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Synergistic Support for TSF™

Thyrex™ A homeopathic formula that stimulates the body to overcome its internal resistance (allergy) to both thyroid tissue and thyroid hormones.

ADR™ Often thyroid function slows down in order to protect weak adrenals. When this happens, thyroid function cannot be fully restored until the adrenal glands are strengthened (i.e., with ADR™ or PLUS™).

TSF™ Statement of Fact

By sharing his true experiences with you, this person is exercising the "freedom of thought, belief and expression" guaranteed by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Constitution Act, 1982).

Thyroid Surgery Avoided
"By taking only 3 Formula TSF™ tablets per day, I reduced nodules on both sides of my thyroid and avoided the thyroid surgery the doctors recommended."
- J. Nobel, Toronto, ON

ADR™ (Adrenal)
Rowland Formula 16

ADR™ is specific support for the adrenal glands. It provides the nutritional factors that the adrenal glands require and no others. ADR is a way of adding adrenal support to a nutritional program that also has other priorities. (For example, ADR combined with RTRE™ is excellent for those who have both arterial blockages and adrenal exhaustion.) ADR used by itself is ideal for those who have a high priority for adrenal support but who may be in such condition that their bodies would be overloaded by taking broad spectrum adrenal support (PLUS™).

Suggested Use:
1. For general adrenal support: 2 to 3 tablets daily, in divided amounts with meals.
2. For extreme adrenal exhaustion, depression or grief: 8 tablets daily with meals — adjusting quantity intuitively or as symptoms improve.

Note: Sorbitol is in this formula to enhance the absorption of vitamin B-12 through the intestinal wall. Sorbitol is a natural substance found in berries and fruits.

BRN™ (Brain)
Rowland Formula 17

BRN™ is a unique combination of herbs that help to improve brain function — especially memory, alertness and concentration — and to overcome anxiety, depression, dizziness, and mental dullness. It also contain natural antioxidants that help to protect the brain from free radical damage. The brain shifts its chemistry subtly, gradually and powerfully — and BRN provides excellent support to do that, when given the time it needs to do its work.

Suggested Use: 6 capsules daily for six to eight weeks — followed by 4 capsules daily for four to six weeks — followed by 2 capsules daily for two to four weeks — all in divided amounts with meals.

Ingredients: Ginkgo Biloba, Siberian Ginseng, Ashwaganda, Gotu Kola, Bilberry.

Ginkgo
Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) helps to improve peripheral blood flow to the brain, stabilize cellular membranes, reduce free radical damage, and enhance oxygen and glucose use. Of particular benefit to cerebral insufficiency (whose symptoms include short-term memory loss, vertigo, headaches, ringing in the ears, and depression). Provides protection against Alzheimer's disease, hearing loss, and stroke.

Siberian Ginseng
Siberian Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) helps to increase mental alertness and work output. Also helps improve athletic performance and the quality of work under stressful conditions. Used to treat fatigue, depression„ immunodepression, neuroses, and acute craniocerebral trauma.

Ashwaganda
Ashwaganda ( Withania somnifera) is widely used in Ayurvedic medicine. It improves response to stress and also has anti-inflammatory and sedative effects. Used to treat anxiety, nervous exhaustion and insomnia.

Gotu Kola
Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica) has a reputation as an anti-aging herb. Also helps improve mental function. Used to treat insomnia and stress.

Bilberry
Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) is a rich source of flavonoids, which have antioxidant properties that help protect brain tissue. Helps strengthen capillaries and improve blood flow to the brain. Reputed to improve night vision and faster restoration of visual acuity after exposure to glare.

IC™ (Eyes)
Rowland Formula 20

IC™ provides a unique blend of antioxidants, amino acids and other nutrients that nourish the lens of the eye and protect it from free radical damage. IC helps to halt the progression of cataracts and to reverse those which are not too far advanced. Although IC is specifically formulated for cataracts, it is also of benefit to macular degeneration, glaucoma, and other degenerative conditions of the eye.

Suggested Use: 5 tablets daily, in divided amounts with meals, for up to one year. 2 tablets per day to maintain thereafter.

Synergistic Support for IC™

UltraGest™ If 5 tablets of IC daily do not turn the urine a bright orangey/yellow colour, it means that the tablets are not being broken down because of weak digestion – in which case add an appropriate number of ULTRAGEST tablets at each meal.

RTRE™ Whenever there also appears to be circulatory impairment, add 5 RTRE tablets daily.

