Garlic has long been a key ingredient in Mediterranean and Eastern cooking, but many people don’t realize its potent effects on our immune and digestive systems. Garlic supplements offer a convenient option to regularly eating raw garlic; these can be used as a dietary supplement to fight infection, reduce blood pressure, and even manage blood-sugar levels. Nature’s Way Garlicin offers a simple way to enjoy many of the health benefits of garlic in a safe, natural formula.

History Lesson
Garlic was commonly used as a treatment for leprosy by ancient Greeks and Egyptians, and mixed with other herbal ingredients and antioxidants for its powerful therapeutic properties. Before the advent of modern medicine, raw garlic was prescribed to heal wounds, combat colds and fevers, and neutralize inflammation in the body. Some researchers in China believe that garlic has natural cancer-fighting benefits that can improve the body’s resistance to tumors, helping to prevent cancer-causing agents from circulating in the body.

The most important compound in garlic is allicin, the substance that is released when garlic is cut, chewed, or crushed. This is why many cooking techniques require garlic to be crushed before adding it to meals; the release of allicin makes it easy to absorb the key ingredients of garlic, and standardized allicin is found in a variety of garlic supplements. Since garlic also works as a natural blood thinner, it should not be taken by those who regularly have low blood sugar, or are taking medication that has anticoagulant properties.

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If you’re like most people, you don’t give a lot of thought to your liver, but you literally couldn’t live without it. This organ plays multiple roles, including filtering out toxins, regulating your metabolism, producing energy, assisting with digestion, storing essential vitamins, and controlling cholesterol production. Since it does so much for you, wouldn’t it be nice if you could do something for your liver? You can. There’s a supplement you can take that has proven benefits for your hard-working liver: Thisilyn.

How Thisilyn Helps
Offered by Nature’s Way, Thisilyn contains milk thistle extract. Milk thistle is an herb native to the Mediterranean region that has been a folk remedy for liver and other disorders for thousands of years. The milk thistle extract in Thisilyn is primarily composed of a flavonoid complex known as silymarin. Silymarin protects the liver by preventing absorption of harmful toxins.

Silymarin is so effective in preventing liver damage that it is sometimes used to treat patients who have eaten extremely poisonous mushrooms. The use of milk thistle can dramatically increase the survival rate of patients in this predicament.

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Peppermint oil has long been used as a soothing treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), poor digestion, and many chronic intestinal disorders. Fresh peppermint itself offers many healing properties, and is often used in aromatherapy to relieve headaches and nausea, and as a breath freshener. The powerful oil is available in Nature’s Way Pepogest, a formula designed to relive symptoms commonly associated with IBS, indigestion, and other chronic bowel problems. If you’re experiencing discomfort, gas, or bloating after meals, Pepogest offers many benefits in a convenient capsule.

Peppermint Oil vs. Indigestion
Peppermint oil works as a soothing agent for the colon and intestinal tract, reducing the chances of muscle spasms and encouraging healthy digestion. Such spasms are a common problem for people who do not get enough exercise or are eating an unhealthy diet. Digestion and bowel movements can be irregular, resulting in toxin buildup, gas, pain, and nausea.

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Have you ever thought about taking a supplement to build muscle? Or has your sex life taken a dive recently? Either of these situations can be combated with Vitrix. This product, made by Nutrex Research (a company put on the map by its Lipo-6 product), will allow you to gain muscle and have a better sex life due to increased testosterone levels. In the same way Nutrex Lipo-6 is known for its outstanding weight-loss and fat-burning results, bodybuilding has never been easier than it is with Vitrix. While the goals of the two pills are different, the same technology was used in creating both of them. The Vitrix liquid capsule works to achieve results better than other types of supplements, so you can toss that bottle of GABA or EAS creatine mix and take these simple pills to get the results you’re looking for.

How Vitrix Gets Your Groove Back
Vitrix works to enhance sex by increasing that all-important male sex hormone, testosterone. By using extracts from the plant Tribulus terrestris, Vitrix works to regulate the levels of DHEA in the body, creating more testosterone so that your libido is increased. By using this type of supplement at low levels, you’ll be able to experience a rise in your testosterone that translates into a greater sexual experience. The increase in hormone levels, along with the release of nitric oxide (NO) within the body, acts as the sexual prowess booster you’ve been looking for. Whether your sex drive has flagged because you’ve gotten a bit older or because you’ve been using a prohormone, you can easily regain what you once had by using Vitrix.

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Athletes are always looking for ways to get the most out of their workouts. Whether it’s running or biking further, or getting the most from a bodybuilding regimen, the quest for the ultimate combination of workout-aiding supplements never ends. This search for the best in sports nutrition can lead to seemingly unlikely combinations. As a case in point, let’s look at CytoSport’s Cytomax and Muscle Milk.

What Are Muscle Milk and Cytomax?
CytoSport developed the blend of protein and creatine found in Muscle Milk for bodybuilders and other athletes who are looking to build strong, lean muscle mass. Muscle Milk’s special combination of EndoCreatine, Lean Lipid fats, protein powder, peptides, and amino acids has proven effective at building muscle mass and helping athletes recover quickly from workouts. Sold in a powdered mix, this supplement is easy to prepare and formulate for your exact needs.

