IGF-1 Plus

Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) is the ultimate health, muscle and anti-aging factor. IGF-1 is made primarily in the liver in response to Human Growth Hormone (HGH) release. Unfortunately as we age we experience a relative HGH deficiency due to a lowered release from the pituitary resulting in a concomitant loss of IGF-1. The vast number of benefits of IGF-1 centers around muscle development and performance. IGF-1 transports glucose and amino acids into muscle while stimulating muscle DNA. This results in a muscular development in youth and muscle preservation in old age. For the athlete it means peak performance and quick recovery from intense training or injury. Other tissues of the body benefit from IGF-1 because of the affect on DNA and RNA (Ribonucleic Acid and Deoxyribonucleic Acid - are nucleic acids that are an essential part of every living cell). This tends to stimulate a faster production of proteins such as enzymes that help conduct normal metabolism.

One of the most important functions of IGF-1 is the improvement in blood sugar utilization. IGF-1 improves insulin receptor sensitivity. This means insulin has an easier time getting blood sugar into the cells where it can be utilized for energy production. This may improve blood sugar levels in people with abnormally elevated blood sugar. This also has been shown to help preserve muscle tissue in animals that were given Prednisone. Prednisone desensitizes insulin receptor sites, which are overcome by IGF-1.

One of the most exciting discoveries about IGF-1 is its ability to stimulate repair of damaged nerves. In culture tubes containing spinal cord motor neurons, IGF-1 stimulated a 150% to 270% increase in activity. In animal studies IGF-1 repaired and reconnected nerve endings up to a distance of six millimeters. This is astounding when one realizes that severe nerve damage of more than one inch may result in permanent damage. In other animal studies IGF-1 increased intramuscular nerve sprouting tenfold.

IGF-1 also has a profound effect on the heart muscle. In a randomized, double blind human study IGF-1 stimulated a significant increase in strength and efficiency of heart function. These people had severely damaged hearts but still realized an increase in blood volume pumped through the heart. IGF-1 also helps preserve cardiac function in normal, healthy people as well.

For those interested in achieving lean body mass, IGF-1 is the supplement of choice. IGF-1 shifts fuel utilization from carbohydrates (sugar and starch) to fat-stores in the body. Thus, your body will burn more fat regardless of what kind of weight-loss or exercise program you are on. When people try to loose weight they loose muscle as well as fat but with IGF-1 muscle tissue is preserved while fat is preferentially lost.

Additional metabolic benefits of IGF-1 include:

Advanced Delivery System: The MaxLife IGF-1 product uses a patented Lipo Gastric Delivery System which allows faster delivery and greater bioavailability and longer duration of nutrient action. This has a distinct advantage over tablets, capsules and powder products. The Lipo Gastric Delivery System™ (LGDS) uses nano-particles that are delivered into the blood stream more rapidly, where they can be better absorbed and utilized without degradation in the liver as is experienced with other products.

MaxLife’s IGF-1 is derived from cold processed, concentrated Conu parvum velvet antler grown in New Zealand. MaxLife holds the worldwide rights to this unique product and advanced technology along with MaxLife’s Lipo Gastric Delivery System.

There are many variables which affect serum IGF-1 levels such as age, sex, nutritional status and growth hormone secretion. IGF-1 levels and growth hormones are low at birth, increase substantially during childhood and puberty, and then begin to decline during the 2^nd - 3^rd decade of life. This decline continues steadily until the 7^th decade of life.

Culminating over 20 years of development, research, and recent clinical testing, IGF-1 Plus uses a cold processing extraction. When combined with a liposome-based spray, it has a greater potential to permeate all tissues, even the blood brain barrier, as well as becoming a factor in the anti-aging movement. Where anti-aging is concerned, IGF-1 may be considered as a new miracle molecule of the 21^st century

Dosage and Directions

Each 1 oz. bottle of IGF-1 Plus contains 3000 nano-grams of IGF-1.Each spray contains 15 nano-grams of IGF-1 per spray. The average dose is six sprays per day, which may be administered as two sprays three times a day or six sprays in the morning for convenience. Apply the spray under the tongue (sublingually), hold for 20 seconds and then swallow.

