Liver health helping the body cope with colds and flu

As we enter a cold and flu season that has many experts concerned, especially with the H1N1 (Swine) variety estimated to impact up to 120 million of us in the USA this year.   Viruses, whether the cold or influenza variety, are different than bacteria in how they replicate.  As they commandeer the protein system in a cell, more viruses are created and the residual effect of the ‘leaking’ of fluids, proteins, etc. from the infected cell must be metabolized.  The huge number of viruses infecting the cells in the body releases a toxic soup that ends up slowing down the metabolizing ability of the liver.  The result is headache, achy muscles, lethargy, or in other words – misery.   (This is similar to the effects of too much alcohol consumption or the alcohol hangover, in fact most of the ’symptoms’ of the hangover mimic the flu. )  In most cases, the misery only lasts from 3 days to 2 weeks depending on the strength of your immune system.  This is where you can help yourself now.  Eating plenty of vegetables/fruits, getting plenty of rest, a decent amount of exercise, and frequent washing of hands should be the norm.  A supplement like LiverGARD can provide much of the daily antioxidant levels needed daily and keep the liver function top notch and when the inevitable strikes, your body will be in the best possible shape to quickly rid yourself of the viruses.

In health, NBPI   www.livergard.com

PS.  A good, but older article on colds/viruses can be found here:

http://www.healthieryou.com/cold.html

Organic versus commercial and a supplement that does help

Sometimes we learn stuff that helps us lead better lives.  This is one of those times.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090219/hl_time/08599188014500  ….read this link on Yahoo.  I learned many years ago that commercially grown vegetables had lost much of their nutritional value.  My family started using organic vegetables and have reaped the benefits.  One of those benefits is taste which isn’t discussed in that story but one that my kids appreciate.  How this relates to LiverGARD is another matter.  LiverGARD is two vegetables, sarsaparilla (actually a root) and artichoke.  Both are grown organically, then harvested to make our extract.  What this means to you is an incredible amount of antioxidant value and nutritional value that your body can use.  At 1650 ORAC units per 2 capsules (420mg each) you get the equivalent antioxidant value of several servings of blueberries and significantly more servings of many other fruits and vegetables.  You can compare this at http://www.naturalbridges.ws/BruReport.html

So please do yourself a favor and buy LiverGARD or First Call.  They are one and the same and will help provide you and your family good nutrition to ensure better health.  What I like even more is that my kids, who don’t always like to eat their vegetables, can take LiverGARD and do so.  This way, as a parent, I know they are getting their nutritional needs met.  Mom was right…we need to eat our vegetables and one way to do this nowadays is with LiverGARD.  Visit us and purchase today….www.livergard.com

In health, NBPI

Comparing products for the hangover

As I usually do every couple of months, I review the various products that have come and gone since 2000 claiming to prevent the hangover.  There have been over 100…most are gone and every so often another appears.  The latest is something called Remedy Hangover Prevention.  You can look them up if you’d like but I just thought it funny that they would use an oxymoron to name themselves.  With Vitamins and Amino Acids their claim is prevention.  How ironic that their own labeling suggests another dose the next morning if you still feel bad.  I’m sorry, that is not PREVENTION.  Prevention means exactly that…there should be no hangover symptoms.  This is the problem in our industry…tell the truth and do not mislead.  Back to the hangover.  What exactly is alcohol?  Rather than go into the science, let’s just simplify.  Alcohol is an oxidant.  It’s metabolization by the body (primarily the liver), promotes free radical formation that results in an inflammation response creating the flu like symptoms of the hangover.  It’s that simple.  The product that you should use to PREVENT the hangover must be something that will ‘anti’ oxidize, in other words something that will negate the oxidation aspect of the alcohol.  That is why LiverGARD exists and has for many, many years.  Until we discovered that it does PREVENT the hangover about 10 years ago, the raw material had been used to support liver health in a variety of applications.  We named it First Call (as opposed to Last Call) as a moniker associated with drinking alcohol.  Just recently we changed the name to help the average consumer understand it’s primary function – LIVER HEALTH.  LiverGARD is a tremendous antioxidant.  So much so that it’s at least 23x the antioxidant power of blueberries.  That’s the simple explanation for it’s ability to help your body PREVENT the hangover.  Stepping away from drinking…we are assaulted everyday with oxidative stressors; from the air we breathe to the water we drink.  Antioxidants are extremely valuable in supporting natural bodily functions and invaluable in maintaining health and wellness.   Let’s look at it another way.  How do you know something is a powerful antioxidant?  One way is to look at shelf life.  For example, look at fresh produce.  It goes bad sitting out on the shelf…lasts a bit longer in the refrigerator…and can last a good while in the freezer.  LiverGARD can stay in it’s bottle for over 3 years before we can actually begin to measure it’s decline in protective qualities.  7 years later it still is extremely potent and we still measure enough active response in raw material from 10 years ago to keep our PREVENTION claim valid.   A product with only a 6 month shelf cannot have much antioxidant value, therefore cannot offer too much value in hangover prevention.  That’s simple fact.  Do the research, compare products yourself and see why LiverGARD has been around so long.  It simply is a better choice for your liver health.  And yes, it will PREVENT the hangover if you follow directions.  Taking it everyday is not a problem and simply a good idea.  Visit us a www.livergard.com or www.preventhangovers.com to see the research and factual information on our product.  Almost no natural food products have been awarded patents.  We have.  You can look it up.  What is another reason we’re still here and most other products are gone?  It has to work.  LiverGARD works whether you drink or not.

