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What's In Your Anti-Aging Supplement

Learn The Key Ant-Aging Ingredients That REALLY SHOULD Be In Your Supplement!


Scientists have not yet discovered a fountain of youth but supplementation with an anti-aging supplement is the next best thing.

Current lifestyles, poor diets insufficient in fiber and vitamins/minerals and loaded with saturated fats, along with daily exposure to dietary and environmental stressors have caused a majority of the population to age at a rate faster than nature intended.

The increasing rates of all major degenerative disease at earlier and earlier ages are indisputable evidence of this.

Anti-aging then is not the actual reversing of age although nutritional science is getting close to achieving this by being able to repair cellular DNA damage. The CSIRO which is the scientific arm of the Australian Government has developed blood tests (2007) which can measure DNA damage and on the basis of this predict which degenerative diseases are on the way. I know of one supplement company who is currently working with the CSIRO to develop a test which can show the reversal of DNA damage through the use of their flagship supplement. (That’s the supplement I use!).

So, at this point in time anti-aging actually refers to the normalization of the aging process


The best anti-aging supplements in the market are able to do this. And, while there are a plethora of supplement options available, it is important to purchase a comprehensive product that not only offers superior anti aging benefits but which also targets all organs and systems in the body for overall good health and wellness.

This means using a multi ingredient supplement with the right ingredients, in the right forms, with sufficient potencies and in the correct dose amounts. Nutritional Supplement Truths.com is dedicated to teaching you what these are and then how to evaluate and compare the best vitamin supplements





The Importance of Anti-Oxidants


The best anti-aging health supplements have formulas with numerous ingredients which offer anti-oxidant properties. Anti-oxidants help to slow the aging process by combating the harmful effects of free radicals. When left unchecked, free radicals can lead to a host of health problems including cancer, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, memory loss and depression. Free radicals damage your valuable cellular DNA!

The best way to ensure your body is receiving the anti-oxidants it needs is through a diet rich in fruits and primarily raw vegetables. Current recommendations by the US government for a healthy diet are to eat 5 – 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. In addition, it is important to reduce stress, which is known to increase the body’s production of free radicals. Regular Exercise is also important for a healthy body and a slower aging process.


Announcing The Key Ingredients:

Eating 5 -9 servings of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis is just not possible or practical or even desirable for many people. This is where supplementation with quality multi ingredient anti aging natural supplements becomes important. Even a healthy diet does not include a number of the most potent disease preventing and fighting actives because these come from certain herbs and phytonutrients which we don’t consume. The best supplements contain these!

Scientific research has proven that certain antioxidants - particularly plant pigments/compounds called carotenoids and flavonoids (polyphenols) - are up to "hundreds of times more powerful" than other traditionally well known antioxidants like Vitamins A, C, and E. To ensure the most effective health benefits your anti-aging supplement (aka vitamin/health supplement) should contain the following ingredients which offer the most powerful anti-oxidant support for your entire body.

(Carotenoid and Flavonoid sources are marked with an *)

  • L-Glutathione (reduced form)
  • N-Acetyl L- Cysteine
  • *Green Tea
  • Gingko Biloba
  • Alpha Lipoic Acid
  • Bilberry
  • CoQ10
  • *Grape Seed
  • Oregon Grape (Mahonia)
  • *Resveratrol
  • *Lycopene
  • *Soy Isoflavones
  • *Beta Carotene
  • Vitamin C
  • Vitamin E
  • Selenium
  • Zinc
  • Turmeric
  • *Zeaxanthin


Of these, the very expensive ones for manufacturers of anti-aging supplements to purchase and the ones you ABSOLUTELY Want to see in your supplement are:

  • L-Glutathione (reduced)
  • Bilberry
  • Resveratrol (high potency)
  • Turmeric (high potency)
  • Zeaxanthin



The Importance of L-Glutathione

L-Glutathione is a crucial compound in your cells. It is the most abundant antioxidant enzyme in your body and is essential for cell health and organ survival.