 

MaxLife Energy Plus

MaxLife’s Energy Plus product is a unique way to enhance the energy levels of the human body without the utilization of illegal or banned substances such as ephedrine. Athletes, as well as the general public, looking for “an edge” in performance and acquiring lean body mass and alertness can use this product.

The active ingredients in Energy Plus center around the herb Ginkgo Biloba (extract) which increases blood/oxygen circulation in the brain and is a powerful free radical scavenger. Another herb, Piperine, increases the bioavailability and assists with absorption of various nutrient compounds. White Willow Bark enhances thermogenesis and also has been used as a weight-loss aid. 5-HTP is a precursor for serotonin production which supports food satiety, sleep and mood control. Nutrients that are critical for energy production, tissue oxygenation, neurotransmitter production and carbohydrate metabolism include Vitamins B2 and B6.

More unique compounds include Octopamine, which increases the metabolic rate increasing fat burning. Macuna Pruriens increases lean muscle mass, decreases body fat and enhances mental and physical performance. By combining the elements that stimulate energy production, utilization and metabolic efficiency, Energy Plus becomes a unique state-of-the-art nutritional supplement. Other active ingredients include, Caffeine, Guarana (22% extract) and Green Tea Concentrate, which are all well-known energy-producing substances. These stimulants raise both the metabolic rate and energy levels quickly. Caffeine not only increases energy but also enhances mental activity as well as the speed of mental processing.

Another ingredient of Energy Plus, NADH is an active co-enzyme of Vitamin B3 which is vital for the production of the energy molecule itself, ATP. Cofactors that affect energy production in the long run include D, L-Phenylalanine, one of 20 essential amino acids, which act as a precursor for the neurotransmitters, dopamine and epinephrine. Also, the amino acid L-Tyrosine is vital for normal thyroid function, which helps insure proper metabolic consumption of calories. Dimethylglycine improves oxygen utilization and optimizes exercise performance. MaxLife also adds its own proprietary blend along with MaxLife’s Lipo Gastric Delivery System to enhance the performance of their Energy Plus product.

MaxLife holds the worldwide rights to this unique proprietary blend of revolutionary high-performance energy supplement.

 

MaxLife Weight Loss

Perhaps the most unique feature of MaxLife’s Weight Loss Formula Plus is the Glycomacropeptide (GMP) that stimulates the release of Cholecystokinin (CCK). CCK is a naturally occurring neurohormone released in the small intestine during food consumption. CCK sends a signal to the brain that the stomach is “full” even if it is not. This “full feeling” reduces the chances of consuming excess food, thereby reducing calorie consumption. This is an extremely important phenomenon because, in order to control your weight and keep it off, you must first control your appetite. In addition the protein, rich in branched-chain amino acids, slows gastric emptying and stimulates pancreatic exocrine secretion. When taken 30 minutes before a meal it helps to reduce calorie intake and improve digestion.

Other active ingredients in Weight Loss Formula Plus center around the herb Ginkgo Biloba (extract) which increases blood/oxygen circulation in the brain and is a powerful free radical scavenger. Another herb, Piperine, increases the bioavailability and assists with absorption of various nutrient compounds. White Willow Bark enhances thermogenesis and also has been used as a weight-loss aid. 5-HTP is a precursor for serotonin production which supports food satiety, sleep and mood control. Nutrients that are critical for energy production, tissue oxygenation, neurotransmitter production and carbohydrate metabolism include Vitamins B2 and B6.

More unique compounds include Octopamine, which increases the metabolic rate increasing fat burning. Macuna Pruriens increases lean muscle mass, decreases body fat and enhances mental and physical performance. By combining the elements that stimulate energy production, utilization and metabolic efficiency, Weight Loss Formula Plus becomes a unique state-of-the-art nutritional supplement. Other active ingredients include, Caffeine, Guarana (22% extract) and Green Tea Concentrate, which are all well-known energy-producing substances. These stimulants raise both the metabolic rate and energy levels quickly. Caffeine not only increases energy but also enhances mental activity as well as the speed of mental processing.

