Over 50 Years of Research Reveals the 
Many Health Benefits of Flavay™

The Key to Good Health and Vitality

For more than 50 years this antioxidant complex, now known as FLAVAY™, has produced stunning health results across Europe. The benefits of FLAVAY™ are particularly compelling because they address so many diverse body tissues and conditions. Below is an overview of FLAVAY'S™ proven health benefits:

• Acts as a superior antioxidant by preventing and fighting the harmful effects of rampaging free radicals in the body.
• Regenerates other antioxidants in the body after they have quenched free radicals, thereby vastly extending their unique antioxidant powers and helping the body to maintains its natural antioxidant balance.
• Helps to regulate nitric oxide—one of the newest good-bad free radicals to demand the scientific spotlight—as it normalizes blood circulation, helps coordinate activity between the brain and immune system, modulates communication between brain cells and is thereby deeply involved in concentration, learning and memory.
• Promotes heart health.
• Reduces platelet aggregation.
• Increases the strength and elasticity of blood vessels, protecting against rupture, leakage and degeneration.
• Enhances the ability of collagen to repair itself.
• Inhibits swelling (edema) and inflammation.
• Accelerates recovery time from strenuous games and workouts.
• Relieves functional problems associated with varicose veins.
• Reduces the tendency toward diabetic retinopathy.
• Improves skin health by strengthening and rebuilding the body's collagen proteins.
• Helps prevent the degradation of collagen and elastin, thereby helping to enhance the elasticity of the skin and offset visible signs of premature aging.
• Supports and protects the body during stressful times.

What is Flavay™?

FLAVAY™ is more than a single nutrient. It is a very specific, standardized and isolated, singular polyphenol complex defined and perfected by Dr. Jack Masquelier in France; validated by the French Ministry of Health and documented by a library of research consisting of many patents and hundreds of scientific papers, articles, doctorate theses, lectures and presentations.

FLAVAY™ is not a simple bioflavonoid (this is important because many are non-bioavailable or even toxic). FLAVAY™ is a highly specialized, nutritional complex of pairs and triples of a specific molecule called "flavan-3-ol," isolated from natural extracts, that has been extensively tested and examined clinically for biological antioxidant protection, collagen strengthening, tissue rebuilding, and other health producing outcomes. This highly defined, polyphenol complex is proven fully bioavailable, safe and effective by numerous human studies, manufactured in France and used worldwide since 1950.

"Radical Scavenger Effect" of Flavay™
Protected by U.S. Patent No. 4,698,360

Patented and licensed in France for therapeutic uses, the U.S. Government granted Dr. Masquelier a patent on October 6, 1987 which allows his proanthocyanidins complex, now sold as FLAVAY™, to be used as an antioxidant here in the United States.

During any challenge to your immune system—because of disease, infections, toxic exposure, stress or aging—you need the extra antioxidant power in FLAVAY™ to help scavenge the free radicals naturally produced by the immune system's cells during warfare. When your immune system works better, your joints hurt less and your blood flows better.

Method of Action

Considerable research has demonstrated that FLAVAY™ has several key actions when consumed:

• FLAVAY™ is a powerfully effective ANTIOXIDANT that recycles other antioxidants in the body after they have quenched corrosive free radicals which affect many tissues and conditions including cognitive impairment and premature aging.
  
• FLAVAY™ helps to regulate the good-bad free radical, NITRIC OXIDE, which is essential for: normal blood circulation, coordinating activity between the immune system and the brain, and modulating communication between brain cells—and is thereby deeply involved in concentration, learning and memory.
  
• FLAVAY™ inhibits the release and synthesis of HISTAMINE, a key factor in the promotion of INFLAMMATION; reactions associated with conditions like vascular diseases, allergies, and arthritis.
  
• FLAVAY™ strengthens and rebuilds COLLAGEN proteins, improving skin and blood vessel health.

Free Radicals: Both Foe and Friend

Contemporary scientific studies in neurology and immunology have demonstrated that the body's own immune system has the ability to damage healthy cells. When the body's immune system mobilizes, our cells produce by-products called oxygen free radicals, like pellets of poison, that go to work to destroy invaders by interfering with their cellular machinery, literally dissolving or breaking down the genetic material of bacteria, toxins, and viruses.

When all is going well, the immune system is capable of identifying foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria. If functioning properly, our immune components do not turn against our own body's cells. Unfortunately, free radicals can interfere with the biological components of our healthy cells just as they destroy invaders, literally dismantling the body's essential cellular proteins, fatty cell membranes and DNA.

The most important natural defenses we have against free radical damage are our body's natural "antioxidants," a broad range of chemical substances that all have one thing in common: they ward off free radical damage to cells. However, in many neurological diseases—including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue, and multiple sclerosis—the brain's specialized antioxidant mechanisms fail. The cause of the failure might be genetic, environmental, or even dietary, but the consequences are the same: unchecked free radical activity on the brain.

The excessive production of one free radical in particular, nitric oxide, can be blamed for throwing the brain-immune systems off kilter and causing some of the brain's worst free radical damage. Over the past decade, scientists have shown that the overproduction of nitric oxide through a combination of immune and nervous system activity— often sparked by an infection, exposure to a toxin, or as part of the aging process—plays a key role in the development of neurological diseases.

Antioxidants:
Your Best Weapon Against Toxic Free Radicals

Antioxidants can neutralize free radical attacks and are especially important as we age. During any challenge to your immune system—because of disease, infections, toxic exposure, stress or aging—you need extra antioxidants to help scavenge the free radicals naturally produced by the immune system's cells during warfare.

Until recently, scientists believed that each antioxidant worked separately in the body, independently of the others. We now know that isn't true. Current research demonstrates that key antioxidants and their co-factor nutrients work synergistically with one another in the body. Antioxidants work together in the body—not alone.

Superior Antioxidant Support

FLAVAY™ is superior to other antioxidants because its protective effects are multiplied in the body: while it provides its own, powerful antioxidant protection, it also supports the dynamic interplay between other antioxidants in the body. FLAVAY'S™ ability to “recycle,” or regenerate vitamins C and E after they have quenched free radicals vastly extends their unique antioxidant powers, helping the body to maintain its synergistic antioxidant balance.

FLAVAY™ is rapidly absorbed and very quickly distributed throughout the body. As a free radical fighter, FLAVAY™ comes to the aid of the body more quickly than other antioxidants, reducing the potential for free radical damage and the ravages of aging. FLAVAY™ also possesses more reactive sites for neutralizing free radicals than other known antioxidants. Furthermore, FLAVAY™ permits reactivity with both positively and negatively charged free radical species. What this means is that FLAVAY™ can “quench” or “scavenge” (neutralize) a broad variety of free radicals. Highly reactive as an antioxidant in both lipid (fat) and aqueous (water) phases, FLAVAY™ neutralizes oxygen free radicals and is a valuable protector of healthy cells in a variety of internal conditions. This is a unique property among antioxidants, as most work either in lipid or aqueous phases, but not both. Research shows that FLAVAY™ can regulate nitric oxide and quench superoxide and the hydroxyl radical. This is extremely important. Of all the free radicals formed in the body, the hydroxyl radical is the most dangerous because it can directly attack DNA. As a free radical scavenger, FLAVAY™ is like an antioxidant prize fighter that can successfully take on all challengers, big or small, in any kind of weather.