RISOTRIENE

Superfood for the 21st Century

Indian Mothers' Secret: Risotriene Russian Olympians' Secret: Pangamic Acid

The web reprint of Mark B. Drucker, MD and Andrea S. Dworkin, ND's book "RISOTRIENE Superfood for the 21st Century"

Learn:

• Health secrets of Indian mothers (rice bran)
• Health secrets of Russian athletes (pangamic acid)

Anatomy of a grain

Rice, like other grains, consists of three parts:  the outer bran, the starchy endosperm which makes up the bulk of the grain, and the germ, or heart.  The bran and germ are the parts of the grain that provide the nutrition, and these are the parts that are removed in the process of refining the brown rice to white rice.  White rice has an advantage over brown rice - it is resistant to insect infestation.  It has so little nutrition even bugs aren't interested.  There is nothing much in white rice, or in any refined grain such as white wheat flour, that would interest our cells either.  The nutritious part, the bran, is Risotriene™.

Superfood helps save the lives of the children in India

In rural areas of India, white rice was prepared by milling and discarding the nutritious bran, while the white starchy grain that was left was used for food.  When a child or relative was sick, a mother would often rush to the local mill and collect the freshly milled rice bran from the discard pile.  She would then immediately prepare a broth or gruel from the bran and feed it to the sick child, who would often recover quickly.

The nutritional superiority of rice bran has long been known.  However, within hours after milling, oxidative changes render the rice bran unfit for human consumption.  An enzyme called lipase combines with the oil in the rice bran, turning the oil rancid.  The result - nutrients are lost and the oil undergoes chemical changes to become toxic.  Forty million metric tons of rice bran are discarded annually worldwide due to rapid development of rancidity.

Scientists and others have made repeated attempts over the past 50 years to deactivate the lipase and thus stabilize the rice bran, but until very recently a non-chemical working process eluded them.

A new proprietary extrusion process has been developed to protect against rancidity and to maintain and enhance rice bran's nutritional value.  A non-chemical process deactivates the lipase.  The result is a highly nutritious superfood with a shelf life of a year or more.  Risotriene is the soluble extract from stabilized rice bran.

Lipase is a digestive enzyme found in your body which helps to digest fats.  Lipase converts oils to fatty acids, which can oxidize (spoil).  However, in the body the fatty acids are processed before oxidation can occur.

All so-called stabilized rice brans are not created equal.  There are other rice bran products, most of which have a shorter shelf life or taste like sawdust.  Lipase deactivating processes used by other companies may destroy the antioxidants and essential fatty acids and sacrifice the nutrients in the rice bran.

The product is water soluble, predigested, and easily available to the body, and it mixed will with liquids or other foods.

Why is RiSoTriene such a nutritional powerhouse?
Integrated teamwork makes the difference.

RiSoTriene contains many nutrients which work together.  In particular, it contains nutrients not readily found in other foods or supplements that are vital for proper functioning.  While nobody can make any specific nutritional claims for RiSoTriene itself, the ingredient has been assayed to contain significant amounts of nutrients whose value is well established.

• Enhances food absorption and utilization - RiSoTriene is one of the most potent food sources of phytochemicals, also called phytonutrients, which are plant compounds.  These food sources or plant compounds work synergistically with other nutrients to enhance absorption and utilization.
• Burns fat and helps build lean body mass - One of the phytonutrients is gamma-oryzanol, which can be effective in the treatment of elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels.  It has a lipolytic effect, which means that it helps burn fat in order to provide energy, which is then used to build lean body mass.  This is no small matter when many Americans, possibly a majority, would like to lose weight and/or increase their energy.
• Optimal fat digestion - It contains essential oils as well as inositol and choline for optimal fat digestion.  It's better to digest fat than to wear it in the form of overweight.