C-Complex For glaucoma, add vitamin C to bowel tolerance.

IC protects the lens of the eye against free radial damage in two ways: (1) by providing nutritional antioxidants (vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, beta carotene, glutathione), and (2) by supplying the raw materials from which the body makes protective enzymes (superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase).

Beta Carotene
The blood level of beta-carotene has been inversely correlated with cataract risk.2 Those with serum levels of beta-carotene in the lowest third of distribution have almost a 3-fold risk of senile cataract.3 Beta-carotene may act as a filter, protecting against light-induced damage to the fibre portion of the lens.4

Vitamin E
Vitamin E intake is inversely related to the risk of cataracts. 5, 10 The same relationship has been noted with respect to blood levels of vitamin E.11,12 Cataract-free subjects use significantly more vitamin E than matched subjects with cataracts.10 In regular users of multivitamin supplements, the risk of nuclear cataracts was reduced by one-third; in regular users of vitamin E supplements and persons with higher plasma levels of vitamin E, the risk was reduced by approximately half.13 Vitamin E protects the lens against free radical damage.14 Vitamin E may offer protection against the destructive effects of prolonged hyperglycemia (diabetes).15 The levels of both superoxide dismutase and glutathione reductase decrease as a result of vitamin E deficiency.26

Vitamin C
The intake of vitamin C supplements is inversely correlated with cataract risk.6 The blood level of vitamin C is inversely correlated with cataract risk.2 Vitamin C protects against ultraviolet light-induced cataracts.7 In open trials, 60 to 90% of patients with incipient senile cataracts have had visual improvement following supplementation with vitamin C, improvement which was sometimes marked.8, 9

Vitamin B-2 (Riboflavin)
There is evidence of an association between riboflavin deficiency and increased risk of presenile and senile cataracts.16 A riboflavin deficiency may promote cataract formation by interfering with glutathione reductase activity!17 In an open trial of 18 patients with lens opacities and 6 with fully developed cataracts, after only 24 to 48 hours of supplementing them with riboflavin, there was dramatic improvement. After 9 months, all lens opacities disappeared.18 A high lactose intake may promote the development of cataracts by causing a riboflavin deficiency.19

Methionine and Cysteine
Methionine and cysteine are rate limiting amino acids in the body's synthesis of glutathione. Increasing methionine and cysteine may help to prevent cataract formation by retarding the age-related decline in glutathione levels.23

Selenium
The enzymatic antioxidant, glutathione peroxidase, requires selenium for its functioning. Serum selenium levels appear to be reduced in patients with senile cataracts20 and are positively correlated with aqueous humour levels of erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase.21 Patients with senile cataracts may have decreased selenium levels in the aqueous humour.20 The selenium concentration of cataractous lenses may be only 15% of norma1.22

Glutathione
Glutathione is the antioxidant substrate for two important antioxidant enzymes, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase. While glutathione levels decrease gradually in normal lenses with advancing age, cataractous lenses contain only about one-tenth as much glutathione. As glutathione levels fall, lens oxidation increases.24 Glutathione levels are positively correlated with the activity of superoxide dismutase in the cataractous lens.25

1. Taylor A. J Am Coll Nutr 12:138-46, 1993.
2. Jacques PF et al. Arch Ophthalmol 106(3):337 -40, 1988.
3. Knelct P et al. BMJ 305:1392-4, 1992.
4. Burton G, Ingold K. Science 224:569-73, 1984.
5. Carson C et al. Am J Epidemiol 139(11):S18, 1994.
6. Jacques PF et al. Am J Clin Nutr 66:911-16, 1997.
7. Blondin J et al. Fed Proc 45:478, 1986,
8 Bouton SM Jr. Arch Intern Med 63:930-45, 1939.
9. Muhlman V et al. Arch Oftalmol B Aires 14:552-75, 1939.
10. Robertson JM et al. Ann N Y Acad Sci 570:372-82, 1989. 11. Rouhiainen Pet al. Am J Epidemiol 144(5):496-500, 1996.
12. Vitale S et al. Epidemiology 4:195-203, 1993.
13. Leske MC et al. Ophthalmology 105(5):831-6, 1998.
14. Varma SA et al. Photochem Photobiol 36(6):623-36, 1982,
15. RossWM et al. Can J Ophthalmol 17(2):61-6, 1982.
16. Skalka HW et al. Metab Pediatr Ophthalmol 5(1):17-20, 1981.
17. Skalka HW, Prchal JT. Am J Clin Nutr 34(5):861-3, 1981.
18. Sydenstricker, U. of Georgia - reported in The Encyclopedia of Common Diseases, Emmaus, PA, Rodale Press, 1976.
19. Lerman S. Arch Ophthalmol 65:181, 1961.
20. Karakucuk S et al. BMJ 305:1392-4, 1992.
21. Huang Wet al. Clin Chim Acta 261(2):117-30, 1997.
22. Swanson A, Truesdale A. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 45:1488-96, 1971.
23. Cole H, JAMA 254(8):1008, 1985.
24. Kamei A. Biol Pharmacol Bull 16:870-5, 1993.
25. Fujiwara H et al. BMJ305:335-9, 1992.
26. Cai QY et al. Biomed Environ Sci 7(2):109-15, 1994.

