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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, I will be right back. For twenty five years, Invite Health has been leading the way in wellness with our extensive line of dietary supplements. With our brand new, state of the art website, we now offer new everyday low prices. Save even more with our brand new subscription plan. Stay tuned
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can have a chat with one of our nutritional experts. That is a free service, by the way, and that's I think what makes us incredibly unique. 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 do need to squeeze in a quick break, so stick around with me.
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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 our available Nutritionness and you can also go to our website, invitehealth dot com 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. I do need to squeeze in a quick break, so stick around with me. I will be right back just after this. It is cold and flu
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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
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