Risk Factors of Cardio Vascular Disease and Bios Life™

RISK FACTORS OF HEART DISEASE:

1. High Cholesterol

2. High Blood Pressure

3. Obesity

4. Diabetes

5. Smoking

CHOLESTEROL

BAD LDL GOOD - HDL

For every 1% you lower the LDL you reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease by 2%. For every 1% you increase the HDL you decrease your risk of Heart Disease by 3%.

LDL is a very sticky little molecule. It clings to your blood vessel wall and forms plaque that eventually causes blockage in the arteries. They can become inflamed and eventually rupture, a clot forms at that area of the heart, the blood-flow to that part of the heart stops, that portion of the heart dies and BINGO -you have a heart attack.

HDL fights LDL by binding to it, and transporting to the liver. HDL not only helps fight plaque but it also HDL helps reduce heart disease. It is therefore vitally important to find ways to elevate HDL. The importance of this is recognized by the American Heart Association.

We know that to reduce cholesterol we are asked to:

-Exercise more

-Reduce weight

-Watch our diet, cut down on cholesterol intake; saturated and trans fats and refined sugars

-Increase intake of fruits, vegetables, and fiber

BUT:

1) Most of us lack discipline to do this on a regular basis.

2) Genetically, 25% of your cholesterol in your blood comes from what you eat the remaining 75% is made by your liver. If your liver makes too much cholesterol your doctor will very often put you on a Statin prescription drug. The two top selling drugs in the world are Statin drugs, a $25 billion industry every year. Statins reduce production of LDL in the liver by blocking to an enzyme. Statins on average will lower the LDL cholesterol by about 32% and raise the HDL by only 7%. Many acute and chronic problems require statins. It is mandatory in certain situations. There are better ways for healthy people just trying to lower their cholesterol.

The drugs that have thus far been formulated to raise HDL cholesterol have had to be removed from the market as they have killed "more people than expected. Lovely. Do you like "Russian Roulette?"

The truth is, 10% -20% of us are not able to tolerate these Statin drugs.

There are SEVERAL pages of side effects associated with Statins.

Statin drugs work on the liver, so they often inflame the liver. It is necessary to take serial blood tests to test for that occurance.

Statins can create muscle problems, it starts with cramps and pain that can accelerate to severe problems where muscle fibers in the body are absorbed in the blood and travel to cause a myriad of problems.

When cholesterol is not controlled, and as the statin dose increases, the relative effectiveness of the drug usually decreases. Often it is necessary to increase the dosage. As the statin dose increases the potential side-effects associated with using them raises very very steeply although the effectiveness of it does not raise by that amount.

Often a person will reach the "statin floor". This occurs if you reach a maximum dose of the drug you are taking, or you are at a point where you are having symptoms. At that point you would be given a second drug to lower your cholesterol. These other drugs also all have a series of side effects of their own.

Often these other medications react with the statins to compound these side effects.

One drug company put two of these drugs together and he CEO said, "This is an innovative treatment and a major advance in Cholesterol therapy."

If treating cholesterol in 2 ways is an Innovative treatment, and a major advance in Cholesterol therapy, then what is something that works in 4 ways to effectively lower Cholesterol?

Bios Life was initially created as a combination of several types of soluble and insoluble fiber, mostly soluble fiber, vitamins, powerful anti-oxidents, minerals and other trace elements such as Chromium.

Later, 3 new ingredients were added to increase the efficiency of it in lowering Cholesterol. It became known as Bios Life.

It is a powder that you mix in water or juice and take it approximately 10-15 mins. before your meals. It forms a gel in your stomach.

Bios Life™ Lowers High Cholesterol Levels 4 Different Ways - Naturally

1 Helps to Block Re-absorption of Cholesterol in the Intestinal Tract

FIBER - A patented blend of five highly soluble fibers combined with mineral carbonate which quickly forms a fiber matrix in the digestive system that traps cholesterol and bile acids. To show the importance of fiber in Bios LifeTM- The average diet has 12 grams of fiber. It is recommended by the American Heart Association and also the American Diabetes Association, that we have 30 grams of fiber a day.

Having the soluble fiber matrix in your stomach binds cholesterol containing bile acids, pools them together, and they are swept out of your system which reduces your cholesterol.

A double -blinded placebo study Cleveland Clinic http://unicityscience.org/clinical_studies.html showed you could decrease cholesterol levels 11% just by using fiber. Also there are harmful elements to the heart present in the blood such as Apo Lipoprotein and Homocystein that were lowered by 20% and 15% respectively.

DIABETES -

IMPORTANCE OF SOLUBLE FIBER IN DIABETICS

Fiber is important in controlling diabetes. 20 million have diabetes and 6 million do not even know it.

Diabetes is an insidious disease. Very often, extremely serious damage can be done to a body before a person even knows they have it.

Many diabetics have vascular disease and often die of Cardiovascular problems.

Poorly controlled diabetes results in things like blindness, and kidney disease and perfo-vascular disease.