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You know the basics to lead a vibrant, healthy lifestyle: Eat a balanced diet that includes carbohydrates, protein, and fat; drink between eight to 10 glasses of water a day; and exercise at least three times a week. But to improve and then maintain your health and fitness, you may want to consider the benefits of using additional nutritional supplements, such as consuming multivitamins daily and, when you work out, opting for a sports drink, such as best-selling Cytomax Sport Drink, over water.

Why a Sports Drink?
When you perform any intense physical activity, such as running, biking, hiking, or climbing, your body sweats out its hydration and loses complex carbohydrates, which are responsible for keeping your strength levels up. In addition, your body produces lactic acid from glucose for energy. The downside? That “burn” you feel during strenuous exercise, which could lower your ambition or ability to perform to your potential. While water is, as always, crucial to maintain hydration, it cannot help with the “side effects” of exercising—which is where sports drinks come in.

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Many people seeking the best-tasting, highest-quality protein supplement choose BSN Syntha-6 protein powder. According to users, these delicious protein drinks maximize lean muscle development.

Bodybuilders, of course, need more protein because their workouts demand more metabolic fuel. When the body breaks down large amounts of protein that are not replaced, it will go into negative amino balance and become incapable of replacing the nitrogen deficit that hard workouts can create. Protein is the only nutrient directly responsible for building muscle, and exercise increases protein needs—and the recommended daily allowance for protein is woefully inadequate for anyone who works out regularly.

This is why it’s essential for bodybuilders and other serious athletes to ingest protein drinks that deliver a measured stream of protein over a number of hours. Syntha-6’s sustained-release protein blend combines proteins that the body digests at different speeds, allowing users to sustain amino-acid levels over a long period of time. Though it absorbs instantly into the body, the product continues to feed muscles for as long as eight hours.

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Whether you’re engaged in an exercise program or not, proper nutrition is essential for your health and well-being. Many studies indicate that proper nutrition plays a role in longevity, as well as in mental health and acuity. Because research is demonstrating just how important it is to take in at least the standard minimum requirement daily, many people are making lifestyle changes and taking particular care with their diet. However, those efforts may not be enough, as the true nutritional content of foods can vary. Supplementing your diet with Muscle Milk can help you to be sure.

Inconsistent Nutritional Content
The true nutritional content of plant foods depends on a variety of factors, including the quality of the seed, the specifics of a particular type or strain, the health of the plant, and the quality of the soil in which it is grown. If the soil is of poor quality, its minerals and other nutrients depleted, then the plants grown in it will not have a reliable or sufficient amount of those missing nutrients. And, if the plants don’t have them, neither will we when we eat those plants.

Industrial farming has taken a lot out of the world’s soil. To be fair, smaller farmers who do not have the area necessary to rotate crops and allow fields rest time also contribute to soil depletion. This is not a new problem. Researchers and scientists have been aware of this situation since the 1930s.

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Dealing with a cold or the flu is physically and emotionally draining. The coughing, sneezing, aches, and pains can make sleep impossible. You might feel unable to accomplish even the simplest tasks. You might think all you can do is just wish it would be over soon. Well, there may be a way to do more than just wish for an end to cold and flu misery. There’s a natural remedy that gets great results when used to end cold and flu symptoms and strengthen the body’s immune system: Sambucol.

Nature’s Way Sambucol is a pleasant-tasting formula that gets its incredible flu-fighting abilities from its main ingredient: black elderberry extract. Black elderberry is a shrub that is native to Europe, Africa, and Asia. It was introduced to North America and now grows throughout the continent. Black elderberry has been used as a folk remedy for many years and was thought to be especially effective in treating respiratory ailments. But now, modern scientific studies have shown that the black elderberry extract featured in Sambucol really does have amazing curative powers.

Got the Flu? Get Better Faster
How can Sambucol help you fight the flu? According to an article on WebMD.com, two studies demonstrate the product’s effectiveness. In one of the studies, an amazing 93 percent of patients had no flu symptoms at all within two days of beginning to take Sambucol.

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Anti-aging supplements, skin treatments, and joint formulas all contain varying levels of collagen, the critical component of joint cartilage that allows joints and muscles to stay strong and flexible. Flexibility and range of motion of muscles can deteriorate with age, and this is largely due to a reduction of healthy cartilage. People suffering from degenerative joint diseases in particular can benefit from a dietary supplement that includes vital cartilage and collagen compounds. Nature’s Way Hydraplenish has much to offer: It helps lubricate and cushion the joints, promotes healthy skin tissue, and even reduces the signs of aging.

Collagen
There are three main types of collagen, but collagen type II is the primary form of articular cartilage that is necessary for healthy joints, muscles, and tendons. Healthy cartilage ensures that the body can move and stretch with ease, and comprises glucosamine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid (HA), and collagen type II. All of these compounds are available in various dietary supplements and nutritious foods, but each two-caplet serving of Hydraplenish offers the added advantage of bioavailable collagen.

Bioavailability
An essential element of many dietary supplements, bioavailability is the degree and rate at which the body absorbs nutrients. Nature’s Way designed Hydraplenish for enhanced bioavailability, making it very easy for the body to assimilate key compounds and start utilizing collagen to repair joints, lubricate muscles and tendons, and even smooth lines on the skin’s surface.

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