Another ingredient of Weight Loss Formula Plus, NADH is an active co-enzyme of Vitamin B3 which is vital for the production of the energy molecule itself, ATP. Cofactors that affect energy production in the long run include D, L-Phenylalanine, one of 20 essential amino acids, which act as a precursor for the neurotransmitters, dopamine and epinephrine. Also, the amino acid L-Tyrosine is vital for normal thyroid function, which helps insure proper metabolic consumption of calories. Dimethylglycine improves oxygen utilization and optimizes exercise performance. MaxLife also adds its own proprietary blend along with MaxLife’s Lipo Gastric Delivery System to enhance the performance of their Weight Loss Formula Plus product.

By combining the elements that stimulate energy production, utilization and metabolic efficiency along with an appetite control system, Weight Loss Formula Plus becomes the ideal weight-loss aid for everyone.

MaxLife holds the worldwide rights to Weight Loss Formula Plus and this unique proprietary blend of revolutionary weight-loss technology.

 

MaxLife Sleep Miracle

If you are serious about getting a restful night’s sleep and want to wake up feeling refreshed and alive, then consider this: The Sleep Miracle formula is an all natural proprietary combination of Passiflora incarnata, Valeriana Officinalis, Melatonin (the hormone of sleep), and IGF-1 Plus. Now you can be confident of getting a healthful, restful, drug-free, peaceful night’s sleep. Now the hormone of sleep, Melatonin, has been combined with Valerian and Passionflower. New research is demonstrating that the pineal gland hormone known as Melatonin can alleviate most sleep disorders, certain kinds of menstrual problems, as well as depression, migraine headaches, and certain types of cancer, including breast and prostate cancer.

Scientists have now confirmed that Melatonin is a potent releaser of the youth hormone known as growth hormone and may be able to extend longevity. Melatonin has just recently been shown to be a powerful antioxidant - even more powerful than Vitamin C or E, which in turn may play a major role in protecting us from heart disease. Since ancient Greek times, Valerian Root has been valued as an antispasmodic and a sleep aid. The first known records of Valerian Root reported its use in the treatment of epilepsy. Today, valerian is widely used throughout Europe as a mild sedative and sleep aid for insomnia, and as a balancing agent for hyper-excitability and exhaustion, calming the one and stimulating the other.

 

MaxLife Pure Cardio

About PureCardio
PureCardio was designed and developed by a cardiologist who was concerned about the reactions some of his patients had to prescription drugs and or who hated taking them. Intensive study of natural ingredients led him to the conviction that you can lower your cholesterol naturally, that you can deal with good cholesterol and triglycerides to lead a normal, healthy life by ensuring your body has access to the right balance of vitamins and natural ingredient.

 

Developed from a Doctor’s Experience with Heart Disease
After treating patients with serious heart disease for years and looking at better ways to take care of them, Eric Stocker, MD saw again and again the importance of a properly balanced diet, of keeping clear arteries and maintaining a lifestyle that will enable you to live healthier and longer, able to enjoy every stage of your life. He found many of his patients had cholesterol plaque build-up in their arteries from a relatively young age, long before they ever started thinking about it.Cardiovascular disease begins in childhood. As babies we already have a ‘fatty streak’ in our aortas that represents the first sign of plaque formation in our arteries. Studies show that plaque covers 10-30 percent of the surface area of aortas in all 15-year-olds, growing to 20-50 percent. Even more frightening, this plaque is present in the heart arteries of 75 percent of men and women by the age of 35. *

Add to that the highly scheduled life many Americans live, as they cope with work, family and other demands on their time. Eating right tends to fall to the bottom of the priority list. Eating on the run, fast food and typical vending machine snacks get in the way of healthy living. Not good, but a fact. It makes sense to start thinking ‘prevention’ at a much younger age.

By helping you get the right balance of nutrients into your body, PureCardio offers a solution that enhances rather than competes with prescription medication, so it can often be an option to be used at your own doctor’s discretion. Talk with your doctor about it. It may be the answer you’ve been looking for.

