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.