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Get ready for tomorrow's nutritional science today right here, right now, Hello,
and welcome to Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams, Scientific
director at Invite Health. Happy Saturday morning to all of you early birds out
there who are up and ready to take on the day. And I am
here to help you with your wellness journey because as we know, we all
want to age gracefully and that's always my goal. My goal is to give
you some insight, some tip hips and tools to navigate day to day stressors.
And everyone has stress. I'm not really too stressed out today, but
I will be as the day progresses. I know this because it's the Big
Ten Championship game. And with the Big Ten Championship Game comes my fear that
maybe Michigan loses to Iowa tonight. I don't think they will, but you
know, I always am a little bit nervous. I was a kind of
a train wreck last weekend for the Michigan Ohio state game. So for all
of you who have listened to me, you know I'm a huge Michigan fan.
I know that we're dealing with some chaos in the background, background noise,
but you know, I am in it for the players, and I
really want them to be able to pull off a victory tonight. I stayed
up late last night to watch the Pac twelve Championship, so watched the Washington
Huskies pull out a victory over Oregon. So it'll be interesting to see how
everything plays out at the tail end of this weekend with all of the big
games. Got Georgia and Alabama today. So for those of you who are
not college football fans, you're probably like, Okay, carry on, let's
talk about nutrition, and that's what we're gonna do. But for those who
who know me, you know that this is a big day for me as
far as football goes. And but then I'm also kind of sad too because
then football's wrapping up. But we have all of the the big bowl games
coming up, and it's always exciting. They don't have to turn my focus
to college basketball, so and of course there's still NFL and all of that
and the Lions, so I following my my Detroit Lions. But I try
and stay on top of not only the sports that's happening in the world,
but also science and nutrition, and every day I'm always checking out new studies
and things that I think are interesting that I want to share with you.
But there was a really interesting bit of information that came out and it was
published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology. But for those who have tuned into
this show for so many years, you have heard Jerry Hickey for years and
myself talk about the importance of vitamin D and how vitamin D needs to be
looked at outside of that of just bone health. Unfortunately, in like the
traditional medical community, that's what the primary focus. And I can attest to
that because going through medical school myself, you learn that vitamin D is your
bone vitamin, and you don't really recognize that vitamin D is technically a hormone
and there are these receptor sites found throughout the body and with those receptor sites
come the chemical messager system. And this is why vitamin D is so essential
in the body because it is regulating so many daily functions. So from cardiovascular
health, we think about the rhythm of the heart, regulating inflammation. Of
course, our immune system, and we are into cold and flu season,
so we always want to stay on top of that having your serum vitamin D
level tested. I cannot impress upon you the importance of having that done,
because if you don't know where your level is, that's a problem. And
the reason why it's the problem is because we know that ninety percent of Americans
do not get adequate vitamin D just from their diet alone. So with that
being said, I mean you can kind of say, okay, well,
ninety percent of Americans don't get enough vitamin D, So am I one of
the ten percent who actually has good vitamin D levels? Likely not so and
vitamin D there's so many complex reasons as to why your vitamin D levels could
be at the low end. And I always describe it as like having a
dollar in your bank account or having one hundred dollars. Most people would rather
have one hundred dollars, and we want to look at vitamin D in that
same light. If we have insufficient levels, that can be incredibly problematic.
So this is why testing your serum blood level, having your twenty five hydroxy
vitamin D level tested is key because if you can see your levels at let's
just say twenty seven nanograms per mil liter, then you know, Okay,
I need to be supplementing with vitamin D each day. Now how much should
you supplement what? That's always the big question. People ask me this,
and have asked me this for years. Hey, Amanda, how much do
I need to take every day? Well, here's the thing. It's difficult
to put a number on that because you don't know what flors are going to
influence the way vitamin D is absorbing. Do you also have kind of a
comorbid situation going on where your magnesium levels are low which can impact the way
vitamin D is being absorbed? And I actually just did a podcast, by
the way, on why magnesium needs vitamin D and vice versa, because there
is a very strong correlation between those two. So wherever you listen to podcasts,
go and check that out. It's very short, it's like ten minutes,
but I talk about why the two are so synergistic to each other and
they really rely on each other for their you know, functionality in the body.
