Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Vitamin E
Folate (folic acid)
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B6
Magnesium
Zinc
Selenium
Copper
Manganese
Chromium
Molybdenum
Potassium
Bilberry extract
Full-spectrum plant enzymes
Lycopene
Lemon bioflavonoids
OPCs
Resveratrol
Green Tea Leaf Extract
Grape Seed Extract
Pine Bark extract
Red Wine Grape Skin extract
Ginkgo biloba
Cruciferous vegetable concentrate
Lutein
D-Glucose
Citric Acid
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Select from the list to the left to see what effect OPC Factor has on certain conditions.
Vitamin A:
Promotes growth and repair of body tissue, healthy
eyes, good night vision, and Vitamin A helps regulate the immune
system, which helps prevent or fight off infections by making white blood cells that destroy harmful bacteria and viruses.
Vitamin A also may help lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, fight infections more effectively.
Vitamin A promotes healthy surface linings of the eyes and the respiratory, urinary, and intestinal tracts
When those linings break down, it becomes easier for bacteria to enter the body and cause infection.
Vitamin A also helps maintain the integrity of skin and mucous membranes, which also function as a barrier to bacteria and viruses.
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Vitamin C:
Helps wounds heal, strengthens
blood vessels, builds connective tissue, healthy gums, skin, and promotes strong teeth and bones. It also may boost
immunity.
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin needed by the body for hundreds of vital metabolic reactions.
Because of the wide variety of reactions in which vitamin C plays a role, many structure/function claims can be made for supplements. Perhaps the most well known function of vitamin C is as one of the key nutritional
antioxidants - where it protects the body from free radical damage. As a water-soluble vitamin, ascorbic acid performs its antioxidant functions within the aqueous compartments of the blood and inside cells and can help restore the antioxidant potential of vitamin E (a fat-soluble antioxidant).
Vitamin C also functions as an essential cofactor for the enzymes involved in the synthesis of collagen - the chief structural protein in connective tissues such as bones, cartilage and skin. As such, vitamin C is often recommended for wound.
As a preventive against infections such as influenza and other viruses, vitamin C is thought to strengthen the cell membranes, thereby preventing entrance of the virus to the interior of the cell. Support of immune cell function is also a key role performed by vitamin C and an effect which may help fight infections in their early stages.
The combined effects of cellular
strengthening, collagen synthesis and antioxidant protection are thought to account for the multi-faceted approach by which vitamin C helps to maintain health.
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Vitamin D:
The primary effect of vitamin D is to maintain calcium levels in the blood. To do this, vitamin D promotes both the absorption of calcium from the intestines into the blood and the removal of calcium from the bones into the blood. Vitamin D also reduced calcium loss in the urine. In most cases, the increased calcium absorption results in an increase in bone density and bone strength, which can help reduce the risk of osteoporosis.
Research also suggests that vitamin D may help maintain a healthy immune system and help regulate cell growth and differentiation, the process that determines what a cell is to become.
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Vitamin E: (as d-alpha tocopheryl acetate)
Vitamin E protects cell membranes (essential for red blood cells) aids cellular respiration and protects lung tissue from pollution.
Alpha-tocopherol is the name of the most active form of vitamin E in humans. It is also a powerful biological antioxidant. Vitamin E found in the OPC Factor formula is the natural form that is twice as active as the synthetic form.
Antioxidants such as vitamin E act to protect
your cells against the effects of free radicals, which are potentially damaging by-products of energy metabolism.
Free radicals can damage cells and may contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Studies are underway to determine whether vitamin E, through its ability to limit production of free radicals, might help prevent or delay the development of those chronic diseases.
Vitamin E has also been shown to play a role in immune
function, in DNA repair, and other metabolic processes.
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Folate: (folic acid)
Folate is a water-soluble B vitamin that occurs naturally in food. Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate that is found in supplements and added to fortified foods.
Folate helps produce and maintain new cells. This is especially important during periods of rapid cell division and growth such as infancy and pregnancy.
Folate is needed to make DNA and RNA, the building blocks of cells. It also helps prevent changes to DNA that may lead
to cancer. Both adults and children need folate to make normal red blood cells and prevent anemia.
Folate is also essential for the metabolism of homocysteine, and helps maintain normal levels of this amino acid.
