Resvinatrol Complete™ Frequently Asked Questions
What is Resvinatrol Complete™?
NFI Consumer Products
launches a new resveratrol product, Resvinatrol Complete™ to address
antioxidant health benefits. What makes Resvinatrol Complete™ so good is
the unique combination of antioxidants that support different bodily
processes including heart and immune system functioning.
How does it work?
Resvinatrol Complete™ is
a powerful antioxidant formula that provides defense against free
radical damage. We are constantly being attacked by free radicals caused
from pollution, smoking, sunlight, foods, chlorinated water, and more.
Free radicals are simply atoms or molecules that have a missing pair of
electrons. These atoms and molecules combine with oxygen to form a
highly reactive molecule that can bind directly to the cell. Free
radicals cause a chain reaction and attack cellular components such as
the cell membrane or even the DNA inside the cell. When this happens
cells begin to function poorly or even die. Many different health
problems may result from free radical damage. To combat free radical
damage, the body has an internal defense mechanism that uses naturally
occurring phenolic compounds like resveratrol, ellagic acid, quercetin,
and proanthocyanidins to neutralize free radicals before they can
disrupt cellular structure.
Why is Packaging Important?
Antioxidants like
resveratrol are very reactive to open air as they will oxidize quickly.
Product stability is critical to overall product effectiveness. This
requires special packaging steps that must be initiated in order to
maintain a high level of potency. The most important step in this
process is to produce Resvinatrol Complete™ in a nitrogen environment to
protect the product from oxygen exposure. Each capsule is made with an
airtight seal to maintain potency. Finally, we package each capsule in
an airtight blister card to prevent exposure and maintain quality.
What are antioxidants?
The National Institutes of Health has compiled a large
list of foods that contain antioxidants. Antioxidants are phytochemicals
found in plants that act as a defense mechanism for the plant by
neutralizing attacks by free radicals, viruses, fungi, and other
organisms. To help show us the power of these foods to absorb free
radicals, scientists developed a system that assigns values or the
Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity – ORAC to each of the foods according
to how powerful each food is at eliminating free radicals.
------------------ORAC Ratings per 1 Gram------------------
|
Muscadine Grape Seed** |
559 |
|
Acai |
387 |
|
Goji Berry |
253 |
|
Noni |
151 |
|
Pomegranates |
105 |
|
Blueberries |
77 |
|
Prunes |
57 |
|
Blackberries |
20 |
|
Strawberries |
36 |
|
Red Grapes |
74 |
|
Cherries |
67 |
**Brunswick
Laboratories independent verification.
To help understand
this chart, the ORAC value represented by the number in the column next
to the corresponding food means the higher the value the more free
radicals that food can neutralize. Many vitamins and minerals can also
act as antioxidants. Taking in large doses though, can lead to serious
complications without a doctor’s supervision. The best way to increase
your antioxidant levels is to use supplements that contain naturally
occurring antioxidants and eat more berries rich in antioxidants.
What is a daily requirement I can use as a gauge
to make sure I am eating enough berries and fruit?
The
average person needs about 5558 ORAC units per day from food or
supplements they consume. It would take roughly 83 grams of cherries, 75
grams of red grapes, 53 grams of pomegranates or just 8 grams of
muscadine seeds to reach our daily requirement. 80% - 90% of people in
the world do not consume even half of the daily required ORAC.
As we age, side
affects from free radical damage begins to manifest in the form of
aches, pains, lost energy, arthritis, strokes, hardening of the
arteries, and other maladies.
It should be noted
that by age 40, our antioxidant level is at 50% when compared to our
youth.
How
do I approximate the ORAC value?
Fruits such as
strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries are exceptional food choices
that contain a high ORAC value. To put it in perspective, muscadine
seeds contain a tenfold antioxidant capacity increase over red grapes.
It takes about 75 grams of red grapes to achieve the daily ORAC needs
whereas the same requirement can be achieved by consuming 8 grams of
muscadine seeds.
What is resveratrol?
Some scientists say resveratrol, one of
red wine's chief antioxidants, is “the
Fountain of Youth.” Resveratrol is being researched
extensively by the medical community. Resveratrol is thought to be the
reason why French people who consume large quantities of fat in their
diet are relatively unaffected by the diseases normally associated with
the diet. The difference between them and other fat loving cultures is
that they also consume red wine with their meals.
What are muscadine grapes?
Muscadines are a variety of grapes that grow naturally throughout North
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. There
are several varieties including the
scuppernong which is a greenish, or bronze, variety of
muscadine. All varieties of muscadines have tough skins and range
in color from bronzy green to very dark purple. Muscadines don't grow in
tight bunches like grapes, but in clusters of 4 or more fruits. The
abundant juice is so sweet, with a kind of musky, fruity flavor. Mother
Vineyard in Roanoke Island is home to the oldest known grapevine in the
United States. This four-hundred year old Scuppernong mother vine has a
trunk two feet thick and once stretched one-half an acre.
Why so many precautionary packaging steps with
Resvinatrol Complete™?
Resveratrol, like all antioxidants,
absorbs oxygen. Exposure to the open air means that resveratrol will
bond to oxygen very quickly and become inactive. In order to ensure this
does not happen to the resveratrol in Resvinatrol Complete™, we take
precautionary packaging steps to prevent oxidation:
- We use an unique air tight capsule
to keep oxygen out.
- We package Resvinatrol Complete™ in
a closed nitrogen environment to protect from oxygen exposure.
- We use an airtight seal for each
capsule in the blister card.
Who should take Resvinatrol Complete™?
As we age, the levels of antioxidants found in our bodies begins to
decrease. Significant drops occur in our 30s and 40s for most people.
Since oxidation is the reason for so many different attacks on our
bodies, having significant level of antioxidants helps to clean up free
radicals that attack our cells.
What is Quercetin?
Quercetin belongs to a group of plant
pigments called flavonoids that are largely responsible for the colors
of many fruits, flowers, and vegetables. Flavonoids, such as quercetin,
provide many health-promoting benefits. Quercetin also works as an
antioxidant by scavenging damaging particles in the body known as free
radicals. Antioxidants such as quercetin can neutralize free radicals
and may reduce or even help prevent some of the damage they cause.
Adding quercetin to Resvinatrol Complete™ is
necessary because
quercetin can saturate and bind to the same compounds which conjugate
with resveratrol thus allowing resveratrol an extended life. Two
published studies now have found that resveratrol rapidly forms
conjugates. Quercetin is believed to inhibit this conjugation, and
quercetin also helps to activate the same longevity gene that
resveratrol does, albeit less potently.
What is
Ellagic Acid?
The three important sources of ellagic acid found in
Resvinatrol Complete™ include muscadines, pomegranate extract, and
raspberry extract. Ellagic acid serves a number of possible functions in
these plants, regulating plant growth and seed germination, and
protecting them from microbial infections. Ellagic acid also protects
plants from cancer-inducing chemicals, heavy metal poisoning, and
predation by insects and insect larvae. Since the early 1990s,
researchers have been discovering that ellagic acid offers health
benefits to humans as well. Ellagic acid is an important antioxidant due
to its link to chemoprevention. A number of double blind
studies of humans are underway to determine the effect of long-term
daily consumption of concentrated raspberry extract.
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What antioxidant research
studies are available?
Polyphenolics From Red Wine
LDL Uptake Suppression by Grape Polyphenols
