Multiple Body Systems

Maximum Vitality™ supports multiple body systems:

Energy & Robust Metabolism

Your metabolism determines how much you weigh, how energetic you feel, and the effective functioning of all your systems. Maximum Vitality™ is a unique multiple containing an incredible number of nutrients at the potency levels that truly support your healthy metabolic function. For example, it contains coenzyme Q10, which plays a crucial role in cellular energy production. CoQ10 is a vital intermediate in the electron transport chain, one of the body’s energy production cycles, which converts glucose, or blood sugar, into ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate), a molecule that is the body’s “energy currency.” Maximum Vitality™ also supplies alpha-lipoic acid and the potent R-lipoic acid form of lipoic acid, which are both referred to as the universal antioxidants and important intermediaries in the Krebs cycle, another energy production cycle.

Maximum Vitality™ also contains tyrosine and iodine, both precursors to thyroid hormones. These hormones regulate key metabolic functions like heart rate, digestive function, weight management and energy levels.

No discussion of metabolism would be complete without mentioning the B vitamins and their coenzymated forms, such as thiamin cocarboxylase, riboflavin mononucleotide, and the methylcobalamin form of vitamin B-12. These critical vitamins and their immediately bioavailable coenzymated forms are formulated to play critical roles in thousands of enzyme reactions that promote carbohydrate metabolism, energy production, and the mental functions that invigorate and activate you as you move through your busy days. And now green tea extract with EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) has been added to the formula for added metabolic support.

Support Your Heart and Circulation

The heart is an amazing muscular organ that beats more than 100,000 times a day, 365 days a year, promoting vitality and alertness by constantly oxygenating our tissues. Maximum Vitality™ supports your cardiovascular system with antioxidant coenzyme Q10, which helps support heart muscle metabolism. Maximum Vitality™ also contains the minerals potassium and magnesium, electrolytes vital for healthy heartbeat and heart function, and the herb hawthorn, a rich source of antioxidant flavonoids, which has traditionally been used as a heart tonic.

Maximum Vitality™ supplies vitamins B-6, B-12 and folic acid to help maintain healthy homocysteine levels and vitamin K to support healthy circulation. Unlike common multiples, it supports cholesterol wellness, circulatory health and antioxidant cardiovascular protection, with all forms of the Vitamin E -- the typical d-alpha form of vitamin E and the more potent and effective gamma-tocopherol and tocotrienols.

Skin and Musculoskeletal Support

Maximum Vitality™ furnishes nutrients to build healthy bones, muscles and skin. We all know that calcium and magnesium are crucial for bone health, but many people don't know that there are a variety of nutritional cofactors that help build bone, such as vitamin D (which enhances calcium absorption and utilization), boron, manganese and copper.

Maximum Vitality™ supplies vitamin C and copper, necessary nutrients for collagen production (collagen is a key constituent of connective tissue in joints, skin and other areas), and the cutting-edge nutrient methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), an assimilable form of the mineral sulfur, used by the body to build and maintain connective tissues, including joint cartilage, hair, skin and nails. Additional nutraceuticals to support healthy skin include DMAE bitartrate, CoQ10, and alpha lipoic acid. Maximum Vitality™ also now includes rutin, quercetin, green tea extract and turmeric extract for your joint comfort.

Brain, Cognitive Abilities & Nervous System

The hectic pace and constant demands of life can keep our pulse racing, our nerves jangling and our temples throbbing. Our nervous systems are crying out, “Help!” Maximum Vitality™ provides that help.

Maximum Vitality™ supplies the most highly bioavailable and bioactive forms of the amino acid tyrosine – the N-acetyl form and the acetyl-L form. Tyrosine is an important precursor to epinephrine and norepinephrine (collectively known as the catecholamines), which helps you respond to stress. It also contains high doses of vitamins C and B-6, required by the adrenal glands to produce the catecholamines. In addition, Maximum Vitality™ delivers the full spectrum of B vitamins, all important for healthy nervous system function.

Maximum Vitality™ contains special nutrients that support healthy brain function by furnishing DMAE and choline. Both are precursors to the important neurotransmitter acetylcholine and are important for memory. Included are grape seed extract, an effective antioxidant that can prevent lipid peroxidation, which is critically important for the high amounts of fatty tissue in the brain. Maximum Vitality™—good brain food.

Immune Defense

Maximum Vitality™ supports your immune system, so you can feel your best through the seasons. Maximum Vitality™ contains the immunosupportive nutrient vitamin A, which fosters cell-mediated immunity and protects the epithelial linings of the respiratory and digestive tracts. Two forms of vitamin A are supplied: preformed vitamin A and its precursor, the potent antioxidant beta-carotene.

Other immuno-supportive nutrients in Maximum Vitality™ include vitamin B-6, vitamin C and zinc, which is fundamental for proper functioning of our T-cells, the “seek and destroy” cells of our immune system. Maximum Vitality™ also includes the highly bioavailable alpha and R-isomer forms. Lipoic acid along with the B vitamins and CoQ10 promote building the energy reserves needed when the immune system needs to kick into high gear.

Liver and Elimination

Your liver is responsible for converting many nutrients into their metabolically active forms before your body can use them. After activation, these nutrients travel through the blood stream to target organs where they perform their metabolic functions. Not only does the liver activate nutrients, but it also plays a crucial role in a variety of other metabolic functions, from fat digestion and cholesterol production to blood sugar regulation to the processing and elimination of toxins, an important role in today’s increasingly polluted world. For all these reasons, Maximum Vitality™ provides critical nutrients for the liver.