So this is one reason why sometimes folks will struggle with having adequate vitamin
D is because they also have low magnesium. So at the end of the
day, we know that taking vitamin D three supplementation, that's the active form
of vitamin D colely calci for all as it is known. And we know
that that vitamin D is really important for so many functions, and we want
to make sure that we're supplementing with an adequate amount. So I'll use myself
as an example. I use five thousand I use every single day to maintain
healthy blood levels. Now that's me. And it doesn't matter based off of
your age, based off of your height, your weight, Because I get
this question oftentimes too is well, you know, I'm a mail and I'm
sixty years old, and this is how much I weigh. How much vitamin
D do I need? That doesn't have any influence on that. What we
do know is that some folks may need a thousand I use per day,
someone else may need ten thousand I use per day. So if you get
your blood level tested and then you start to supplement. Let's just say you
go to Invite Health and you get our vitamin D three three thousand I use
and you start supplementing with one capsule per day. And let's just say six
months later, you go back in. Your starting point was twenty seven and
you go in and now your levels at forty five. Okay, so we
know that the three thousand I use is a pretty good amount for you to
be supplementing with. So that's really the best indication. But back to the
study Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, and this is that's why I love just going
through and reading all the research because it, once again it drives home the
point of yes, vitamin D you are so darn important. So they are
looking at an association between hair loss folks and low serum vitamin D levels.
So I think that this is one of those areas, especially for folks who
are experiencing problems with thinning hair, you know, to a certain degree,
alopecia, balding, male pattern balding. We know that there's hormonal you know,
underpinnings to that, but many folks deal with this and it can be
a frustrating thing because for a lot of individuals their hair is pretty important to
them. And looking at male hormone induced you know, balding, looking at
female pattern hair loss, we can see this correlation between low serum vitamin D
levels, and it was really quite fascinating in this study the way that they
were assessing this and to see that direct causal to having low vitamin D and
having more extensive hair loss. So once again, if you're concerned about your
hair, you're concerned about your bones, you're concerned about your immune system,
you should be concerned about knowing where your vitamin D serum level is. So
enough on that topic, make sure you're taking your vitamin D. That's my
point. But we have to to always be able to d the obvious.
And there are so many things that we just clearly know at this point in
time through all of the decade's worth of research that we just foundationally understand.
Now we understand why the body comes equipped with natural antioxidants, we understand why
our body comes equipped with collagen for example, with digestive enzymes. All of
these things are critical to daily function. And the things that we know is
that as we get older, some of these levels can start to plummet off,
and so the response that we should have to that would be supplementation.
So hence, this is why you tune into this show and you hear me
talking about certain supplements. You hear Jerry Hickey talking about certain supplements and why
they're so beneficial. And we can take collagen for example. We know that
once we hit twenty five years old, the body's natural retainment and production of
collagen begins to go down, and with every decade it continues to steadily go
down. So this is the known fact. We know this, so it
only makes sense that we would want to replenish that of what is lost.
It's kind of like going to the bank. If you take out all of
the money, you don't have any more money in the bank. So that's
why people keep going back and depositing money. So this is what we want
to do when we think about supplementation. We want to be able to deposit
these nutrients back into our system. So collagen is a perfect example of that.
Digestive enzymes. This is a big one, especially right now with you
know, the holiday season upon us, and you know folks are eating different
foods and maybe you're snacking on things that you really shouldn't be eating. But
in any case, we know that digestive enzymatic release once again starts to go
down as we grow older. So this is why many times people will find
that once they hit you know, maybe fifty or sixty years old, they
start to have more struggles with eating certain foods, and so they do one
of two things. They either struggle through that or they just avoid that.
And we don't want to avoid like vegetables, for example, and that's usually
a common area where people will struggle with healthy digestion because the body itself doesn't
necessarily make an enzyme that breaks down vegetables. We mechanically break that down.
But we can recognize that if we take a formulation like digestive HX, which
includes alpha glactosi in that, and that's a very powerful digestive enzyme that helps
to break down those plant fibers. So as you're eating broccoli, for example,
the alpha glactosidase will mix with the broccoli to help with the enzymatic breakdown.
So then we're actually obtaining the vitamins and the minerals and the antioxidants.
