NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements for the Americas (6th Edition)

The Comparative Guide to Nutritional SupplementsTM, 6th edition, is far more than an update: the guide has been completely rewritten in light of recent groundbreaking discoveries from the world of nutritional research. A huge change in our scientific understanding of how dietary antioxidants really work required a huge change in the guide; with the release of our latest edition, this is just what NutriSearch provides.

Very recent scientific evidence has now established that most dietary antioxidants do not work the way we thought they did. Rather than confront aggressive and powerful free radicals in direct hand-to-hand combat, biologically relevant antioxidants activate the cell s own HEAVY GUNS its endogenous antioxidant defences, honed over two billion years of evolution.

This emergent scientific understanding in cellular antioxidant defence is a real game-changer. It presents a quantum perceptual leap a paradigm shift for an industry where very few players are even aware that the game itself has been transformed.
* Learn how the immutable laws of quantum chemistry and reaction kinetics rule against direct free radical scavenging by common antioxidants.
* Read how science has, for decades, inadvertently focused on the wrong antioxidants.
* Examine how plant-based antioxidants can paradoxically change into oxidants, capable of tapping evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of cell signalling to trigger key genetic switches.
* Find out how nuclear transcription factor Nrf2, a key ON/OFF switch that controls expression of over 500 genes, can influence oxidative stress, inflammation, disease resistance, and progression of the aging process itself.
* Discover how the practice of calorie restriction, regular exercise, and the consumption of select plant-based nutrients may improve both our healthspan and our lifespan.

With exhaustive market research on over 1,600 nutritional supplements in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Colombia, find out how our completely revised analytical criteria now incorporating the exciting science of cell signalling rate your favourite nutritional products.

Author, educator, and biochemist, Lyle MacWilliam is the Founder of NutriSearch Corporation, a Canadian-based research house serving the needs of the Natural Health Product industry and health-conscious consumers throughout the global marketplace.

A scientific consultant for the development of safe and effective nutritional products and a public advocate for the betterment of manufacturing practices in the industry, Mr. MacWilliam s early scientific research on the biological effects of antioxidants provided a sound basis for his later regulatory work within the Natural Health Products field. After several years in public office as a Member of British Columbia s Legislature and Canada s Federal Parliament, Mr. MacWilliam also served at the behest of Canada s former Minister of Health as a contributing member of an expert advisory team charged with designing an innovative framework to ensure Canadians access to safe, effective, and high-quality Natural Health Products. In addition, he consulted with Health Canada, Environment Canada, Human Resources Development Canada, and the British Columbia Science Council. He has frequently engaged his services as a scientific consultant for nutritional manufacturers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Mexico.

An educator at heart, Mr. MacWilliam was a contributory writer for Life Extension Foundation, a US-based non-profit agency dedicated to the science of optimal health and longevity. His creative works now in print for almost two decades include the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements™, the Comparative Guide to Children s Nutritionals, the NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements™, the NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements for Australia and New Zealand™, and the current NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements for the Americas™, available in English, French, Spanish, and Chinese. The guides have been used the world over by leading manufacturers, healthcare professionals, educational institutes, and consumers alike.

An accomplished martial artist with a lifetime passion for optimal health and fitness, MacWilliam s written works hit hard at today s lifestyles and diets and the failure of our modern healthcare system to embrace more natural ways of treatment/cure. A sought-after speaker on the importance of lifestyle, diet, and sensible supplementation, his scientifically rigorous, no nonsense delivery served up with a robust sense of humour has earned him international praise as an important voice for preventive health.