In health and wellness, NBPI

Changing the fortunes of the small business…

My colleagues and I run a small business.  No one is completely full time though, since we all need to make some money to ensure that we maintain capital for our monthly recurring costs and our long term projections/efforts for growth.   This requires tremendous sacrifice from our families as well as patience.  The original core of the team still remains 8 years later.  You only stick something out that long if your belief in what you are doing is very, very strong.  For us the belief is twofold; 1) our product LiverGARD is simply that good for you, and 2) what the company stands for is worth believing in.   Please take advantage of LiverGARD for yourself and share this information with your friends.   Yes, we want to earn a full time living from LiverGARD so as to offer more of the same in other quality products that make your life better by complementing your lifestyle and encouraging a bit more health and wellness.   Actually doing it and not talking about it.

See you tomorrow!  NBPI

your liver…our business

They say habits can be started or broken in 21 days.  This is day 3 of the naturalbridges blog launch.  As with anything in life that matters, it’s a journey.   Hopefully, you’ll find our information (not just our products) to be valuable and educational.   We hope that as you follow along you’ll realize that the folks behind this company are real people.  We set out to not only produce respectable products, but to be respectable as a company.  This philosophy goes against traditional business practices, like those that have put this country in a precarious economic situation.  It means that we have had to bootstrap ourselves, most of us without pay (forcing second jobs, etc.) to survive, but survive we have; February 1 will mark the start of our 9th year.  We owe tremendous thanks to our friends and family investors who have allowed us to take a long term approach to their returns by allowing the company to take care of the true shareholders….our customers.   Let’s stress to those new to our ‘family’ that these investors were customers first.  That should say something to you about our product(s).  Let’s hope Wall Street pays attention to a model that can and will work if we eliminate greed as a perceived virtue.

So what is this about the liver being our ‘business’.  That’s what our flagship product tackles…liver health.  It’s not glamorous on the surface and it’s not a mainstream topic at this point.  The liver is getting more attention as the information age progresses.  Why is this?  Well, it turns out that just about everything we do each day (eat, breathe, exercise, drink, age, smoke, etc.) impacts the liver.  How healthy your liver is determines how well you deal with this impact.  When toxins are acute (like smoke, alcohol, smog, processed foods and preservatives, prescription drugs) the liver becomes sluggish and toxins begin to spend more time in the body.  These oxidants or free radicals now impact the health and wellness of your body.  MD, DC, DDS, PhD; they’ll all verify that this is fact.  How the body is impacted is different in each person, but an impact is felt nonetheless.  How is that impact minimized?  Besides the obvious answers of better diet and exercise, the clear answer is antioxidants.  That’s where we come in…. LiverGARD is an extremely potent antioxidant formula that targets the liver.  What sets it apart is that it is comprised of two natural foods (artichoke and sarsaparilla).   The are actually combined in proprietary method that creates a complex ’superfood’ that is 23X the antioxidant power of blueberries and that the liver receives the benefit of this nutrition.  It’s not a complex of vitamins or minerals.  It’s not a formula made up by a company using standardized ingredients that you order from suppliers around the world.  It’s food with a benefit that is so profound we actually received a patent for it’s ability to prevent the hangover.  It was that awareness that led us to understand it’s benefit everyday.