The sulferophane that broccoli yields us and remember those cruciferous vegetables. They're pretty important
for hormonal balance for both men and women. So we want to be eating
our broccoli. And if you're not a fan of broccoli, I'm sure there's
another type of cruciferous vegetable out there that you like, maybe Brussels sprouts,
maybe it's kale. But there's a whole variety of vegetables that you can choose
from. But we want to help our body with the breakdown of those different
nutrients. Hence, this is why the digestive HX can be incredibly supportive,
and the best way to use that product is to take one capsule roughly about
fifteen minutes prior to eating. Now there's a caveat to this if, for
example, you are halfway through your meal and you say, oh, I
forgot to take my digestive HX. I guess I won't take it. No,
still take it. That's fine. Still take that digestive HX capsule even
if you're at the end of your meal. Because we know that those enzymes
are going to aid in proper digestion and hence proper absorption of our nutrients and
your foods matter. You know, let food be thy medicine. I was
just reading a study this week where they were talking about this, like,
there seems to be a lot of influence of folks out there talking about eating
healthy. Well, yeah, we can go back in time and let food
be thy medicine. There's something with that. Let that resonate with you.
I do need to squeeze in a qui break when I get back. I
have many different products that I want to discuss with you today. I want
to talk about hell carnosine. I just really enjoy the science behind this very
powerful amino acid. So stick around. You are listening to Invite Health Radio,
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As you were just hearing on our little break there, We've been doing
this for twenty five years and this is part of the wonderful design that Jerry
Hickey came up with twenty five years ago. Obviously, he you know,
with his background being a pharmacist master product formulator, that was kind of a
given. That was the you know, he is going to be great at
doing what he does with putting these products together and following the science and the
research behind those, but he wanted to set Invite Health apart from any other
company that was out there. And what we recognize and what Jerry recognized many
years ago and what I recognize today is that wellness is a journey, and
it is a journey that oftentimes is achieved when we have that additional support.
So having our nutritional experts who have been with us for so many years and
are just so passionate about not only our entire product line and talking about the
products, but really helping you identify where you can make the biggest positive gains
wellness journey. And so we recognize that it's not just about our wonderful formulations.
It might be that someone comes in and they're like, oh my goodness,
it's the holiday season and I'm always you know, stressed out to the
max and I can't focus and what can I be doing? Because remember stress
can lower our immune defenses. We definitely don't want to be, you know,
navigating through the holiday season with having lowered immunity, especially with all the
different bugs that are out there right now. So we want to regulate stress.
And there is, you know, clearly a defined difference between you stress,
which is good stress and you stress. Maybe you're going on vacation.
You're like, yay, I'm going away, I'm going on a cruise.
But with that still comes some negative stress components and we don't want to leave
an opportunity for our body to take a hit. So this is where our
nutritional experts can be very helpful. Maybe they're giving you some insider tips for
some stress management techniques and of course guiding you to the right products. During
the holiday season, you want to focus on two primary areas. That's going
to be your immune system and also your energy. So through taking formulations such
as Rodeola extract for example, this is a really good way for us to
allow the adrenal glands to have a better response to those moments of stress that
we can all face throughout the day. But it's also helping to create and
generate energy. And of course we want to take our ubiquinal each day,
so taking your coenzyme Q ten from Invite Health. Remember we use kanica.
That is the form that is the most widely studied of any coenzyme Q ten
out there, and COQ ten comes in two forms. You have ubiquinone and
then you have ubiquinol we want to supplement with ubique all ending in ol.
That's what we offer are ubiquinol sixty milligram and then are ubiquinol one hundred and
twenty milligram, which also has the nadh in that so really good way to
allow for circulatory support, brain health support, immune systems support, and energy
all at the same time. So that's why your COQ ten so key.
But let's talk a little bit about carnosine and why carnosine is so interesting.
It is, first and foremost, it's a it's a dipeptide, so it
has beta alanine and histadine in it. So it's these two amino acids that
are combined together that form carnosine. Now we know beta alanine is excellent for
muscle recovery, So say, for example, you start using the invite health
L carnosine plus formulation, you're going to be getting the power of beta alanine.
So even if we're thinking about muscle health, this is a great thing.
But we know many ways to which carnosine is helping to promote longevity.
It's protecting the end caps of your chromosomes. Those are known as your telomeres.