• Produces energy - Another phytonutrient is lipoic acid, which:
  1)  helps produce energy in muscles;
  2) protects the liver, which is an important system for detoxifying the poisons we all come in contact with;
  3) stabilizes blood sugar to calm down sugar cravings and energy swings;
  4) is an important antioxidant.  It helps recycle vitamins E and C so the body can get more antioxidant protection from them.
• Protects against degenerative disease - It contains antioxidants to help protect against free radical damage and the degenerative disease processes that often result, such as cancer, heart disease, arthritis and diabetes.  There are over 74 known antioxidant compounds in RiSoTriene.  How much aging protection would you like?
• Enhances immune system - It has a number of forms of vitamin E, including the better-known tocopherols and the lesser-known tocotrienols.  Tocotrienol isomers and compounds are 40-1000 times more potent than alpha-tocopherol (usually called vitamin E) as antioxidants.  In studies in India, Japan, and the U.S., tocotrienols have been demonstrated to promote T-cell development and thus enhance the immune system.
• Sustained energy and blood sugar control - The product is complex carbohydrates, which help to provide sustained energy over a six hour period without blood sugar spikes.  Many people who take several tablespoons of RiSoTriene throughout the day report increased energy.
• Stabilized rice bran is one of the richest sources of B vitamins found in nature.
• It contains most of the essential amino acids required to maintain a healthy life.
• Glyco-nutrients help cells communicate with each other, and help nutrients work in the body.
• Vitamin B-15, or pangamic acid is the Russians' sports secret.

Many of these will be discussed throughout this book.

Typical Analytical Assay of Risotriene Products

Vitamin C - protects against free radical damage; aids in growth and repair of body tissue, prevention of infection; helps build up the immune system, and helps fight cancer.  It works best with bioflavonoids, found in natural foods but rarely in synthetic supplements.

Vitamin E - protects against free radical damage, protects against heart disease, alleviates fatigue, alleviates leg and muscle cramps, reduces PMS, helps preserve tissues.

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) - aids in digestion of carbohydrates and sugar; improves nervous system function, stamina, ability to concentrate, and mental attitude.
 

Vitamin B3 (niacin) - affects nervous system and brain function, reduces migraines; helps digestive system, reduces cholesterol and triglycerides; needed to make sex hormones and other hormones.

Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) - aids in cell building, conversion of fat and sugar to energy, wound healing; reduces stress, increases stamina.

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) - aides in assimilation of protein and fat, acts as a natural diuretic (water elimination), enhances energy metabolism in muscles.

Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) - aids in red blood cell formation, builds up nervous system, increases energy.

Vitamin B15 (pangamic acid) - Russian athletes found that pangamic acid increased oxygen to the cells and thus increased their endurance, stamina and speed.  Their muscles simply worked better.

Folic acid - aids in utilization of sugar and amino acids (from proteins), prevention of certain birth defects, red blood cell formation.

Biotin - promotes healthy skin and hair, helps control fungus (yeast), works with insulin in glucose (sugar) utilization.

Inositol - aids in fat and cholesterol metabolism, promotes artery health, hair growth.

Choline - works on the cell membranes, improves nerve transmission and brain function, hormone production.

Vitamin K - affects proper blood clotting.

Calcium - helps build strong bones, teeth and muscles; promotes healthy nervous system; has a calming effect.

Potassium - regulates water balance and heart rhythms, aids in clear thinking by sending oxygen to the brain, works as an allergy treatment, and relieves insomnia and anxiety.

Magnesium - improves nerve and muscle functioning, helps relieve cramps and PMS, aids in bone formation, regulates heartbeat.

Phosphorus - aids in bone formation, improves kidney and heart function, lessens arthritis pain, promotes growth and body repair, aids in fat and starch metabolism.

Chromium - affects sugar metabolism.

Selenium (antioxidant) - helps prevent free radical damage.

Some of the benefits of Risotriene:

• Turns fat into energy using natural lipolytics
• Decreases cholesterol, especially LDLs, or 'bad' cholesterol, up to 40% with corresponding decreases in triglycerides.
• Helps to regulate blood sugar - a safe superfood for diabetics and those with hypoglycemia.
• Decreases degenerative diseases by combating free radicals which can lead to heart attack, stroke and cancer.
• Contains over 70 antioxidants including tocotrienols, slowing the aging process.
• The least active tocotrienol antioxidant is 40-60 times more potent than vitamin E (alpha tocopherol).
• Essential fatty acids help produce and balance hormones and protect the skin from wrinkling.
• Bolsters energy and stamina due to high amounts of highly absorbable super B vitamins like pangamic acid, the Russians' secret.
• Some of the compounds can have over 10 times greater antioxidant activity than pycnogenol®.

