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Revolutionary advancement in vitamin,
mineral, phytochemical supplementation
www.PowerfulOrganicVitamin.com
July 27, 2006
Coppell, Texas (NASDAQ-MTEX) – Mannatech, Incorporated, announced today it plans
to introduce PhytoMatrix, the nutrition industry’s first supplement containing
fully standardized and completely plant-based vitamins, minerals and
phytochemicals.
Modern farming practices have dramatically compromised the
nutritional value of many fruits and vegetables. And while experts agree that
supplementation can provide the body with these missing nutrients, many
supplements contain synthetic, chemically derived, mined or chelated minerals
and vitamins that studies show are not readily absorbed or used by the body.
Scheduled for sale beginning during the fourth quarter,
PhytoMatrix will not contain any synthetic or chemically derived active
ingredients. Instead, it will contain vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals
that have been absorbed by a plant’s roots and stored in its tissue. When
harvested, these plants provide all-natural ingredients.
An article in the Vol. 71, 2000, edition of peer-reviewed Journal
of Food Chemistry stated that plant-based minerals are much more easily
absorbed by the body. The article referenced a study showing the body was able
to use less than 10 percent of the synthetic minerals contained in the most
popular brands of multivitamins. By contrast, the body was able to assimilate
between 80 percent to 100 percent of the minerals derived from plants.
Mannatech has obtained exclusive rights to a patented, hydroponic
cultivation technology that allows plants to absorb significantly greater
quantities of minerals. This 10-year agreement with INB:B Technology (AMEX-INB)
of New Jersey makes Mannatech the only network marketing company allowed to use
a blend of six or more INB-harvested minerals. PhytoMatrix will contain 10
minerals.
INB developed its hydroponics process during the 1990s using
Indian mustard, widely known as “nature’s magnet” for its ability to absorb
minerals from the soil. Growing Indian mustard using enriched hydroponic
cultivation can significantly increase the number and amount of minerals
concentrated in the plant’s tissue.
A recent study showed that Indian mustard grown using enriched
cultivation produced concentrations of iron, zinc and chromium many times
greater than concentrations found in mineral-rich vegetables purchased from a
local market. The enriched cultivation used for PhytoMatrix will provide optimum
quantities of the most essential minerals.
In fact, a daily serving of PhytoMatrix will provide the same
amount of minerals typically found in several pounds of fresh fruits and
vegetables. The body uses minerals for many important functions, including the
activation of enzymes, hormones and other molecules needed to sustain life.
In addition to plant-sourced minerals, PhytoMatrix will contain
plant-sourced vitamins. When derived from the plant matrix, vitamins come with
the beneficial fibers, sugars and organic acids that reside in natural matrices
– providing the body with maximum benefit and functionality.
PhytoMatrix will provide a substantial portion of the Recommended
Daily Allowance of vitamins and minerals as well as powerful plant-derived
phytochemicals. A 2003 issue of Nature Reviews defined the role of
phytochemicals as “halting or retarding the progression of pre-cancerous cells
to malignant ones.” Science has shown there is a synergy when various
plant-sourced vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals are combined.
Mannatech has filed for a patent protecting the combination of the
key technologies that comprise PhytoMatrix.
“PhytoMatrix is a revolutionary advancement that is indicative of
the focus Mannatech places on securing the best technology to support the
market’s best and most unique products,” said Mannatech founder, CEO and
Chairman of the Board Sam Caster. “While some companies focus on creating an
extremely large product line, Mannatech tailors its research and development to
create and maintain a few core optimal products.”
Founded in 1993, Mannatech is a leading wellness company and a
pioneer in the field of proprietary glyconutritional supplements and wellness
products. The company announced a ground-breaking formulation in 1996 of a nutritional
supplement comprised of a unique blend of plant-based sugars, which are also
known as glyconutrients (‘glyco’ is the Greek word for ‘sweet’).
Medical research acknowledges that eight glyconutrient sugars are
needed at the cellular level for optimum immune system function. Considering
that six of these glyconutrients are often lacking in modern diets, Mannatech
sought new and better sources of the nutrients. The effort culminated in the
Ambrotose complex. Twenty patents – including one from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office – have been issued to Mannatech for technology related to the
Ambrotose complex.
Today Mannatech has more than two dozen glyconutritional products
for adults and children that address health and nutrition, sports performance,
weight management and skin care.
About Integrated BioPharma (INB)
Integrated BioPharma is a unique grouping of companies presently
serving the varied needs of the health care industry. Through its nutraceutical
business, the Company creates, develops, manufactures and markets products
worldwide. The company’s biotechnology business uses its patented plant-based
technology to produce vaccines and therapeutic antibodies. Its pharmaceutical
business operates a cGMP facility for the production and sale of Paclitaxel and
related drugs and provides technical services through its contract research
organization. Further information is available at www.iBioPharma.com.
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Then Bad News
Toxic
Vitamins - Stop taking Them!
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 by Mike Adams
http://www.newstarget.com/012427.html
Vitamin
warning! Some nutritional supplements use hydrogenated oils as fillers
The next time you buy
soft-gel vitamins, you'd better take a look at what's inside them. Would you be
surprised if I told you that vitamin companies are taking one of the most toxic
food ingredients known to mankind and putting it in soft gels as a filler? It's
absolutely true. You can find it in vitamins and supplements in health food
stores, grocery stores, price discount warehouse clubs, retailers and
pharmacies all over the country and around the world right now. What toxic
ingredient am I referring to? Partially hydrogenated soybean
oil.
