Power Antioxidant™ is a unique dietary supplement that contains a powerful array of eleven herbal and nutritional antioxidants and supporting herbs. This combination contains two patent-pending herbal extracts from Sabinsa Corporation: Curcumin C 3 Complex derived from turmeric spice rhizome, and Bioperine derived from the fruits of the black pepper plant. Also included is a green tea extract that contains over 50% polyphenols - a class of plant principles which have powerful antioxidant properties. Selenium is supplied in the organically-bound amino acid form of L-selenomethione, and is recognized as a powerful antioxidant trace mineral. Other herbals and spices with traditional adaptogen, preservation, or antioxidant properties include: Ginseng root, ginger rhizome, cranberry fruit, Astragalus rot, lemon peel, and allspice fruit.

Antioxidants have been around since life began. Basically they are natural substances found in plants and animals that protect the fats, oils, proteins, and nucleic acids from premature aging and destruction from ultraviolet light found in sunlight, cosmic radiation, chemicals, internally generated free radicals, etc. Certain spices such as ginger and tumeric were used as natural food "preservatives" long before the word "antioxidant" was coined. Basically, certain spices, herbs, and nutrients, called antioxidants, help prevent damage to fats, oils, proteins, and nucleic acids in plant and animal tissues by neutralizing destructive active molecules called "free radicals". Examples of free radical damage include rancid butter, rancid cooking oils, and older refrigerated cooked meats. Rancidity is often described as an unfresh, refrigerator-like taste. Other examples of antioxidant activity include extreme skin wrinkling on those who get excessive sun exposure. In this case, skin loses its flexibility because parallel protein fibers become cross-linked. Other examples of free radical damage cross-linking include: car dashboards with sun and heat cracks, warped, wrinkled vinyl, and cracked inflexible garden hoses left out in direct sunlight. Dietary antioxidants basically slow down free radicl damage by quenching and neutralizing excess free radicals, and preventing their destructive effects upon the body's oils, fats, proteins, nucleic acids and other sensitive materials. While excess free radicals are undesirable, the body does need and use some free radicals it generates such as hydrogen peroxide and the superoxide radical as part of the immune system to attack and kill invading bacteria. And so, it is not desirable to eliminate all free radicals - just excess production which can damage the body's cells and tissues.

Antioxidants often work synergistically with each other - that is the action ot two or more antioxidants is often greater than the sum of their individual components. Furthermore different antioxidants may neutralize different varieties of free radicals; and some antioxidants seem to gravitate toward different parts of the body. For example, tumeric apears to have an affinity toward the liver, while selenium concentrates in the skeletal muscles and heart muscles.

CURCUMIN C 3 COMPLEX™
This is a patent-pending, trademarked extract made by Sabinsa Corp., and derived from tumeric (Curcuma ionga) rhizome. Tumeric has been used as a spice preservative, and as a food in India for centuries. Curcumin C Complex is an extract of 90 to 95% mixed curcuminoids. These curcuminoids are very strong antioxidant phenolic compounds, especially against the hydroxyl radical. They helped prevent free radical damage to lard as measured by the Rancimat method about three times longer than the synthetic preservative BHT, and their control group. Curcuminoids not only help neutralize free radicals, but may actually prevent free radical damage from starting in the first place.

BIOPERINE™
This patent- pending, trademarked extract is made by Sabinsa Corporation. It is a 95-98% pure piperine extract from black pepper plants. Black pepper contains only a small percentage of the crystalline alkaloid piperine. Using this highly concentrated extract of Bioperine™, makes larger quantities of piperine readily available for assimilation, without a long digestive process, and without the necessity of consuming an excess of overly stimulating pepper.

GREEN TEA EXTRACT
It contains over 50% polyphenols - plant principles regarded as powerful antioxidant meterials. Green tea (Camellia sinensis) is from an evergreen shrub that originated in China several thousand years ago. Black tea is fermented green tea, and is not considered to be as healthful as green tea. Green tea is steamed to prevent fermentation. Whole (unextracted) tea leaves and buds contain large amounts of tannins or phenolic substances including flavonoids such as rutin and quercitin, and vitamin C. Tannic substances including catechin, apigallocatechin, and epigallocatechin gallate have been reported to have antioxidant properties. Tea does contain some caffeine and other xanthinealkaloids

SELENIUM
Selenium is a trace mineral used by the body to form one of its most important antioxidant enzymes, glutathione peroxidase. This enzyme is most active in the liver. Glutathione peroxidase concentrates in the heart muscle and skeletal muscles. This enzyme helps destroy the peroxide radical before it can attack the cellular membrane which surrounds and protects the cell. Selenium is also believed to enhance the effectiveness of Vitamin E, another antioxidant nutrient. Selenium, bound to the amino acid methionine as L-selenomethione, can be incorporated into tissue proteins without further metabolic change. Selenium is unevenly distributed in U.S. soils with some states being very low and some high. Past glacial activity and rainfall deplete the soil, and thus plants, of this valuable trace mineral.

