NUTRITION

MULTI-VITAMIN

Advantages versus Vitamin Pills and Tablets
FSI's Multi-Vitamin allows you to replenish your daily intake of vitamins and minerals without swallowing pills or suffering from stomach discomfort. Just mix one packet in a small glass of water and drink!!

Standard multi-vitamins taken in pill or tablet form are not fully absorbed by the body. This is due to the binding and coating agents necessary to form the actual pill or tablet. The end result is a product with excessive ingredients that is difficult for the body to break apart and absorb. Many times your body only consumes 65%-70% of a vitamin pill that is swallowed!!

This inefficient and difficult absorption process by the body can also lead to stomach discomfort and distress. Have you ever read the directions of any pill or tablet you are about to consume and seen that it’s recommended that you take it with food? This is due to the volatile nature of the stomach after it’s forced to break something apart when doing so is difficult.

FSI's Multi-Vitamin provides you with a host of vitamins and minerals in a fully absorbable, fruit punch drink. It’s packaged in dose-metered, individual foil packets that can be easily transported in shirt pockets, gym bags or suitcases. Just 6 oz of water is all you need for each serving, and it can also be mixed with any other FSI effervescent product for a 2-in-1 glass approach.

What's in FSI's new Multi-Vitamin?

Scientific Overview FSI's Multi-Vitamin gives consumers a combination of B and C vitamins along with essential minerals and other nutrients. The product provides faster, more efficient absorption than the common pill forms due to its PH Balanced delivery method. This method-of-choice not only allows more efficient absorption, but also allows protection of the vitamins from damage due to the buffered solution and quick gastric dumping. This dumping takes the nutrients out of the acidic environment of the stomach and enters them into the duodenum, where absorption into the intestinal walls can begin. The absorption is quick and easy, as the ingredients were broken down and ready for absorption in the glass before consuming. Once in the bloodstream, these nutrients are easily transported where they are needed within the framework of the body.

Directions: Consume one packet daily completely dissolved in 4-6 ounces of water.

FLEXION- glucosamin with msm

Advantages versus other Glucosamine Products
Go to the health section of any retail store and you will see an endless array of Glucosamine or MSM pills and tablets. So what makes Flexion so different?

Flexion is a unique combination of Glucosamine, Creatine and MSM provided in a more absorbable form for your body. These are three proven ingredients that take different approaches to alleviating joint pain, inflammation, and soreness. Flexion takes it to yet another level by providing specific B and C Vitamins. These essentials add antioxidants, energy, and immune boosting.

Now, take this potent combination and make it better. How? Effervescent delivery. Delivering these ingredients effervescently provides quick, efficient absorption without any stomach discomfort.

Pills and tablets can be difficult to swallow, sometimes getting stuck midway down the pipe. When they do finally go down, the stomach cannot always completely break down the ingredients into an absorbable form. Sometimes only 65-70% of the ingredients in a pill or tablet are actually absorbed.

With Flexion, you simply dissolve a single, dose-metered packet into six ounces of water, stir, and drink.

What will it do for me? Flexion helps those with common joint aches and pains get back to living a healthy, active lifestyle. What would you do to wake up with less back or knee pain? Walk with less pain or stiffness? Go for a jog? Flexion can help you achieve some of these things by providing what your joints need to be active. Below is a description of the role of each ingredient in Flexion.

What's In it?
Glucosamine – Used to provide a building block for the regeneration of cartilage glycosaminoglycans, stimulating the production of cartilage components and help aid in joint repair; helps in relieving joint pain and inflammation due to osteoarthritis.

Creatine - Offers support for energy production during high intensity exercise and may help promote cellular hydration. 

Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) – Used for its sulfur-donating group, it has been utilized for the treatment of arthritis

Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) – Used as an aid in the treatment of arthritis

Vitamin B6 – Fuels the process of transulfuration to release sulfate groups, which help to maintain cartilage

Vitamin B12 – Helps maintain a healthy nervous system, increase energy, and strengthen the immune system; needed for calcium absorption

Vitamin C – Aids in increasing tendon strength; provides energy and immune boosting

Scientific Overview The multi-faceted approach that Flexion uses provides lubrication, building blocks, pain and inflammation relief and antioxidant activation. The addition of MSM to the popular combination of glucosamine/creatine will further enhance its potential benefits. The specific vitamins chosen for this formulation are ideal for joint and tendon strength and lubrication.

Due to the complex structure of the human joints, it is best to use several different approaches to alleviate joint problems. This formula provides this and does so in effervescent form for quicker, more efficient absorption. The buffering the effervescence provides also protects the ingredients in the acidic environment of the stomach and prevents stomach irritation that many pills can cause.   