It is important to control the wide swings in blood sugar we see in diabetics. An article in New England Journal of Medicine talked about the importance of soluble fiber in the diet in diabetics. The study showed that you can control those wild swings in blood sugar with soluble fiber. It also helped to control the lipid entimologies that you find in diabetics cause cellular damage and pancreatic stress.

Bios Life could help to control the Lipid profiles that you often see with diabetics.

Lowers blood-sugar, keeps the insulin lower, and controls diabetes much more carefully.

It has been estimated that for every 10 grams of fiber you add to your diet you decrease your risk of diabetes by 30%.

Dr. Peter Verdegem, chief Science officer of Unicity presented a study at the American Heart Association of Arterialsclerosis indicating the importance of this showing that in a 90 day study Bios LifeTM decreased the LDL by 29%. It also increased the HDL by 22%.

Also he showed a reductiton of BLOOD PRESSURE and

Using Bios Life™ showed a decrease homocysteine levels (by niacinamide, riboflavin, biotin, cyanocobalamin, folic acid, and thiamin)

Niacin bound Chromium compound in Bios Life-the most bio-available chromium important in further sensitizing insulin and allows a further decrease in average glucose levels.

Also, remember that a high fiber diet is very important in cancer prevention. It is shown to reduce prostrate, colon and breast cancers.

BLOOD PRESSURE - High Fiber can also reduce your blood pressure.

3 new ingredients are the next three mechanisms:

2 Helps to Block Absorption of Cholesterol Which Comes Directly from Food

PHYTOSTEROLS- Soy bean oil and sunflower oil extracts which causes cholesterol from the food to be passed out of the body and not absorbed into the bloodstream.

The Sterols block the transport system of cholesterol.

Phytosterols have a structure almost identical to the cholesterol but they are harmless. However, unlike cholesterol derived from animal sources- which absorbs easily and raises the body's own cholesterol levels- phytosterols are present only at very low levels in the body because they are difficult to absorb.

In fact, phytosterols so closely resemble cholesterol that they can actually block food-based cholesterol from being absorbed into the bloodstream by blocking the cholesterol transport mechanisms in the intestinal tract. The result is that both phytosterols and dietary cholesterol end up excreted in waste matter, which can reduce the overall cholesterol levels in the body.

Foods containing at least .65g per dose of phytosterols (plant sterol esters) taken twice a day with meals for a total daily intake of 1.3 g may reduce the risk of heart disease associated with high cholesterol levels. A serving of Bios Life contains .67g of phtosterols.

3 Reduces the Cholesterol Produced by the Liver

POLYCOSTINOL - a sugar cane extract which inhibits HMG-CoA reductase- the key enzyme involved in cholesterol synthesis by the liver.

This blocks the same enzyme in the liver as the statins, but it does this without nasty side-effects. This of coarse lowers your cholesterol level.

The liver manufactures cholesterol and secretes it into the blood. An important enzyme in this production process, HMGCoA reductase. This enzyme can be blocked by certain chemicals- such as those found in statin drugs. Unlike synthetic statins, Unicity utilizes the most effective natural component called policosanol, which has the same effect.

4 Enhances Enzymatic Breakdown and Removal of LDL CHolesterol

CHRYSANTHEMUM MOREFOLEUM- This has been used in China for centuries as an herbal tea. This is a water extract that activates an enzyme called 7-alpha hydroxylase which takes cholesterol out of the system and converts it into bile acids. In fact, it was Unicity's research network that uncovered and developed this proprietary discovery!

Dr. Vincent Dueanas (http://unicityscience.org/clinical_studies.html) did an 8 week study on 96 patients.

This study found that Bios Life™ reduced cholesterol by 31% in those who had started with an elevated LDL. Some were lowered by 52%.

For those individuals that had reached the Statin floor, he was able to drop their cholesterol an additional 20%

This allows people who have reached the Statin floor to use Bios Life™ along with a lower dose of Statins thereby reducing their risk of side-effects.

Bios Life™ increased the HDL by an average of 29% in those with a decreased HDL. Some improved by 85%.

Nothing else can do this combination of things!

OBESITY - Often Bios Life™ will cause you to lose weight. If you lose weight usually your BLOOD PRESSURE will go down.

If you find that you are looking for fat loss along with the benefits of Bios Life, try the new Bios Life Slim which is composed of Bios Life Complete plus the ingredient "Unicity 7x" which activates the leptin hormone in our body to create effective fat loss. This is a revolutionary!

SMOKING- Bios Life™ does absolutely nothing to prevent you from smoking.

Other Ingredients:

-NIACINAMIDE, RIBOFLAVIN, BIOTIN, CYANOCOBALAMIN, FOLIC ACID, AND THIAMIN - Provide a powerful vitamin B complex to break down nutrients into energy. Also B-vitamins decrease the homocysteine level which is an independent risk factor for Cardiovascular Disease.

-ASCORBIC ACID, D-ALPHA TOCOPHERYL ACETATE AND BETA CAROTENE- Powerful antioxidants that prevent lipid and LDL oxidation and strengthen the immune system.

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