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| have heard a lot of good about this product |
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03/03/04 |
has anyone used it and know of its TRUE benefits
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Independent Scientific Evaluation More Juice Plus+® Studies Juice Plus+® Research Underway Unprecedented investment in research
The Science of Juice Plus+®
What separates Juice Plus+® from the literally thousands of other nutritional products on the market today?
The quality and simplicity of Juice Plus+® is a great place to start. You can add to that the support of thousands of health professionals who recommend Juice Plus+® to their patients and clients. But the single most important factor that separates Juice Plus+® from the rest of the nutritional pack is the large and growing body of product-specific research conducted on Juice Plus+®.
A history of independent scientific validation
NSA committed years ago to ongoing support of independent scientific research to demonstrate the effectiveness of Juice Plus+®. It started with a Quantitative Laboratory Analysis showing that Juice Plus+® is packed with good, whole food based nutrition. NSA updates the analysis regularly and publishes it periodically as evidence that Juice Plus+® remains the same great product it has always been.
The Laboratory Analysis shows that there’s good nutrition in Juice Plus+®, but is it actually assimilated by the body? That’s exactly what the first Juice Plus+® Bio-Availability Study – published in June 1996 in the journal Current Therapeutic Research – showed. In the words of the researchers: “Test subjects showed significant increases in blood plasma levels of key antioxidants after only 28 days on Juice Plus+®.”
Researchers learned not only that Juice Plus+® dramatically increases antioxidant levels, but also that these antioxidants are functioning to reduce oxidative stress, as evidenced by a reduction in lipid peroxides. In the study, taking Juice Plus+® reduced lipid peroxides in the bloodstream by 75% overall, and reduced them to undetectable levels in a third of the subjects.
Next, researchers at the University of Arizona decided to measure the impact of Juice Plus+® on the immune system. The Juice Plus+® Immune System Study analyzed key immune system components to determine whether supplementation with Juice Plus+® could improve multiple immune functions. After 80 days, researchers found significant improvements in the activity of T-cells, B-cells, and natural killer cells and in the levels of cytokines. Results of this study were published in the journal Integrative Medicine in 1999.
Another study, the Juice Plus+® DNA Study, conducted at the Department of Microbiology at Brigham Young University, analyzed newly replicated blood lymphocyte cells to determine whether supplementation with Juice Plus+® could reduce DNA damage in humans. After 80 days, researchers found an average reduction of 66% in DNA damage among test subjects. Significantly, the reduction in DNA damage was virtually the same for smokers and non-smokers alike. These results were published in the journal Nutrition Research in October 1999.
These studies form an unprecedented foundation of independent scientific validation for Juice Plus+®.
More Juice Plus+® studies
A second Juice Plus+® bio-availability study was conducted by researchers at King’s College in London. Their conclusion: “In as little as seven days, [supplementation with Juice Plus+®] can raise blood antioxidant levels into the ranges associated with reduced risk of disease.” Results from this study were published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics in late 2000.
Another Juice Plus+® bio-availability study at the University of Vienna Medical School focused on gender specific differences in diet and nutrition using a double blind, placebo-controlled research protocol. The Austrian researchers concluded, “Supplementation (with Juice Plus+®) proved to be effective in raising plasma levels of all nutrients studied, for both men and women.” Results of this study were presented in November 2001 to the First World Congress on Men’s Health in Vienna.
In another double blind, placebo-controlled study, this one published in the July 2003 issue of The Journal of Nutrition, researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia analyzed the effect of Juice Plus+® on homocysteine levels. Homocysteine is an amino acid produced by the body that often accumulates to unhealthy levels when nutritional status is compromised. Elevated levels of homocysteine in the blood correlate to a significantly elevated risk of heart attack, stroke, blood clots, and other forms of cardiovascular disease, as well as to a greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
As in previous studies, the Australian researchers found significant increases in blood antioxidant levels in subjects taking Juice Plus+®. They also found a significant reduction in serum homocysteine levels, leading them to conclude: “In the absence of dietary modification, supplementation with a mixed fruit and vegetable concentrate (Juice Plus+®) produced responses consistent with a reduction in risk of coronary heart disease.”
A study by researchers at the University of Maryland analyzed the effect of Juice Plus+® on the constriction of blood vessels that occurs following a high fat meal. They concluded that taking Juice Plus+® helps reduce vascular constriction and “tends to protect against the detrimental effects of a high fat meal.” Their study was published in the July 2003 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
More research underway
There is even more Juice Plus+® clinical research currently underway at leading universities and research hospitals all over the world, including:
an advanced bio-availability study by researchers at Georgetown University and UCLA.
a study by a research team from Vanderbilt University to determine whether taking Juice Plus+® can positively impact the progression of coronary heart disease in high risk patients.
a study by researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, to gauge the effect of Juice Plus+® on the nutritional status and quality of life of ovarian cancer patients.
a study at Wake Forest University, approved by the National Institutes of Health and funded by the National Cancer Institute, analyzing the effect of Juice Plus+® on cell proliferation, immune function and DNA damage in head and neck cancer patients.
a study at the University of Mississippi, measuring the impact of Juice Plus+® on the overall health of pregnant women, including the incidence of full-term pregnancies; the rate of reproductive loss; and, the incidence of pre-eclampsia, the most common complication of pregnancy in the U.S.
a study at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, analyzing the impact of Juice Plus+® on exercise-induced oxidative stress.
a study by researchers at the University of Milan, measuring the effect of Juice Plus+® on the oxidative stress of both smoking and non-smoking subjects.
An unprecedented investment in research
Juice Plus+® has been analyzed to determine what’s in it, where it goes in the body, and what it does when it gets there.
Juice Plus+® is being tested on a variety of conditions, in a variety of circumstances, at leading universities and research hospitals all over the world.
Juice Plus+® has been the subject of research in smaller clinical studies over shorter periods of time and large real world populations over longer periods of time.
Researchers have studied the effect of Juice Plus+® on pregnant women, small children, teens, adults of all ages, and even senior citizens.
Juice Plus+® is – and will continue to be – the most thoroughly tested nutritional product in the world.
The University Medical Center
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The Orchard & Garden
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