not ascorbic acid alone.
What is Vitamin C-Complex, anyway??
Vitamin C-Complex is not merely ascorbic acid!
Ascorbic acid is only part of the Vitamin C-Complex! Let’s learn more.

True Vitamin C-Complex is a whole food complex made up of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and Vitamin P (bioflavonoids). Like all vitamin complexes, Vitamin C-Complex is an example of a working mechanism which only functions effectively when all the parts are present.

What are the parts of the Vitamin C-Complex?
They are:

• Ascorbic acid, (commonly known as Vitamin C), an antioxidant which protects from free radical damage.
• Bioflavonoids, (sometimes called Vitamin P), the vascular fragility factors. 
Most people who think they are taking “Vitamin C” are actually taking only ascorbic acid. Although ascorbic acid is found in wholesome foods, the ascorbic acid typically found in “health food stores” and drug stores is a synthetic chemical manufactured from corn syrup (sugar) and sulfuric acid. Remember, ascorbic acid found in nature is just one part of the Vitamin C-Complex.
• Vitamins K (clotting factors)

Nature intended your body to only use very small amounts of organic ascorbic acid. MORE IS NOT BETTER.
Surplus ascorbic acid must be eliminated through the kidneys, putting unnecessary strain on these vital organs. Surplus ascorbic acid also upsets the balance of trace minerals in the body. One could say that high doses of ascorbic acid are toxic to your body. Ascorbic acid that is out of balance with organic factors found in nature is not a healthy way to get our Health Building Nutritional Essentials.
Let’s take a deeper look at some of the Health Building factors the organic, whole food

Vitamin C-Complex provides:

• Bioflavonoids, (the vascular fragility factor), sometimes known as Vitamin P. Vitamin P increases capillary strength and decreases the risk of bleeding. Bruising, broken blood vessels, bleeding gums are all improved with healthful bioflavonoids, and bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons are all strengthened, preventing injury and speeding the healing process. There are nearly 4000 different bioflavonoids—some of the most well-known are rutin, quercetin, citrin and hesperidin.

• Bioflavonoids are also known to decrease the risk of developing cancer but only when consumed as whole foods.

Our Bodies Need More than Ascorbic Acid!
Bioflavonoids are true nutritional essentials that cannot be manufactured by the human body. They must be obtained from fresh fruits, vegetables and whole food concentrates high in the Vitamin C-Complex.
Research has consistently shown that when nutrients are consumed as the complete “biological action package” present in whole foods, true health benefits are achieved. In fact, Vitamin C cannot be effectively utilized without bioflavonoids being present in your foods. (See Interesting Facts about Vitamin C on this page.)

• Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes with Vitamin C-Complex. Vitamin C found in the form of whole foods like fruit and vegetables have long been known to lower the risk of heart attack. Oxidation and inflammation of plaques deposited in the coronary arteries are triggers for many heart attacks. Components of the Vitamin C-Complex decrease oxidation of lipids and control inflammation, thus reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

We Need More than Ascorbic Acid
As you can see, when we eat an orange or other whole food high in the Vitamin C-Complex we are benefiting from so much more than ascorbic acid.
Research has shown that the maximum health benefits are derived from consumption of 800 grams of fruit and vegetables daily. Yet only a very small percentage of individuals eat the recommended 5-9 servings of fruit and vegetables daily. How to make up the difference? Whole food concentrates are the answer to getting your Vitamin C-Complex Health Building factors consistently and conveniently. As you have learned – Vitamin C-Complex is a Nutritional Essential.
Ask me which of these Standard Process supplements would benefit you and your family!
1 Am J Med. 2002 Dec 30;113 Suppl 9B:71S-88S – Bioactive compounds in foods: their role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Penn State University.

2 Med Res Rev. 2003 Jul;23(4):519-34. Flavonoids: promising anticancer agents. Shanxi Medical University, China.
3 Nature 138:798;1936, Nature 137:27;1936