Researchers have noted that inmost diseases there are below normal levels of L-Gluthathione in the body. As you age your body produces less and less of this crucial compound hence the need for it in yoursupplement.

In nutritional supplement formulas, L-Glutathione must be included in the reduced form. (In healthytissue 90% of the total Glutathione pool is in the reduced form) (1).

The reduced form means the molecules are much smaller and as a result can penetrate your intestinal cell membrane walls.With the regular form of L-Glutathione the molecules are too big and so absorption is VERY POOR. This form is much cheaper for manufacturers to use!




L-Glutathione (reduced) costs around $800 per kilo - wholesale price! It’s very expensive so most supplements don’t contain it but it absolutely should be there.




To put this in perspective - regular old ascorbic acid (vitamin C) costs around $15 per kilo! Too manysupplements are filled with way too much of these cheap ingredients - under the guise of ‘optimal amounts’.

Take a quick look at the bottle label of your supplement to see if L-Gluthathione (reduced) is there

When it comes to both the effectiveness and value for money of your anti-aging supplement it is important to be sure that it contains a generous dose amount of L-Gluthathione (at least 100 mg) and that it is in the reduced form.





The Importance of A PROFESSIONAL DELIVERY SYSTEM


The bioavailability of nutritional supplements is an often overlooked factor when comparing and evaluating nutritional vitamin supplements and anti-aging supplements. It has major implications for both the efficacy and value for money of a supplement.

Under the US Dietary and Health Education Act 1994 (DSHEA) nutritional supplements are regulated under ‘food’ GMP – this means absorption rates do not have to be tested – this has played a part in creating a credibility problem for the supplement industry.


The dose amounts of each ingredient on a supplement label are in no way an indication of how much actually makes it into your bloodstream for use in your body!



The actual delivery of the nutrients from the stomach to the intestine (where absorption occurs) need to be considered because stomach acid and some enzymes in the stomach significantly damage or destroy certain nutrients!

Vitamins and minerals are not affected by stomach acid but other key ingredients including pancreatic enzymes, some vegetable enzymes and expensive/highly beneficial ingredients like L-Glutathione, alpha lipoic acid, SAMe, and herbals are.

So if a special delivery system is not used to overcome this problem then bioavailability is significantly reduced!



Enteric Coating - Your Absorption Guarantee

Enteric coating has been extensively used for many years with pharmaceutical drugs (which is one reason why drugs work so well and so quickly). Enteric coating provides a protective layer on a tablet as it passes through the stomach.

A much greater level of bioavailability is thus guaranteed.



Enteric coating is rarely used in the supplement industry for two key reasons:

Cost and Knowledge

If an anti-aging supplement doesn’t contain ingredients susceptible to stomach acid then enteric coating is not needed. This is of course the answer as to why most supplement companies say they don’t need to use enteric coating.



The problem here is that most of the ingredients affected by stomach acid are important and expensive/efficious ones that you definitely want in a quality anti-aging supplement.






The AMAZING Anti-Aging Supplement That Gets My Vote


Follow these links to take a look at Total Balance Womens Plus or Total Balance Mens Plus which are science-based multi ingredient health supplements - unmatched in the market.

These are the supplements that my family and I have taken for the past 7 years.

Total Balance from the Xtend-Life Company in New Zealand contains every ingredient in the lists above with the exception of grape seed which they don’t need. Total Balance is of course enteric coated. But it is far more than just an anti-aging supplement.

There is a WHOPPING 84 ingredients which target EVERY organ in the body including Your brain!

You may like to follow this second link to my best vitamin supplements comparisons and reviews to see how Total Balance stacks up in head to head comparisons with other market leading science-based supplements.




Anti-aging Supplement – Sources

  1. (1) Droge, W. and Breitkreutz, R., "Glutathione and immune function," Proc. Nutr. Soc., 59, 595-600 (2000).
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