CABBAGE POWDER
(Brassica oleracea) is a member of the cruciferous family of vegetables which include broccoli, brussel sprouts, and cauliflower. The "lowly" cruciferous vegetables have recently gained fame in the popular press. Whole raw cabbage contains various compounds such as phenolics, isothiocyanates, indoles, dithiolthiones, glucosinolates, and coumarines - many of which are thought to induce antioxidant mechanisms. Raw fresh cabbage also is a good source of vitamin C, potassium and sulfur. Sulfur can be incorporated into some of the sulfur containing antioxidant amino acids and enzymes.

ASTRAGALUS ROOT
(Astragalus membranaceus) is the root of a Chinese herb, that has been used for thousands of years by the Chinese herbalists and classified as a "super herb". Its Chinese name "Huang-chi" means "yellow leader" because it was considered one of the most important "tonic" herbs. It was thought to supplement the "Ch'i" or life force and increase yang or warmth and movement. It contains various plant pigments such as flavones, and astragosides I-VII.

KOREAN GINSENG ROOT
(Panax ginseng) is the root of a plant long valued in the Orient as a "Ch'i tonic". It was said to powerfully tonify the original Ch'i. It contains ginenosides, panaxosides, sterols, and various vitamins, minerals, natural sugars, and other complex substances. Asians classify Ginseng as physical stress and builds the Ch'i or "live force". Ginseng many tonifying and adaptogenic properties may indicate an antioxidant function.

LEMON PEEL
(Citrus limon) is the outer yellow rind of the lemon fruit. The lemon tree is a small evergren tree indigenous to Northern India, but now cultivated worldwide in warmer climates. It contains about 2.5% volatile oil with a smell characteristic of lemon, a bitter principle, bioflavonoids (antioxidants) including hesperidin, vitamin C and other flavone glycosides, mucilage and calcium oxalate. Lemon peel preparations were used as tonics in Europe, and as flavoring agents.

CRANBERRY FRUIT
(Vaccinium spp.) grows wild in North America, Europe, and Asia, with most of the world's crop produced in the U.S. Cranberries are easily preserved in their natural form because of their benzoic acid component. Fresh cranberries contain benzoic acid which joins with glycine to produce hippuric acid. They also contain potassium and vitamin C. Certain plant acids may complex with trace mineral prooxidants (oxidation causing agents) such as iron, and enhance preservation properties by sequestering (separating out) such oxidation promoters.

GINGER RHIZOME
(Zingiber officinale) is a perennial herb that originated in Asia, but is now cultivated extensively in the West Indies, Australia, Africa, India, and China. Ginger has strong antioxidant properties on fats. Spices such as ginger were once the only preservation system available. Ginger contains a volatile oil containing gingerols, zingiberene, ar-curcumene, beta-sesquiphellandrene, beta-bisabolene, a strong pungent principle called shogaols, starch, proteins and fats.

ALLSPICE
(Pimenta spp.) is the full-grown but unripe frit of the evergreen tree native to the West Indies and South America. Jamaica is a major producer. It is a spice and condiment. It was used as an addition to "tonics". Allspice contains a volatile oil with eugenol present to 60 to 80%. Eugenol is a phenol thought to help potentiate trydsin, a protein digesting amino acid. Like various other spices, allspice has antioxidant properties.

VEGETABLE MAGNESIUM STEARATE
This is an excipient or capsule-making lubricant added to formulations to help reduce friction while encapsulating. It is a compound with 4.11% magnesium and vegetarian plant sources of stearate and palminate. Even dilute acids can decompose this compound. Less than one quarter of one percent magnesium stearate is used in the product.

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Power Anti-oxidant Recommended Use:
Take 2 tablets daily as a Dietary Supplement.