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We all know the importance of greens in our daily diet. But getting the right amount through what we eat alone can be somewhat of a challenge. Despite constant ongoing research and awareness, the average American still only consumes 1-2 servings of vegetables daily, which leaves them way behind the current dietary recommendations of 5-9 daily servings. One way to catch up is with superfood blends!
According to Claudia Guy, ND, phytonutrients are often disguised, healthy pigments that span the colors of the rainbow. “Though these healthy pigments translate into nutrients, there are certain foods that contain far more nutrients than our everyday foods. We call these superfoods. Superfoods are nature-packed nuggets of antioxidants and detoxifiers. These super-packed fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices are found all around the world, but the good news is that you don’t have to travel to get them!”
InVite® Health has found a way to preserve these boluses of super nutrients without the sugars and carbohydrates. Gathering and cultivating these non-GMO superfoods is done with utmost scrutiny and inspection for purity and potency. We have created unique superfood blends, each with a great taste and unique purpose. Greens Hx®, for example, is the perfect blend of essential vitamins, nutrients and antioxidants required by the body to maintain healthy energy levels and support healthy digestion.
Greens Hx® is a fantastic way to get your daily recommended dose and can be served several different ways. This food-based dietary supplement powder provides high density nutrition with plant extracts from 39 super foods including sea and land-based vegetables, as well as high density nutritious herbs, spices, royal jelly, apple pectin, plant enzymes and non-dairy probiotics. One scoop offers micronutrients and antioxidant levels to supplement missing servings of vegetables. Greenx Hx® can be taken as a dietary supplement for nutritional maintenance of healthy immune function and regular bowel elimination. If there is a shortcut to vegetable consumption, this is it! Greens Hx® provides 3g of fiber per serving as well.
This superfood powder also contains 1.2 billion non-diary Probiotic cultures. Probiotics are the “good” bacteria in your digestive tract. They are the key to healthy digestion, regularity and overall health. Naturally present in the body, bacteria accounts for two pounds of bio-mass in the intestines; this bactera needs to be “good” bacteria, rather than harmful, unhealthy bacteria that lends to a variety of problems for your body. Levels of probiotics decrease as we age, but can also be lowered by factors like a poor diet and obesity. As the level of probiotics in our bodies decrease, problematic bacteria in the gut thrive. Unhealthy levels of bacteria can cause issues with digestion like gas, bloating, constipation and your skin like acne, rosacea and eczema.
Greens Hx® is the perfect supplement to maintain an adequate supply of the nutrition normally available through your diet, offering nutritional maintenance for a healthy immune system and digestive system.
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The Standard American Diet (SAD) is known to be high in carbohydrates. But the rate at which our bodies convert those carbs into sugar is very high. That’s where Benfotiamine comes in!
Think about going to a backyard barbecue and seeing those beautiful grill marks on the chicken, steak, cob of corn, or green peppers. This crispy, blackened appearance is from a reaction – but not a good one! This type of alteration to the food is known as the ‘Maillard reaction’, which creates harmful AGE’s.[i]
The creation of Advanced Glycation End Products, or AGE’s as they are more commonly known, are harmful to your health. Their formation is part of normal metabolism processes, however, if excessively high levels are reached in tissues and circulation (and many times this is the case due to our modern, largely heat-processed diets), they can become dangerous. These AGE’s have been linked to the development and exacerbation of many common chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, cognitive impairment, and kidney disease.[ii] AGE’s can affect the following systems; cardiovascular, nervous, urinary, endocrine and ocular. What makes AGE’s so harmful is their ability to deactivate key enzymes, damage the DNA of the cell, create oxidative stress, disrupt cell signal pathways, and drive up inflammation throughout the body.[iii]
The SAD diet, or the Standard American Diet is known to be high in carbohydrates. The rate at which our bodies can convert carbohydrates into glucose from the SAD diet is very high, creating a high demand of Thiamine (Vitamin B1). Our body utilizes Thiamine to prevent advanced glycation end products from doing significant damage.
The main problem with Thiamine is that it is quickly depleted by glucose. Also, being that it is a water-soluble vitamin, Thiamine cannot easily cross into cell lipid membranes. This is where a highly unique lipid form of Thiamine, called Benfotiamine comes into the picture.
Benfotiamine can significantly increase the uptake of Thiamine into the cells by up to 40% in the liver, heart, brain, and muscles, thereby reducing the formation of harmful AGE’s. [iv] With Benfotiamine, we can positively affect the way the body handles excess glucose. There are many ways that Benfotiamine is the superior form of Vitamin B1.
The many studies that have assessed the impact that Benfotiamine can have on human health are extensive. For example, a study in England at The University of Essex, showed that Benfotiamine had a protective role in the kidney function of diabetics.[ix] As their research indicated, diabetic nephropathy is a severe complication of the disease, and Benfotiamine had the following effects:
Benfotiamine has been shown to be so beneficial that The Burke Medical Research Institute in conjunction with the National Institute of Aging, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, and Columbia University are conducting a clinical trial to determine if Benfotiamine can minimize cognitive decline in older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild Alzheimer’s disease.[x]
Based on the scientific research and documented evidence of the benefits of Benfotiamine, it is inconceivable not to recognize its significance in promoting multiple health benefits. Whether you are suffering with nerve pain, lowered kidney function, arterial disease, cataracts, insulin resistance or declining memory, Benfotiamine is a wonderful option to consider. Benfotiamine is a highly absorbable form of B1 that supports the mind and body.
References
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[ii] Uribarri J, Cai W, Sandu O, Peppa M, Goldberg T, Vlassara H. Diet-derived advanced glycation end products are major contributors to the body’s AGE pool and induce inflammation in healthy subjects. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Jun;1043:461-6.
[iii] Vasdev S, Gill V, Singal P. Role of advanced glycation end products in hypertension and atherosclerosis: therapeutic implications. Cell Biochem Biophys. 2007;49(1):48-63
[iv] Bitsch R, Wolf M, Moller J, Heuzeroth L, Gruneklee D. Bioavailability assessment of the lipophilic benfotiamine as compared to a water-soluble thiamin derivative. Ann Nutr Metab. 1991;35(5):292-6
[v] Hammes HP, Du X, Edelstein D, et al. Benfotiamine blocks three major pathways of hyperglycemic damage and prevents experimental diabetic retinopathy. Nat Med. 2003 Mar;9(3):294-9
[vi] Hammes HP, Du X, Edelstein D, et al. Benfotiamine blocks three major pathways of hyperglycemic damage and prevents experimental diabetic retinopathy. Nat Med. 2003 Mar;9(3):294-9
[vii] Pan X, Gong N, Zhao J, et al. Powerful beneficial effects of benfotiamine on cognitive impairment and beta-amyloid deposition in amyloid precursor protein/presenilin-1 transgenic mice. Brain. 2010 May;133(Pt 5):1342-51
[viii] Stirban A, Negrean M, Stratmann B, et al. Benfotiamine prevents macro- and microvascular endothelial dysfunction and oxidative stress following a meal rich in advanced glycation end products in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2006 Sep;29(9):2064-71
[ix] Babaei-Jadidi R, Karachalias N, Ahmed N, Battah S, Thornalley PJ. Prevention of incipient diabetic nephropathy by high-dose thiamine and benfotiamine. Diabetes. 2003 Aug;52(8):2110-20
[x] https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/clinical-trials/benfotiamine-alzheimers-disease