Imagine a dance floor with many couples dancing.  A lone man enters, cuts in on a couple, causing a new man to be alone.  This new man cuts in on yet another couple, releasing a third man and so on.  The resulting chaos adversely affects the smoothness of the dance and the harmony of the original couples.  Similarly, free radicals can adversely affect the functioning of the body and can mutate cells and lead to cancer, heart and artery damage, wrinkles and a number of degenerative diseases.

24 hour a day protection

Antioxidants counteract free radical damage.  They are, in effect, scavengers which grab free radicals before they can do their damage.  Antioxidants work by giving up an electron to the free radical, stabilizing the molecule and halting the vicious cycle.  The principal antioxidant compounds present in rice bran are tocopherols, tocotrienols and oryzanols.  The first two include eight different isomers (chemical forms) that together are commonly referred to as vitamin E.

Some of the compounds in Risotriene have over ten times greater antioxidant activity than pycnogenol®, and up to 1000 times that of vitamin E's alpha tocopherol.

There is a connection between free radical damage, cholesterol, and antioxidants.

Cholesterol concentration is highest in the brain.  The level of cholesterol in the blood influences production of protective hormones such as progesterone and testosterone.  Most of these hormones are contained in the brain.

Cholesterol is used by the body to heal injuries to the arterial walls, forming a bandage of sorts over the injury.  High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), the good kind, is involved in repair work.  Low and very low density cholesterol (LDL and VLDL) can be the bad kind that is likely to be involved in causing damage.

Cholesterol - not the cause of the damage, but an attempt to cure it.

In this case, cholesterol is the ambulance.  Like the ambulance, cholesterol helps people when they're in health trouble.  Cholesterol, however, often gets the entire blame.

It is believed by many that high cholesterol levels alone lead to heart and blood vessel damage because the two are often found together.  It is possible that the same process that causes heart problems, such as injury to arteries, also causes an increase in cholesterol to help repair the damage.  Cholesterol, in this case, does not cause the damage, but attempts to cure it.

In a study at Louisiana State University, subjects were fed rice bran for 3 weeks, 100 g/day. Mean cholesterol levels decreased from 226 to 210 mg/dl, and LDL cholesterol decreased from 165 to 148 mg/dl. [4]
 

Vitamin E helps prevent the oxidation of LDL cholesterol, which is one of the primary causes of heart disease.  A recent large scale study found that people who took 400-800 IU of vitamin E for about 18 months were 77% less likely to have a non-fatal heart attack [5].

True health insurance for less than a dollar a day.

There are other ways to lower LDL cholesterol.  The pharmaceutical drugs Mevacor, Lopid and Questran will do that, at a cost of $30 to $200 per month.  Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't but unpleasant and/or harmful side effects are as common as not.  Rice bran oil (25% of Risotriene) can do this at a cost of less than a dollar a day.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs may do more harm than good.  Drugs to lower the levels of LDL cholesterol may actually raise it in those with very high levels. [6]  A study in Finland found that heart attack and stroke deaths were 46% higher in those taking cholesterol-lowering drugs. [7]  Mevacor (lovastatin) lowers not only the cholesterol level but also the level of CoQ10, an antioxidant with a protective effect against heart damage. [8]

This class of drugs, known as "statin" drugs, can cause side effects such as liver toxicity, muscle cramps, nausea, constipation, heartburn, mental decline and hair loss.  In addition, a study reported in the 1997 annual meeting of the American Heart Association showed that of 5600 patients treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs, only 38% reached the recommended target levels of LDL cholesterol.  In fact, statin drugs can cause a rebound effect on the HMG-CoA levels, in which the levels can go up to 200 times the normal level. [5]

Tocotrienols are the components of rice bran oil which are credited with antioxidant and cholesterol lowering effects.  The most antioxidant mechanism is the prevention of lipid (fat) peroxidation; an undesirable chemical change brought about by chemical irritation, that could otherwise take place at the cell wall. [9]

A compound called HMG-CoA reductase is the rate-limiting enzyme in the production of cholesterol.  This means that the activity of the HMG-CoA determines in large part the amount of cholesterol produced.  Tocotrienols suppress the enzymatic activity of HMG-CoA and thus lower the level of cholesterol production.

