Brain Health 
 

Grape seed extracts are a rich source of oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs) which have a very high affinity for collagen and body tissues, including your skin, arteries, heart, and brain. They are known to enhance the structural integrity of any tissue they attach to, thus helping to offset physical wear and tear.*

Together, resveratrol and grape seed extract are a powerful duo for optimizing exercise, enhancing weight loss efforts, improving cardiovascular health, and promoting longevity.*

Optimize Exercise:  Resveratrol and grape seed extract are both antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients. When taken before exercise they help to produce friendly eNOS. This relaxes circulation, improves oxygen transport to muscle tissue, supports healthy blood pressure function, and improves your ability to burn fat. These nutrients help you to have the energy to exercise, and improve endurance during exercise.*

Enhance Weight Management:  Have you ever noticed that when you begin a weight loss program, increase exercise, and decrease calorie intake, that you lose 10-15 pounds initially and then get stuck?  If so, resveratrol is an ideal nutrient to help you enhance weight management and maintain energy once you have gotten past the initial phase of 10-15 pounds of weight loss.* Resveratrol will help turn on the SIRT1 gene, which will promote fat-burning in the presence of lower calorie intake. How do you know its working? You have energy to exercise, you feel good, and your weight is trending downward while you are happy eating less food. However, benefits are reduced if you overeat. You should also follow the 5 Rules of the Leptin Diet.*

Support Cardiovascular Health:  Research shows that resveratrol assists the healthy structure and function of your cardiovascular system in multiple ways. It is a very active cardiovascular antioxidant, working synergistically as part of the antioxidant network. It has been found to prevent adverse changes in the smooth muscle cells of arteries that lead to plaque accumulation, boost friendly nitric oxide levels (eNOS) that relax arteries and improve blood flow, help keep platelets from sticking together, reduceirregular heart beats, and reduce circulatoryinflammation.* Grape seed extracts help turn on the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), in turn stimulating the production of the friendly eNOS that relaxes your circulatory system and supports healthy blood pressure function. Like trans-resveratrol, grape seed extract also helps modulate NF-kappaB, reducing inflammatory wear and tear.*

The physical fitness of the heart and the integrity of arteries, veins, and capillaries are important to maintain in good health for blood pressure to work properly. Under the influence of stress or general wear and tear your small capillaries may become too permeable or weakened, allowing fluid to escape and build up in the extremities or within connective tissue. You may notice your rings are tighter or there are sock lines on your legs. Such mild fluid retention can often be corrected with nutrients that help to reduce stress in the circulation and "seal up" the leaky capillaries, thus supporting healthy blood pressure fitness.*

In regular cardiovascular regulation substance P acts to promote vascular permeability that enables nutrients to flow out of the circulation and into body tissues. When there is too much substance P from stress, then there can be too much vascular permeability which causes too much fluid to escape from blood vessels or to leak into surrounding connective tissues. This results in fluid retention. Cardio Helper has a combination of nutrients that are specifically designed to nourish the vascular lining so that natural levels of vascular permeability are supported.*

Promote Longevity:  Grape seed extracts actually attach themselves to weak collagen and directly strengthen it. They are a rich source of oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs) which have a very high affinity for collagen and help offset physical wear and tear. They are highly attracted to your skin where they lend structural and antioxidant support.*

Resveratrol, like grape seed extract, operates in part as a protector of human body structure. New animal and cell studies show it helps bone health, reduces cataracts, helps coordination, reduces disc deteriorationand protects joints, improves erectile performance, protects the liver, and helps regulate cell health while protecting against adverse cell changes. This is a rather impressive array of science-backed support for any one nutrient. Perhaps the anti-aging promise is real. The explosion of scientific interest in the compound ensures that you will be hearing a lot more about it in the very near future.*