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Vitamin B-12: (as cyanocobalamin)
B-12 releases energy from food, keeps red blood cells healthy, helps maintain the nervous system, boosts the immune system.
Vitamin B-12 helps reduce effects of stress, helps prevent anemia and provides extra energy, and helps prevent
heart disease.
More than 30 years ago, Kilmer McCully, a pathology professor at Harvard, proposed that elevated homocysteine levels were associated with atherosclerosis.
So, the bad news with elevated homocysteine is that it's associated with heart disease. The good news is that it's easily treated! Folic acid and vitamin B12 are two co-factors necessary to get homocysteine to remethylate. Increasing your intake of these vitamins has been shown to be effective in reducing homocysteine levels. This gives doctors another tool to reduce a patient's overall risk of heart disease.
Vitamin B-12 may decrease your level of homocysteine, an amino acid normally found in your blood. There is evidence that an elevated homocysteine level is an independent risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
The evidence suggests that high levels of homocysteine may damage coronary arteries or make it easier for blood clotting cells called platelets to clump together and form a clot. However, there is currently no evidence available to suggest that lowering homocysteine level with vitamins will reduce
your risk of heart disease.
One serving of OPC Factor provides 2000% of the USDA of B-12, 100% of the folic acid requirements, 99mg of potassium and 40 mg of magnesium.
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Vitamin B6:
Helps regulate blood pressure, muscle and heart function and pain levels. Supports optimal nervous system function, May improve emotional outlook/mood, Helps red blood cell growth and strengthens Immune system. Arthritis relief.
Like most of the B vitamins, Vitamin B6 is involved as a cofactor in a wide variety of enzyme systems. As such, "structure/function" claims can be made for virtually any health condition. For example, because B6 is needed in the conversion of the amino acid tryptophan into niacin, a common B6 claim relates to "healthy cholesterol levels" (because niacin can help lower cholesterol in some people). Because B6 also plays a role in prostaglandin synthesis, claims are often made for the "benefits" of B6 in regulating blood pressure, muscle and heart function and pain levels (each of which is partially regulated by prostaglandins). Vitamin B6 needs are increased in those individuals consuming a high protein diet as well as in women taking oral contraceptives (birth control pills).
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Magnesium:
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. Approximately 50% of total body magnesium is found in bone. The other half is found predominantly inside cells of body tissues and organs. Only 1% of magnesium is found in blood, but the body works very hard to keep blood levels of magnesium constant.
Magnesium is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body. It helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart rhythm steady, supports a healthy
immune system, and keeps bones strong.
Magnesium also helps regulate
blood sugar levels, promotes normal blood pressure, and is known to be involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis.
There is an increased interest in the role of magnesium in preventing and managing disorders such as hypertension, cardiovascular
disease, and diabetes.
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Zinc:
Zinc is an essential mineral that is found in almost every cell.
It stimulates the activity of approximately 100 enzymes, which are substances that promote biochemical reactions in your body.
Zinc supports a healthy immune
system, is needed for wound healing, helps maintain your sense of taste and smell, and is needed for DNA synthesis.
Zinc also supports normal growth and development during pregnancy, childhood, and adolescence.
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Selenium:
Selenium is a trace mineral that is essential to good health but required only in small amounts.
Selenium is incorporated into proteins to make selenoproteins, which are important antioxidant enzymes. The antioxidant properties of selenoproteins help
prevent cellular damage from free radicals.
Free radicals are natural by-products of oxygen metabolism that may contribute to the development of chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
Other selenoproteins help regulate thyroid function and play a role in the immune system.
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Copper:
Copper is an essential trace element present in the diet and in the human body. It is needed to absorb and utilize iron.
Copper is also part of the antioxidant enzyme, Super Oxide Dismutase (SOD). Copper is needed to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy the body runs on. Synthesis of some hormones requires copper, as does the synthesis of collagen (the "glue" that holds connective tissue together). In addition, the enzyme, tyrosinase, which plays a role in the production of skin pigment, requires copper to function.
Copper supplementation has been shown to increase SOD levels in humans - an important antioxidant enzyme.
Heart structure and function are linked to dietary copper (Cu) intake, and even a marginal deficiency can promote
cardiomyopathy, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of Nutrition (135:2130-36, 2005).
