ABSORPTION AND UTILIZATION

Have you ever wondered why some people get fantastic results using the professional quality Vitality-Lifechoice products and others only seem to get minimal results? Both people use the product according to the directions, so why does one get great results and the other minimal results?

The answer may be simpler than you think. You have heard us tell you time and time again about the importance of absorption and utilization. Simply put, without good absorption and utilization, all the best nutritional products in the world are useless to you.

To understand it all, let's take a quick look at what your body must do every time you eat.

1. Digestion and Your Stomach, Where Good Health Starts!

When you eat food or swallow your supplements, they first move down into your stomach, where a normal and healthy stomach will have plenty of enzymes present to start breaking down your food into:

1.) Proteins that become amino acids which are used by your body to manufacture enzymes, hormones, neurotransmitters muscle, connective tissue, and other protein structures.

2.) Stomach enzymes also separate the fats and oils from your food,

3.) Stomach enzymes also separate the minerals from your food,

4.) Stomach enzymes also help you to obtain many of the vitamins from your foods and supplements.

As you can see, a lack of adequate stomach enzymes can cause all kinds of health problems. Common symptoms of inadequate stomach enzymes can be heartburn, indigestion, gas, bloating, chronic infections and a whole host of serious health problems. If you lack adequate stomach digestion, and more people are lacking these important enzymes than they realize due to overprocessed foods and poor diets, consider using Prima -Gest on a regular basis. Prima Gest is a well balanced enzyme formula that is formulated to match what should be found in a normal and healthy stomach. Use Prima -Gest and say good bye to heartburn, indigestion and many other problems!

2. Digestion and the Pancreatic Enzymes- The Final Breakdown

After your stomach has done its job of separating your foods and supplements, the material is moved down into your intestines where the process of digesting -or breaking down your food is supposed to be completed.

Food in your intestines is digested by a whole new set of enzymes that are produced by your pancreas. A lack of pancreatic enzymes, which by the way are completely different from the stomach enzymes can lead to even more health complications like intestinal bacteria that ferment your food rather than digest it causing gas and bloating. Furthermore these undigested foods can create a very favorable environment for intestinal yeast problems such as Candida to grow.

Other serious problems due to a lack of these pancreatic enzymes can manifest themselves as food allergies due to the fact that food particles are not being broken down small enough in size, so they are entering your blood stream and causing allergic reactions as your immune system attacks them. If you are lacking pancreatic enzymes consider using Panzymes. Panzymes are a well balanced blend of all the enzymes that should be found in a normal and healthy intestinal area.

Up to this point both the stomach enzymes and the pancreatic enzymes of the intestines are used to break down and separate all the beneficial nutrients of your food. If they both do their job correctly, you will now have all kinds of beneficial nutrients in your intestines ready to be absorbed and utilized by your body.

3. Intestines and the Colon- the Source of Absorption !

The last part of the process involves your intestines and your colon. Here is where your intestines and colon actually absorb the nutrients into your system that were previously digested from your food in the stomach and intestines. You need to have the right bacteria present to allow for absorption. These bacteria are called friendly bacteria because, as you may have guessed already, there are plenty of unfriendly bacteria as well. A healthy intestine and colon will absorb these nutrients and in turn you will benefit.

Two Similar Opposites? - Antibiotics and Probiotics

Many people are familiar with antibiotics. Antibiotics meaning -Against Life, are frequently prescribed for all sorts of infections and problems like ear infections, sore throats, high fever etc. Antibiotics work on the principal that they are designed to kill the invading unfriendly organism that is causing the health problem. Unfortunately antibiotics are not selective and they kill unfriendly as well as the friendly bacteria. To make matters worse, due to overuse of antibiotics many of these unfriendly organisms become resistant to the antibiotics and some even feed from the antibiotics.

Probiotics meaning-For Life, is based upon the premise that lactic producing flora (friendly bacteria) could ingest and excrete pathological intestinal bacteria. In other words, these lactic producing flora (friendly bacteria) can actually eat and eliminate the unfriendly bacteria, and all the while creating a healthy intestinal environment for maximum absorption.

Lactobacilli (friendly bacteria) are normally found in a healthy gut where they inhibit and prevent dangerous unfriendly organisms from taking over. Unfriendly, dangerous and DEADLY organisms like Salmonella, Listeria, Clostridium perfringens, Entercocci, Bacteroides, Staphylococci, Campylobacter ..and too many others to list!

Worse yet is the tremendous damage that these unfriendly organisms can do if left uncontrolled. Intestinal pathology symptoms like, diarrhea, chronic infections, liver damage, carcinogenesis, intestinal putrefaction, anti-biotic associated colitis, inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Chron's disease, Colerectal cancers and many more.

When the beneficial or friendly bacteria are low and the highly pathogenic-unfriendly organisms are allowed to proliferate, look out- because many serious diseases and health problems are associated with this scenario.