IC™ Statement of Fact

By sharing her true experiences with you, this person is exercising the "freedom of thought, belief and expression" guaranteed by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Constitution Act, 1982).

Eyesight Saved
"I would like to thank David Rowland again. This time it is for saving my dad's eyesight. My dad is 78 years old and was about to lose his driver's licence because of failing eyesight. My dad can only see with one eye due to an accident when he was 22, so it makes things more critical. When I convinced him to take IC™, he said it would only be for the fun of it. He didn't have anything to lose. He was supposed to take 5 tablets a day and he didn't tell me at first, but he was only taking 3 a day.

My dad's favourite thing to do is to fix lawn mowers and snowblowers, and lately he could not see the tip of his smallest drills to sharpen them. Well, after two months on being on IC, he could now sharpen the smallest drill – so he was excited. When he revisited his eye specialist 4 months after being on IC, the doctor told him that in his whole practice he had never seen a 78-year old person get better eyesight before. If you think my dad was not proud to say that it was his daughter that had recommended nutritional supplements ... he had 20/20 in his eye. Needless to say, my dad also leads a pretty active life and eats well, too.
- Charlotte LeBlanc, Pointe-du-chene, NB

PRANA (Lungs)
Formulated by Richard DeSylva

PRANA is a lung tonic formulated to help dissolve catarrh and stimulate its expectoration. It also helps to reduce inflammation, nourish alveolar tissue, and restore the lungs' capacity to throw off carbon dioxide and take in copious amounts of life-giving oxygen. In the last century, the oxygen content of the air we breathe has dropped from a healthy 20% to less than 10% in major cities. Pollution has displaced the vital oxygen our bodily tissues need to thrive. Lack of oxygen at a cellular level is a contributing factor to cancer and other degenerative diseases.

The lungs tend to accumulate waste matter from the bloodstream. A chronic cough may develop, in an effort to expectorate this matter from the lungs and bronchi. PRANA aids this eliminative process. For many people, also eliminating dairy and wheat products from the diet.

Suggested Use: 2-3 capsules between meals: mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and mid-evening. (6-9 capsules total daily.)

Ingredients: Fenugreek seeds, Elecampagne root, Wild Cherry bark, Comfrey leaves, Horehound, Mullein leaves, St. John's Wort, Nettle, Althea root, Aniseseed.

Contraindications: Not to be used by pregnant or lactating women. Not to be combined with pharmaceuticals for broncho-pulmonary disorders.

KPH-1 (Kidneys)
Formulated by Richard DeSylva

KPH-1 is an herbal kidney tonic. The importance of the kidneys can best be appreciated by thinking of those who have to undergo dialysis: if they don't have their blood cleansed, their bodies will quickly become poisoned with metabolic waste products. The kidneys continuously filter all the blood in the body, removing harmful acids and waste products, including creatinine and urea.

Over time, the sensitive tubules in the kidneys can become clogged and inefficient at their ability to filter. Waste matter backs up, acidifying the blood, irritating nerve fibres, and inflaming tissues. This disturbance in acid:alkaline ratios can cause needed minerals to be precipitated out of solution, thus contributing to a number of degenerative conditions. Reduced kidney function produces sluggishness, aching muscles (due to lactic acid buildup), back-aches, and increased urinary frequency (especially during the night).

KPH-1 contains a synergistic blend of herbs designed to break up gravel in the kidneys and bladder/ureter, as well as to reduce inflammation, astringe swollen tissue, promote diuresis, and eliminate infection. This unique formula can be taken as a periodic tonic and/or as an adjunct to therapies for arthritic/rheumatic conditions.

