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Product of the Month: Isotonix® Might-A-Mins® Children’s Multivitamins

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Primary Benefits of Isotonix® Might-A-Mins® Children’s Multivitamins:

•    Supports optimal immune functions
•    Supports skeletal health and growth
•    Supports health and growth of teeth and gums
•    Supports general healthy growth and development
•     Supports cognitive health and development
•    Supports healthy vision and eyes
•    Supports a healthy intestinal tract
•    Promotes normal digestion
•    Supports a healthy heart
•    Helps maintain normal blood sugar levels
•    Provides antioxidant protection
•    Tastes great
•    Easy to swallow in liquid form

What Makes Isotonix® Might-A-Mins® Children’s Multivitamins Unique?

It is often difficult to make sure that your kids are maintaining a healthy, well-balanced diet and receiving the proper amount of vitamins and minerals. It can be an even bigger challenge today due to children eating away from home, at school, friend’s houses and fast food restaurants. With Perfect Fit’s Isotonix® Might-A-Mins®, you can provide your children with the proper daily allowances of most vitamins and minerals that are best for them.

Isotonix Might-A-Mins contains 12 vitamins and 10 essential minerals, along with phytonutrients from a proprietary blend of fruits and vegetables. With this formula your children can enjoy the benefits of fruits and vegetables daily, without them even knowing or complaining about them. Phytonutrients are plant extracts that have been found to play an important role in helping the body help itself.  It has been established that phytonutrients reduce oxidation, counteract environmental pollutants and support a healthy heart. Research has also shown that they naturally help boost the immune system. Also added to the formula is a special blend of probiotics, which are “good bacteria” essential for proper digestion. Iron has been eliminated from the Might-A-Mins formula due to its potential toxicity, especially for children under six, and also because kids usually get plenty of iron from the foods that they eat.

Special care has been taken in selecting the proper nutritional ingredients. For example, the beta-carotene contains other naturally occurring carotenoids that include a healthy dose of lutein and zeaxanthin, which are both proven to support healthy vision and promote healthy eyes. The Vitamin E that is included in the formula, d-Alpha tocopheryl succinate, is naturally occurring, and found to be the best source of Vitamin E, when working in coordination with support nutrients. The proprietary blend of phytonutrients include extracts from apples, broccoli, carrots, cranberries, grapes, kiwi fruit, lemon, limes, oranges, peaches, pineapples, raspberries, spinach, strawberries and tomatoes. Other nutrients include:

  • Vitamin A (Beta-Carotene)
  • Vitamin B-Complex (Vitamins B1, 2, 3, 6, 5, 8, 12 and Biotin)
  • Vitamin C
  • Vitamin D3
  • Calcium
  • Chromium
  • Copper
  • Vitamin E
  • Iodine
  • Magnesium
  • Manganese
  • Selenium
  • Silicon
  • Potassium (Bicarbonate)
  • Zinc

Absorption and efficiency of nutritional supplements are also two important features to examine when selecting a nutritional supplement and Isotonix Might-A-Mins contains both. This supplement is in the form of an isotonic fluid, which ensures that the nutrients are efficiently absorbed. No more pills to swallow or chew. The stomach has very little work to do because the pH and tonicity are carefully designed to allow the stomach to quickly release all the nutrients into the small intestine. It is usually taken on an empty stomach and when the isotonic fluid enters the body, it is delivered to the small intestine, nutritionally concentrated. Then it is quickly absorbed into the blood stream maximizing the amount used by the body. With the Isotonix Might-A-Mins formula, this process takes about five minutes, where a standard vitamin tablet can take up to four hours.

When taken as directed, whether your children are 3 or 10, this formula is a complete nutritional source. Isotonix Might-A-Mins with Phytonutrients is the perfect way to fill the nutritional gap that today’s lifestyles can create in our children from the types of foods they eat.

Click here to read more or purchase Isotonix® Might-A-Mins® Children’s Multivitamins.

Coffee and Your Health

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Coffee has its good properties. There have been numerous tests done that found when caffeine is taken in moderation it can boost concentration and alertness.  It is a stimulant that increases the output of adrenaline, which can temporarily improve memory and mood.

With that being said, let’s talk about the over-use of coffee.  When you are tired and need a lift in the afternoon, do you go for another cup of coffee?  Well if you do, you are beating a dead horse and the horse is your adrenal glands; the two little glands the size of walnuts that sit above the kidneys. The adrenal glands are the ones that give athletes their boost to do what they do best in their sport, or give the average Joe the ability to lift a car off someone to save their life. They are also responsible for our ‘fight or flight’ response in stressful situations.

Caffeine causes the adrenal glands secrete stress hormones when they don’t have to. When this happens on a regular basis, it drains the system and there is not much more to give. This leads to adrenal exhaustion and in this case, it has also been called caffeineism. Symptoms of caffeineism are: anxiety, irritably, mood swings, sleep disturbance, and depression. You may feel some or all of these effects.

Remember, when you eliminate coffee you might feel withdrawal symptoms (like headache and feeling tired) because caffeine is a drug.  Also, you might seek a health practitioner who can help build your adrenal function back up to normal.  You will feel energetic again without over-caffeinating yourself.

By: Renee Woods, CPT, RKC