Maximum Vitality™ contains alpha-lipoic acid, turmeric, silymarin and N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) – all potent antioxidants that support healthy liver function. NAC and alpha-lipoic acid both help produce glutathione, one of the liver's primary detoxifying molecules. Silymarin, the active flavonoid complex of the herb milk thistle, as well as coenzyme Q10, have been shown in vitro to inhibit lipid peroxidation of cell membranes. Turmeric extract promotes bile flow and is a rich source of the antioxidant, curcumin. Maximum Vitality™ also contains choline and inositol, vitamin- like molecules which act as lipotropics, unique substances that prevent the deposition of fat in the liver. Since the liver is naturally high in fats, Maximum Vitality™ is one of the only multiples that contains the fat-soluble form of vitamin C, ascorbyl palmitate, for antioxidant protection.

Powerful Antioxidant Defense

Oxidative stress is the primary cause of accelerated aging. This and other forms of free radical damage are constantly threatening your body. Whether it is from pollution, ultraviolet light, food additives, or from other sources, it is more critical than ever to protect your body with antioxidants.

Maximum Vitality™ contains 24 of the most powerful antioxidants known to science, including eight new antioxidants based on the latest research. It contains antioxidants that are water soluble, such as Vitamin C, quercetin and rutin, and ones that are fat soluble, such as all 8 isomers of Vitamin E, alpha-lipoic acid and lycopene. There are antioxidants that are especially protective of specific body systems, such as lutein to protect the macula in your eye, lycopene to protect your prostate gland, and tocotrienols to protect your arteries.

Cutting-Edge Vision Nutrition

The structure and functions of your eyes are very complex. Maximum Vitality™ contains nutrients to help support and maintain healthy eye tissue, which is particularly susceptible to oxidative stress from free radicals. To support your healthy macula, aqueous tissue and optical nerve signals, Maximum Vitality™ includes ingredients such as lutein, astaxanthin, beta carotene, bilberry, zinc, lipoic acid and quercetin.

Rejuvenate! Reenergize! Revitalize!

Maximum Vitality™ provides robust nutritional support to help you maintain long-term health. Combined with a relatively healthy diet, exercise, and regular medical check-ups, Maximum Vitality™ provides the optimum level of nutrients recommended in the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements.

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Criteria established in the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements

Maximum Vitality™ was designed based on the top 1 percent of multivitamins using the following criteria established in the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements by Lyle MacWilliam.

Completeness

Does the product contain the full spectrum of nutrients listed in the Blended Standard and considered essential for optimal health?

Potency

Of those nutrients in the product, what percent are found at potency levels meeting or exceeding 50 percent of the potency for those nutrients in the Blended Standard?

Bioavailability

Does the product contain minerals in their most bioavailable forms as amino acid chelates or organic acid complexes?

Bioactivity of Vitamin E

Does the product contain only the d-isomer of vitamin E (the natural, biologically active form of alpha tocopherol) or does the product use the d/l isomers of vitamin E (a synthetic form, where the biological activity is about one-half [or less] of the natural vitamin E)?

Cardiac Health Triad

Does the product contain vitamin E, coenzyme Q10 and magnesium, three nutritional components important to cardiac health, at potencies that meet or exceed 50 percent of the Blended Standard?

Homocysteine Reduction Triad

Does the product contain the nutritional triad of vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12 and folic acid, at levels meeting or exceeding 50 percent of the Blended Standard?

Bone Health Complex

Does the product contain the nutrients shown by clinical studies to be important for optimal bone health (vitamin D, vitamin K, folic acid, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12, boron, calcium, magnesium, silicon and zinc) at potencies equal to or exceeding 50 percent of the potencies listed in the Blended Standard?

Antioxidant Triad

Does the product contain the important antioxidant triad of vitamin E, vitamin C and beta-carotene at potencies equal to or exceeding 50 percent of the potencies listed in the Blended Standard?

Glutathione Support

Does the product contain the nutritional precursors necessary for glutathione synthesis and the proper functioning of the Glutathione Peroxidase Pathway, at potencies equal to or exceeding 50 percent of the potencies listed in the Blended Standard?

Metabolic Support

Does the product contain the nutrients necessary to help regulate glucose metabolism and support the body’s ability to generate, store and utilize energy, and are these nutrients available at potencies equal to or exceeding 50 percent of the potencies listed in the Blended Standard?

Bioflavonoid Profile

Does the product contain a mixture of bioflavonoids (citrus flavonoids, soy isoflavones, quercetin, quercitrin, hesperidin, rutin, bilberry extract and green tea catechins) and proanthocyanidins at potencies that meet or exceed 50 percent of the combined recommended potencies for PCOs and mixed bioflavonoids in the Blended Standard?

Phenolic Compound Profile

Does the product contain phenolic compounds (polyphenolic acids and their derivatives, including curcumin) at a potency level recently established in the literature (25 mg) that has been associated with a reduced incidence of coronary heart disease?

Lipotropic Factors

Does the product contain the important lipotropic factors, choline (including phophatidylcholine) and inositol, at levels meeting or exceeding 50 percent of the Blended Standard?

Potential Toxicities

Does the nutritional supplement contain levels of vitamin A and iron that exceed 100% of the Blended Standard?

Maximum Vitality™ - How it Benefits You