And this is why we look at carnosine as being an anti aging amino
acid, and rightfully so. And we also recognize that carnosine obtainment from the
diet is not very easy to achieve, and so for many of us,
supplementation of carnosine is really very beneficial. Now, what's fascinating is that they
used to always look at carnosine for its protective mechanisms as far as targeting advanced
collocation end products. So if you have high glucose, if you're pre diabetic
or diabetic, it helps to protect your cardiovascular system, the blood vessels from
damage. It protects your kidneys. Of course, it's going to protect your
brain. An extensive amount of research on carnosine as far as it being a
neuroprotective I'll talk about that in a moment. But what is also really fascinating
is that they started to look at it as being a powerhouse to actually protect
against athrosclerosis, so for plaque build up within the vessels. So heck,
if we know that carnosine's doing all of these things, it's a neuroprotective,
it's helping to support kidney function, it's regulating excess glucose in the body,
and it's really good for making sure we don't have plaque building up in our
system. Well, that might be a really good supplement to add in.
And it also is partnered up with routin and corstin, so you have these
powerful antioxide that are added along with that al carnissine. So those citrus bioflavonoides
really pack a powerful pot. We know so much about corsotin as far as
its regulation of histamine build up in the body. If you have excess histamine,
this is what creates you know, sneezing and all the you know,
running nose things like that. But we also can see how corsotin is very
effective at binding on to things like heavy metals and different pollutants that we come
across each day. So carnosine is found everywhere in the body where there's these
very high energy demands. So hence this is why it's been studied so extensively
as far as its neuroprotective properties, because we find an awful lot of carnosine
in our brain as well as in our heart, so hence the protective measure
against plaque build up. It all starts to make a lot of sense,
and at the same time time, maybe we are using carnisine just because we
know it's a powerful anti aging nutrient. That's one of the reasons why I
started using carnisine many years ago. Looking at the science of things like rizveritrol,
clearly we know what risveratrol is doing with the activation of sirtuin for promoting
so longevity, but we also can see that this natural amino acid is packing
this very powerful punch as well. So for me, I'm always looking for
nutrients to add in alongside with my healthy diet that I eat. I adhere
very strongly to a Mediterranean diet, and I encourage all of you to do
so. The Mediterranean diet. I always I always say that I don't like
using the word diet because I think in our society we correlate diet with just
calorie restriction or removed moving things. We shouldn't look at diet in that light.
We shouldn't look at diet as trying to lose weight. We should look
at diet as being what we're eating every day, and we can either choose
to eat unhealthy. Hence, the ultra processed foods that make up the majority
of the calories of which most Americans are consuming each day, or we can
choose to eat, you know, fruits and vegetables and have foods that have
good amounts of healthy fats to keep our brain volume nice and full as we
get older. So I don't really like using the word diet, but in
any event, I have a very strong adherence to a Mediterranean diet, and
I didn't always. Clearly that was not the case many years ago, and
I think I paid the price for that. Now I feel so much better.
I mean, my energy levels are really good, I sleep really good.
I don't have aches and pains. And you can recognize how food does
that. That really interesting study they took a group of college students and they
had them just eat like burger fries and shakes, and then about an hour
after they consume that meal, they tested their blood levels for markers for inflammation,
and you could see how the white blood cells, the immune system itself
was becoming hyper reactive to those foods. So it's not a food allergy,
so I don't want to implicate that, but what we do recognize is that
the immune systems like, oh goodness, what in the world is happening here?
And it tries to protect the body. Well, do that day after
day after day, year after year, you're gonna end up having some problems,
whether that's non alcoholic fatty liver disease, whether that's you know, metabolic
syndrome and diabetes. So we can make better choices and let food be thy
medicine, and then we can add in nutrients such as the el carnosine plus.
And what's fascinating about the el carnosine plus is they started to recognize that
one of its roles was to actually make your white fat cells mimic the action
of brown fat cells. So brown fat cells are what generate up thermogenesis or
that natural fat burning. And this is why when you look at you know,
little babies and they have the little fat roles and you think, oh,
that's so cute, but then that burns off and then as we become
adults, we you know, transition from that brown fat into white fat.