GLUTAMIN EDGE

The human body is considered to be the “Ultimate Machine” because of its ability to recover from illness and injury.  However, even this ultimate machine is not a perfect machine.  Published research has shown that the human body has difficulty recovering from intense exercise.  Research has demonstrated effects such as a lowered immune system, muscle breakdown and the formation of dangerous free radicals, all as a result of exercise.  The combination of these after-effects can lead to a body which is illness and injury prone. Preventative Maintenance with the right combination of ingredients can help the body maintain a healthy immune system and fight off free radical formation and muscle fatigue.  Glutamine edge works against the damaging effects of an active lifestyle by providing a potent formulation of L-Glutamine in combination with vitamins C and E. This revolutionary recovery formula is administered using FSI’s Medical Delivery Technology™.  With the aid of this application, the body absorbs the ingredients in minutes, allowing nutrients to be transported to your muscles rapidly and efficiently for complete replenishment.

What's in Glutamine edge?   Glutamine edge features 5 grams of pure, pharmaceutical-grade L-Glutamine and 100% of the Recommended Daily Allowance of Vitamins C and E, two vitamins critical for energy, immune boosting and recovery.  These ingredients are packaged and delivered effervescently to speed the absorption process, insure accurate dosing and to provide a buffered solution to protect the ingredients while in the acidic environment of the stomach.  

Scientific Overview  For years glutamine has been utilized in the medical industry as an aid to complications of a patient’s digestive track.  Glutamine is delivered, or “dripped,” into the stomach to help overcome various problems associated with digestion.  As a dietary supplement, this glutamine product is formulated in such a way that it benefits the user in several avenues.  It’s vitamin complex is beneficial to the immune boosting power of the body, enhances energy and help prevent free-radical formation which is so common after exercise.  The glutamine is dose-measured at a precise 5 grams, an ideal amount for both absorption and efficacy.  The delivery method of effervescence provides a “fast-track” to the bloodstream for nutrients, providing the formula with a more rapid positive impact on the body’s need for replenishment.  Finally, the ratio of ingredients, including sodium and potassium, lead to a more efficient assimilation of the nutrients by the muscles.

HERCULIN MRF-4

What is Herculin? Herculin MRF-4 is really something all together different and truly the first of its kind. Created by Dr. Jose Antonio and Dr. Darryn Willoughby, it’s the world’s 1st Pre-Workout Muscle Generator. What does that mean? It means that until now, sport supplements focused on the concept of repairing the damage done to muscles during workouts. Though somewhat effective, at best post-workout recovery is still a very limited and reactive approach to building muscle mass and dramatically increasing strength and power.

What Herculin MRF-4 is able to do is utilize your body’s own biological make-up and timing mechanisms so your body works efficiently before, during and after workouts. To do so, Drs Antonio and Willoughby first identified the 8 known pathways with which the human body is able to build muscle (anabolic activity).

1. Nutrient Timing
2. Protein Synthesis
3. Protein Degredation
4. Myogenic Regulatory Factor
5. Satellite Cell Activity
6. Energy Restoration
7. Muscle Membrane Support
8. Immune Support

The most important and anabolic of those pathways, being MRF-4. Herculin MRF-4 has been scientifically created to both effectively stimulate MRF-4, as well as effectively activate the other 7 primary anabolic pathways; giving you the ability to pack on more muscle than ever before, using just one simple pre-workout drink taken 30 minutes before training. There’s no loading or off-day maintenance. There’s no measuring or empty promises. Instead, Herculin MRF-4 will forever change your supplement regimen! Its already achieved something not seen since the inception of creatine into the mainstream market…the creation of a whole new category of supplements-Pre-Workout Muscle Generator.

8-Angle Nucleation

The Nucleation, or base concept, of Herculin MRF-4 is the application of attacking muscle growth from all possible angles before, during and after exercise. Herculin attacks your body’s eight known angles, or pathways, to total muscle generation:

1)     Nutrient Timing to maximize gains in muscle protein- Taking Herculin, Pre-Workout, significantly increases your muscle’s response to heavy training and dramatically increases your muscle’s ability to grow.
2) Stimulate Protein Synthesis – Recent research indicates that Herculin can provide an insulin spike that helps signal the onset of protein synthesis.
3) Alleviate Protein Degradation – Herculin is formulated to contain a precise ratio of key amino acids and other synergistic active ingredients that provide protection from muscle degradation and act as powerful redox agents in the body
4) Stimulate the Myogenic Regulatory Factors – Herculin MRF-4 preferentially increases MRF’s, leading to increased muscle mass. [change to the #1 point or #8 point, prefacing w/ the statement, “And, of course, #8…”]
5) Stimulate Satellite Cell Activity – Satellite cells are cellular structures that form around a muscle cell and, given the right environment and support, can develop into new muscle growth. Herculin works to stimulate satellite cell activity, leading to increased muscle fiber size and new fiber growth.