Cataplex C—introduced in 1934, the vitamin C complex, found in Cataplex C, is an important antioxidant and has long been recognized as an important nutritional compound essential for supporting the immune, cardiovascular, endocrine, musculoskeletal, and blood building systems. Cataplex C combines the benefits of more than 19 different whole foods high in Vitamin C- Complex Health Building factors.†
Cyruta Plus—introduced in 1950, Cyruta Plus carries several important factors; one of which is the vitamin P complex (bioflavonoids), where rutin and quercetin are members. These factors help maintain the integrity of the capillary walls. They are vital in their ability to increase the strength of the capillaries and regulate permeability and health of the cells.†
Cataplex A-C-P—introduced in 1956, Cataplex A-C-P combines the vitamin complexes of A and C with the vitamin P complex. The vitamin P complex, a bioflavonoid sometimes known as rutin, is essential for the successful absorption of vitamins A and C, the healthy function of capillaries and connective tissues, and immune system support.†
† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT VITAMIN C
The Noble Prize and Dr. Royal Lee
Noble Prize Winner (for discovering ascorbic acid) Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, MD, PhD (1893-1986) is also credited with discovering bioflavonoids in 1935.
By 1934, Dr. Royal Lee, the founder of Standard Process, Inc. had already combined the benefits of Vitamin C with Bioflavonoids in the HealthBuilding complex known as Cataplex C.
Dr. Szent-Gyorgy discovered bioflavonoids in trying to help a patient with subcutaneous capillary bleeding. He had success with whole food “Vitamin C” with “vitamin P” included but the “pure” ascorbic acid had no effect! [Nature 138:798;1936, Nature 137:27;1936]

Hard to miss the fact that heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the US today. Historically, heart disease has been a plague on the male population, but now it is rising steadily in the female population as well.
In fact, so-called heart disease, which killed more than 700,000 Americans in 2001, accounted for 29% of all deaths in the United States, and cost the nation an estimated $335.5 billion! How could this happen when the cause of heart disease is known to be primarily founded in lifestyle and poor quality food choices?
Refined foods, diets high in refined carbohydrates and denatured fats are no doubt a major cause
of heart disease and its contributing factors. The Center for Disease Control states:
“Heart disease is the nation’s leading cause of death. Much of the burden of heart disease could be eliminated by reducing the prevalence rates of its major risk factors: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, tobacco use, diabetes, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition. Modest reductions in the rates of one or more of these risk factors can have a large public health impact. Heart disease can also be prevented or controlled through environmental changes such as providing better access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity.”1
What contributes to heart disease?
The answer to this question might best be discovered by studying the diets of people living in countries in which heart disease is relatively limited. Two Studies show that heart disease is virtually non-existent in the absence of refined foods – denatured fats and high levels of refined carbohydrate consumption. Let’s take a look at each of these for a better awareness of the Healthy Heart Nutritional Essentials.
Refined Foods
One of the Healthy Heart Nutritional Essentials is a diet low in refined foods. The wholesome nutrients refined out of foods upon processing, particularly the loss of the B-complex nutrients (ie: B6, B12 and folic acid) are the cause of elevated homocysteine levels. Homocysteine levels are one of the most reliable indicators of heart disease risk. Therefore eating whole foods and whole food concentrates high in these B-Complex factors is a Healthy Heart Nutritional Essential.
Denatured Fats
For decades we have been told to avoid dietary cholesterol and saturated fats, but clearly, healthy blood lipids are not solely based upon these reductions. There is too much evidence showing that traditional diets, including unprocessed natural fats, often in generous proportions, support remarkably low rates of heart disease. Newer research shows that certain types of damaged, denatured fats are associated with underlying causes of heart disease.
Hydrogenated and transfats

Building up in our bodies because they are unnatural—there are no enzymes to metabolize them, so they get trapped in our bodies. Denatured fats, stripped of vitamins and antioxidants, become oxidized (rancid) in our bodies, leading to inflammation of our vascular system as indicated by high levels of C-Reactive Protein (CRP), another consistent indicator of impending cardiovascular incidents. Truth is, heart disease is more the result of over consumption of refined carbohydrates, bringing us to the real problem…
High Levels of SUGAR Intake!!!

Americans consume an average of 158 pounds of sweeteners plus over 100 pounds of refined carbohydrates each year, calories that contribute to obesity without providing valuable nutrients such as protein, healthy fats, vitamins, minerals or nutritional cofactors! Since 1991, obesity is up 75%, costing our nation and additional $100 billion.

What are we to do?

Major contributors to heart disease.
√ Refined Foods
√ Denatured Fats
√ High levels of sugar intake!

What are the Healthy Heart Nutritional Essentials?
A DIE-IT is NOT the answer!!
We must learn to LIVE a healthy lifestyle, choosing our foods and activities according to what will benefit our health, rather than propping ourselves up with sugar, stimulants and drugs to deal with the side effects of an unhealthy lifestyle.