Well, the white fat is what stores and this is you know, the
major problem. So to see that carnosine actually helped to promote that conversion of
white fat into brown fat is incredibly impressive, which is why they started to
recognize in all these studies like, oh, we're testing carnosine for folks who
add myocognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease, and we're recognizing that they're actually losing weight
in these studies. So of course you take that data and then you set
up another study and you say, okay, let's test carnisine just for its
weight loss benefits. And what's fascinating is that carnosine similar to carnatine. Remember
those are two different amino acids. They both have this action to promote healthy
weight. So it's just it's one of those side benefits. I talk about
that often when I'm describing different products that many products you may be using for
a particular reason, and unbeknownst to you, you're getting all of these wonderful
side benefits that go along with that. And carnosine is that perfect example of
an anti aging supplement that has all of the powerful mechanisms to support our brain
health, for memory, for healthy weight, and of course for making sure
we're not building up plaque in our vessels, which I think is pretty darn
important. So I'm gonna talk a little bit more about this, but I
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com and welcome back to Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams here
with you on a Saturday morning. It's December, folks. Goodness, you
know It's always hard for me to determine times of the year when you live
in South Florida because yeah, it's still gonna be I think eighty five degrees
today, So I'm not rubbing that in. If you guys are you know,
struggling with colder temperatures up there, That's not what I'm trying to do.
But it does throw me off. Sometimes I'll turn on like the Weather
channel, I'm like, why is this snowing? And you know different,
Oh, because it's December, so that makes sense. But nonetheless, I
am here with you today talking about all of our wonderful formulations. Remember,
you can stop by any of our stores or open seven days a week.
We have our nutritional experts who are there to help guide you in your process
of wellness. If you can't stop by a store, that's okay, you
can give us a call. We're happy to patch you through to one of
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and you can sign up to have a free nutritional consultation with one of our
Nutritionness So you just pick the day in time that works well for you and
one of them will give you a call. And you can talk about whatever.
You can talk about carnoissine. You say, hey, I hear this
el carnoissine plus it's very important. Amino acid does all these wonderful things,
and yes it does. We know that carnisine has been studied for years and
years as far as it's a natural antioxidant. It's an amino acid, and
it has these very powerful mechanisms by which it helps to promote longevity. And
in the Journal of Rejuvenation Research, that's a fun one, huh, Rejuvenation
research. Back in twenty ten, they looked at carnosine as having all of
these different properties to it. This neuroprotective dipeptide is as they described it member
has beta alanine plus histadine in it, and how it has these really powerful
features to it to allow the brain as well as our skeletal muscles to have
a enhanced circulatory flow as well as providing the antioxidant benefit to fight off free
radicals, because we know that in the brain, well anywhere in the body,
your free radicals are going to create an extensive amount of oxidative stress and
when that occurs, it damages those cells. And once we get cellular damage.
It can be hard to bounce back from that if we're not doing the
right things. So if we're adding insult to injury with the foods that we're
eating, if we're eating the burger frying shakes, that's not helping to you
know, allow those cells to repair themselves. So supplementation with carnosine can really
provide a significant amount of support. Now remember that is partnered up with the
routin and that coarsetin, so it's not like you're just getting carnisine. You're
also getting these very powerful citrus bioflavonoids that have been studied extensively once again for
their ability to protect the brain and protect the cardiovascular system. Anytime we can
take a dietary supplement that is doing cross functional action for us, that's a
great thing. Like I said myself, I started using carnissine many years ago
for the anti aging properties to it, and then along the way you start
to say, oh, well, hey, it has this nice finite ability
for natural fat burning. It does a wonderful job for circulatory health and making
sure that the vessels are not building up plaques. So you can look at
why taking the el carnissine formulation is so beneficial. We have a lot of
folks who deal with diabetic neuropathies turning to the el carnissine. To me,
is one of those products that I often will look at because of its power
to regulate those advanced glycation end products. And not that we need to get
super technical, but at the end of the day, if we have too
much glucose, too much sugar just spinning around the it's going to find a
home somewhere. So where does it find a home? While it can hook
to the nerves and create damage, can hook to your kidneys and create problems.