6) Enhance Myofiber Energy Restoration – Herculin provides the necessary catalyst to help enhance muscle glycogen stores, which is critical for recovery.
7) Protect Muscle Cell Membranes – Herculin provides key nutrients, in precise ratios, that protect your muscles from oxidative damage.
8) Support the Immune System – Intense training has been shown to weaken the immune system. Herculin MRF-4 contains a proprietary matrix of key ingredients shown to support healthy immune function in even the most seriously trained athletes.

By a systematic attack on these 8 known pathways to muscle growth, increased muscle is the ONLY result possible! A more in-depth description of these 8 pathways is available in Drs. Antonio and Willoughby’s new book, Herculin MRF-4™-The 1st Pre-workout Muscle GENErator.

The Scientific Methodology A recently published study, conducted in 2001, demonstrated that a specific profile of amino acids taken before training increases amino acid uptake in skeletal muscle by 650% over a three hour period! Creating an incredibly anabolic environment for your muscles before, during and after your workouts. Herculin MRF-4 contains this exact amino acid profile. In short, Herculin MRF-4 fuels your muscles to full anabolic capacity even before your workout begins! Figure it this way: Take Herculin MRF-4, 30 minutes before workouts to begin fueling up. This fueling will last up to, and throughout a 90-minute workout Fueling continues for another hour after your workout, with additional benefits lasting up to 24 hours. There simply is no other product on the market capable of creating that kind of short- and long-term, sustained anabolic environment. Period!

If you’re working-out, without the use of Herculin as a Pre-workout Muscle Generator, you’re dramatically minimizing your potential to increase muscle size and strength. Any anabolic (muscle building) response generated by your workout is minimized significantly by how much muscle fuel was just lost during your workout, itself. Now imagine putting 650% more fuel into your muscles to counteract your body’s natural catabolic response to training. With Herculin MRF-4, all of your body’s anabolic energy results in huge Net Positive Gains! Talk about a catalyst for muscle growth!

Medical Delivery Technology™ The hidden gem to this breakthrough product lies in a patented process that takes advantage of positive and negative charges to increase bioavailability of certain ingredients up to more than 360%! Here’s how.

With proprietary and patented technology, the ingredients in Herculin are ionized when they’re mixed with water, and their molecular structure is then altered for immediate absorption by your body. The nutrients in Herculin are then more easily absorbed by your body and quickly shuttled to your muscles’ cells. Faster and more efficient than any product ever developed! In fact, a recent study at Creighton University showed that the patented delivery system used in Herculin MRF-4 was 92% available for absorption by the body, compared to just 20% availability when consumed as a standard powder mixture. This scientific study was conducted using dissolution testing, and according to the recommendation of the FDA Generic Drugs Advisory Committee, the use of dissolution testing is an in vitro surrogate marker for bioavailability.

This is the science of Medical Delivery Technology™. And it’s no different from medical and pharmaceutical companies struggling with ways to make drugs bioavailable to the body…medical science is the key!

Who is it For?

Herculin MRF-4 is for anyone who wants to gain muscle (bodybuilders, performance athletes, etc). In addition, Herculin MRF-4 can be utilized as a superior substitute for many products currently on the market:

1) Pre-Workout Energy products
2) Pro-Hormone products
3) Creatine Products
4) Isotonic drinks [list as #5]
5) Post-workout drinks [list as #4]

If you’ve searched for a boost before or after workouts, you’ve probably taken all of the products listed above at one time or another. But did you notice something? None of the aforementioned can be taken in a single dose. And none of them can provide you muscle building benefits before, during and after your training. So why take any one, or even a combination of these products when you can take just one single packet of Herculin MRF-4™, 30 minutes before training? Tripling the results, no less. The answer is you shouldn’t. And because of Herculin MRF-4, all other products are obsolete!

What other supplements will work with Herculin MRF-4™, if desired?

1) FSI Multivitamin: First thing in the morning or simultaneously with Herculin.
2) FSI HPC-3 Hybrid Protein: 30-60 minutes post-workout
3) FSI Glutamine edge: Taken either with Herculin or with your post-workout protein
4) Alpha-Ketoglutarate  (Nitic Oxide): Should be taken with Herculin MRF-4.