Here, on our Web site you can learn how and why blockages form and what each component of our PureCardio formula is designed to do. We’ll also introduce you to a more important way of looking at your cholesterol that Dr. Stocker calls The Cholesterol Truth, an advanced test you can get easily and that goes way beyond the information a standard cholesterol test provides. * Thomas Yannios, MD, The Heart Disease Breakthrough, John Wiley & Sons, 1999

What is PureCardio?
Believing that balanced diet is all-important for heart health, Eric Stocker, MD, spent years examining the many dietary supplements on the market, concluding that many of them lack certain critical components, and that others contain forms and doses of nutrients that don’t work and may even be harmful.

In developing PureCardio, his goal was to make sure that each individual component of his product was designed to impact the various culprits in the plaque-building process – in the cholesterol, or the inflammatory or clot-forming pathways.

Would you benefit from PureCardio? Quite frankly, we believe most people would benefit from our daily supplement pack. The reason is simple – other products on the market focus solely on lowering LDL (bad cholesterol), which is only one part of the story. PureCardio’s components actively work to raise HDL (good cholesterol) and also fight to decrease the inflammatory pathways and reduce triglycerides. PureCardio offers more than cholesterol benefits. Its components have been shown to be beneficial for many disease conditions, including arthritis, cancer, skin disease, and even depression.

PureCardio Formula
PureCardio is the result of extensive research into natural ingredients found to be beneficial for humans. They actively work to reduce the inflammatory condition in our blood that increases the danger of heart disease.

Below are some of the elements in PureCardio that will help you be healthy and stay healthy.

Plant Sterols (phytosterols):
Plant sterols (there are more than 40), such as beta-sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, brassicasterol, and sitostanol, lower cholesterol by reducing the rate of intestinal absorption of it. They have been shown by themselves to reduce bad cholesterol levels by 5 – 15 percent.*
However, many people who take medication to block cholesterol formation in the liver (like policosanol or statin drugs, such as Lipitor) respond by absorbing more cholesterol from their intestine. So, in combination with policosanol, there may very well be a synergistic benefit to using either alone. The evidence is so convincing that, in September, 2000, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) authorized use of the health claim that plant sterol or stanol esters may help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
* American Journal of Cardiology, July 4, 2005

Policosanol:
An orally active sugar cane mixture of octacosanol within other heavy alcohols has documented ‘bad’ cholesterol lowering, ‘good’ cholesterol raising and blood-thinning effects. It works by several mechanisms, one of which blocks the formation of cholesterol in the liver. It has been shown to inhibit the progression of plaque formation in arteries. Numerous randomized, double-blind studies comparing policosanol to placebo and comparative trials with well known prescription drugs have shown it to be one of the very best ways to lower cholesterol levels without causing muscle and liver side effects that prescription drugs are known to do. It is effective within six to eight weeks, afer which we expect to see a 25-30 decrease in bad cholesterol (LDL), and up to a 15-20 percent increase in good cholesterol (HDL), as well as a 10-15 percent reduction in triglyceride levels.*

Be aware that it is the sugar cane-derived form (rather than yams or beeswax) that’s important – this is the form used in all the research studies from Cuba, which account for the majority of data on policosanol. The only known side effect is weight loss. After reviewing more than 60 clinical trials involving more than 3000 patients, authors of a 2002 analysis in the American Heart Journal concluded that policosanol is “a very promising phytochemical alternative to classic lipid-lowering agents, such as statins.”
* International Journal of Clinical Pharmacological Research, 2001