What are the Healthy Heart Nutritional Essentials?
√  Eat plenty of wholesome, fresh vegetables and fruit. Greater consumption of fruits and vegetables provide vitamin complexes, minerals, many diverse antioxidants and is shown to consistently lower risk of heart disease.
√  Eat broiled, baked or poached (not fried) fish three times per week—or more! Fish provide healthy Omega-3 fatty acids and B complex, and those persons who eat 1-2 servings of healthy fish each week have lower risk of heart disease.
√  Prepare meals using extra-virgin olive oil, real organic butter, and coconut oils which supports heart health.
√  Exercise regularly! Even as little as thirty minutes of brisk walking three times a week is enough to benefit your heart.
√  Avoid sugar, refined foods, unhealthy and damaged fats—all of these “foods” contribute to nutritional deficiency, obesity and toxicity and are associated with heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and depression.
√  Avoid toxins in your food, water, air and environment. Purify your system at intervals—ask me when might be a good time for you!
√  Support your heart with whole food concentrates from Standard Process.


Which whole food concentrates may benefit your heart!

1. CardioPlus — Since 1956 Cardio-Plus has supported the heart’s healthy functions combining the benefits of heart PMG extract and naturally occurring Coenzyme Q10, Cataplex E2 which gets oxygen into muscle tissue, special Cataplex G factors for it’s vasodilatation qualities and Cataplex C for its powerful antioxidant qualities. It has been well established in scientific literature that these nutrients are important for healthy cardiovascular function.This whole food concentrate is unique in the healing arts and is a nutritional essential for people with high blood pressure who wish to support their heart.
2. Vasculin — Introduced in 1958 to support support the heart and vascular tissues of those people with low blood pressure. Vasculin combines heart PMG, Coenzyme Q10 and Cataplex E and C, Vasculin also supports a healthy muscle contraction of the heart with Cataplex B and B6 factors for improved homosysteine levels.
3. Folic Acid-B12— Folic acid and vitamin B12, serve to improve homocysteine levels4 thereby reducing the likelihood of heart attack and strokes. By itself or taken along with Cataplex B these nutritional essentials enhance nerve conduction to the heart.
4. Cyruta Plus— Introduced in 1950. Cyruta Plus carries several important factors vital in their ability to increase the strength of the blood vessels and regulate their permeability, decrease inflammation and help maintain the integrity of the capillary walls. All important to a healthy cardiovascular system.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

B-COMPLEX DEFICIENCY NEGATIVELY IMPACTS THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF MILLIONS!
Do you suffer B-Complex Vitamin deficiency? The answer is likely YES! That’s because vitamin B-Complex may be THE ONE vitamin complex most commonly affected by modern lifestyle and refined food consumption.

• Stress – tension – anxieties, chemicals in our environment and refined “junk foods” leech our body of healthful nutrients – All leading to B-Complex Deficiency Disorders. B-Complex is truly a nutritional essential.

• B-Complex Deficiency has widespread negative effects on human health and well-being. Let’s take a look at a few of the main categories of conditions related to B- Complex Deficiency and consider how the lack of B-Complex may be impacting your daily life.

FACT: B-Complex Deficiency is known to be involved in serious psychological disorders such as depression, fears, confusion, anxiety, paranoia and anger.

WHY? The refining of grains removes the B-Complex that is necessary for many metabolic processes. Metabolism of the sugars and starches in refined foods consumes thiamine and our bodies rapidly become deficient, leading to memory loss. Niacin deficiency leads to mood disorders. B-12 and folic acid deficiencies are associated with a decline in thinking ability. The American diet of highly refined foods can lead to deficiency-induced memory loss, depression, anxiety, delusions, frustrations and a feeling of being out of control.
FACT: B-Complex Deficiency is known to create symptoms of numbness, tingling, heart beat irregularities, restless legs, insomnia, sleep disturbances and awaking unrefreshed.
WHY? Folic acid and B-12 deficiencies have long been known to contribute to disturbances of sensation and coordination of the legs and feet. Thiamine deficiency contributes to irregular heartbeat, peripheral neuropathy and heart failure. B-6 deficiencies cause burning sensations of the feet and contribute to nerve disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
FACT: B-Complex Deficiency is known to be linked with heart diseases, vascular diseases and strokes.1,2
WHY? For many years doctors have recommended a low fat diet to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease. If lower cholesterol could improve heart disease, then why does the rate of heart disease remain high? Recent research has given us a much better way to predict and prevent heart disease – that is called Homocysteine. Homocysteine levels are a much better predictor of heart disease than cholesterol, and their levels are improved with adequate B-Complex, especially the pyridoxine (B-6), cobalamin (B-12) and folic acid within it. One example of why cholesterol is not the major factor in heart disease is seen in vegans who have low blood fats but have vascular disease due to B-12 deficiency. Any one of the missing parts of the B-complex can contribute to disease processes taking hold in your body.