Diseases like Graves disease, Lupus, Dermatomyositis, Psoriasis, Pancreatitis, Breast cancer, Candida albican(yeast infections), Vaginitis, Urinary tract infections, Cirrhosis of the liver, Acne, Constipation, Food poisoning, Ear infections, Irritable bowel syndrome... all of these and many other diseases may well be the result of these dangerous bacteria being allowed to multiply due to inadequate levels of the good bacteria to control them.

Since Lactobacilli ingest unfriendly organisms and then excrete them through fecal material, you can see that unless they are able to multiply in your gut, you will quickly run out of these friendly bacteria. Lactobacilli does in fact multiply in your gut but only under the right conditions.

Lactobacillus Food- Inulin- "The Right Stuff! "

In order for lactobacillus to thrive, you need to feed them. What they need is Inulin, an all natural fructooligopolysaccharide-(FOS) derived from chicory roots. Scientific research in fact shows that Inulin actually allows the friendly bacteria to increase at a staggering rate of 5 to 10 times in actual number with corresponding decreases in the actual number of pathogenic and putrefactive bacteria! Inulin not only gives the lactobacillus what they need to thrive, but it also gives you additional health benefits !

Health Benefits of Inulin

¨ Helps to promote increased carbohydrate metabolism

¨ Helps to promote increased fat metabolism

¨ Helps to suppress the appetite

¨ Is an additional source of soluble dietary fiber

¨ Helps to enhance the absorption of Calcium, Magnesium, Copper, Zinc and Iron electrolytes

¨ Does not increase the blood sugar levels or insulin levels

¨ Is slowly metabolized which helps to prevent a hypoglycemic state

How Inulin Promotes the Healthy Reproduction of Lactobacillus

Extensive research has shown that Inulin molecules are not digested by the stomach or the small intestine and arrive unchanged in the colon. There they serve as food for the friendly bacteria-Lactobacillus to grow and proliferate. When this happens, you really start to gain enormous health benefits and here is why.

When these friendly bacteria start to increase and proliferate, they produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFA's) and lactic acid that lowers your intestinal pH, making your intestinal environment unsuitable for unfriendly bacteria. Since the intestinal environment is now unsuitable for the unfriendly bacteria to survive, soon the friendly bacteria-Lactobacillus thrive and replace the unfriendly bacteria. The result is dramatically improved absorption and increased health benefits!

A New Stabilized High Potency Lactobacillus

Science has always known of the tremendous health benefits of lactobacillus. The problem however was that up until recently, lactobacillus had to be very carefully protected to prevent the organisms from dying before you could ingest them. This meant refrigeration of the product and very, very short shelf lives.

What this meant was that by the time the customer actually received the lactobacillus product it probably had a greatly reduced live and active organism count, and then whatever live organisms were left had to survive the stomach acid and make it to the colon where they needed Inulin to survive and reproduce. The odds were against you ever receiving any real benefits from lactobacillus supplementation. Vitality-Lifechoice has always known of the tremendous health benefits but never released such a product due to shelf life concerns. That is up until now!

A Major breakthrough in Stabilization!

Vitality-Lifechoice is pleased to announce the arrival of our new stabilized Lactobacillus and Inulin product- Healthy-Flora! We are excited about this product! Finally a lactobacillus product that doesn't require refrigeration and best of all comes to you with a guaranteed potency of 4 billion live organisms per gram, even after 1 year of storage! That was unheard of prior to Healthy-Flora!

Other lactobacillus products can't come close to the guaranteed potency of Healthy-Flora. With Healthy-Flora, not only do you get guaranteed potency(even after 1 full year of storage)and the tremendous health benefits of Inulin, but you also get a high potency Lactobacillus product that survives the stomach acids extremely well which means you get highly potent living Lactobacillus down into the colon where you can really reap the benefits!

Each convenient Healthy-Flora capsule gives you 240 mg. of stabilized Lactobacillus (4 billion live organisms per gram) and an additional 240 mg. of Inulin ! If it is absorption and results that you want ….Get Healthy-Flora today!

UNFRIENDLY,DANGEROUS andDEADLY Scientists now associate these serious health problems and many others with Low amounts of Lactobaccilli, and high amounts of Pathogenic Bacteria.

¨ Graves disease ¨ Lupus ¨ Dermatomyositis ¨ Psoriasis ¨ Pancreatitis ¨ Candida albicans ¨ Colerectal cancer ¨ Irritable bowel ¨ Colitis

¨ Vaginitis ¨ Cirrhosis of the Liver ¨ Acne ¨ Constipation ¨ Ear infections ¨ Food Poisoning ¨ Chron's disease ¨ Urinary tract infections

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Suggested Use: For normal health maintenace 2 or 3 capsules twice a day on an empthy stomach. Increase doseage as required for those who have serious health concerns or have gone thorugh antibiotic therapies recently, or use as directed by your physician.

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