On May 24th, 2010, Barbara Walters presented a show on resveratrol on ABC called "Live to be 150... Can You Do It?" The claims by some researchers suggest that we could live all the way up to a 1,000 years or even never die. Even a sceptic will agree that it looks like the majority of babies born today will live to see 100 in the future. In this video, Dr. David Sinclair shows Barbara Walters a protein that is linked to our aging process(1).
Dr. Stephen Chaney writes:
There is a specific gene that is activated by resveratrol commonly referred to as the "survival" or "longevity gene". The antioxidant that gives it the red and purple color in red wine is called resveratrol. ...Dr. Sinclair's research showed a high fat diet mouse lived just as long as a healthy fed mouse. He thinks resveratrol could have the same effect in people. Over 100 million dollars are invested in research and added that Type 2 diabetes was treated by resveratrol.
Aging is a set of disease, and if you reverse the aging process you prevent the diseases. The top two ingredients in Vivix are the resveratrol, which is found in red wine, and ellagic acid which comes from muscadine grapes. These aren't the only beneficial ingredients in Vivix though.
Resveratrol and ellagic acid are both members of a naturally occurring class of compounds called polyphenols. Polyphenols are found in fruits, green tea, coffee, chocolate and many other foods. They are excellent anti-oxidants and have a number of potential health benefits. So it is perhaps no surprise that almost any food containing polyphenols has been turned into a supplement by someone. And most of these companies have a long list of supposed health benefits for their products.
What makes Vivix® different from all of these other polyphenol products?
The polyphenols in Shaklee's Vivix polyphenol blend are ten times more effective than resveratrol alone at preventing the formation of advanced glycation end particles (AGE particles) - a key mechanism of cellular aging. With most of the other products on the market you don't know whether they affect any of the key mechanisms of cellular aging—because the companies simply haven't tested for them. Of course, all of the studies I have referred to so far were done in cell culture or with animals.
There are over four thousand published scientific studies on the top two ingredients in Vivix (3,000+ on resveratrol and 1,000+ on ellagic acid) compared to a handful for the other products on the market.
Resveratrol is the only polyphenol that has been shown to delay the aging process and lead to a longer, healthier life span. This has been demonstrated in every organism tested—from yeast to worms to fruit flies to mice. The anti-aging benefits of resveratrol have nothing to do with its anti-oxidant potential. It is because it binds to a protein that turns on the body's anti-aging genes. That is why you shouldn't pay any attention to the hype about the anti-oxidant potential of the other polyphenol products on the market. There is no proven link between anti-oxidants and longevity.
The polyphenols in Shaklee's patent-pending polyphenol blend have all been shown to activate the same anti-aging genes as resveratrol. That is not true of the polyphenols found in many of the other products on the market.
Having said that, here is where the biggest Vivix difference comes in:
Resveratrol works in exactly the same way in humans that it does in animals—There are more than twelve published clinical studies with resveratrol alone. Of course, it will never be possible to do a clinical study on longevity—humans simply live too long. Resveratrol has been shown to turn on the same anti-aging genes, decrease the same markers of inflammation and oxidative stress, decrease cholesterol and triglyceride levels, improve insulin sensitivity, decrease platelet aggregation and increase the elasticity of the aorta in both humans and mice. We simply don't know whether that is true for most of the other products in the marketplace.
The amount of resveratrol and other polyphenols in Vivix is appropriate and that the polyphenols are bioavailable—that means that they get into your bloodstream in sufficient quantities to have a beneficial effect on your health. Shaklee has done a clinical study proving that Vivix is effective. It shows how Vivix can reverse some of the detrimental effects of a bad diet. Vivix has the effect on anti-aging genes in the human body that would be expected from all of the previous animal and human studies on resveratrol and ellagic acid.
Hopefully, this will help you understand why Vivix is light years ahead of the competition. To Your Health! Dr. Stephen G. Chaney
Dr Chaney has been a Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics in the Dept of Nutrition, UNC Chapel Hill for nearly three decades, teaching Medical Students & runs an active Cancer Research Program. Dr Chaney is published in ninety-five peer reviewed studies in respected medical journals.
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