What is the B-Complex?
B-Complex is more than just a list of vitamins on a bottle. Whole food sources of B-Complex contain the known and the unknown HealthBuilding factors. B-Complex is a true synergy of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, coenzymes and trace minerals. True B- Complex can only be found in whole foods.
What is NOT B-Complex?
Synthetic sources of B as found in “High potency vitamin B” products are NOT B-Complex. In fact, these synthetic “vitamins” are known to cause, in some cases, the EXACT symptoms and conditions as a deficiency of the B-Complex!
Cataplex B – Simple Solution to a Complex Problem
B-Complex Deficiency Disorder.
What causes it?
Refined foods leech wholesome nutrients from your body: This is the beginning of
B-Complex Deficiency Disorders. Refined foods remove the full compliment of B-Complex synergists. Refined foods do have vitamins added but they are synthetic vitamins and not the naturally-found complete complex, thus they actually cause a drain on the B-Complex needs of the body.
Sugar and refined carbohydrate consumption depletes the body of B-Complex health factors.
Stomach lining must be healthy to absorb some parts of the B-Complex. For example, B-12 requires a particular “intrinsic factor” to be present in the stomach for absorption.
Digestive enzymes must be present in appropriate proportions to absorb B-Complex. If your body does not break down food to its essential elements, your body cannot assimilate it.
Liver function challenged by a toxic environment contributes to B-Complex Deficiency Disorders. Household cleaning chemicals, air and water pollution, personal hygiene supplies (perfumes, deodorants, etc.) and medications can produce a toxic load on the body known to challenge B-Complex needs of the body.


What Can I do to help B-Complex Deficiency?

What we eat and what we don’t eat is the reason why so many people suffer from B-Complex Deficiency Disorders.

• Reduce or eliminate refined, sugar-laden “junk foods.”

• Eat meals high in unrefined grains (brown rice, oats, 
barley, wheat, bran, rice bran), liver, nutritional yeast, green veggies, carrots, beets, meat, fish, poultry, nuts, and eggs.

• Reduce Stresses:

• Get regular exercise, relax your mind, meditate, thereby reducing your stress.

• Reduce toxic stresses on your body. Check your household cleaning products to see if they might be replaced with more environmentally safe products.

• Eliminate all synthetic forms of B “vitamins.”

One cannot obtain all the essential health factors in synthetic “vitamin” products, they are only available in whole foods and whole food concentrates! And Standard Process concentrates that whole food goodness for your benefit!

• Cataplex B – Introduced in 1934 this whole food source of the B-Complex of vitamins and their synergists contains the HealthBuilding goodness of: Liver, nutritional yeast, duodenum, beet (root), carrot (root), dried beet (root) juice, choline bitartrate, rice (bran) extract, defatted wheat (germ), adrenal, oat flour, soy bean lecithin, mixed tocopherols, ascorbic acid, manganese lactate, inositol, and riboflavin. These whole foods contain the known and the as yet unknown B-Complex synergists which can only be found in whole foods. Cataplex B increases nerve motor conductivity, vasoconstriction, carbohydrate metabolism, oxidation of lactic and pyruvic acids.

• Cataplex G -Introduced in 1934. This product maintains nerve health and provides a calmative effect on the nervous system.
  • Encourages healthy parasympathetic nerve functioning
  • Supports healthy liver functioning
  • Supports brain and nervous system function
  • Supports the body’s metabolism
  • Provides co-enzymes and co-factors needed for cellular function

 
† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

Take The Sugar Challenge
Refined sugars are not a nutritional essential. In fact refined sugar, and its “cousin” white flour, are primary causes of the leaching of healthful nutrients from our bodies – while at the same time leading to many unfavorable conditions such as those mentioned above by Dr. Royal Lee over 50 years ago.
Sugar’s empty calories create changes in body chemistry and accompanying nutritional deficiency, bringing on discomfort, degeneration, disease and death at a greater rate than any of the wars this country has ever seen.
Yet every man, woman and child in America consumes an estimated 180 pounds of sweeteners per year. This incredible amount of sugar does not take into account the nutritionally empty carbohydrates from cookies, crackers, breads and so called “fruit drinks.” Some studies estimate that Americans eat an additional 150-250 pounds of refined carbohydrates, bringing the total to nearly 400 pounds consumed per year. What does the consumption of empty carbs and low quality foods lead to?

The Center for Disease Control reports:
65% of Americans are considered overweight and 30% obese
7% have diabetes
11% have heart disease
31% have hypertension
21% have arthritis

40 million office visits are made to 
doctors for mental health per year (2002)

Additionally, the leading causes of death in America (2001) are linked to states of overweight and obesity and each of these killers could be turned around with a simple change in diet to the Nutritional Essentials.