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Manganese:
Manganese is an essential trace mineral needed for healthy skin, bone, and cartilage formation, as well as glucose
tolerance. It also helps activate superoxide dismutase (SOD)-an important antioxidant enzyme.
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Chromium
Chromium is a mineral that humans require in trace amounts, although its mechanisms of action in the body and the amounts needed
for optimal health are not well defined.
Chromium is known to enhance the action of insulin, a hormone critical to the metabolism and storage of carbohydrate, fat, and protein in the body.
In 1957, a compound in brewers' yeast was found to prevent an age-related decline in the ability of rats to maintain normal levels of sugar (glucose) in their blood. Chromium was identified as the active ingredient in this so-called "glucose tolerance factor" in 1959.
Chromium also appears to be directly involved in carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism but more research is needed to determine the full range of its roles in the body.
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Molybdenum:
Molybdenum is a pure liquid Molybdenum supplement. Molybdenum is instrumental in regulating pH balance in the body. For each pH point increase (e.g., 6.1-6.2), the oxygen level is increased ten times, thus increasing the metabolism and enhancing the body's ability to burn fat. Also promotes
general well being, aids in carbohydrate metabolism, has proven itself useful in MSG (or other chemical) sensitivity, increases libido, and may enhance the effect of fluorine in tooth decay prevention (dental enamel is rich in molybdenum). It also induces sleep.
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Potassium: (as potassium bicarbonate)
Potassium makes the slight effervescence which helps distribute all components of the product uniformly in the solution for consumption. It also assists the product in the isotonic state in solution and plays
a role in stimulating absorption.
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OPCs:
Known as Oligomeric Proantohcyanidins or OPCs.
OPC Factor contains a variety of OPC’s: Grape Seed Extract, Red Wine Grape Skin extract, Pine Bark extract, Billberry extract, Lemon bioflavonoids, Lycopene and Lutein.
OPCs have been found to be among the most
potent antioxidants in the world. The reason for using these different sources is due to the fact that each has different bioflavonoids that affect different parts of the body. Scientific evidence has uncovered seven different types of free radical activity in the human body. We have found that this particular formula has the potential to react with almost all free radical activity due to the different bioflavonoids unique to each type of extract. OPCs help maintain health by acting both directly and indirectly on the body.
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Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant that is produced by some plants to protect against environmental stresses. Perhaps the most notable producer of resveratrol is the grapevine, which produces large amounts of resveratrol in the skins of grapes to protect against fungal diseases and sun damage.
From the French Paradox study numerous other studies were launched to attempt to identify compounds responsible for red wine’s apparent health benefits. From these studies the compound that gained by far the largest amount of interest was Resveratrol – Recent studies have concluded that:
- Adding resveratrol to the diet of yeast, fruit flies, worms, and a species of fish increased their life spans up to 70%, 29%, 24%, & 50% respectively.
- Resveratrol made fat related deaths drop 31% in obese mice. The resveratrol fed obese mice also performed much better in movement and agility tests than obese mice not fed resveratrol.
- Mice fed resveratrol had 100% more endurance than mice not fed resveratrol (i.e. they were able to run twice as far on a treadmill).
- Resveratrol inhibits blood platelet aggregation that can lead to dangerous clots that can cause heart attacks and strokes.
- Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant that can help prevent cell damage caused by free radicals (free radicals are unstable atoms caused in part by pollution, sunlight, and our bodies natural burning of fat that can lead to cancer, aging, and brain degeneration)
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Green Tea Leaf Extract:
Green tea is the second-most consumed beverage in the world (water is the first) and has been used medicinally for centuries in India and China. Green Tea Extract has an antioxidant activity about 25-100 times more potent than vitamins C and E. A simple cup of green tea may provide 10-40mg of polyphenols and has antioxidant activity greater than a serving of broccoli, spinach, carrots or strawberries.
Green Tea extracts have been used to; Lower cholesterol & triglycerides levels – Reduce blood clotting – Enhance immune function – aiding in weight loss. Green tea and green tea extracts have also been used for improving mental alertness and protecting skin from sun damage.
Because the active compounds, the catechins, found in green tea are known to possess potent antioxidant activity, they may provide beneficial health effects by protecting the body from the damaging effects of oxidative damage from free radicals. A number of chronic disease states have been associated with free radical induced oxidative damage, including heart disease, suppressed immune function and accelerated aging.
