Educational Information
Glutathione
Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant composed of the amino acids cysteine, glycine, and glutamic acid. It plays several crucial roles in maintaining health and vitality.
As a powerful antioxidant, glutathione helps combat free radicals, which cause oxidative stress, damage healthy cells, and contribute to aging and degenerative illnesses. Uniquely, the human liver can produce glutathione, and it is found in every cell of the body, underscoring its importance in overall health.
Incorporating glutathione into your wellness routine can contribute to a healthier, more vibrant life.
Benefits
- Mitochondrial Function: Essential for energy production in cells.
- DNA Production: Necessary for the synthesis of DNA.
- Detoxification: Able to cross the blood-brain barrier, it removes toxins like mercury from the brain and other cells.
- Oxidative Stress Reduction: Minimizes oxidative stress, protecting healthy cells.
- Immune Support: Strengthens the immune system.
- Metabolism: Vital for metabolic processes.
- Reproductive Health: Key in forming sperm cells.
- Tissue Repair: Supports tissue building and repair.
- Enzyme Functions: Aids in various enzyme functions.
- Liver Support: Helps the liver process alcohol efficiently.
- Fat Reduction: Assists in reducing belly fat storage.
- Complexion Improvement: Promotes healthier, clearer skin.
NAD+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide)
NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) is a crucial molecule naturally occurring in your body, vital for numerous non-redox functions including cell nuclear DNA repair and telomere maintenance.
Key Functions of NAD+
- Energy Production: NAD+ plays a central role in the chemical processes that generate energy within cells. It is a key co-factor for improving mitochondrial function. Mitochondria, often referred to as the "energy powerhouses" of cells, convert macronutrients—proteins, carbohydrates, and fats—into ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the primary energy currency of cells.
- Fat Metabolism: NAD+ assists the liver in breaking down fats, which are essential for maintaining energy levels throughout the body.
- ATP Creation: By supporting the creation of ATP, NAD+ helps ensure cells have a robust supply of energy.
Potential Health Benefits
Research suggests that boosting NAD+ levels may offer several health benefits, including:
- Disease Management: Potentially helps manage a wide range of conditions, from diabetes to cancer.
- Mental Clarity and Cognitive Function: Intravenous NAD+ infusions may enhance mental clarity, alertness, concentration, and memory.
- Athletic Performance and Fatigue: May improve athletic endurance and alleviate symptoms of chronic fatigue.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C also known as ascorbic acid is a potent antioxidant, reducing free radicals and cell damage.
Benefits
- Enhances immune system
- Enhances heart health and function of blood vessels
- Protects Skin, teeth, cartilage and bone from free radicals
- Prevents Macular degeneration
- Prevents Inflammation
- Helps improve brain function in people with Alzheimer’s and dementia
- Prevents premature aging
Biotin
Biotin, also known as Vitamin B7, originated from the Ancient Greek terminology Biotos meaning life. Biotin aids in overall health improvement and cell growth by synthesizing or metabolizing fats, carbohydrates and amino acids (proteins). Biotin also helps maintain blood sugar levels.
Benefits
- Promotes healthy skin, hair and nails
- Prevents nerve damage
- Reduces depression and fatigue
- Reduces Inflammation
- Improves cognitive function
- Increases HDL (good cholesterol) and decreases LDL (bad cholesterol)
Calcium Gluconate
Calcium is an important mineral in our body which aids in muscle and bone health.
Benefits
- Helps with low calcium levels
- Promotes strong bones
- Promotes heart health
- Improves the nervous system
L-Taurine
A conditionally essential amino acid. It helps maintain proper hydration and electrolyte and mineral balance in your cells, supporting functions of digestive, nervous and immune systems.
Benefits
- Improves mental health
- Improves athletic performance
- Used as an antioxidant
- Reduces fatigue
- Reduces oxidative stress
- Reduces insomnia
- Supports nerve growth aiding in long-term memory
Folic Acid
Also known as Vitamin B9, an essential cofactor for enzymes involved in DNA and RNA synthesis.
Benefits
- Aids in fetal development during pregnancy
- Required for nucleoprotein synthesis
- Stimulates WBC and platelet production
- Plays a protective factor in the development of cancer
- Important in phases of rapid cell division such as infancy, pregnancy and erythropoiesis
Alpha- Lipoic Acid
Alpha lipoid acid (ALA) is a fatty acid that naturally occurs in the body that is both water and fat-soluble meaning that it works both inside and outside the body to destroy harmful free radicals.
Benefits
- Improves insulin resistance
- universal antioxidant
- protects cells from damage
- Improves the nervous system
- enhances the effect of other vitamins such as C, E, coenzyme 10 and glutathione
- plays a major role in the conversion of glucose to energy
- aids in diabetic neuropathy
- when taken with a low calorie diet, aids in weight loss
Vitamin B-Complex : B1, B2, B3, B5, B6
All B vitamins are water soluble which means they are not stored in the body. Although each B vitamin plays a unique role in the body, they work best when taken together. The overarching benefits of B vitamins is that it aids in converting carbohydrates (food) into glucose (energy) which aids in helping the body to produce energy and maintain healthy skin, hair, eyes, liver and nervous system.