In addition to cholesterol, elevated levels of a chemical compound called homocysteine are an additional indicator of heart and blood vessel disease.  Homocysteine is an amino acid that is a byproduct of protein breakdown, and higher levels of it can contribute to heart disease.  A process called methylation is the key to lowering homocysteine levels.  Methylation is a chemical process that changes the "bad guy" to a "good guy".  Nutrients that can help the methylation process along include trimethylglycine, vitamin B12, folic acid, choline, taurine, pyridoxal-5-phosphate, magnesium, zinc and copper.  Most of these are found in Risotriene.

Oils contain what are called essential fatty acids (EFAs), also known as essential oils, which have a number of benefits, as we will see.  Rice bran typically contains 16-22% oil (EFAs) [10], making these EFAs a very important component of Risotriene.  Oil is a package for oil soluble vitamins E and A, allowing them to be delivered to your body's cells around the clock.

Are you dieting your health away?

There is an epidemic of overweight in this country, which in turn has led to an epidemic of dieting.  In most weight-loss diets, one of the first things to be eliminated or reduced are oils.  There is no distinction made between the harmful rancid fats and fried foods and the essential oils - all are eliminated.  Oil deficiency symptoms such as PMS, low sex drive, infertility and poor skin tone can result.

What many dieters are doing by eliminating oils is actually opposite to what they want to do.  A lot of overweight, probably the majority, is caused not by overeating but by the body's attempt to dilute toxins to render them less poisonous.  the body will retain both water and fat to do so, caring more about your health than your dress or pants size.  Essential oils help carry out toxins.  Thus the body needs to retain less water to compensate.

Releasing toxins is a two step process.  In stage 1, the oil-based toxins, including heated and rancid fats which are chemically toxic, are emulsified in the liver to a water soluble form.  Lecithin, found in Risotriene, is used for this process.  In stage 2, the now water soluble oil complex is excreted.  Toxins also accumulate in the lymph nodes; essential oils help to clear them out.

Oils are needed for many body functions, including:

• Keeping the good guys in and the bad guys out - We are made up of cells.  All cells and the organelles (small structures) within them have membranous outer walls made up of lipids (fats).  These walls keep that which belongs inside (nutrients) inside the cell, and that which belongs outside the cell (toxins) outside.  Cell walls are like the outer walls of your house - you want your house walls intact to keep your family, possessions, and heated or cooled air inside, bad weather and criminals outside.
   
• More get-up-and-go - Essential oils produce energy and are necessary for the production of energy from all other food sources.
   
• Regulating your regulators - Oils are an important part of the formation of hormones which regulate our body processes.  Misregulation leads to PMS, low energy, low sex drive and other problems.
   
• Less pain, more gain - Oils are involved in the production of pain reducing prostaglandins, which regulate many body processes and act as anti-inflammatory (to down-regulate pro-inflammatory) agents.  Arthritis is an example of an inflammatory disease.
   
• Quicker recovery after working out - Oils shorten the time required for recovery of fatigued muscles after exercising by facilitating conversion of fatigue and pain-causing lactic acid.
   
• Without oxygen your cells die - Oils are involved in oxidation, one of the most important biological processes.  They participate in the transfer of oxygen from air in the lungs to hemoglobin (which acts like taxis for delivery) in the blood cells, and from there to cellular locations where needed.  With only 4% of the body's weight, it uses 20% of the body's oxygen.  A brain oxygen deficit can lead to "brain fog", or trouble thinking and remembering.
   
• Clears brain fog - Oils contribute to vitality and good mental state due to their involvement with neurotransmitters.  Also, as mentioned previously, they increase oxygen to the brain, helping with clarity of thinking.
   
• Increases beneficial oils and albumin protein nutrient transportation - Oils benefit mineral and nutrient transport, so all of the "good guys" get to where they will do the most good.
   
• True sun protection - Essential fatty acids help prevent sunburn from UV radiation.  If you sunburn easily, this may be a sign of insufficient essential fatty acids (EFAs), not just a low ozone layer.  B vitamins, found in quantity in Risotriene, also help protect against sun damage.
   
• Younger hair, nails and skin - and that's just on the outside - Oils aid  in tissue growth and repair.  They can also help counteract wrinkling, brown spots, psoriasis, and other skin signs of oxidative damage.
   
