Obesity has been classified as a global epidemic by the World Health Organization with over one billion people worldwide being overweight, 300 million of them obese. There are a number of complications associated with [...]]]>

“Healthy Curb is the most effective stimulant free product we have seen for decreasing sugar cravings.”        -John Casey, CEO Nutritional Therapeutics, Inc.

Obesity has been classified as a global epidemic by the World Health Organization with over one billion people worldwide being overweight, 300 million of them obese. There are a number of complications associated with being overweight, including; cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, hypertension, insulin resistance and a variety of other chronic illnesses and conditions.

Healthy Curb with NT Factor is a unique herb and stimulant free formulation containing White Kidney Bean Extract that:

• Gently curbs your appetite

• Decreases cravings for sugar and carbohydrates

• Provides energy needed for diet and exercise regiments

Healthy Curb® is a safe product made entirely from food and food extracts that can kick start your weight loss. Just take two Healthy Curb® tablets 20 minutes before each meal and notice a decrease in appetite.
Excess accumulation of body fat is caused by a chronic imbalance between food consumption and energy expenditure and can cause oxidative stress that damages our cells and mitochondria, limiting our body’s ability to produce energy necessary to sustain it’s overall health and function. NT Factor is a unique phospholipid formula used for Lipid Replacement Therapy to restore optimal function to our cells and mitochondria. NT Factor has over 15 years of proven research that show its overall effectiveness for restoring efficient energy production and transer. The combination of NT Factor and White Kidney Bean extract found in NTI’s Healthy Curb is the key to your lifestyle change.

White Kidney Bean Extract, also known as phaseolus vulgaris, is the only FDA approved nutrient to specify weight loss.

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Metabolic Syndrome affects 22% of the population and is associated with other disturbances of glucose and lipid metabolism, such as; Type 2 Diabetes, Vascular Inflammation, Arthrosclerosis as well as fatiguing illnesses that create excess oxidative stress. Oxidative damage results in a decrease in efficiency of the mitochondria’s ability to produce energy and the cell membranes [...]]]>

Metabolic Syndrome affects 22% of the population and is associated with other disturbances of glucose and lipid metabolism, such as; Type 2 Diabetes, Vascular Inflammation, Arthrosclerosis as well as fatiguing illnesses that create excess oxidative stress. Oxidative damage results in a decrease in efficiency of the mitochondria’s ability to produce energy and the cell membranes ability to protect energy creation and transfer, causing fatigue, damaging our DNA and furthering the progress of degenerative diseases. Major risk factors of MS include; abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, lipid dysfunction and high blood pressure. When insulin levels in your body are not sufficient to monitor glucose and amino acid concentration, insulin resistance occurs. Insulin resistance is the primary cause of MS and its associated diseases. The ability to metabolize fats is diminished if insulin levels are insufficient causing glycerol and free fatty acids can accumulate in tissues.

Mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to insulin resistance, which results in a reduction of glucose utilization causing cell dysfunction. Cell dysfunction reduces electron transport chain activity and energy production and increases free radical levels resulting in further cell membrane damage and fatigue. When mitochondria function at optimal levels the amount of oxidative molecules produced as a by-product of energy production are neutralized by naturally occurring intracellular antioxidants. Unfortunately, in Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes, excess free radicals are produced in excess of antioxidants, and damage is caused to our cells and mitochondria by lipid peroxides produced when free radicals attack fatty acids. Fatty acids are especially susceptible to free radicals, those who are obese, insulin resistant and pre-diabetic have higher concentrations of fatty acids resulting in progressive damage to their cells even before they are diagnosed with a glucose related disease.

Fatigue is a common condition in those diagnosed with MS, Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease and is related to the decreased efficiency of mitochondrial energy production caused by oxidative damage. Mitochondria can also be affected by disease, infection and the natural progression of aging that all create excess oxidative damage that exceed our body’s natural ability to neutralize. The degradation of cell and mitochondrial membranes causes premature aging that manifests physically as fatigue. Preventing damage to cellular and mitochondrial membranes is important to maintaining energy production, electron transport activity and energy transfer.

Arthrosclerosis is thought to begin with abnormalities in lipoprotein subclasses which are highly susceptible to oxidation, and involves chronic inflammatory damage to blood vessels due to lipid accumulation, inflammatory response, vessel cell death and thrombosis which can result in heart damage. Arthrosclerosis is the leading cause of Cardiovascular Disease and strokes; when oxidized lipoproteins interact with blood vessel walls plaques are created that when broken off occlude the blood vessels in the heart.

In MS associated diseases, supplementations has been used with antioxidants and vitamins such as; Vitamins C, E, A and CoQ10, to neutralize free radicals and inhibit the progression of the disease. However, antioxidants cannot repair the damage already done to our membrane lipids. Lipid Replacement Therapy can reverse oxidative damage done to our cells and mitochondria and can restore energy product, electron transport activity and energy transfer. Combining LRT with antioxidants repairs the damage done by excess free radicals, restores cell function and prevents further damage.

In clinical studies, LRT has been used in combination with the complete nutritional system in Propax with NT Factor that includes healthy lipids to repair cell and mitochondrial membranes, antioxidants to neutralize free radicals, healthy bacteria to create an optimal environment for the healthy lipids and restore healthy intestinal flora levels as well as other essential vitamins, minerals and omegas to support overall health. Propax with NT Factor has shown to reduce the fatigue, the physical side effect of cell degradation, by up to 40% in 8 weeks.

http://researchednutritionals.com/FactSheets/Metabolic%20Syndrome%20Journal%20Cellular%20Biochemistry.pdf

It has become almost common sense that exercise [...]]]> As a health conscious person you try and do all the right things to insure your health.  You watch what you eat, take your vitamins, and most of all, you exercise.  But are you doing more damage to your body?  Is what you’ve believed all these years wrong?

