Now that winter has shown its frosty face to people across Canada and the US, let’s talk about the top immune system boosters we sell on our site. This is good stuff. We promote it because we use Immunocal and other Immunotec products, and we’ve heard many testimonials from others about how these supplements have changed them for the better. Even though cold temperatures don’t give you the cold or flu, they put added stress on your immune systems and perhaps more importantly, coop you up with people who may be sick.

Immunocal: The Top Immune Enhancement Product

Immunocal (formerly known as HMS-90 in Canada) is a whey protein isolate that delivers cysteine: the biochemical precursor to the key antioxidant glutathione. Our bodies manufacture glutathione, but their ability to do it depends on the cysteine our metabolisms use as raw materials. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals: chemicals that damage our cells on the molecular level (see our article about antioxidants for a more detailed discussion). Taken as directed, Immunocal can prevent cell damage that inhibits our immune systems. Immunocal is used by people with compromised immune systems and athletes alike to maintain their immune systems even while under extreme physical stress. In many other cases, ordinary people have attested to feeling better while taking it, too.

Buy Immunocal at a discount through our storefront today and see the results for yourself.

Omega-3 with Turmeric

You can buy Omega-3 with Turmeric on its own or as a part of the Daily Essentials Pack, combined with our Vitamin and Mineral Supplement and Pure Milk Calcium.

Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid that modern diets provide low levels of, relative to the fatty acid Omega-6. If these fatty acids are out of balance, your body fails to take advantage of their natural anti-inflammatory and other immune enhancement properties. An Omega-3 supplement is important because it restores the balance between the two essential fatty acids. Turmeric contains the active ingredient of curcumin: a natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that inhibits viral replication in laboratory studies.

Which Should I Get?

With its scientifically proven effectiveness, Immunocal is the most effective immune enhancement supplement we sell.  If you are older, an athlete or have a history of illness we especially recommend it. Otherwise, if you’re serious about supplements, this is for you.

Omega-3 with Turmeric is a gentle, healthy general wellness supplement, especially when you combine it with the other components of the Daily Essentials Pack. Omega-3 is an important dietary supplement that will ensure that you get the most out of anything you eat. If your main health focus is diet, you should consider it. Additionally, it interacts well with Immunocal, since they each hit different aspects of your total health.

Whatever you choose now is a great time to get serious about your immune system — because this is the season where it really gets challenged.

Much of the information around the Immune System Booster Immunocal (formerly HMS 90 in Canada) focuses on its benefits for individuals suffering from compromised immune systems and other illnesses, where it has demonstrated positive effects in multiple scientific studies. Many people also feel their general health improves after adding it to their daily routine. They feel more energetic and free from numerous small illnesses.

Our first experience with Immunocal - the event that made us want to share it with other people – didn’t start with illness. Be Well Or Else proprietor Dr. Catherine Owens suffered regular, severe muscle cramps in her calves during her regular running program. In 1998 she gave up running because nothing she tried could get rid of the cramps – until she started taking Immunocal. That’s when her calf cramps passed and she got back to running.

Everyone from elite athletes to fitness buffs report similar successes after adding Immunocal. (Take a look at an article about boxer Steve Molitor using Immunocal for an example.) The source of these benefits is glutathione: an amino acid that reduces muscle fatigue and shortens recovery time after a bout of physical exertion.  Multiple studies show that exercise depletes glutathione levels, so scientists studying human performance examined whether glutathione supplements would trigger athletic improvements.

Research has been promising but before Immunocal, there was an important problem to consider: Glutathione can only be effectively administered through injections. Our bodies naturally create it, so they aren’t adapted to absorb it orally. Fortunately, scientists have known for some time that our bodies build glutathione out of dietary cysteine. Immunocal is a bioactive cysteine supplement, so it gives us the raw material we need to create glutathione. When that happens, the results on athletic performance can be spectacular. One study of Immunocal showed a 13% increase in muscular work capacity and peak power in subjects who used it along with a fitness program.

You may not be an elite athlete or exercise fanatic, but Immunocal will benefit you as well. Maintaining muscular strength and endurance is one of the core elements of a healthy lifestyle, and grows especially important as we age, since it allows us to stay active and prevent injuries.  That’s why we use and recommend it, and why we’d like to offer you Immunocal at a discount. Click on the link to purchase it from our web store.

Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute was one of those honored this year with the Noble Prize in Medicine. Dr. Montagnier earned the prize for being the primary discoverer of the HIV virus. Montagnier is also an important figure in the adoption of Immunocal as a nutritional supplement for HIV patients and other people experiencing immune system stress.

Ever since discovering HIV in 1983, Montagnier has been well-known as one of the world’s foremost authorities on conditions that can enhance or suppress the immune system. In particular, he’s investigated the role of antioxidants and nutrition in treating HIV. In this interview he discusses the prevalence of oxidative stress in HIV sufferers. In particular, he talks about his work investigating cysteine (the precursor to the antioxidant glutathione) as a way to slow the progression of HIV. Noting the depressed glutathione levels in HIV patients, Dr. Montagnier advocates cysteine supplementation as a part of HIV treatment. Immunocal provides this cysteine supplementation, which is why it’s at the heart of so many of these investigations.

