Don't Let Toxins Hijack Your Health in 2012

The New Year may be a perfect time for fresh starts—but a clean slate isn’t always as simple as marking a day on the calendar. And that’s especially true where your health is concerned… because whether you realize it or not, yesterday’s holiday parties can stick around as today’s toxic burden if you don’t give your body the support it needs to detoxify properly.

Food choices, for example, can have a significant impact on your natural detoxification defenses, either helping or hindering the “Phase I” and “Phase II” processes that act to transform fat-soluble toxins into easily excreted water-soluble compounds. While adequate protein and sulfur-containing foods (such as broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables) assist your body with detox, heavy loads of refined and processed carbohydrates can impair it. Similarly, ample fiber is essential for proper elimination, which prevents toxic compounds from being reabsorbed before they can be excreted. Needless to say, typical holiday feasts aren’t detox-friendly… which makes a little post-holiday “clean up” that much more important.

Minimizing your exposure to environmental toxins is equally important, as trouble-causing chemicals hide everywhere—from pesticides, to house-cleaning supplies, to popular grooming products. Even the cocktails you drank over the holidays were converted into acetaldehyde—an oxidized byproduct that’s 30 times more toxic than alcohol itself—in your body. This can lead to blood pressure imbalances and other health complications over time. Proper nutrient support is critical to your body’s ability to manage this common burden effectively—and it was with this strategy in mind that VRP developed AL-Neutralizer™, a daily formula designed to promote the detoxification of alcohol and aldehydes.

In fact, targeted nutrition can assist with all aspects of daily detoxification, comprising a gentle and comprehensive strategy that encourages the cleansing of your liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and GI tract—unlike fasting and dieting, which may have the unwanted consequence of flooding your body with released toxins. VRP’s Detox 365—a hypoallergenic rice protein-based supplement that’s packed with nutrients that enhance your body’s natural detox mechanisms—was designed for just this kind of long-term detoxification defense.

Among its wide array of vitamins and minerals, amino acids, plant-based nutrients, fiber sources, probiotics, and digestive enzymes, Detox 365 includes calcium-D-glucarate for hormonal detoxification, maca root for enhanced energy and stress resistance, essential fatty acids from chia seed, and antioxidant-rich, detox-promoting broccoli sprouts.^1-3 This unique daily formula also delivers a patented, extra-bioavailable combination of two detoxifying powerhouses, milk thistle and phosphatidylcholine, called Siliphos®—along with Pectasol® modified citrus pectin (MCP), a unique molecularly-modified natural compound that’s clinically demonstrated to promote toxin-binding and enhance immune health.^4-5

Detox 365 is available as a shake, which you can incorporate into your daily diet as a delicious and convenient snack or meal complement… aiding not only detox, but weight management, digestive health, inflammatory balance, and energy production, too.

Pair Detox 365 with AL-Neutralizer to keep all of your toxin-fighting bases covered as you start the new year.

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3. Dinkova-Kostova AT, Holtzclaw WD, Cole RN, et al. Direct evidence that sulfhydryl groups of Keap1 are the sensors regulating induction of phase II enzymes that protect against carcinogens and oxidants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002;99(18):11908-13.

4.  Barzaghi N, Crema F, et al. Pharmacokinetic studies on Idb 1016, a silybin-phosphatidycholine complex (Siliphos®) in healthy human subjects. Eur. J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet. 1990;15:333-338.

5. Eliaz I, Hotchkiss AT, et al. The effect of modified citrus pectin on urinary excretion of toxic elements. Phytotherapy Research. 2006 Oct;20(10):859-864.