• Taking out the trash - Good oils also help carry out and keep out oil-soluble and petrochemical toxins from our bodies.  People who are deficient in oils tend to absorb more oil-based environmental toxins like a dry sponge soaks up water.  A healthy body with sufficient oils with instead repel such chemicals, like the oil in a duck's feathers causes them to repel water.

• Vitamin E, an oil soluble vitamin, is with you 24 hours a day.  Most other antioxidants such as vitamin C, pycnogenol®, CoQ10 and lipoic acid are water soluble and only last six to eight hours.
   
• Immune boost - Vitamin E acetate stimulated the immune system of animals in a University of Colorado study.  Animals given vitamin E showed a ten-fold increase in B cell performance, and a 3.5-fold increase in T cell activity [11].  B cells and T cells are a major line of defense against infectious processes from colds to cancer.  T-cells are a major factor in the prevention of AIDS-related symptoms.  The immune system can be either underactive (colds or cancer) or overactive (allergy, autoimmune diseases).
   
• Pesticide protection - Exposure to pesticides and chemicals can cause brain symptoms which can mimic Alzheimer's disease.  Vitamin E stands guard at the cell membrane to keep these toxins out of the cell. [12]
   
• Vitamin E helps the blood use oxygen more efficiently and improves the production of antibodies against disease agents. [13]  It helps prevent an excessive buildup of platelets which can cause blood clots which can lead to heart attack and stroke. [14, 15]  Vitamin E can also help repair the cells lining the blood vessels.  [16, 17]
   
• Much lower risk of heart disease - Vitamin E has a significant protective effect on the prevention of heart disease in men and women. [18, 19]  Two studies done at Harvard Medical School on large populations bear this out.  In one study, 87,245 women who took 100 IU - a relatively low dose - of vitamin E daily for more than two years had a 46% lower heart disease risk. [20]  In another study, 39,910 male health professionals who took 100 IU of vitamin E had a 37% lower heart disease risk. [21]
   
• Cancer Institute says Vitamin E can protect against bowel cancer. [22]

In many cases, diabetics who are taking Risotriene end up needing less insulin. [23]  there have also been reports of lowered blood sugar levels from the use of Risotriene, including a reduction from the 400s to the 100s (60-120 is the normal blood sugar range). [3,23]

In one study of five subjects taking 20 grams (less than one ounce) of stabilized rice bran per day, blood glucose levels dropped from 160-190 mg/dl to 120-135 mg/dl.  Three of the five were able to reduce their insulin intake by 50%. [24]

Nutritional deficiencies of America:  What other diseases can Risotriene help with or help prevent?

Risotriene can help with conditions as diverse as heart disease, cancer, kidney stones, osteoporosis, ulcers, hormone imbalance, stress, menopause, and thyroid problems, as discussed on the following pages.

Tocotrienols inhibit thromboxane A2, a blood coagulation factor.  Aspirin is also a thromboxane A2 inhibitor, explaining why it is often recommended for reducing the risk of heart problems.  However, aspirin is foreign to the body and has potential for side effects such as stomach irritation.  Tocotrienols are natural to the body and like most nutrients have no known side effects. [5]

Tocotrienols have been shown to decrease thromboxane by 20-26% and platelet aggregation by 15-30%.  Both thromboxane and platelet aggregation are associated with increased risk for heart attacks and strokes.  Thromboxane A2, which is converted in the body to thromboxane B2, also acts as a vasoconstrictor; that is, it constricts the blood vessels, which can raise blood pressure.  Anything that reduces the activity of thromboxane can therefore tend to reduce blood pressure.

Tocotrienols have been shown to have a beneficial effect on cancer.  In one study, tocotrienols inhibited the growth of human breast cancer cells by 50%. [25]

Tocotrienols exhibit "strong activity against tumor production." [26] A study which investigated liver cancer found that "tocotrienol supplementation reduced the impact of carcinogens in rats." [27]

In all of these studies, tocopherols, which are the vitamin E component more widely studied, have had little or no effect on tumor activity, in marked contrast to the effect of tocotrienols.