Accordingly, in 1997 Dr. Montagnier was one of the editors of Oxidative Stress in Cancer, AIDS and Neurodegenerative Diseases, which was based on a conference on the role of free radicals in a variety of illnesses. The book records important work demonstrating Immunocal’s effectiveness in treating depressed glutathione levels in AIDS and cancer patients. Read an excerpt here.

This research paved the way for a general understanding of Immunocal’s antioxidant and immune enhancement effects. These apply to people with serious chronic illnesses but they aren’t the only ones who benefit from increased glutathione levels. Stress and environmental factors can depress the immune systems of people who are fairly healthy otherwise. That’s why Immunocal can work for you. Try Immunocal today and see for yourself!

After years of patient waiting (but it was worth it), Health Canada has approved Immunocal as an immune system enhancer.  No more confusion with one product having 2 names; now Immunocal is the same on both sides of the Canada/US border.  Along with the new name comes the following claim: Immunocal is the only proven way to maintain and sustain a healthy immune system.

For many people, autumn is cold season, though the fact is that low temperature alone doesn’t cause the cold. Colder weather stresses us out, weakens our immune response and definitely encourages people to stay inside and huddle up. That makes it easier for cold viruses to spread, but it’s the virus that makes you sick - not the temperature. It’s easy to see where the idea that you can “catch a chill” from low temperatures come from. People traditionally load up on Vitamin C when they feel a cold coming on or want to avoid one. That’s not a bad idea, but if you’re in this position you should also consider a zinc supplement.

Zinc is distinct among natural wellness treatments in that there is a great deal of mainstream medical literature suggesting that it can at least ameliorate cold symptoms. This medical study is one of several that support the use of zinc as a cold treatment. The jury’s not out yet, but something good is happening, and using zinc for this purpose is actually more practical than Vitamin C, which demonstrates its best effects in “megadoses” that might not be palatable for the average person. You should also take zinc in moderation; high doses (such as you find in lozenges) sometimes have annoying side effects like stomach upset. The best solution is to take it regularly, in moderate doses. That’s the role our vitamin supplement plays for general immune enhancement. Our formulation combines zinc with Vitamin C, a B-complex and mineral nutrients.

Zinc is for more than just colds. It’s a neurotransmitter, antioxidant and is used by your body for vital biological functions. For example, the zinc finger chemical structure binds to DNA to relay genetic information. (Note, too, that the zinc finger commonly binds cysteine, so proper zinc levels maximize the effectiveness of Immunocal/HMS90, which provides cysteine supplementation for immune enhancement). So no matter the season, it’s a good idea to take zinc regularly.

Note: In part one of this article Linda S. Clark talked about the physical effects of detoxification.

By Linda S. Clark

Surviving and Appreciating Your Healing Experience

First it is important to know that the people who experience uncomfortable healing reactions are in the minority. Second, it is important to appreciate that a person who has a noticeable detoxification reaction is likely to experience profound health benefits in the long run.

If you experience detox discomfort you have three possible options:

1) Drink water! Drink water! Drink water! And by the way, DRINK WATER to help flush out the toxic debris.

2) Just keep going with HMS 90 / Immunocal and tough it out. Some people are delighted that the toxins are finally clearing out their system, and they want to continue to cleanse as fast as possible. Rest assured that the detoxification will proceed rapidly and the uncomfortable effects are usually short lived.

3) Cut back, but don’t discontinue, the daily amount of HMS 90 / Immunocal. Find a level where the experience of detoxification is acceptable for you. Some seriously toxic and reactive people start with as little as 1 teaspoon of HSM 90 / Immunocal per day, and slowly increase from there.

Detoxifying with a GSH Enhancer

GSH (glutathione) is clinically documented to neutralize free radicals and toxic substances and carry them out of your body. HMS 90 / Immunocal is clinically documented to support the creation of GSH within the cells. As of this writing, 65,000 medical research papers are available relating to glutathione and different health conditions. See http://www.pubmed.com.

HMS 90 / Immunocal is produced from cow’s milk, minus the cheese-protein (casein), butterfat, and 99% of the lactose. If you can digest any dairy products, you can digest HMS 90 / Immunocal. If you experience “symptoms” of any sort when using HMS 90 / Immunocal, it is a promising sign of detoxification. These “symptoms” are typically short-lived. HMS 90 / Immunocal is not “making you sick”. The only people who should not use HMS 90 / Immunocal are those with a full organ transplant who are using cyclosporine to prevent organ rejection.

Dairy products produced from standard pasteurized milk have lost their GSH building blocks and their capacity to help detoxify your system. HMS 90 / Immunocal is created under unique pharmaceutical-grade conditions. It is carefully designed to preserve the GSH building blocks in the milk. It is also a superior source of bioavailable protein. When you take HMS 90 / Immunocal, your cells manufacture the GSH they need and do their “internal closet cleaning”.