So, what are the uses for LiverGARD…if you are super healthy you’ll find a couple capsules a day will add an additional 1650 Orac units to your diet.  Perhaps you use statins (cholesterol lowering drugs).  Most of you have to have your liver enzymes checked regularly.  We have several customers that have provided their blood chemistry work and reported that their liver enzymes have normalized and stay normal even when continuing on the statin regimen.  We have several customers with Hepatitis C that report significant improvements in their liver enzymes.  One of our legal partners was suffering from elevated liver enzymes while on acetaminophen based pain killers.  Once he added LiverGARD to his daily regimen the enzymes normalized.  We have massage therapists that give LiverGARD to their clients before and after a massage to help the body deal with toxins released during the body work.  Their clients report less lethargy afterwards, less getting sick, and fewer skin problems common to post massage therapy.  We can report that our kids take LiverGARD, primarily to supplement their lack of eating vegetables routinely.   As a 40 something  father of two, I can tell you that LiverGARD has allowed me to blow off some steam with my friends occasionally and not lose any time with the children and their activities.  Many of my friends who employ younger retail workers give it to them so that they don’t miss work due to ‘partying’ too much.  It’s reduced sick time calls and helped productivity.

Try it yourself at www.livergard.com or call us at 800.820.7533.  Help us grow and demonstrate what it means to do business right.  If it’s right for you, our customers, it’s right for us.

If you found us through our site, that’s great.  If you are finding this via other searches, our home base is www.naturalbridgesproducts.com and www.livergard.com; we hope to have you back regularly.

All the best, NBPI

Toxins indoors

Hello again from Natural Bridges,

We were just talking about being indoors today.   Whether at the office or at home, we’re inside a bunch more right now with the cold weather.  Just like being outside, we’re exposed to toxins.   Recycled, drier air from the heater, lint, dander, ash from the fireplace; all of these impacting your internal environment.  Couple in the smog and smoke from burning fireplaces on the outside and the body is even more impacted.  LiverGARD is the perfect nutritional supplement to help keep the body clean on the inside.  Here’s a link to NPR and some other information on indoors toxins…

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17243171

you can order LiverGARD at www.livergard.com

It’s the holidays and it’s time to take care of your liver…

Welcome to the blog of Natural Bridges Products, Inc.    My name is Greg Koenig and I’m one of the founders.  This is my initial foray into this online method of communication and I thank you for finding us.  Our whole mission from day one is to provide products that help bridge the gap between health and lifestyle.    Jumping right in I’ll give you an example…

Have you considered what you will be doing to your body in the coming weeks??  Christmas parties, New Year’s parties, overeating, over drinking, etc. Too much chocolate, too much coffee, too much alcohol, too much turkey…simply too much.   You’ve been through it before, the sluggishness, the resolutions, the hangovers.  It’s it bit more noticeable as we get older.   Besides the need for more rest, the answer in much of our feeling this way is the inability of the liver to keep up in its efforts help the body metabolize all that we’ve put in our bodies.  The sluggish liver creates all kinds of havoc as the elimination of toxins slows to a crawl.  The most obvious situation we’re all aware of is when we overindulge in the wine, beer, or spirits department.  To metabolize alcohol the body has to work incredibly hard, and often times the body is still doing so when we wake up and our heads hurt or are mouths are dry.  Incredibly, the hangover was the impetus for a discovery that I’ll share with you now.  For those of you who don’t drink but might have gotten a headache from eating too much chocolate, you  might be surprised to realize that is also a hangover.

I’d like to introduce LiverGARD, an all natural super antioxidant supplement that supports liver health.   It’s two ingredients (artichoke and sarsaparilla) combined in a proprietary manner.  The result is a superfood with 23 times the antioxidant power of blueberries.  For those of you in the health industry, that’s 1650 ORAC units per 2 capsule ( 420mg each) serving.  LiverGARD targets the liver and supports its natural detoxification abilities even under the duress of toxins.  From the air we breathe to the foods we eat, we face toxins internally everyday.  I hope that you’ll give LiverGARD a look.   BTW, that discovery I mentioned above…it resulted in US Patent # 6,824,798, for the prevention of veisalgia (the alcohol hangover).  Try it this holiday season just for this concern and use it everyday as part of a healthy way to help your body.

This is just the beginning of this journey for you and your trust in Natural Bridges Products.   Check frequently for continued updates.

Visit us at www.livergard.com and pick up a bottle of LiverGARD for the holidays.  Your liver is worth it.

From all of us at Natural Bridges Products…Happy Holidays