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New Year, New You – 10% of New Supplement Replenishment Orders

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One of the best ways to achieve overall health and wellness is to start regular supplement routine. To help you do this, we have a very special offer that will ensure you start the New Year right!

Place any supplement on our Replenishment Service and receive 10% off your first order! Our supplements are loaded with antioxidants and are a key component of an anti-inflammatory diet.

If you wonder what type of vitamin you may need, feel free to comment with your particulair problems. Also, make sure to check out some of our specialities: vitamin c ester and pycnogenol!

Wishing you all the best in 2009 and beyond,

Anne Sellaro
Editor

Dynamic Duo – Pycnogenol Supplements and Skin Care

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As is often the case, the most effective skin care products and regimes involve both an oral and topical component, each working to enhance the effects of the other. Pycnogenol has proven to be no exception. When both tiers are used synergistically, studies have found the following benefits:

  • A visible improvement in the appearance and size of discoloration and brown spots
  • An overall brightening of the skin
  • Protection against further photo damage
  • Gentle exfoliation of damaged cells
  • A smoothing of fine lines
  • Improved elasticity

Safety and Efficacy

Thanks to extensive studies conducted by its parent company Horphag Research, Pycnogenol has been found to be a safe and effective way to achieve a fair skin free of the dark spots or patches safely and without any side-effects. More than 190 scientific articles and clinical trials have confirmed Pycnogenol’s safety, absence of toxicity and clinical efficacy over the past 35 years. In fact Pycnogenol ® is one of the most researched ingredients in the natural product marketplace. Published findings have demonstrated Pycnogenol’s beneficial effects in cardiovascular health, skincare, cognitive function, diabetes health, inflammation, sports nutrition, asthma and allergy relief and menstrual disorders, among others.

The Wrinkle Cure – Our Favorite Holiday Gift

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Our favorite holiday gift this year is the Wrinkle Cure. We hope you put it at the top of your lists to give and receive this season. Brand new, the kit contains all that you need to get started on Dr. Perricone’s Three-Tiered Program.

What you will find in this kit:

Tier One – Topical

As a dermatologist, it should be no surprise that Dr. Perricone chose Advanced Face Firming Activator as the topical product. Historically, this formula has only been available through physician’s offices. But now, this revolutionary, patented, proprietary approach to preserving, protecting, and revealing the natural beauty of your skin is widely available.

Nature’s most powerful anti-inflammatory, alpha lipoic acid, is brought together with DMAE, a potent antioxidant booster and skin protectant. Combined, these two ingredients protect your skin from degrading free radicals while rejuvenating the most important elements of your natural beauty. The result – a new radiance, lift, tone and smoothness to your skin.

Tier Two – Body Supplements

Perricone Prescription Super Antioxidant Supplements provide the most comprehensive Nutriceutical blend of “health insurance” designed for optimal health. Create healthy and beautiful skin from the inside out with this wide range of essential powerful antioxidants, minerals and phyto-nutrients (plant compounds found to have health enhancing properties).

Tier Three – Anti-inflammatory Foods

The incomparable beauty, health, and anti-aging benefits of following the anti-inflammatory diet is immediately visible in your face. You can expect a new glow, decreased puffiness in eye area, increased contour and an overall radiant, firmed and toned appearance.

But where to start? Included in this wonderful kit is fabulous recipe book, with simple, delicious and easy to prepare meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Using all of Dr. Perricone’s favorite foods, these recipes will delight the senses while taking years off of your face and body.

As an added bonus, a DVD of Dr. Perricone’s award winning TV special The Wrinkle Cure is included! This outstanding program features Dr. Perricone sharing his groundbreaking secrets on how to eliminate unwanted signs of aging both physically and mentally.

Until next time,
Anne Sellaro, Executive Editor

Holiday Radiance Kit

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Our Holiday Radiance Kit, with powerful anti-oxidants like alpha lipoic acid, will restore the glow to your skin as well as brighten the entire eye area. The kit includes Perricone MD bestseller, Advanced Face Firming Activator and Advanced Eye Therapy. This combo will ensure soft, supple skin with diminished lines and wrinkles.

Anti-Inflammatory Treats For Your Skin

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Two decades in private dermatology practice, seeing thousands of patients, in conjunction with extensive study on the subject has confirmed my belief that the most horrific and frightening aspects of Halloween are not the ghosts, ghouls and goblins on your doorstep. Instead they are to be found in that goody bag full of candy on the arm of each trick or treater.

Sugar in all of its forms (corn syrup, cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, etc.) is extremely damaging to the skin–and in fact to all organ systems. Sugar and foods that rapidly convert to sugar when eaten cause sudden spikes in blood sugar levels, resulting in the release of insulin into the blood stream, that then cause us to store, rather than burn fat.

As these sugars and starches are eaten, they cause a burst of inflammation throughout the body.
The sugar molecule can also can permanently attach to protein, such as the collagen present in our skin and other parts of the body. This process is known as glycation.

At the point of attachment, there is a small mechanism creating inflammation, which then becomes a source of inflammation in its own right. This inflammation produces enzymes that break down collagen, resulting in wrinkled, sagging skin and leaves us in desperate need of top notch skin care products! In addition to inflammation, glycation also causes cross-linking in our collagen, making it stiff and inflexible where it was once soft and supple.

Unfortunately, these “sugar-bonds” can occur throughout the body as we age and are not just confined to the skin. This process, known as glycation affects our arteries, veins, bones, ligaments, even our brains, resulting in the breakdown of organ systems and the deterioration of the body. Glycation creates “free radical” factories known as advanced glycation end products (AGESs), which also increase cellular inflammation.

After learning about the “horrors” caused by eating sugar and high glycemic carbs, a trip to the candy store begins to take on qualities of Stephen King at his fictional best. But we all do need an occasional treat and that is why I recommend a small serving of dark chocolate which contains 85% cocoa. This is delicious, rich and intensely chocolate experience contains high levels of antioxidants known as flavonoids.

As always I welcome your comments and suggestions.

Perricone MD Pigment Corrective System™

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As a follow on to our posts from the last few days regarding Pycnogenol here’s a quick view of a recent product from Dr. Perricone the Perricone MD Pigment Corrective System.

Perricone MD Pigment Corrective System combines the power of the Pigment Corrective Dietary Supplements along with the Pigment Corrective Skin Care Cream to help diminish the appearance of hyper-pigmentation and brown spots, while lightening and brightening skin’s appearance from the inside out and the outside in and becoming a wrinkle cure.