Today, anyone who follows
nutrition knows that hydrogenated oils are extremely toxic. We
know that, long-term, they will lead to cardiovascular disease and heart
attacks. They can even encourage strokes. We know that they cause
harm, sometimes irreparable, to the nervous
system. We know that they interfere with the absorption of the
essential fatty acids you need to maintain healthy cells, a healthy nervous system,
healthy blood sugar regulation and many other
functions.
And
yet, vitamin companies – the cheap ones – are taking this ingredient and
putting it in soft gels as filler. And that's not the only ingredient they're
putting in, either. Some vitamin companies are taking artificial colors – that's right, chemicals extracted
from coal tar – and putting them in not only soft gels but in tablets and
capsules, too.
Now, why on
earth would a vitamin company do this? The answer is because some of these
companies aren't at all interested in health. In fact, the dirty little
secret of the nutritional supplements industry is that
many of these companies are wholly or partially owned by pharmaceutical companies, so these
vitamin manufacturers think they can standardize, process and manufacture vitamins
in the same way they manufacture prescription drugs (which is an entirely
unnatural process, by the way).
When companies manufacture
prescription drugs, they really don't care what goes into them as long as the
active ingredient is there. Prescription drugs, in addition to containing
highly toxic chemicals that are supposed to be medicinal, also contain highly
toxic fillers, colors and other additives that sometimes even counteract the
intended effect of the drug. When those pharmaceutical companies decide to
branch out into nutritional supplements because it's a hot industry, they, of
course, carry over these same manufacturing practices to nutritional
supplements. This is why you don't want to get your supplements from these mega
corporations that are actually owned by Big Pharma. It's better to get something
from smaller, more passionate companies.
I don't
necessarily mean "mom-and-pop" shops, but I mean companies that are
solely focused on health, even if they do happen to be commercially successful.
Companies like New Chapter, Nature's Way, Now Foods, Garden of Life or Jay Robb
Enterprises (which has outstanding whey protein, soy protein and egg protein
products). These are a few of the many companies that seem to really care about
health and they avoid using toxic ingredients, whereas many other supplement
companies don't care at all what they put in there, as long as they can claim
something on the label.
When
you're buying a soft gel capsule, you would normally think that what goes
inside that soft gel is what's stated on the label. It makes sense, right? So
if the label on that vitamin bottle says "salmon
oil," and you take out a soft gel and look at it, you would think it's
filled with salmon oil, right? This is what most people think. This is common
sense. But in fact, it is incorrect.
You might be
amazed to learn this, but that soft gel may not be filled with salmon oil at
all; it may have a miniscule amount of salmon oil in it, but the rest of it is
just filler. It could be soybean oil, hydrogenated oils or some other form of
filler. It could be something that's actually dangerous to your health, so
you'd better read the ingredients labels on those vitamins, minerals
and supplements, in addition to reading the ingredients labels on foods, as
I've always recommended. Watch out! Just because you buy something that looks
good on the label – something that claims to have flax
oil, salmon oil or vitamin B in it – it doesn't mean it's actually
good for you.
To learn more about this
new Vitamin Supplement
www.PowerfulOrganicVitamin.com
Call Robert
1-800-434-8388
Posted
Thursday, October 13, 2005
by Mike Adams
http://www.newstarget.com/012427.html
http://www.cancerfightingstrategies.com/other.html
Synthetic vitamins are not good for you. You may have taken
multi-vitamins for years figuring that they wouldn't hurt you. Unfortunately,
research shows that taking them is actually worse than not taking anything if
they are synthetic.
In 1941 research done by Dr. Agnes Faye
Morgan at the University of California found that animals fed synthetic
vitamins had toxic reactions or died more quickly of degenerative diseases
compared to those fed whole foods. She stated that the enrichment of processed
foods with synthetic vitamins may "precipitate conditions worse than the
original deficiency."
A study of 29,000 Finnish smokers proved
that synthetic vitamins increased death rates significantly enough to stop a
10-year study prematurely. The risk of cancer increased by 16% and there were
more heart attacks, more strokes, and an 8% higher increase in the overall
death rate.
A Harvard study of 22,000 physicians
reported no health benefits from synthetic vitamins. Other studies report
toxicity and serious side effects. In one case, synthetic beta carotene blocked
antioxidant activity and anti-cancer activity of 50 antioxidants in the diet.
In a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
study, 18,000 American men and women at risk of lung cancer took a either a
placebo or supplements of synthetic vitamin A. The researchers lead by Dr.
Gilbert Omenn stopped the study in January 1996 because the group on
supplements had a 28% higher incidence of lung cancer.
Most of the multi-vitamins and many of the
individual vitamins on the market are made with synthetic vitamins. The profit
margin is huge compared to whole food vitamins. But as you can see, not only do
they not work, but they actually harm your health. Fortunately, there are a few
multi-vitamins that do not contain synthetic vitamins.
To learn more about this
new Vitamin Supplement
www.PowerfulOrganicVitamin.com
Call Robert
1-800-434-8388