A MAN'S ZINC

Both Zinc and Plant Sterols in A Man’s Zinc have been shown to reduce prostate enlargement.  Zinc arginate helps deliver zinc to the prostrate which helps stimulate sperm production, and prostate health.  Plant sterols - known to reduce cholesterol also reduce prostrate enlargement.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

NAPPI CODE:                711976-001
AVAILABLE SIZES:      60 tablets per container

Zinc! It could be the single most important mineral for life. Especially for men.

Men and women have just about the same amount of zinc in all tissues of their bodies, with one exception: the male prostate gland.  The male prostate gland contains and uses more zinc than any other tissue – 4 to 80 times more, depending on tissue comparisons.

The main transporter of zinc into the prostate tissue is the amino acid - arginine, a nutrient also found concentrated in the prostate gland. Binding zinc to arginine helps direct it to the tissue that has the highest zinc mineral requirement. Without adequate zinc, sperm production decreases, and the general health of the prostate falters.
In addition:

• Zinc is required for production of hormones needed for normal growth, development, maturation, reproduction and tissue integrity. You can’t make new cells without it.
• Zinc stabilizes cell membranes, protecting them against oxidation. In that role, it is an anti-aging nutrient.
•  Zinc potentiates the action of insulin, helping move sugar into cells. (So do chromium, vanadium, and manganese.)
•  Zinc has been identified in several hundred enzymes and proteins. Zinc, as part of these enzymes, is critical to the metabolism of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, mucopolysaccharides and carbohydrates.

So, without adequate zinc, critical enzyme systems begin to break down. Sense of taste becomes less acute (an early warning of deficiency) or disappears, damaged tissue heals more slowly or not at all, digestion falters, growth and development slows down, and aging accelerates.

The USDA has been measuring the dietary intake of a number of important nutrients for several decades. Current estimates place more than one-third of the U.S. population at risk for zinc deficiency. If a supplement is needed for mature men, we recommend zinc arginate, a supplement that supplies two nutrients found abundantly in prostate tissue, zinc and arginine. To that compound, we add phytosterols, fatty alcohols from plants known to support healthy prostate function.

WHY IS ZINC SO IMPORTANT?

• Zinc is essential to the normal growth and development of animals and humans. Simple zinc supplementation corrects unexplained slow growth in children.
• Zinc is a structural component of cellular RNA and DNA. You can’t make new cells without it.
• Zinc stabilizes cell membranes, protecting them against per oxidation (oxidative damage.) It plays a role that is anti-aging and prevents degenerative diseases.
• Zinc potentiates the action of insulin, helping move sugar into cells. Chromium, vanadium, manganese, and lithium have also demonstrated this ability to balance blood sugar by normalizing insulin’s activity.
• Zinc is required for the synthesis (manufacture) of steroid hormones by the adrenal glands. One cannot grow or mature without steroid hormones.
• Zinc has been identified in more than 80 enzymes and proteins, giving evidence of its wide ranging importance in metabolism (the sum total of life-giving biochemical events in the body.)
• Zinc is essential for the structure and function of these enzymes.
• Zinc, as part of these enzymes, is critical to the metabolism of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, mucopolysaccharides and carbohydrates.
• Zinc enzymes:
  
  
  1. Detoxify dietary and naturally occurring alcohols.
  2. Detoxify and remove carbon dioxide, thereby sustaining life itself.
  3. Are a part of pancreatic enzymes responsible for the breakdown of proteins and peptides to their amino acid building blocks.
  4. Are responsible for the splitting and replication of DNA in cells during growth.
  5. Regulate cellular development, division and differentiation.
  6. Are essential for protein synthesis.
  7. Help control the strength, effectiveness and number of white blood cell count against disease.
  8. Are essential to the synthesis of new bone.
  9. Provide antioxidant protection within each cell as a structural and activating component of S.O.D (super-oxide dismutase.)
     
     
•  Zinc also increases the activity of many other enzymes (an effect that can also be achieved by several other metal enzymes.)

WHY USE A MAN’S ZINC?

• It contains 30 mg. elemental Zn from arginate and 200 mg. phytosterols
• It supports prostate health
• It supports immunity, healing, and taste
• It supports bone health and tissue repair and integrity
• It is an important cellular antioxidant (as part of ZN-SOD)
• Without adequate zinc, sperm production decreases, and the general health of the prostate falters.

ingredients

Ingredients: Soy phytosterol complex, zinc arginate, magnesium stearate, cellulose, cellulose coating. (See Mark Timon’s blog below about Soy Oil)

Supplement Facts Serving Size: 1 (one) tablet Servings per container: 60
	Amount per capsule	% Daily Value
Zinc	30 mg.	200%
Beta sitosterol (from soy)	94.8 mg.	*
Campesterol (from soy)	63.2 mg.	*
Stigmasterol (from soy)	38.6 mg.	*
Brassicasterol (from soy)	6.2 mg.	*
Stigmastanol (from soy)	2 mg.	*
Ergostanol (from soy)	1.4 mg.	*
Daily Value not established*

*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Directions

 As a dietary supplement, take one (1) tablet daily.
*Please be aware that the above dosages are RDA recommended amounts. For more personalized doses and effective combinations – please consult your health consultant or medical Doctor.

