Issue 53 October 1997

Originators of the Superfood Blend Concept TM

Iridesca - “Weight Loss” Breakthrough You Have Been Searching For...

Phytonutrients - Your Heart’s Best Friends!

Water & Phytonutrients

Number One In A Series About Phytonutrients

Your body is a complex, dynamic living system, sparkling with bits of life-energy and living electric chemistry dancing in a performance virtually rivaling the stars in the heavens! This series of Creative Insights is about encouraging that dance of life by supporting life with life.

“Phytonutrients”, What Are They? - How To Use Them To Create A New Quality Of Life!

by Jevari Oberon

Phytonutrients is merely a fancy word for nutrients from plants.

Some of these nutrients are as simple as vitamins or minerals from plants, and others are far more complex, and lots more fun!

In upcoming issues of Creative Insights we will be peeking at some of the scientific insights into how phytonutrients work in specific systems of your body. We will also talk in terms of phytonutrient families like Terpenes, Phytosterols, Aromatics, Phenols, Thiols, Indoles and Catechins - and what they can do for you. But first, lets take a quick look at two categories of phytonutrient benefits that help your body preserve life and enhance it...

These drugs were recalled because they were shown to damage heart valves in one-third of healthy people taking them.

Iridesca is a gold-mine of phytonutrient weight loss alternatives. Nearly half of the adult population has an urgent need for these fat-moderating resources.

Remember, when someone says “weight loss” they actually mean “I want to look shapelier and more trim.”

Muscle is heavier than fat, but muscle is what provides shapeliness, and it is muscle that burns most fat.

At my last physical, the nurse operating the scale underestimated my weight by 30-some pounds. Finally, I asked if I could operate the scale and slid the balance weight to my true weight. She thought her scale was broken. Muscle is heavy.

So remember, keep your focus on building muscle, defining shape and losing fat - not merely on scale weight. If you could achieve the shape and trimness you desired, would your scale weight really matter?

Some of the ingredients in Iridesca are so powerful they sell successfully as stand-alone weight-loss products.

Three of the most popular and effective of these are the mineral Chromium and the phytonutrients Inulin and Citrimax® (-hydroxycitric acid) extracted from Tamarind Fruit.

GTF Chromium (630mcg/serv.)

While a typical, stand-alone weight control product will supply 200 mcg of Chromium, Iridesca provides an incredible 63Omcg of Chromium in each daily serving.

All of Iridesca’s Chromium is in the life-created TM phytonutrient form. This means it is in the ready-to-use Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) configuration with other nutrients essential for its actual utilization. Chromium products on the market are effective for helping people increase energy, moderate blood sugar, alleviate cravings and reduce fat - while also increasing muscle - and they achieve these results with only 200mcg of Chromium by itself - Imagine what Iridesca can do at over 3 times that much - and in concert with dozens of synergistic nutrient helpers like Citrimax and Vitamins C and E!

Citrimax (333mglserv.)

The extract of the Tamarind Fruit is able to help your cells get at and use stored fuel calories that otherwise wouldn’t get touched before you eat again and add even more.

When your cells are swimming in energy they send a signal to the brain that there is no need to consume more fuel. This serves to put off meals and also reduce their size. This is achieved via a unique pathway unapproachable by any other nutrient or combination. It makes Citrimax Tamarind Fruit Extract a very special synergist in your strategy to reduce calories - and it accomplishes this pain free. You aren’t even consciously aware it is working.

Inulin (160mg/serv.)

The word Inulin sounds a bit like insulin because they are related chemically. Inulin is a fiber-like carbohydrate found in small amounts in many foods. Chicory and Dahlia Flower Bulbs are especially rich sources. Inulin supports a leveling of extreme peaks and valleys of blood sugar levels. These are key triggers of hunger (and also foul moods).

Similar carbohydrates in Spirulina account for its appetite-reducing reputation.

Virtually every ingredient and nutrient in Iridesca has some function for either burning fat, building muscle, enhancing shape or for satisfaction of appetite. Here are some of the more important ones:

Coenzyme Q10 (60mg/serv.)

Q10 releases more energy by helping to ignite overstocked calories. It is a chromium synergist that switches on the “brown fat” cells on the back of the neck and upper spine. These cells are responsible for burning off excessive calories as heat. They burn hot in most teenagers, but begin to “foul their plugs” as one grows older. The Q10/Chromium-team turbo-charges these fat-burners with the nutrients they need.

Lecithin (6,164mg/serv.)

Lecithin (though itself a fat with notable calories) is essential for transforming solidified, stored fat into solution with water so it can be converted into energy.

With lecithin, unsightly fat can be moved from where it isn’t wanted to where it is needed for natural stimulant free energy. A few calories of lecithin help your body process several times that many calories of unwanted fat.

As a plus, lecithin immediately starts moving fat from “accumulation zones” to areas where it is more attractive and evenly distributed.

Powerful Synergists

Vitamin C is one of the most powerful fat-loss synergists. Its form and combination in Iridesca is astoundingly powerful. Iridesca provides 3 78mg of vitamin C (630% RDA) plus approximately 1,000mg of bioflavonoid synergists per serving.

Vitamin-C is best taken every 2 or 3 hours throughout the day for maximum fat-loss effect. Thus we offer C-E Capsules. These are in a special, low acid form you can even take between meals and with only water.