Inositol Hexanicotinate:
Inositol Hexanicotinate is the only effective ‘no-flush’ form of niacin that does not adversely affect the liver. It is a niacin ester complex consisting of six niacin molecules linked to a B vitamin-like factor, inositol, which has been shown to be more effective than conventional niacin alone without the troublesome side effects. Niacin is considered by many cardiologists to be the ‘Magic Bullet’ for treating the predominant risk factors for cardiovascular disease and is inexplicably absent in many other dietary supplement products for heart disease prevention. Niacin is the most reliable substance for raising good cholesterol (HDL).
Niacin also lowers triglyceride levels, inhibits the liver’s ability to synthesize cholesterol, makes bad cholesterol particles (LDL) larger and less aggressive and promotes their breakdown and excretion. It also suppresses the mobilization of triglycerides from fat that goes to the liver to make more cholesterol. * ** ***
Niacin also has the additional ability to lower inflammation in the blood (CRP) and is one of the few effective ways of lowering another, less well-known, malignant LDL-like particle called Lp(a), referred to on this site under The Bad Guys. Evidence also exists to prove that inositol hexanictotinate lengthens the time it takes for people with blocked arteries to experience pain in their legs when they walk (claudication).
* Archives of Internal Medicine, April 2004
** Journal of the American Medical Association, March 1994
*** Metabolism, July 1985

Fish Oil (omega-3 fatty acids---EPA and DHA):
Fish oil is recommended by the American Heart Association based on favorable data from randomized clinical trials. EPA and DHA are found in fish and phytoplankton.
Beneficial cardiovascular effects include lowering of triglyceride and Lp(a) (a malignant LDL-like particle) and raising of HDL (good) cholesterol, as well as anti-flammatory (lowers CRP) and blood thinning effects (decreases fibrinogen levels).Research has also shown that omega-3 fatty acids reduce cardiovascular disease risk by decreasing the risk of fatal heart rhythm abnormalities, decreasing the growth rate of cholesterol plaque in arteries, and lowering blood pressure.
It’s also found to be beneficial for the musculoskeletal, immune (including cancer prevention) and gastrointestinal systems, as well for the skin, certain lung and psychiatric disorders, and insulin resistance and blood pressure.
It’s important to note that low lipid peroxidation and contaminant levels (mercury, dioxin, PCBs) are a prerequisite to the use of fish oil supplementation for efficacy and safety reasons, and many dietary supplements fail in this category. PureCardio contains the highest quality fish oil on the market today.

B-Complex Vitamins: B-complex vitamins are a group of eight individual vitamins essential for the breakdown of fats and proteins and for providing energy for the body by helping with the breakdown of carbohydrates into glucose:

*Vitamin B1 or thiamine
*Vitamin B2 or riboflavin
*Vitamin B3 or niacin
*Vitamin B5 or pantothenic acid*Vitamin B6 or pyridoxine
*Vitamin B7 or biotin
*Vitamin B9 or folic acid
*Vitamin B12 or cyanocobalamin

They also help maintain healthy skin and muscle tone, enhance immune and nervous system function, and promote cell growth and division. It is widely felt they should be taken as a group rather than individually to optimize their absorption and bioavailability. PureCardio contains a high dose of Vitamin B3 for its cholesterol and triglyceride modifying and anti-inflammatory benefits. For optimal utilization of these vitamins, the entire complex of B vitamins is included in our formula, including a mixture of ‘activated’ forms that further enhance their bioavailability.

Three B vitamins (Vitamin B6, folic acid and Vitamin B12) have received much attention in cardiovascular medicine for their effect on lowering blood levels of a toxic breakdown product of amino acid metabolism called homocysteine, which aggravates almost all the mechanisms involved in hardening of the arteries (The Bad Guys).
Until recently, they have been shown in the setting of cardiovascular disease to decrease the rate of stroke, heart attack, death, heart bypass surgery and recurrent blockage of a heart artery after opening it with a balloon or stent (metal scaffold). They have also been shown to improve blood flow in smaller arteries and reverse plaque build-up in the carotid arteries in the neck. Blockage in these arteries is what leads to stroke.

 

However, the recent European NORVIT trial showed that high doses of these B vitamins given to heart attack survivors were actually associated with a higher incidence of heart attack or stroke. The trial did not address people who are trying to prevent their first heart attack. Until future trials can prove otherwise, the general belief is that high doses of folic acid (800 mcg or more) and Vitamin B6 (40 mg or more) in combination should be avoided. This is the reason PureCardio contains less folic acid and Vitamin B6 than what was used in this trial, doses still considered by many to be safe and beneficial.