SOY NUTS, AWAKE!
The purpose of this piece is to educate the reader about the separation between soy lecithin, and a host of soy foods (e.g. soy nuts, soy protein concentrate, soy protein isolate, soy granules, soy flour, soy milk, etc.). The former is safe, and contributes to overall health, while the latter can contribute to ill health and disease.

Understanding Lecithin
Lecithin has been a major supplement in the nutrition industry for decades stretching back to the 1940’s. I would think that by this time it would be understood as well as vitamin C, but it is not. Unfounded concerns among retailers and consumers alike have arisen from disinformation fed into the industry media, parroted by sales personnel. Let’s try to clear up some of the confusion.

ALL cell membranes are made up of a phospholipid bi-layer (with protein islands floating in them, along with other nuanced features). Phosphorus containing lipids are the primary structural component of cell membranes. They are essential to the function of cell membranes. Lecithin is a superb dietary source of phospholipids. Egg yolks, liver, peanuts, corn, spinach, and whole grains are good dietary sources, but soy beans are by far the most important commercial source of lecithin.

Soy lecithin is extracted from soy oil and fiber, or the sludge leftover from soy oil extraction and purification. Acetone is commonly used as the solvent to precipitate out the lecithin, although newer techniques employing super critical fluid technology or ethanol extraction are coming into use. In fact, the technical definition of soy lecithin is “acetone insoluble soy phosphatides.” (The acetone evaporates off during processing, and, if any can be found in the final product, it is usually in fractions of parts per billion.)

More precisely, in chemical terms, lecithin is a 97% to 98% pure material composed of phosphatidyl ethanolamine, phosphatidyl inositol, phosphatidic acid, phosphatidyl choline and a small amount of phosphatidyl serine. The molecular structure of each of these substances is very clearly defined.

Is Lecithin Dangerous?

I have been asked a number of questions by consumers and sellers of lecithin alike that give evidence to the growing concern about the safety and value of the product. For example:
Is lecithin from non-GMO or organic soy beans superior to lecithin from regular, commercially grown soy beans?

Neither GMO status nor organic cultivation comes into play in the discussion of lecithin, just as the toxicity of soy beans does not come into play in the discussion of lecithin. If genetic modification were to alter the molecular conformation of any of the components of lecithin (a highly unlikely and absolutely unnecessary event) then the resulting, extracted material could not be called lecithin.

What I’m saying is that granular and powdered lecithin is both highly purified and narrowly defined. Any divergence from that narrow definition would cause the material to be something other than lecithin. The 2% to 3% of the finished material that is not lecithin is moisture and mineral ash. The extraction process:

1.)    Removes any residual pesticides from non-organic starting material,
2.)    Removes phytoestrogens,
3.)    Removes anti-nutrients (e.g. trypsin & chymotrypsin inhibitors)
4.)    Removes protein,
5.)    Removes fiber, and
6.)    Anything else EXCEPT lecithin.
In short, no matter what manner of bad news is associated with soy beans and other soy products, that bad news does NOT apply to lecithin.

Therefore, the answers to these additional, serious questions:

1)  Does the Soy Lecithin possibly affect estrogen receptors as soy itself can?
2)  Would you caution those on thyroid medication about using soy lecithin?
Are 1) NO, and 2) NO. There are no influences on the thyroid or estrogenic effects associated with lecithin.

The Good News
Lecithin is still, as it was in 1943, an exceptional supplement for helping maintain the integrity of every cell membrane in the body, for clearing cholesterol from artery walls, for supporting neurotransmitter synthesis and, therefore, cognition, and for maintaining the myelin sheath that insulates nerves. Just because it dates from the earlier days in our industry when yeast, liver powder, and wheat germ were kings, does not mean it lacks value or is dangerous. It’s a great source of phospholipids, and your body would fall apart without phospholipids.

I urge those of you who might have begun to believe the spurious claim that lecithin is useless, cheap filler when used in supplements, to pause, and contemplate what you now know about lecithin. If lecithin is cheap filler, then we are all made up of cheap filler. Only if you can build all the cells in the human body without phospholipids could we consider holding lecithin in low regard. And that is not possible.

