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What do you know…they’re NOT!

Our blog this time is actually an article by Dr. Stephen Cheney, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who has also been involved in cancer research for years and has over 80 journal articles to his credit.

About the Author

wDr. Chaney has a BS in Chemistry from Duke University and a PhD in Biochemistry from UCLA. He currently holds the rank wof Professor at a major university where runs an active cancer research program and has published over 100 scientific warticles and reviews in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

wDr. Chaney and his wife have also built a business part time that has earned them a 6 -figure income for the past 15 years wand he has spent the last 10 years teaching other people how to do the same.

wWe have been in the same business for almost forty-one years. His work really validates what we teach as well.

To read more of his work go to: https://socialmarketingconnection.com/

The following is an e-mail that Dr. Chaney sent out. The lesson in this story it is stated in the last sentence. (We have taken the liberty to bold a few important points.)

Some of you  have been asking about the May 4th 2010 announcement by GlaxoSmithKline that they were suspending a clinical trial of their resveratrol drug because of safety concerns. Some of the articles went so far to say that people should be cautious about taking resveratrol supplements until these safety issues had been resolved.

Let me make this perfectly clear! The “resveratrol” drug referred to in these articles is not resveratrol itself!

But let’s start at the beginning. The story started when scientists at Harvard screened over 500,000 chemicals to find which would be most effective at turning on anti-aging genes.

They were looking for a drug that they could patent and sell to a drug company for big bucks – not a naturally occurring botanical nutrient.

But what they found was that resveratrol, a nutrient that is found naturally in red wine, was the most effective compound out of those 500,000 that they screened at turning on the anti-aging genes.

That was great news for those of you who are using resveratrol supplements, but it was bad news for them because they couldn’t patent it and, therefore, couldn’t sell it to a drug company. But all was not lost. There is a time-tested process for dealing with this dilemma.

You just make a chemically modified derivative of the natural compound and, if it works, you patent the chemical derivative and sell it to a drug company.

So that’s what the scientists at Harvard did. They made a chemical derivative of resveratrol called SRT501, showed that it also turned on the anti-aging genes, patented it and sold it to Sirtris Pharmaceuticals for $500 million. Sirtris, in turn, sold it to GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million.

As I said, this is a frequently used process. Many successful drugs have been obtained this way, but the process is also fraught with perils. The problem is that the chemically modified derivative is often not metabolized in the same way as the original and frequently can be toxic in unexpected ways.

In fact, the failure rate for this process is quite high. Most of the chemical derivatives fail during clinical trials for one reason or another. It is only on a very rare occasion that these chemically modified derivatives make it through clinical trials and become a successful drug.

……..But, SRT501 is not resveratrol and the toxicities of this drug have
……..nothing to do with resveratrol. ..Resveratrol is a completely natural
……..nutrient found in grapes, red wine and other foods. SRT501 is a man
……..made chemical derivative of resveratrol.

Thus, it is perhaps not surprising that SRT501 displayed unexpected toxicity that caused GlaxoSmithKline to halt clinical trials of the drug.

Sometimes it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature!
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This as also the lesson that our company founder lived by and taught all of us. This is probably the biggest reason that in over 50 years not a single one of our nutritional products has never been recalled for ingredient of safety reasons.

You may wonder how it is then that the company was able to patent, our resveratrol product. VIVIX. The simple answer is that it does not synthesize natural nutrients; it develops its unique products by finding and including other natural nutrients that enhance the value of the initial ingredient and also developing manufacturing processes that preserve nutritional value.  This was the case with our VIVIX. By adding another type of grape that is very rich in polyphenols, Vivix is 10 times more effective, than resveratrol alone, in combating one of the four cellular aging processes. Additionally we have patents pending on its extraction process, which preserves nutritional values. Vivix is not only an amazing product relative to health results that have been experienced; it has become our top selling product.

If you want more information on VIVIX, give us a call. It is a most exciting product, and it out performs other “super fruits juice ” drinks on the market, and actually it really has nothing in common with them since it is not at all a fruit juice compound.  Just Ask Sandy