It can hook to your eyeballs and create issues such as cataracts. So
we know that if we can take a amino acid such as al carnosine that
is a very powerful anti glycation amino acid with its beneficial effect of being a
powerful antioxidant on top of that, well heck yeah, it makes a lot
of sense that the L carnosine would be something that we would want to include
in to a daily routine. So just think about that particular product understanding that
we're also getting the corsetin so it even helps with the histamine regulation. Maybe
you're still dealing with some lingering seasonal allergies. Adding in that al carnosine quite
beneficial. But let's talk holidays stress folks. I've had a lot of folks
reach out to me recently and this is that time of year where you do
start feeling like your energy levels are starting to dwindle down and what can you
do? So I already mentioned rodeola extract. That's just a quick go to
the reason why I talk about rodeola so frequently is because it works so quickly
and for many individuals who want something, like most Americans, they want that
quick fix. Rodiola is just a go to because you are going to see
the benefits of rodeola supplementation pretty much the first time you start taking rodeola.
So this is why it's always an excellent choice. But we know that there's
detrimental effects to stress. Obviously, it can accelerate our aging process. We
know that can dis up your digestive health. This is why usually when people
say that they feel a lot of stress, they describe it in their belly,
and you know they have the they feel off. We also know it
can create brain fog. Well, why is it creating brain fog. When
people are stressed out, they oftentimes have a hard time with focus and attention.
Maybe you're trying to do all your holiday shopping and you show up at
the department store and you're standing there and going, what did I come in
here for? Because you're so stressed. So we know that the influence the
multiple pathways to which stress is affecting us, and so it's beyond that of
just cortisol. You know, most time we think stress, we think cortisol.
Hence, this is where that rodeola is very helpful because it addresses that
adrenal gland over expression of cortisol. But we also know that stress can really
play a negative effect on our neurotransmitters. And so when we start thinking about
the brain fog, you now, how is it that stress is having an
influence on limiting the amount of say acetylcholine that's being released from our brains.
Number acetylcholine is key for memory. We also know that gabba is our calming
neurotransmitter. We have serotonin, so stress can affect all of these. We
know it can definitely affect our blood pressure and our blood sugar levels. So
if we don't address the stress. You can now start to see how different
systems in the body can kind of go haywire. And while they're going haywire,
now your immune system is kind of opened up for any type of pathogen.
So you're out there doing your holiday shopping, you're heading over to invite
health, making sure that you're getting stocked up on your immunity multi vitamin,
your immunity HX, the green TTX for example. You know your immune system
routine that you do each year, but we don't want to have the stress
build up to the point where the immune system is in a sense struggling.
So this is why we always want to zero in on managing stress and having
good techniques to achieve this. So whether that's utilizing different nutrients such as rodeola
extracts such as elthianine, that powerful amino acid that we offer that comes from
green tea, by the way, So it's always fun to talk about where
these nutrients are sourced from because we know green tea and the power of EGCG,
how it helps to regulate inflammation, helps to enhance our immune defenses that
can target different viruses, which is why people use our green TTX especially during
this time year that liquid tincture that we offer, but we can also use
this tiny little amino acid that is derived from the green tea. The elthienine
and elthenine is a natural promoter of GABBA, so it helps keep us calm.
