Antioxidant Complex

Since the discovery of vitamins, it has been recognized that antioxidants are essential for health. Recently, scientific evidence shows that using an antioxidant supplement can extend life and wellbeing.

How antioxidants preserve health...

One major process of antioxidants in cells is to prevent the oxidizing damage of free radicals. These molecules are unstable and highly reactive, and can damage cells by chemical reactions that can lead to cancer-promoting mutations or cell death.

Some of the reactions in the body that produce free radicals involve metal ions. This not only reduces the formation of ion-dependent free radicals, but also prevents the metal ions from oxidizing cells.

All cells therefore should contain antioxidants that serve to reduce or prevent this damage.

How to get antioxidants into the diet...

Science suggests that consumption of antioxidant-rich foods reduces cell damage or prevents free radical damage altogether. This may slow down, prevent, or even reverse certain diseases that result from cellular damage, and perhaps even slow down the natural aging process.

A diet containing natural antioxidants from plants is required for the health of all humans. If such a plant-based diet is not available or transportable, one can take a natural antioxidant supplement to increase the potential for preventing cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses.

Product Ingredients

pHion Antioxidant Complex Contains:

Mangosteen Extract (30% Xanthones) - Mangosteen, a fruit relatively unheard of just a decade ago, has taken America by storm. Due to its content of antioxidant xanthones, this southeast Asian powerhouse has been shown to protect LDL ("bad") cholesterol from oxidation and inhibit inflammation - both good things for cardiovascular health.

Pomegranate Extract (40% Ellagic Acid) - The blood-red seeds of the pomegranate are packed with antioxidants. In fact, pomegranate has six times the antioxidant power of green tea! Scientists believe that the ellagitannins in pomegranate convert to ellagic acid - the same cellular protector found in raspberries. A number of studies have found that pomegranate protects prostate cells and breast cells from abnormal changes.

Grape Seed Extract (95% Proanthocyanidins) contains a powerful antioxidant called oligomeric proanthocyanidin complex (OPC). Grape seed extract has been found to be one of the richest sources of OPC, and has been shown to prevent heart disease, stop tissue degeneration, improve blood circulation, and increase blood vessel strength, and deter cancer. OPC also helps protect and restore collagen, and keeps skin young and healthy looking.

Green Tea Extract (99% Polyphenols, 80% Catechins, 45% EGCG) is rich in polyphenols including catechins that conduct a number of antioxidant activities, including scavenging of such reactive oxygen species as superoxide, hydroxyl and peroxyl radicals. EGCG appears to have the greatest antioxidant activity of all the green tea catechins, and is 200 times more powerful than vitamin E in neutralizing free radicals. Green tea catechins may have anticarcinogenic, anti-atherosclerotic, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties.

Bilberry Extract (25% Anthocyanin) is best known for its effect on vision. Bilberry not only improves night vision but studies have recently shown that bilberry improves nearsightedness as well as overall vision throughout the day. Beyond maintaining eye health, anthocyanin (the active ingredient in bilberry extract) has other benefits such as strengthening capillaries and veins and alleviating digestive problems.

Pine Bark Extract with Pycnogenol (95% Proanthocyanidins) is an antioxidant that some researchers assert is fifty times more potent as an antioxidant than vitamin E and twenty times more potent than vitamin C. Because it is so powerful, Pine Bark Extract neutralizes free radicals with great speed and effectiveness, thus allowing cells to regenerate quickly. It binds to collagen and helps maintain and restore skin elasticity. It also serves to protect blood vessels and increase circulation.

Raspberry Extract (20% Ellagic Acid) Raspberry's contain a phenolic compound called Ellagic Acid. This polyphenol inhibits the incidence of cancer by binding cancer causing chemicals and making them inactive. Ellagic acid causes apoptosis (cell death) of cancer cells with no change to the normal healthy cells. It also is known to promote the healing and rebuilding of tissues and skin.

Wolfberry Extract (Polysaccharides 40%), also known as Goji berry, has been found to have extremely high levels of immune-stimulating polysaccharides, which nourish large white blood cells in the body. As a result, the cells produce higher levels of interleukin which stimulates the immune system. Polysaccharides also enhance the activity of B lymphocytes that help fight bacterial infections.

AlkaBerry Blend (95% Proanthocyanidins) is made from extracts of blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, pomegranate and strawberries. Blackberries have been shown to inhibit esophageal cancer and tumor formation in the mouth and colon. Blueberries help protect the brain and central nervous system is by causing an increase in serum antioxidant status, which is linked to reduced risk of chronic and degenerative diseases. Cranberries show high antioxidant activity and slow the proliferation of human liver-cancer cells. Pomegranates help keep fatty deposits from collecting on artery walls, and keep heart cells healthier. Strawberries are also thought to protect against age-related neurodegenerative diseases, and to provide benefits to the brain.