A thistle tale

Good morning,

As I was reading the newspaper this morning, there was a great story on the death cap mushroom and some poisoning that occurred here in the SF Bay Area.  We have a doctor in the Santa Cruz area that knows how to deal with poisoning and his efforts have prevented deaths and liver transplants for these patients.   How was this accomplished??  Through the use of an intravenous form of milkthistle, also known as the wild artichoke.  Why is this important??  Well, the fact that milkthistle has clear hepatic (liver) protection qualities due to it’s flavonoids, primarily silymarin, supports natural products in a big way.  Even more important to you is the fact that LiverGARD is even more potent a liver support mechanism.  LiverGARD utilizes the entire cynara floridanum artichoke ( not the globe or scolamus version you see in the stores ) and sarsaparilla to enhance the liver supporting plant chemicals.  The resulting extract is the basis behind our product and it’s effectiveness, especially as compared to any of the milkthistle products in capsule form.  Most milkthistle products are standardized at 80% silymarin making this flavonoid the primary component.  In the case of LiverGARD, our complex of flavonoids includes quercetin, kaempferol, isorhamnetin, (+)-catechin, silymarin, cynarin, caffeic acid, and chlorogenic acid.  To read more about how valuable our supplement is, check out the following link, http://www.naturalbridges.ws/full_study.html.  Let me be very clear…I have no knowledge of LiverGARD’s ability to work with mushroom poisoning, but I can state factually that customers with elevated liver enzymes due to statins and/or painkillers have reported significant improvements, customers have reported improved digestion, and without a doubt customers have been using our formula for years to prevent the symptoms of too much alcohol, often referred to as the hangover.  Your liver deserves to be treated well, especially since we don’t always do the right thing to our bodies.   Make LiverGARD part of your daily longevity program.

All the best, NBPI   www.livergard.com   www.naturalbridgesproducts.com

What is LiverGARD??

That’s a good question.  I’m pretty good at letting people know what LiverGARD can do, but sometimes forget to tell you what it is and how it works so that you can feel comfortable in using it.

What is LiverGARD??  It is simply an extract of the floridanum variety of artichoke and mexican sarsaparilla.  As simple as that sounds, we’ve had several companies try, without success, to duplicate the process to achieve the results we have.  As we also work with the source, we manage to ensure that LiverGARD always matches our researched profile even if weather conditions create different growing situations.  So let’s repeat…artichoke and sarsaparilla.

Is LiverGARD safe??  As the resultant extract is a whole food complex, it is treated by the body as such.  We’ve had eight years direct experience selling to the public and we’ve had zero reports of any negative side effect.  All of us working for Natural Bridges have used LiverGARD daily for the last 8 years.  In my case, it’s been over 10.  Dr. Cochran has used it for over 20 years.  By law, we have to keep a negative events log.  There’s nothing in it…

How does LiverGARD work??   The extract contains a complex of active flavonoids including quercetin, kaempferol, isorhamnetin, catechin, silymarin, cynarin, and chlorogenic acid.  These plant chemicals focus their energy in the liver supporting the natural metabolization processes.  Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) for LiverGARD shows a powerful antioxidant at least twenty three times more effective than blueberries.   This nutrition and antioxidant effect leads to improved hepatic (liver) performance, especially under the duress of acute toxins like ethanol (alcohol), acetaminophen, or certain other pharmaceuticals.  It’s also why you don’t get hangovers if taken correctly.  If the body can process the ethanol more quickly, it cuts out the inflammatory response that usually occurs within a couple of drinks.  No headache, no nausea, or whatever your typical overindulgence response is.  For me, not having headache after a shared bottle of wine at dinner, or a six pack during the Super Bowl, or a couple of single malts while listening to the waves crash on the beach.  Not losing any part of the next day is even more rewarding.

In a nutshell, this is LiverGARD.   Feed your liver everyday.  www.livergard.com

Wisdom gained via the liver and a houseboat…

Wisdom is certainly learned via experience or really, really good observation.  When you’re stubborn like me, though, it’s definitely through the experience (often enough a painful one).  We know it’s wisdom when we can dispense the knowledge in the hopes that those receiving the input choose the benefit versus the ‘experience’.  That’s what we’re trying to do here at Natural Bridges Products.  With LiverGARD, we’re trying use our knowledge about the liver to impart the practical aspects of using this product as part of your lifestyle.   We don’t pay that much attention to the liver yet in our country but it’s gaining attention.  You probably know someone who is on statins to control cholesterol.  Ask them how often they need to have their liver enzymes checked.  Ask them if they’ve ever had to discontinue the statin because the enzymes elevated too much.  Ditto for painkillers that utilize acetaminophen like hydrocodone products (Vicodin).  These are folks who could use LiverGARD immediately.  Tell them about us and then make the leap yourself.  What does your day look like?  Do you drink coffee?  Did you eat right today?  How clean was the air or water I took in?  When we’re younger the liver can handle quite a bit of stress.  As we age, we see a decline in this capacity.  Just increasing the nutrition to the liver can produce amazing results in increasing this lost capacity.  That’s what LiverGARD does.  How did we learn about this?  For me, it was the hangover.  Dr. Charles Cochran, the extract specialist who originally has worked with the artichoke and sarsaparilla extract gave it to me to help me protect my body from my lifestyle.  Think of who you know who have been in sales, traveling the country and the world, and doing business with many cultures.  This was me and I worked for a Japanese company.  It was code to drink.  After work, with clients, all the time.  You’d go away on weekends, just to get away, and of course habit took over and another drink appeared.  I had purchased an old 74 kayot houseboat out on the Sacramento Delta.  This derelict needed some TLC which, if you’ve owned boats, is constantly required.  Fortunately for me, Dr. Cochran was already working with what is now LiverGARD.  He gave it to me as liver support to help handle the stresses of my job and lifestyle.  What he didn’t know and what we learned was that if you took LiverGARD while you drank, you didn’t get that dreaded hangover from overdoing it.  Here’s where we want to dispense some real wisdom…LiverGARD is so good for your liver that it actually prevents the alcohol hangover.  We even received a patent for this invention of use for a nutritional product.  That’s rare enough in itself.  Check it out…US Patent# 6,824,789.  So please consider the wisdom of using LiverGARD everyday and use our knowledge as your own.

All the best….NBPI

PS.  To leave you today, here is a testimonial from Kristin in Wisconsin (stay warm) that we received just a couple of days ago…’

The product is wonderful and
really works. I have allowed many friends to try it and they have ALL called
me the next day to tell me how great they felt. I also use the product for
daily maintenance.... Thank you again for the great service as service is just as
important as the product (well, almost, haha).
With great appreciation,
Kristin

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