So the calmer we are, the better we regulate our stress. The
better we're regulating our stress, the better we support our immune system. You
can see how it's kind of this this balancing effect in our system. So
we want to utilize these different formulations so that we're getting the most out of
them. And this is why it is always so important to have that conversation
with one of our nutritionness that you know, how should I be taking this
product, what's the best time of day for me to use this? How
many capsules should I take? Because maybe on the bottle it says take one
capsule twice a day, but maybe for your specific needs, you're taking two
capsules twice a day. So you want to talk to one of our nutritional
experts so that they can personalize your supplementation routine. Like I said, being
that this is cold and flu season, if you are not already taking additional
nutrients to support your immune defenses. I encourage you to head over to Invite
Health this weekend, or go to our website invite health dot com and check
out all of our many immune health formulations. You can clearly use our new
Immunity multi vitamin that's going to give you that comprehensive blend of those key vitamins
and minerals. Remember, the immune system isn't running solely on vitamin C,
zinc and vitamin D. The immune system is heavily reliant on natural vitamin E
and magnesium and of course B vitamins. Taking the Immunity multivitamin is a really
good way to get yourself into a regular rhythm throughout cold and flu season,
to give your body the exposure to those key vitamins and minerals. Remember we
use the bioactive B vitamins and our formulations. You're getting methyica bolomin which also
helps with energy production. You get methyl folate which helps with detoxification and with
your neurotransmitter production. And then of course you get the full spectrum natural vitamin
E in that formulation. And then Jerry Hickey added in to enhance this product
beyond what it was already great. He added in elderberry extract along with the
nucleic acids. So you've heard us talk for years about our nucleotide complex and
the many benefits that go along with those nucleic acids. They are helping to
allow your GI system. Remember the intestines, we're seventy percent of your immune
system is located. The nucleic acids work to facilitate a healthy immune response within
the intestines. So we're taking this as part of a daily multivitamin. We
go over to Invite Health and we're taking our immunity multivitamin every day, taking
one packet. We're getting this wonderful exposure to all of these nutrients that both
the innate which is your immediate and your adaptive, which is your delayed immune
response require. So each day you're getting this lovely steady state of these nutrients
in on top of getting the elderberry extract, which has been studied extensively shown
to shorten the duration of the common cold and influenza. But heck, we
don't even want to get the common cold or influenza. So if we're taking
the elderberry proactively, then this is going to give us this layer of protection
partnered up with those nucleic acids, so it's a fabulous multi vitamin. But
that's just one of the many formulations that we offer within our immune health line.
So definitely, you know, stop by the store and talk to one
of the nutritionists about which one of our immune formulations is most ideal for you.
Because maybe you're already using our Performance multivitamin and you love that, and
I understand why because it's an excellent formulation with the rodeola and the superoxide dismutas.
But you want to add in additional immune support right now. So maybe
we're just adding immunity HX, which is the tablet that contains vitamin C,
vitamin D, and zinc, or maybe you add in colostrum or the probiotic
HX. But you want to have this personalized based on your specific needs,
so do take advantage of that free service of talking to a nutritional expert.
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back to Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams. We are into
December already. Goodness, it's like it's going to be twenty twenty four before
we know it. And we want to get to twenty twenty four without getting
the common cold, not getting you know, covid, not getting the flu,
and this new pneumonia that's out there. Goodness, there's always something.
It's always those pesky pathogens out there. And I remember, you know,
because I'm growing up in Michigan. This is the time of year where everybody
is just coughing and creeping, and it didn't matter where you went. You're
like, oh gosh, everyone's sick. And I know it's starting to happen
up there in New York where everyone's kind of starting to get the cough and
the runny nose and the sinus congestion. You want to try to avoid that
from happening in the first place. So this is why we have such an
extensive line of immune health supplements, why we have these nutrients that are partnered
up together. So the immunity multivitamin definitely an excellent choice to use during this
time of year. Adding in that green TTX. Remember that's that liquid tincture
form. You don't take that straight up. Just as a side note to
that, the best way to use the green TTX because it's very powerful.
I've had people do it. I'm like, oh goodness, that's very very
bitter. But you use two full droppers, so not a single drop,
but the full dropper. As much as you can get into that little squeezer
and you add that in with about four to six ounces of water, just
depending on what your taste bud's like, and you sip on that. And
what that's going to allow to do is it allows the EGCG, those powerful
catkins to coat the back of the throat. So if you're out there doing
your holiday shopping and someone's coughing and creeping, then you're not going to be
as alarmed by that ACU. You're like, you know what, that's okay.
I got the power of the green TTX, you know, hanging out
in my system right now, which gives me this added layer of protection.
So and if you partner that up with the immunity multi vitamin so many different
nutrients, colostrum is a really excellent choice. I just had someone who reached
out to me last week who's just getting over on COVID, and that was
one of the questions, was like, well, what should I take post
COVID? And so colostrum was one of the first nutrients that I had advised
because colostrum, remember that is when you think about breastfed babies, why that's
so important because they're getting all of those powerful immunoglobulins coming from the breast milk.
So when we're using colostrum in encapsulated form, this is what we're getting.