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Bilberry extract:
This is a rich source of bioflavonoids and anthocyanidin compounds. Clinical studies have demonstrated that Bilberry may halt
the progressive visual loss of dry macular degeneration and possibly
even improve visual function. It has also been shown that Bilberry extract plus Vitamin E stopped progression of cataract formation in 97% of 50 patients with cataracts. Bilberry may also prove helpful in the treatment of glaucoma by strengthening collagen structures in the eye. Bilberry improves night
vision, and promotes more rapid restoration of visual acuity after exposure to glare. Anthocyanosides help the blood vessels of the eye and retina, especially the macula.
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Full-spectrum plant enzymes:
Enzymes are protein molecules which carry a vital energy factor needed for every chemical action and reaction that occurs in our body. There are several thousand different enzymes found in the human body. These enzymes can combine with co-enzymes to form nearly 100,000 various chemicals that enable
us to see, hear, feel, move, digest food and think. Every organ, every tissue, and all the 100 trillion cells in our body depend upon the reaction of enzymes and their energy factor. Nutrition cannot be explained without describing the part that enzymes play.
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Lycopene:
Tomatoes are loved for their fresh taste and the versatile role they play in cooking. Tomatoes contain many nutrients, among them vitamins C and B complex and the minerals iron and potassium. Also in the mix are carotenoids (kuh-ROT-uh-noids). These include Lycopene and beta carotene, which are converted into vitamin A by your body. Research indicates there may be another reason to love them. They're loaded with Lycopene (LY-ko-pene). Lycopene is a plant chemical (phytochemical) that gives tomatoes their red color. It also appears to offer potential health benefits such as a reduced
risk of macular degenerative disease, serum lipid oxidation, and cancers
of the lung, bladder, cervix, prostate, and skin.
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Lemon Bioflavonoid Complex:
Lemon bioflavonoid complex is a natural extract produced from lemon peels. Lemon bioflavonoid are another rich source of bioflavonoids and anthocyanidin compounds. Lemon Flavonoids demonstrate potential to reduce the mutation of the cells, as well as antioxidant
activity. Recently, studies have taken a look at lemon flavonoids role in the prevention
of cancer cells, as well as in the maintenance of capillaries. Lemon bioflavonoids are an important part of the daily diet. They function closely with Vitamin C and it is recommended that the two are consumed together.
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Ginko biloba:
Many studies show that Ginkgo Biloba (especially the concentrated extracts) can improve
memory recall, but Ginkgo Biloba in herbal form can effect the whole body. Bioflavonoids have long been considered important in protecting microcirculation in small blood vessels.
The bioflavonoids in Ginkgo Biloba are no exception, exhibiting the ability to protect and repair the microcirculation
of capillaries.
They have a stronger biological activity than most other bioflavonoids, and have a specific affinity for the capillary beds of the brain.
Research shows that Ginkgo Biloba lowers
blood pressure, inhibits blood clotting, relieves muscle pain, and has anti-aging
properties.
Preliminary study results indicate Ginkgo Biloba may also slow the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.
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Cruciferous vegetable concentrate:
Studies indicate that Sulforaphane, found in broccoli sprouts and cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, may be very effective in protecting
cells from oxidative stress. According to researchers Sulforaphane may play a key role in increasing the body's natural antioxidant defense systems. They may also function as a powerful indirect antioxidant with a longer lasting effect that vitamins C and E.
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Lutein:
Lutein is believed by some to provide protection
for the fovea, our central vision, by absorbing the harmful blue ultraviolet light. This absorption is nearly 40% reduction of blue light.
The antioxidant properties of lutein help to prevent damage caused by light and oxygen. Several studies have concluded that intake of these carotenoids have lowered the chances of neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
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D-Glucose (also known as grape sugar and blood sugar):
D-Glucose is the main source of energy for living organisms. It occurs naturally and in the free state in fruits and other parts of plants. Normal human blood contains 0.08-0.1% d-glucose. It is included to stimulate the sodium pump mechanism of active transports and to help maintain the bioavailability of the product.
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Citric Acid:
Citric Acid is widely distributed in plants, especially citrus varieties, and in animal fluids and tissues. Citric Acid is a necessary ingredient for pH stability of the product in solution.
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