TFA (60mg + 162mg of brown rice membrane/serving)

When white rice is processed, the outer membrane of the kernel is discarded. This membrane is a source of a super-antioxidant called Trans Ferulic Acid, or “TFA” for short. Nature uses TFA to protect the rice kernel so it will sprout. Your body can also use TFA to support youthful hormone production (like DHEA), which results in improved muscle building and fat-burning at a more vigorous rate like when you were a teen.

Iridesca contains a whole host of phytonutrient superfood ingredients. Phytonutrients support youthfulness, vitality, oxygen transport and general nutrition - for a more energetic and attractive life-style and body.

Phytonutrients - Your Heart’s Best Friends!

Forty percent of heart attacks occur to people who have perfectly healthy cholesterol levels.

Many of these people are otherwise healthy young people.

Until recently, these hundreds of deaths per day were somewhat of a shocking mystery to doctors. Now it is known that there is a major causation factor other than cholesterol. The culprit is called homocysteine.

Cystine is a protein readily available in your diet. It is essential for metabolism and structure. Three B-vitamins work in concert to keep the homocysteine form of it in balance. Otherwise, it acts to thicken the walls of blood vessels until they are too narrow to supply sufficient blood for the ever-laboring heart muscles. (Homocysteine also makes blood platelets stickier and more likely to clump together and clog capillaries.)

These over-thickened walls and reduced flow can’t be good for supplying oxygen and nutrients to other cells of the body either. Consider your brain’s extraordinary needs and those of vessels in your legs, for example.

Anyone below optimum levels of the key homocysteine moderators will experience some excessive thickening of vessel walls, and some declines in overall well-being and performance.

When you think about the profound overall impact this has, you must wonder how many of the aches and pains blamed on “old age” are actually the result of sub-optimum levels of the balancing-balancing B-vitamins. The overly-thickened vessel walls and proportional decreases in delivery of essential oxygen and nutrients can conspire to create many of these “aging” symptoms.

In a young person they may simply register as fatigue or a lack of drive.

The “magic” nutrition combo doctors and scientist are now recognizing is so simple. Here it is: Folic Acid, B-6 and B-12. And, they are emphasizing how important it is to get these nutrients in a “dietary form” such as fruits, or vegetables as in Iridesca - where the phytonutrient form is ideal with all supporting factors present.

It takes plentiful amounts of these 3 nutrients working synergistically to give your body the nutritional support it needs to “dissolve” balancing, like your body does with lecithin and the dissolving of cholesterol.

Yes, you could probably take these nutrients as separate bottles of supplements and get results - Or, you could simply realize that Iridesca already contains generous amounts of all 3, plus lecithin. With the announcement of these “new” findings, those of you who have already been taking Exsula should find some rewarding comfort for your wise investment.

In Iridesca each of the key nutrients is provided in a genuinely natural, life-created, phytonutrient form. And these are only the tip of the iceberg in Iridesca s overall phytonutrient cardiovascular strategy!

This team in Iridesca makes a cardiovascular difference you can feel - NOW and well into the FUTURE!

Lecithin 6,164 mg

Folic Acid 520mg=130%RDA

B-6 3,400mcg=320%RDA

B-12 80mcg=1,260%RDA Plus 146 other ingredients with hundreds of synergistic nutrients and cofactors all in the phytonutrient form.

Water Is Your Body’s Currency For Health

by Jevari Oberon

If you want a level of health beyond simple drugstore vitamins and minerals, then phytonutrients are the obvious choice.

As you view bottles of phytonutrients on the shelf, and you are used to seeing a $5.00 bottle of calcium or B-12, you are going to be shocked at a $35.00 bottle of Q10, or $35.00 for a bottle of Pycnogenol. The Iridesca miracle is that it combines 150 bottles for only the price of two bottles into one convenient and economical product. Yet even at Iridesca’s incredible “co-op” price you are still going to want to get your money’s worth.

As magnificent as phytonutrients are, their activation and utilization in the body is utterly dependent upon water.

Anybody who is expecting their body to heal and be healthy without drinking plentiful water is expecting something that cannot be.

Some people try phytonutrients and get less than sparkling results because they are inflicting a drought on all of the marvelous systems of their body. Even the best-tended crop will not thrive in a drought!

How much water is enough? Get lridesca’s broad phytonutrient formula into your body and gradually increase your water intake -paying close attention to kidney ability to accommodate the increased flow. Patience may be required to allow for normalization of damaged tissues deprived of adequate water for decades.

When you have plenty of energy and every part of your body feels great and is working right you will know that at long last you are drinking enough water.

You will be amazed at how much more water it is going to take for sparkling health than you thought. Stop using mere satisfaction of thirst as your gauge for adequate water intake. General health is a much more valid gauge. As you increase the amount of water you drink, remember how much more important water quality becomes.

Anyone who is feeling less than their best will start feeling deeply better only when they continuously have a glass of pure water within arm’s reach.

The only way anyone who is already feeling good will keep feeling good - way into old age

- is by keeping a glass of pure water within arm’s reach.

Colas, coffee, tea and juices don’t count except in reverse. For each of them that is consumed, health will demand at least their equivalent in water. The very finest glacial ice waters are less expensive than these other beverages and your cells will literally start dancing for joy when plentiful good water shows up at the front door hand in hand with Iridesca’s phytonutrient treasures.

After oxygen, water is your body’s most urgent resource. Everyone breathes every few seconds, but many people go for hours without water or have only a few tiny sips a day.

A few ounces of water every half hour is essential for getting the benefits from those precious phytonutrients and manifesting the sparkling good health we all desire.