We're getting these powerful amino globulins and vitamins and minerals and antioxidants that help
to promote a very powerful immune system response in the presence of any type of
you know, virus or bacteria. So supplementation with colostrum is very helpful not
only to enhance your immune defenses, but what's really nice is post COVID in
particular, because a lot of folks are still dealing with the COVID long haulers,
but you can get this with you know, the common cold where you
start feeling a little bit better, but that you still kind of feel like
your energy levels are down. Colostrum is excellent for promoting energy, which is
why a lot of athletes use colostrum as part of their supplementation routine because it
helps the body create energy and it helps with muscle recovery. So after you've
been sick, you know, if you have a cold, if you have
the flu, and you're past that initial phase of the real nasty symptoms and
you go on to feeling a little bit better, but you still feel like
you're getting tired, then taking colostrum is a really good choice for you.
Now, of course, we have many nutrients that help with energy production.
I mentioned are ubiquinol. This is also something that's very good to have on
board anytime we're you know, dealing with an illness recovery. It doesn't matter
if it's a viral infection or if it's you know, you go in for
surgery, whatever is putting stress on the body. Taking your ubiquenol is really
very important. And remember the form that we use, the conic of form
is the form that has been the most well studied. It is sourced in
Texas. That's where we get that from. Just an excellent way to make
sure that your coenzyme Q ten that your supplement with is actually getting absorbed and
the fact that we have the NADH and that really quite beneficial to Actually,
just this week a study came out showing another important side benefit of NADH and
that they found. This was published in the Aging Cell Journal, but they
found that NADH, this vitamin B three substrate not only beneficial for cholesterol management,
but they actually found it was very helpful for prevention of hearing loss.
So it's kind of the hair cells. They are very prone to different degrees
of damage and they could see that through the addition of NADH, it led
to this layer of protection for the for the hair cells, so quite impressive
there. This is why we have the NADH added in with our ubiquenol one
and it's study after study that continue to show us why you know, taking
NADH is so beneficial. We have it in our product to help the ubiquinl
stay in the inside of the cell for a longer sustained period of time.
And that's important for you because we know the role that co q ten is
playing for making ATP and so through the action of NADH, this allows for
that ubiquinol to really stay at a high steady state for an extended period.
So this is why it's our most popular coq ten formulation that we offer is
the ubiquenol with the NADH, So definitely check that one out. And it
is of course part of what should be everyone's standard daily supplementation routine. Every
single day we should all be taking a comprehen multi vitamin multimineral. So right
now, maybe the immunity multivitamin would be your go to need to be taking
those omega threes, fish oil, krill oil. We have the Inflammune that's
a really excellent choice during cold and flu season. Number the Inflammune HX formulation
that we offer. That's a partnering of four different that's always interesting, four
different omega threes. So you get the green lip muscle which is yielding you
three powerful omega three fatty acids, so it has epa dha plus eta,
and then you get the perilla extract and the perilla seed extract is giving you
ala. So that's the plant based form of omega threes. So in combination,
you were getting these four powerful omega three fatty acids that helped to lessen
inflammation in the body, which is very key for folks who maybe are prone
to chronic bronchitis and as soon as the weather starts to change, the temperature
starts to go down, you start to feel it in your airways. So
adding in Inflammune is very helpful. And the fact that it has that perilla
extract we know also is wonderful for regulation of histamine. So if you're dealing
with seasonal allergies, maybe now that you're going to be spending more time indoors
and that forced heat coming in. We always have to have concerns about that
too for our airways. So taking the Inflammune formulation is a really wonderful Omega
three option for you during cold and flu season, and you also get the
side benefit. For many folks who start using our Inflammune HX formulation right away,
they can see a difference in their joints. We're like, wow,
you know, I had, you know, some knee pain and I started
using Inflammune and it's like over not. And yes, we expect these things
to occur because of the absorption rate of that powerful New Zealand source. Green
Lip Muscle partnered up with that perilla extract. So we have many different omega
threes for you to choose from, but you should always include that along with
your coke Q ten along with additional vitamin D. Started off the show talking
about vitamin D and now we know low vitamin D is associated with hair loss,
so take your vitamin D even if it's for your lovely locks. And
of course we want to take additional magnesium as well, So stop by one
of our stores talk to one of our nutritional experts. Remember they are there
to help you help yourself. Of course, if you have questions for me,
certainly reach out to me. A Williams at invitehealth dot com. That's
a Williams at invitehealth dot com and until we speak again, be well.
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