It has become almost common sense that exercise is good for you.  Most people know it improves health and mental clarity, while it reduces weight and relaxes us.  However, one thing it also does is damage body tissue.  The key is to balance stress and health.

Vigorous exertion exercises cause a dramatic increase in reactive oxidative stress (free radical damage) to your body and skeletal muscle.  What researchers have been discovering over many years is that any form of exercise will cause harm to the mitochondria of your cells.  But, that damage increases with the amount of exercise you do.  Exhaustive exercise, such as running, however, will cause a dramatic increase of the impact free radicals have on our cells (cell membrane damage).  We have always known that stress causes damage. But now there is a way to reverse that damage.

However, NT Factor ® will increase your energy levels, and relieve the damage, now making it easier for you to find the get up and go to finding a healthier you.  By replacing the damaged cell membranes with new healthy ones, NT Factor ® allows the cell to produce the proper levels of energy you need naturally.  When your cells function at their maximum allowable levels it takes in all sources of energy and uses them.  By doing this you feel an increased amount of energy.  The energy you need to find your sneakers, and begin a little exercise.

Never think exercise is all bad.  Research has also found that supplementing with antioxidants, such a Co-Q10, resveratrol, and others, can suppress the breakdown of mitochondria regardless of the amount, or level of training.  Anti-oxidant’s can downgrade the progression of damage to a slower pace, suppressing the amount of cell membrane damage done.  NTFactor, however, goes beyond mere antioxidants, but in a much more beneficial way.  It does this by working directly on the cells to replace the damaged layer of cell membrane with new healthy ones.  This inhibits further damage, and more refined layer of protection of the mitochondria on a continuous cycle.

The key is always going to be energy, and healthy cell life.  A healthy cell produces energy at its peak level.  This allows you to do the things you want to do.  It also allows for all multitudes of other processes your body requires to remain healthy and vital.  Begin living your active life today.

References:

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2011 Jun;43(6):1017-24

African Journal of Microbiology Research Vol. 5(1), pp. 50-56, 4 January, 2011

Among the known risk factors for Alzheimer’s are age and nutrition.  Once you look beyond the genetic factors, age, nutrition, smoking, alcohol, head injury, and depression are the most related factors to the [...]]]> The risk of dementia is more overshadowing the older we get.  Alzheimer’s disease becomes the leading cause of dementia the older you are.

Among the known risk factors for Alzheimer’s are age and nutrition.  Once you look beyond the genetic factors, age, nutrition, smoking, alcohol, head injury, and depression are the most related factors to the disease.  However, number one on the list is aging.  It is the strongest of all the risk factors.

How aging affects the disease has yet to be understood.  What we at NTI can do is help slow down, and reverse the aging process by giving you our Lipid Replacement Therapy, in combination with good nutritional support.  Allowing your cells to function at their peak levels, NT Factor®’s Lipid Replacement Therapy replaces damaged cell membranes with new healthy ones removing the damage caused by oxidative stress.

Good nutrition may be on of the keys to helping reduce your risk factors.  Some researches believe that following a good regimen of nutrition in midlife can increases your cognitive function later in life, specifically your verbal skills.  Verbal function is on e of the most vulnerable pieces of cognitive skills susceptible to aging.  As a result, it can also be more of a victim to Alzheimer’s.

A large piece of evidence supports the fact that oxidative stress plays a role in Alzheimer Disease.  This type of stress leads to an increase in homocysteine levels in the body.  A recent study showed that an increase in intake of antioxidants helped lower the levels of homocyseine in the body of Alzheimer patients.

So what does all this mean for you?  It means that your interest in good nutrition and good health may help you in the long-term fight against aging.

Brain Nerve 2010 Jul:62(77):679-90

J. Neurol Sci. 2010 Dec 15;299(1-2):175-8

Am J. Clin Nutr. 2011 Jan;93(1):200-10

I’m a major advocate of Grapeseed Extract and Pycnogenol and have used both since 1995. My allergies/sinus/headache issues are just about history. I have a lot of info on these antioxidants and trust that they do slow down the aging process.

I was [...]]]> Questions for Prof. Garth Nicolson
Department of Molecular Pathology,
The Institute for Molecular Medicine,
Huntington Beach, California

I’m a major advocate of Grapeseed Extract and Pycnogenol and have used both since 1995. My allergies/sinus/headache issues are just about history. I have a lot of info on these antioxidants and trust that they do slow down the aging process.

Can you speak on these?

Dr. Nicolson’s reply:

I am all for any supplements that offer patients real therapeutic benefits. Often herbal and nutraceutical supplements are overlooked in favor of pharmaceutical drugs, but we have found them in general to be very useful. You have mentioned two that are useful. I discussed in previous posts that there are some disadvantages with the nutraceuticals in terms of speed of response, efficacy of the nutracuetical, adverse reactions of some patients to certain nutraceuticals (this seems to be much less than pharmaceuticals but it can occur) and the fact that some responses are only temporary and require higher and higher doses to achieve the same effects. Even with these limitations, nutraceuticals are often a less expensive way to help in the recovery process, and they are certainly useful for anti-aging and to help in the prevention of various conditions.

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