Note: Drinking from 2 to 3 litres of purified water daily is extremely beneficial to every kind of kidney condition.

Suggested Use: 2-3 capsules after breakfast, and again after the evening meal. (4-6 capsules total daily.)

Ingredients: Couch Grass, Juniper Berry, Wild Carrot, Queen of the Meadow, Goldenrod, Gravel Root, Corn Silk, Uva Ursi, Button Snake Root.

Contraindications: Do not combine with pharmaceuticals that are either diuretics or heart medications, without consulting a medical doctor familiar with herbal medicine.

Do not use if there is serious inflammation in the urinary tract.

Estro-Mend™ (Estrogen)

Estro-Mend™ supplies a synergistic blend of herbs and other nutrients designed to support healthy estrogen function. The isoflavone complex of Soy, Kudzu root and Red Clover support 2-hydroxylation, glucose utilization and bone health. Phytoestrogens mimic the functions of estrogen without proliferative actions — and include Black Cohosh and Salvia, which support and minimize the changes sometimes experienced during menopause. Other herbs, including Bacopa, Salvia, Schisandra and Cranberry support cognition, memory and also provide antioxidant protection.

Suggested Use: 3 capsules daily, in divided amounts with meals.

Ingredients: Kudzu root (pueriara lobata), Red Clover (flowering tops, standardized to 8% isoflavones, root), Novasoy™ Isoflavone Soy concentrate, Black Cohosh (root, standardized to 8% triterpene glycosides) , Bacopa Monniera (leaf, standardized to 20% bacosides), Cranberry (fruit), Dong Quai (root), Schisandra (fruit and seeds, standardized to 0.9% shisandrins), Sage (salvia officinalis), and Hops (aerial parts).

Progesto-Mend™ (Progesterone)

Progesto-Mend™ supplies a combination of phytoprogesterones, progestrogenic adaptogens and other herbs that support optimal progesterone function by maintaining the health of progesterone producing glands and by supporting the healthy function of progesterone responsive tissues.

Suggested Use: 3 capsules daily, in divided amounts with meals.

Ingredients: Rehmannia (root), Beupleurum (root), Passion Flower (aerial parts), Peony (root), Coleus Forskohlii (root, standardized to 10% forskohlin), Dioscorea villosa (root), and Chasteberry extract (fruit).

F™ (Female Multiglandular)
Rowland Formula 33

F™ is for rebuilding and revitalizing the female endocrine system and internal organs.

Suggested Use: 2 tablets daily, in divided amounts with meals.

PRO™ (Prostate)
Rowland Formula 19

The prostate gland has the highest concentrations of zinc, alanine, glycine, and glutamic acid of any tissues in the body. PRO™ provides all of these in significant proportions, plus prostate tissue, plus six other co-operating and synergistic nutrients that help to nourish and restore the prostate gland. Reduces benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Note: the cause of BPH is both nutritional and muscular. To exercise the prostate muscles, it is necessary to gently stimulate the perineum (spot mid-way between the scrotum and anus) with finger pressure, preferably twice daily.

Suggested Use: 2 tablets daily, in divided amounts with meals.

Synergistic Support for PRO™

Flaxseed Oil: to provide essential fatty acid (EFA) precursors to the prostaglandins that reduce inflammation and keep hormone levels in balance.

RTRE™: the prostate gland benefits from an increased blood supply.

CNR™: combine CNR with PRO as therapy for prostate cancer.

BPH affects over 50 per cent of men during their lifetime. Its frequency increases with age, from under 10 per cent at age thirty to over 90 per cent in men over 85 years of age.1 If left untreated, BPH will eventually result in complete retention of urine and kidney damage. Fortunately, nutritional methods are successful at reversing this condition.

With age, levels of the main male sex hormone, testosterone, decrease but estrogen levels increase. The testosterone, however, increases in concentration within the prostate gland and is converted to an even more potent form known as dihydrotestosterone (DHT). The increase in levels of testosterone and DHT within the prostate is largely due to an increase in the activity of the enzyme, 5-alpha-reductase, which converts testosterone to DHT.4 Elevated estrogen levels are thought to be the key factor that inhibits the elimination of DHT from the prostate gland in cases of BHT.