For chemistry is chemistry. Your cells could not exist without the phospholipids found in lecithin supplements, egg yolks, liver, peanuts, corn, and spinach. Lecithin is an economical, and most concentrated, source of nutrients vital to the structural integrity and function of every cell in your body. It is not cheap filler.
To reiterate the value of lecithin, from a 2004 patent on an alcohol extraction process for the material, we find in the section, “Background of the Invention:”

“Medical evidence that phosphatidyl choline may be of value in treating certain health problems and the growing popularity of health foods has increased the demand for palatable foods that contain a high level of phosphatidyl choline, and the demand for lecithin as a supplement.

It has been determined that lecithin optimizes physiological functions and restores impaired physiological functions in situations associated with inadequate cholinergic transmission such as tardive dyskinesia, manic depressive states or other psychiatric diseases, memory impairment, familial ataxias or the like.

The positive effects of lecithin in reducing arterial plaque, decreasing LDL cholesterol, and increasing HDL cholesterol, are well known and documented.”

If lecithin is good, does that mean soy is good?
Nope! I may speak in favour of lecithin, but I will not speak in favour of soy foods in general. It is important to understand that lecithin is one tiny part (2%) of the biomass of the soy bean. In order to get it out of the bean, it must be entirely separated from the rest of the legume. Therefore, the negative epithets attached to soy cannot be applied to lecithin.
Regarding food products made from soy beans, and soy beans themselves eaten as food, hundreds of epidemiological, clinical and laboratory studies link soy to malnutrition, digestive problems, muscle wasting, thyroid dysfunction (giving rise to the question above), cognitive decline, reproductive disorders, diminished libido, immune system breakdown, even heart disease and cancer in both animals and humans.

Vegetarians who eat soy as their main source of protein and adults self-medicating with soy food supplements often exhibit symptoms of the above problems as loss of energy, confusion, thinning hair, gray skin, weight gain and gas.
Most at risk are children given soy formula, especially male infants. Baby boys experience several testosterone surges, especially around nine months of age. These full body internal baths of the male hormone are believed to set them on the proper path toward masculinity. It is feared that persistent ingestion of phytoestrogens from soy based formula can blunt the effect of testosterone in these critical, formative months.

Infant girls are not free of risk. Use of soy formula in infancy may lead to accelerated maturation, and onset of menses as early as age nine. Epidemiological studies draw a strong correlation between abnormally early onset of menses and shortened life span.

Thousands of words have been written and published in research papers, books and on the internet by qualified researchers enumerating the deleterious effects of soy in the diet. It is not the purpose here to re-state all that has been rightfully said against soy as a food. But there is a need to wipe away confusion among the public. It seems too many consumers and sellers of lecithin have come to understand a new rule that:

SOY IS BAD!

By failing to understand the chemistry of lecithin, many have assumed that lecithin must also be bad, because it comes from the soy bean. And that simply is not the case.
To make it as simple as possible, in general – meaning with few exceptions:

SOY IS BAD!

At the same time, and quite definitely”

LECITHIN IS GOOD!

Vibrant Health: Against the Tide?
There are times in life when one must stand for what is right and true. I do not believe we should let radical soy terrorists lead the unaware away from true knowledge. Based on sound scientific evidence stretching back decades, we know soy lecithin is beneficial and non-toxic. Other fractions of the soybean can be found that have some value too. Fermented soy products may be fine. Regular soybeans and most soy proteins are, to varying degrees, poisonous, interfering with protein metabolism, and carrying innate potential to pervert the development of male infants, and accelerate the maturation of female infants.

If Vibrant Health “gives up the field,” and fails to speak against the tidal wave of misunderstanding about lecithin, one more source of intelligent discourse about soy will be lost. Do we simply fold under pressure, and allow idiocy, ignorance and subterfuge to rule the market to the detriment of the consumer? Where then do thinking consumers go for information?

I am reluctant to bow to fads and foolishness. Lecithin contains none of the anti-nutrients that are found in soybeans and many products made from them. Instead, lecithin supplies valuable phospholipids that can be incorporated into every cell membrane in the body, supporting normal cell membrane function. It also provides neurotransmitters, insulates nerves, and clears arteries.

Lecithin is not evil, but feeding disinformation into the marketplace is. Just as governments around the world do not wish to yield to terrorists, I do not wish to yield to terrorizing disinformation funneled into the nutrition industry.
Vibrant Health is the place where science and nature meet – not where marketing, greed and lassitude meet. We hold the consumer’s interests at heart. We strive to be a source of knowledge as well as sound products. I believe that when a person hears the truth, and listens, he will recognize the truth. He just has to be told.

Very best regards,
Mark Timon
M.S. Clinical Nutrition
Ph & FAX 518-576-9764
mark@vibranthealth.us

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