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To Your Health! Bonne Santé!

If you’re looking for natural health products you’ll quickly encounter a host of scientific (or at least, scientific-sounding) terms. Some advertisers act as if everyone knows them but many people have only learned to identify them as buzzwords. “Antioxidant” is one of the most common examples. HMS 90/Immunocal, Concentrated Tart Montmorency Cherry Juice and the Daily Essentials Pack are all products with notable antioxidant properties. You’ve heard that’s a good thing, but what do antioxidants actually do?

Your body produces chemical energy through a form of oxidization: the same chemical process that creates fire and rust, among other things. The molecules that make up your body also oxidize in the presence of environmental stimuli, especially toxins like pollution and radiation. Useful metabolic oxidization and toxic oxidization both produce free radicals. You’ve probably heard of those, too. To understand antioxidants, you’ve got to learn about free radicals.

Free radicals are unstable molecules. This means that their component atoms easily spark certain chemical reactions with other substances. Your body occasionally produces free radicals to kill viruses and bacteria, but this shows you that they have destructive effects on living things. In fact, they attack life at the molecular level.

If you remember the structure of the atom from school, you know that electrons orbit an atom’s nucleus, forming a “shell.” Molecules made of stable atoms won’t easily react with other substances because their atomic shells have a full complement of electrons. Free radicals are unstable because they have room for more electrons in their shells. They seek out stability by stripping nearby substances of electrons to fill in the gap.

This is very bad for you. When free radicals steal electrons from the substances that make up your body’s tissues, it turns them into free radicals and destroys their normal biochemical properties. You could say that free radicals turn your own tissues into poisons one molecule at a time. This causes a broad range of ailments; some scientists even believe free radicals are responsible for most of the symptoms of aging.

Antioxidants protect your body from free radicals by providing electrons for them to “steal.” This turns free radicals into stable substances that won’t harm you. Unlike other substances, antioxidants do not become free radicals themselves when they lose electrons. They stay stable. This makes antioxidants so important that your body produces them to maintain your health, but as we age this function breaks down. Furthermore, modern pollutants contribute oxidization and free radicals above and beyond what our bodies can handle. This is why antioxidant supplements are an important part of maintaining health. Without enough antioxidants, free radicals literally turn your body against you.

Company distributes Immunotec® Health Supplements to Revitalize and Preserve Health

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: As a successful chiropractor, Dr. Catherine Owens didn’t need to expand her business, but personal experience drove her to distribute Immunotec’s health products.

“In 1998 I stopped running due to chronic charley-horses in my calf muscles,” said the owner of Owens Chiropractic and Be Well or Else. “I tried everything to fix them and nothing worked. After seven years of suffering and frustration, I was introduced to Immunotec’s HMS 90 and in less than one week the charley-horses disappeared. I resumed running and have been symptom free ever since.

“This inspired me to set up Be Well or Else so I could share these life changing products with others.”

Partner James Boyle was similarly inspired by his experience with an Immunotec product. “I became a distributor because I was so impressed with how their Tart Cherry Concentrate provided in helping me sleep. The results were nothing short of amazing.”

Be Well Or Else focuses on four product categories: natural sleep aids, herbal energy supplements, immune enhancements and vitamins. Each product benefits from Immunotec’s precision manufacturing and research.

Be Well or Else has set up a web site and marketing campaign to match Dr. Owens’ commitment to her products. Go to http://www.bewellorelse.com to not only purchase Immunotec supplements, but read news and research about them as well.

The immune system is the currency of cancer treatment. You spend it on healing illness, save it against future complications and build it as the “nest egg” that ensures your quality of life.

The “immune system” is actually several systems – it’s one of the most complex, dynamic processes in your body. Your skin, bone marrow and a host of specialized cells protect you from disease. That’s why immune enhancement starts with a healthy lifestyle. Immune health is whole-body health because your immune system’s components are everywhere. Supplements help you correct specific deficiencies and target problem areas, but they work best within a total health regimen.

Cysteine

Cysteine is an important amino acid because it’s a precursor to the amino acid . Glutathione is your body’s master antioxidant and governs proper T-Cell functioning – but you can’t take it as a pill or dietary supplement. Your digestive system isn’t good at absorbing it. One study found that even taking a 3 gram chunk of glutathione orally didn’t significantly increase bloodstream levels.

You can’t get glutathione – but you can get cysteine. By rebuilding glutathione, cysteine helps you recover immune health.

Studies suggest that cysteine (and elevated glutathione levels) help prevent cancer and help cancer patients maintain their weight. In a double blind study, Immunotec’s cysteine-rich whey protein isolate helped advanced-stage cancer patients maintain bodyweight and physical strength. Immunotec markets this supplement as HMS90 in Canada and Immunocal in the US. Immunocal qualifies for Medicare/Medicaid coverage and Health Canada approves Immunocal/HMS90’s immune-enhancement claims.

You can get HMS90/Immunocal from distributors like Be Well or Else.