Monday, May 25, 2009

Questions on VIVIX?



Q: Everyone seems to have a resveratrol product nowadays. Why is Vivix better than all those resveratrol products onthe market?
A: The answer to that has several parts.


First of all, there's Vivix… and then there are many other products claiming to help. And Vivix is different from other resveratrol products on the market, in that the resveratrol in Shaklee’s Vivix is a higher potency, higher purity preparation than other resveratrol products.

The amounts of resveratrol one needs to obtain a substantial beneficial effect are a significant magnitude greater than anyone ever expected. One or two glasses of red wine per day really won’t do the trick. And many of the older resveratrol products on the market just aren’t potent enough to be of any significant benefit. For those resveratrol products that are potent, many aren’t pure enough.

Unless the resveratrol preparation is 99% pure or better, many people will find that the side effects outweigh beneficial effects. [There's a naturally occurring contaminant in impure resveratrol preparations that has a laxative effect.] But the most important reason to choose VIVIX, is that scientists have learned that just taking resveratrol alone is not enough.

It is just one of many naturally occurring polyphenols, which is why Shaklee added a polyphenol blend from muscadine grapes to their purified resveratrol. Shaklee’s polyphenol blend is high in ellagic acid, which is not found in significant amounts in red wine or most resveratrol preparations. Ellagic acid inhibits an enzyme that is involved in the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEproteins), one of the central four mechanisms of cellular aging.

Resveratrol alone has no effect on this enzyme, but does block the other three key mechanisms of cellular aging. Animal studies suggest that ellagic acid shines in preventing gastrointestinal cancers, while resveratrol and other components of the polyphenol blend that Shaklee uses prevent a variety of other tumors.
By adding a polyphenol blend containing ellagic acid and other protective polyphenols from the muscadine grape to their ultrapure, ultrapotent resveratrol, VIVIX has a synergistic combination of protective polyphenols that is far more protective than any one of them alone.
The bottom line is that Shaklee has developed a product that is clearly superior to either resveratrol alone, or a muscadine polyphenol blend without ellagic acid.
Blessings, Linda

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