Zinc
When the prostate is enlarged, the binding of zinc to the cells of the prostate is decreased. Therefore, even though prostatic zinc levels may be eleveated and zinc blood levels may be normal, the prostatic cells may actually be zinc deprived.20 Zinc supplementation has been shown to reduce the size of the prostate and to diminish symptoms in the majority of patients.2, 3 Zinc has been shown to inhibit the activity of 5-alphareductase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT. 5-9 Zinc has been shown to inhibit prolactin secretion by the pituitary.10, 11 The hormone, prolactin, has been shown to increase the uptake of testosterone by the prostate, thereby leading to increased levels of DHT.11

Alcohol
The hops in beer increases prolactin secretion and may therefore be an aggravating factor in the development of BPH. 12, 13 Higher intake of alcohol of any type is also associated with BPH. In a 17-year study of 6,581 men, it was noted that intake of at least 25 ounces of alcohol per month was directly correlated with the diagnosis of BPH.14

Amino Acids
The combination of the amino acids, glycine, alanine, and glutamic acid has been shown in several studies both to shrink the prostate and to relieve many of the symptoms of BPH. In a controlled study of 45 men, increased nighttime urination (nocturia) was relieved or reduced in 81%, frequency reduced in 73%, and delayed urination alleviated in 70%.15 These results have also been reported in other controlled studies.16

Essential Fatty Acids
The administration of an essential fatty acids (EFA) complex has resulted in significant improvement for many BPH patients.17 All 19 subjects in an uncontrolled study showed diminution of residual urine, with 12 of the 19 having no residual urine by the end of several weeks of trea™ent. These effects appear to be due to the correction of an underlying EFA deficiency. 18, 19

27. Osterling JE. Prostate 6S:67-73, 1996.
28. Bush, IM et al. "Zinc and the Prostate," presented at the annual meeting of the AMA, 1974.
29. Falum M et al. Fed Proc 35:361, 1976.
30. Horton R. J Am Geri Soc 32:380-5, 1984.
31. Leake A et al. Acta Endocrinol 105:281-8, 1984.
32. Zaichick VY et al. Int Urol Nephrol 28:687-94, 1996.
33. Leake A et al. J Steroid Biochem 20:651-5, 1984.
34. Wallae AM, Grant JK. Biochem Soc Trans 3:540-2, 1975.
35. Judd AM et al. Brain Res 294:190-2, 1984.
36. Login LS et al. Neuroendocrinology 37:317-20, 1983.
37. Farnsworth WE et al. Urol Res 9:79-88, 1981.
38. Farrar DJ, Pryor JS. Br J Urol 48:73-5, 1976.
39. DeRosa Get al. Lancet 2:934, 1981.
40. Corenblum B, Whitaker M. Br Med J275:1328, 1977.
41. Dunnrau F. Am J Ger10:426-30, 1962.
42. Feinblatt HM, Gant IC. J Maine Med Assoc 49:99-102, 1958.
43. Hart JP, Cooper WL. Report No.1, Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research: Milwaukee, WI, 1941.
44. Scott WW. J Urol 53:712-8, 1945.
45. Boyd EM, Berry NE. J Urol 41:406-11, 1939.
46. Gyorkey F, Sato CS. Exp Mol Pathol 8:216-24, 1968.

PRO ™ Statement of Fact

By sharing his true experiences with you, this person is exercising the "freedom of thought, belief and expression" guaranteed by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Constitution Act. 1982).

Angina & Prostate Problems Gone
' am writing to thank you for introducing me to the Vitamost® arterial cleansing [RTRE™] and prostate formulas [PRO™]. I have used them for about 18 months and I have had incredible results.

"Before I used these nutrition products, I used to have tightening of the chest and difficulty in carrying my body when I walked. Now I have none of these symptoms and I can comfortably walk any distance.

"As far as the old prostate goes, it now causes problems when I urinate — in that, if I am not careful, the flow of urine is so strong that I splash the wall of the toilet like I was 15 years old. I am so grateful."
- Asoka Polonowita, Footscray, Australia

Male X-Booster (Male Vitality)

Male X-Booster
is a synergistic combination of vitamins, herbs and other nutrients specifically formulated to support male vitality and improve erectile dysfunction. In a vegetarian capsule.

Suggested Use: 2 to 4 capsules, 30 to 60 minutes before sexual activity.

Ingredients: Soy Protein, natural Vitamin E, Inosine, Muira Puama (Balsam stem), Maca extract (root), Horny Goat Weed (aerial parts), Deer Antler Velvet, Ginkgo Biloba (leaf), Damiana (leaf), Cayenne (fruit), Oats (entire plant), Gingseng (root, panax ginseng), Caltrop (fruit, tribulus terrestris).