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Ginkgo Biloba Extract (GBE) increases blood flow to the brain by inhibiting blood platelet aggregation and by regulating blood vessel elasticity; it has been shown to improve blood flow through both major blood vessels and capillaries. Ginkgo is also a powerful antioxidant. Ginkgo biloba extract has two major groups of components, ginkgo flavonglycosides and terpene lactones. Its efficacy depends on their proper balance and a standardized extraction method has been developed to ensure that balance. Basically, these two constituents or groups of constituents are responsible for ginkgo biloba's two main properties: the ability to inhibit blood platelet aggregation (which allows for greater flow of blood to the brain and extremities) and its strong antioxidant properties (which exert a protective influence over the brain and CNS).



Garlic is an excellent example of a natural remedy that can best be described as pleiotropic, meaning that it acts in many ways on the body that collectively result in its apparent beneficial effects. The most important of the chemical compounds found in garlic preparations are the sulfurs. They include alliin, allicin, thiosulfinates, gamma glutamylcysteine peptides, and various other sulphur compounds. Many of these compounds do not exist naturally in garlic, but are the result of the method in which garlic is prepared.¹ The antihypertensive, anti-atherosclerotic, and platelet aggregation inhibiting mechanisms of these compounds have not been completely elucidated. It would therefore be best to take a garlic preparation that contains a good representation of all of these compounds. It is estimated that about 82% of the sulfur compounds in garlic consist of alliin and gamma glutamylcysteine peptides.¹ Alliin occurs naturally in garlic. When the garlic is crushed, alliin is allowed to react with alliinase, an enzyme that is present in neighboring "compartments" called vacuoles. The end result of the interaction between alliin and alliinase is the highly touted compound, allicin. Steam distillation produces no allicin, but converts alliin entirely to diallyl sulfides. You will know a steam-distilled product because it is a volatile oil that is sold in gel-caps. Water-extracted preparations are thought to contain almost none of the beneficial compounds. Dry powder preparations contain mostly alliin and allicin (like the crushed bulb). Whole garlic cloves contain 0.25%-1.15% alliin, while carefully dried powder preparations contain 0.7%-1.7% alliin - that's right - even more than crushed bulb. Alliin is of prime importance because allicin is derived therefrom; other sulfides are in turn derived from the degradation of allicin.¹



Zinc is an essential trace mineral involved in numerous enzyme systems the body needs to keep healthy and fit. OptiZinc^® is a patented 1:1 complex of zinc and methionine, the amino acid best absorbed by the body. Studies show that OptiZinc^® is absorbed better, retained longer and are more effective than other zinc supplements.