Vitamin B1
Vitamin B1, also known as Thiamine, helps boost the immune system, aids in functions of the nervous system, energy metabolism, reduces diabetes, vision and kidney disorders and diseases like Alzheimer’s or those who suffer from memory issues from alcohol use.
Vitamin B2
Vitamin B2 also known as Riboflavin, is a powerful antioxidant that is vital in maintaining healthy blood cells. It aids in reducing oxidative stress and inflammation on nerves, therefore, helping with migraine headaches, fatigue and depression.
Vitamin B3
Vitamin B3 also known as Niacin, is crucial in maintaining healthy skin, nails and hair. It is a key player in our nervous and digestive systems. It also aids in improving cholesterol and lowering risks of heart disease.
Vitamin B5
Vitamin B5 also known as Pantothenic Acid, is an essential powerhouse of red blood cell production as well as sex and stress related hormones. It aids in stress reduction, insomnia, lowering cholesterol, maintaining a healthy digestive tract and improving symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 also known as Pyridoxine is a key element in keeping good mental health. Adequate levels of vitamin B6 are necessary to produce neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine and GABA, meaning it plays an important role in regulating our mood. It is also important in maintaining the health of our nerves, skin and red blood cells. It aids in production of hemoglobin which ensures cells are well-fed by transporting oxygen. Vitamin B6 helps withdepression, PMS, anemia, decrease energy, peripheral neuropathy, head disease, high cholesterol, nausea in pregnancy as well as reducing inflammation throughout the body.
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B 12, also known as Cobalamin, is a water soluble vitamin meaning these vitamins dissolve in water and are not stored in the body to a significant extent.
Benefits
- Essential in DNA synthesis
- Improves mood
- Aids in growth of blood and nerve cells
- Helps metabolize fats and carbohydrates
- Boosts energy
- Regulates appetite and aids in weight loss
Magnesium Chloride
Magnesium chloride is a mineral essential in DNA synthesis maintaining cells, bone, nerve and muscle function.
Magnesium Chloride
- Aids in function of bone, nerves and cells
- Promotes heart health
- Decreases muscle aches and spasms
- Promotes better sleep at night
- Prevents heartburn/indigestion
- Lowers levels of stress and anxiety
- Decreases fatigue
Zinc
Zinc is a trace but essential element in the body which found its popularity in the covid pandemic.
Benefits
- Helps stabilize the immune system
- Fights off invading bacteria and viruses
- Aids in making proteins and DNA (genetic material in all cells)
- Promotes growth during pregnancy, childhood and adolescence
- Promotes Skin/Tissue repair
- Aids in wound healing
- Enhances testicular hormone synthesis
Manganese
Manganese is an important mineral in the body, aiding in many chemical processes such as cholesterol, carbohydrates and proteins.
Benefits
- Promoting healthy bones
- Regulates sex hormones
- Reduces inflammation
- Antioxidant
- Regulates blood sugar
Copper
Copper is an antioxidant, aiding to prevent cell and DNA damage caused by free radicals.
Benefits
- Aids in Iron absorption
- Helps in osteoporosis by reducing rate of bone loss
- Boosts immune system
- Aids in thyroid regulation
- Helps maintain the health of blood vessels, contributing to a healthy cardiovascular system and reducing the risk of heart disease.
- Promotes neuron signaling and nerve health
Arginine
Aka as L-arginine is an amino acid. It converts nitric oxide in the body to dilates blood vessels and increase blood flow.
Benefits
- Stimulates the release of insulin
- Stimulates the release of growth hormone
- Helps increase muscle mass
- Reduces the amount of fat in the body
- Helps speed wound healing
Ornithine
A nonprotein amino acid produced during the urea cycle. It acts a precursor to citrulline and arginine and disposes of excess ammonia in the body. It is necessary for proper immune function and good liver function.
Benefits
- Improves Athletic performance
- Has Anabolic effects
- Improves wound healing
- Immuno-enhancing
Lysine
An amino acid essential to healthy growth and plays a critical role in the production of carnitine which is needed in healthy heart and brain function
Benefits
- Improve athlete performance
- Reduces symptoms of diabetes
- prevent the growth and spread of viruses
- Aids in growth hormone promoting growth in muscles while training
- Helps in treatment of osteoporosis by absorbing calcium
Citrulline
An amino acid made from ornithine and carbamoyl phosphate in the urea cycle.
Benefits
- Promote energy levels
- Stimulates immune system
- Helps in detoxifying ammonia (a cell toxin)