Ferulic acid, a plant phenolic acid found in rice bran, has exhibited powerful anti-cancer activity. It is able to block formation of carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) as demonstrated in studies with nitrites.  Nitrites are often used as a food preservative, especially in processed meats.  In the body they are converted to nitrosamines, which are potent carcinogens.  Ferulic acid can block this conversion and can also reverse the conversion process to inactivate the nitrosamines. [24]

Stabilized rice bran has been shown in both animal and human studies to reduce calcium excretion through the kidneys.  Increased calcium excretion is linked to the formation of kidney stones.  In one study of 182 people who were calcium kidney stone formers, rice bran treatment drastically reduced the frequency of new stone formation and 61% of them formed no new stone at all for the three-year period of the study.  Another advantage of conserving calcium stores is the reduction in calcium deficiency problems such as osteoporosis. [24]

Menopausal problems helped by gamma oryzanol include headaches, low back pain, fatigue, dizziness, and appetite loss.  In a study at the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tohoku University School of Medicine, two weeks of gamma oryzanol produced moderate to marked improvement in 70-90% of cases.  Two other studies showed similar results:  75% improvement at Chiba University Department of Gynecology and 85% improvement at Aichi Medical University. [24]

Two experiments at Gunma University Hospital showed that gamma oryzanol had a normalizing effect on TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) in hypothyroid patients.  both gamma oryzanol and ferulic acid have a normalizing effect on the endocrine system in general. [24]

• Dick Shelton was able to avoid a heart transplant after a triple bypass operation failed.  He credits the difference to Risotriene.
   
• Since childhood, Marc Harper has had severe headaches which were not alleviated by the many prescription and over-the-counter drugs he tried.  The headaches were diagnosed as being related to hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Risotriene has gradually reduced the intensity and duration of his headaches.  Marc has also noticed increased muscle tone and definition and reduced food cravings.
   
• Risotriene has helped Jeanette Dalfrey recover from dizziness that was so severe that she sometimes had to stay in bed.  She noticed a dramatic difference within only a few days.  Risotriene also helped relieve her severe back pain.  As if that weren't enough, it also helped her with weight loss - she dropped two dress sizes.
   
• Ruby Ferguson, a diabetic, had dangerously high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, which dropped considerably after about 1 1/2 months.  In addition, she product helps her blood sugar levels stay stable.
   
• Jim Ferguson went from having painful and disabling arthritis to being nearly pain-free with much greater mobility "about a month or so" after starting Risotriene.
   
• Karen LaBrenz has had multiple sclerosis for nine years, including symptoms of clumsiness, fatigue, PMS and menstrual cramping.  After two-four weeks on Risotriene, her body was "working much better" and her energy and mental clarity increased.
   
• Leigh Barnard's 82-year old father had congestive heart failure.  Within a few days of taking one teaspoon of Risotriene every few hours, his energy and appetite had increased and "even his voice was stronger".
   
• Richard Hanaman had severe hypoglycemic symptoms as well as circulatory problems that caused numbness in his left hand.  He took Risotriene during a severe hypoglycemic attack and symptoms abated within minutes.  His hand numbness is now almost gone and he sleeps better at night.
   
• Rachel Floyd has Parkinson's disease with accompanying tremors and stumbling.  She was much steadier after only 11 days on Risotriene.

Want more actual patient testimonials?

• Jennifer Dutcher was diagnosed with an advanced liver disease, primary biliary cirrhosis, after suffering with weeks of abdominal pain.  Two days after starting Risotriene she was able to sleep soundly for the first time in months.  Her urine and eyes are showing less signs of jaundice and her skin itching (caused by excretion of bile crystals) has subsided.  Her doctor says her liver may be functioning as well as it has in years.
   
• Lucille Deith had a blood test in February 1997, started Risotriene at that time, and was retested five months later.  The results:  Total cholesterol down 12 points, HDL ("good" cholesterol) up 10, LDL ("bad" cholesterol) down 6, and triglycerides down 80.  Her cholesterol has not been this low in seven years.
   
• Karen Jozwiak had hypoglycemia and low energy.  After using Risotriene for only two weeks, her energy level was greatly improved.  She says "My whole outlook on life and my sense of self has changed".  She has also noticed that she no longer needs antacids, no longer has bad breath in the morning and has lost her midnight sugar cravings.
   
• Chandra Tate has found that Risotriene helps her chronic migraines so much that "It cures my headaches in just a few minutes.  I love it."
   
• Jane Guelette noticed a definite improvement in her concentration after taking Risotriene for less than a month.  She is now able to juggle several tasks at once.
   