They are:
Heart Disease: 696,947
Stroke: 162,672
Diabetes: 73,249

Take the Sugar Challenge! and Build Your Health

The Sugar Challenge is a 7 day to three week “test run” to see how much better you might feel after getting off all forms of refined carbohydrates and sugars. Breaking the sugar habit may not be easy, but it is worthwhile. Sugar and refined carbs leach vitamins and minerals out of your body. You need to get off the sugar then build back your stores of those lost nutritional essentials.
Step One – What condition are you in now?
Before we embark on The Sugar Challenge you will fill out a Symptom Survey Form and we will perform a nutritional deficiency screening evaluation. This will become our baseline. We could also run blood work as you can see as much as a 100-200 point swing in triglycerides, a wonderful reduction of cholesterol, blood pressure regulate itself and energy you haven’t had in ages.
Step Two – Eat whole foods and whole food supplements for 7-21 days.
 A simple lifestyle of whole foods is not impossible. We highly recommend you include some important HealthBuilding nutrients to help you “come down” off of sugar and carbohydrates. Remember if sugar was introduced into our society today it would be a controlled substance.
Step Three – Reevaluate
After The Sugar Challenge we will repeat Step One to determine any short-term response. Some people feel better and better each day and would never go back to their old refined food lifestyle. Some people whose health deficiencies have grown deeper may have a more difficult time during the Sugar Challenge and will need additional support. This is an obvious sign of addiction and dependency. Just like a drug we have to build you up so you can overcome this addiction.

Q:     What foods should I eat during The SugarChallenge?
A:     Eat whole foods. No processed foods. Eat salads, lightly steamed vegetables, freshly made soups such as lentil or bean soup, small amounts of high quality protein in smaller meals throughout the day. Enjoy butter or high quality oil on your veggies to help you assimilate your nutrients.
Q:    Which whole food concentrates would help me with The Sugar Challenge?
A:     Catalyn, Diaplex, Cataplex B, Drenamin and possibly other whole food concentrates, depending on your particular condition.
Catalyn –Since 1929 this whole food concentrate has been helping people suffering nutritional deficiency. Catalyn has many whole food concentrates in one product, providing you a more complete nutritional Multi-vitamin
Diaplex – Since 1959 Diaplex has combined the benefits of digestive enzymes along with stomach, liver, pancreas PMG and kidney Health Building factors. This combination product is excellent in addressing blood sugar handling imbalances.
Cataplex B – Since 1934 this whole food source of the B complex of vitamins and their synergists has provided essentials to everyone but has been found especially important for blood sugar handling heath concerns. Cataplex B increases nerve motor conductivity, vasoconstriction, carbohydrate metabolism, oxidation of lactic and pyruvic acids.
Drenamin – Since 1935 Drenamin’s special combination of Cataplex C, Cataplex G and adrenal PMGs has been formulated to help support nutritional conditions leading to fatigue, chronic fatigue, hypoglycemia, lowered resistance, allergies, and stress.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health

Results of the Study
The study made a few concerning revelations. This concerns were reported before the heart association at the annual scientific meeting that it held on Wednesday. The heart association is conducting a health initiative aimed at getting 20% of all American adults within ideal characteristics of all seven of the AMA’s criterion.
Diet was the biggest factor that could increase the likelihood of heart disease among teenagers. Not a single child in the study met the standards set by the American Health Association. Even without taking diet into consideration, very few children perfectly met the standards of the other six criteria. In fact, only 16.4% of males and 11.3% of females satisfied these requirements.
Opinions of the Study
Donald Lloyd-Jones is the head of the preventive medicine unit at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and holds a masters degree in epidemiology. As the primary author of the study, Lloyd-Jones stated that almost everyone is born with perfect cardiovascular health. Unfortunately, that health deteriorates quickly, particularly when people make life decisions that involve eating incorrectly, smoking or failing to exercise enough.
Veronique Roger is the head of the health sciences research center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Roger found the results of the study to be particularly worrisome.
Although heart attacks usually strike later in life, they are the result of a progression of cardiovascular diseases that begin in childhood. Identifying these conditions early will help deter heart attacks later in life.
Lloyd-Jones and the other researchers conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on the cardiovascular health of teenagers. Previous studies have generally focused on a single factor. However, the study results of the study were somewhat subjective, as it was centered around the guidelines of the American Heart Association and the findings may have been different if the standards of another organization were used. Also, there are a few phenomenon that are not clearly understood. For example, blood sugar levels and cholesterol can increase significantly during puberty and it is difficult to say how those results would influence the study.