The Pauling Therapy: Essentials Formula
Question: from Jim
Can you tell me how your product compares to:
The Pauling Therapy: Essentials Formula manufactured by Douglas Laboratories, a world-class facility that follows strict Standard Operating Procedures and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and is compliant with state, federal and world-wide regulatory bodies. The laboratories are ISO 9001 certified and ISO 17025 accredited.
More info at saveyourheart.com.
Thanks for your valuable input
Answer: from Warren
I assume that you are referring a comparison between their Essentials Formula and our Cardio-Klenz?
(By the way the SOP's etc of Douglas Laboratories would be similar to ours.)
The Essentials formula is basically a very simple high dose Vitamin C/amino acid mix and may I say...very expensive for what it is.
The issue of high dose Vitamin C particularly using ascorbic acid is quite a controversial one with many varied opinions. Our R & D people including Prof.Dr.A Munem Daoud who is our chief researcher and one of the worlds top bio-scientist are adamant that high doses of Vitamin C is not a good thing...unless you are ill at which high doses for a short period is fine.
The reason for this is that it reacts in the stomach and amounts in excess of around 400mgs a day of ascorbic acid can actually create free radicals. In other words it will help 'mop up' free radicals up to a certain level and then over that it will actually generate them.
This problem can however be overcome by using the calcium ascorbate form of Vitamin C which has a different action in the stomach.
It is not as simple to eliminate plaque as indicated on the website you gave. Just high doses of Vitamin C combined with a few amino acids will not do it. It will help but the high doses of Vitamin C may have other implications further down the line.
If it was a good solution we would be producing a similar product...because it is so cheap to make! For example, ascorbic acid is only about 1/30th of the cost of some of the ingredients we use in Cardio-Klenz.
We could sell a product like this for about 1/3rd of what they are selling theirs for.
Anyway, what is needed for good heart health is a combination of really potent ingredients. Such as methylating agents to bring down homocysteine. This product has nothing like this but it is why we use TMG in Cardio-Klenz.
Also, there is nothing to help strenghten the overall cardiovascular system such as Reservatrol of which there is 50mgs in Cardio-Klenz.
There are no enzymes which is crucial for good efficacy. This is because the delivery system they are using renders enzymes inactive...but, also they are very expensive particularly the Nattokinase which help break down fibrin in the blood.
There are no specialized herbal extracts which are known for helping improve the strength of the heart and circulation system such as grape seed extract...and, the list goes on.
May I suggest that you carefully examine the ingredients for Cardio-Klenz and this will help you better follow what I am trying to explain.
Interestingly, even after considering all these factors it is still more expensive than our Cardio-Klenz.
Hope this helps.
Warren Matthews
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Bill Runyon
Raleigh, NC, USA
By the way I should have mentioned in my earlier answer that they have made a mistake in their ingredient list. The have 450mgs of folic acid. I assume that they really mean 450mcgs. Which is 1/1000th less. 450mgs of folic acid would be extremely dangerous.
Unfortunately the reality does not match the suggestions made on the website. It is basically a mineral supplement with a small amount of amino acids.
There is no scientific evidence to support that the bio-availability of this form of minerals are greatly superior to other forms. If there was we would use them.
The selected amino acids in these quantities will have minimal but most likely no impact on HGH levels.
The pituitary extract will however stimulate IGF-1 which in turn will stimulate HGH. But...I would not take it personally for 2 reasons.
It is a hormone derived from the pituitary gland of cows and as such there is a risk of possible infection from BSE. There are many different extracts produced and some of them are of dubious quality.
The other reason is that this is a hormone and there is no evidence to support the long term safety of it. No one knows how it may effect your own hormonal cascade activity.
You can help your body maintain healthy levels of HGH by just ensuring that it has a broad range of the right nutrients. I have proven this just through taking Total Balance and no hormones of any sort. Here is some more info.
http://www.xtend-life.com/popup/HGH+Results+for+Warren+Matthews%2c+Chairman+of+Xtend-Life.aspx
This delivery system is really not quite as it seems. It is just a good way of protecting the active ingredients as they pass through the stomach as they become encased in a form of lecithin. It is better than using a high dose capsule of ascorbic acid but no better than an enteric coated tablet.
I still wouldn't take mega doses of Vitamin C even with this method unless trying to meet a specific objective over a limited period of time in which temporary high dose Vit C had been proven to be effective.
Paul Kersten The Netherlands
I assume you are referring to a product called WIN Daily? If so, it is like comparing chalk to cheese. It is a basic multi-vitamin. It has none of the essential minerals, the most inexpensive forms of vitamins and even the vitamin range is not complete...it has no Tocotrienols as one example.
Honestly, it does not even match up to our Multi-Xtra and it is light years away from Total Balance.
It would seem that your friends know nothing about Total Balance. Perhaps you could direct them to
http://www.xtend-life.com/info/Total+Balance+Ingredients.aspx
and then suggest that they reseach Total Balance.
The product that they are using will only give minimal benefits for free radicals, none for glycation, none for methylation, nothing for inflammation and nothing for DNA repair.
If they are seriously interested in their long term health and doing their best to avoid degenerative disease it would be a good idea for them to change. :)