• Debbie Apperman was diagnosed with lupus ten years ago.  Both the illness and the drugs she took for it caused a wide variety of symptoms.  Within two weeks of starting Risotriene, her energy level was way up, her joint pain had improved 85%, and she lost most of the bloating from the drugs.
   
• Judy St. John has had insulin dependent diabetes for seventeen years.  She was able to reduce her insulin after the first day; as of the time of her testimonial she has not needed insulin injections.  Her blood pressure also lowered from 180/104 to a much healthier 132/73.
   
• After starting Risotriene, Bonnie says, "I have just had the best six days of the past four years."

What are you missing?

Nutritional deficiencies are a major factor in the development of a large number of chronic (long-term) diseases and health conditions.  In fact, the two biggest causes of disease are toxins which suppress the body, and nutrient deficiencies. [2, 28] Risotriene can help address some of the deficiencies, as well as aiding in the body's detoxification.

Risotriene can aid in the proper functioning of the body.  The body's optimal and natural state is to be disease-free.  However, Risotriene is not a drug and has no direct action against specific diseases.

• Relieves sugar cravings and mood swings - People who have blood sugar swings with resultant energy drops, sweets cravings and irritability.  Hypoglycemic symptoms such as fatigue, shakiness and brain fog can often be relieved within minutes by Risotriene.
   
• More stamina - Risotriene can help athletes who want to keep up their energy and build up or keep their lean muscle mass.
   
• Cell-ready food - Risotriene is beneficial for those who have trouble digesting whole grains.  Since Risotriene is essentially pre-digested, more of the nutrients reach their destinations in the body in useable form.  The nutrients are so usable, or bioavailable, that one can get more actual nutrition from Risotriene than from synthetic supplements with much higher listed nutrient levels.  Quality counts far more than quantity.
   
• Lower allergies - People with allergies can find Risotriene useful, since they often have trouble digesting foods.  In addition, Risotriene is a rice product, and rice has relatively low allergic potential.
   
• Balance your books:  Super nutritional credit in a life of nutrient-free calorie debits - Those who drink alcohol or smoke have a greater need for nutrients.  This is also true to people who eat a lot of sugar-sweetened products.  All of these substances deplete nutrients, reduce the appetite for healthy food, and cause cellular damage that needs repair.

The athletic connection

Weight lifters often use anabolic steroids to increase muscle size.  These are powerful drugs with a great potential for unpleasant side effects.  The steroids added bulk more rapidly initially, but gamma oryzanol users shoed greater muscle girth and definition in the long run (after 16 weeks) without dangerous side effects.

The gamma oryzanol and ferulic acid combination, found naturally in Risotriene, has been shown to lead to not only increased muscle mass, but also improved strength, improved body composition, decreased body fat, enhanced recovery times, and less muscle soreness.  This combination is thus a safe and effective replacement for anabolic steroids.

Gamma oryzanol and ferulic acid improve exercise physiology in several ways:

• Stamina and well-being - Increased release of endorphins, brain chemicals which reduce fatigue during workouts and decrease muscle soreness.
   
• Builds lean muscle - Increases growth hormone
   
• The mobilization of stored fat for energy
   
• Anti-stress - They act as adaptogens to enhance normal responses to exercise stress
   
• Antioxidant protective effect (protects cell membranes from oxidative stress)

Risotriene is a food product rather than a supplement.  It is wholly derived from food with nothing added, taken away or changed.  It is generally used to add nutrition to one's diet.  As a food product, it is considered to be safe for children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with health problems.  However, it is prudent to consult your health practitioner for advisability and dosage if you are diabetic or have other health problems. or have a sensitivity to rice.

Since it is a food product, there is no need to closely regulate the amount taken.  It is easy to overdose or unbalance your nutrients with synthetic nutrients or drugs.  If it nearly impossible to overdose on a food.

A minimum of one scoop or two tablespoons at breakfast is the usual amount taken, and you can take another scoop for lunch for extra afternoon energy.  It is great for beating the mid-afternoon slump.

More than just a coincidence

Isn't it great that Risotriene comes along just when nutrition is at its lowest ebb!

It is virtually impossible to achieve therapeutic levels of vitamin E through food sources alone.  For example, to get 200 IU of vitamin E, one would have to eat 10 cups of almonds, one of the richest vitamin E food sources.  [5]  Supplementation is therefore usually necessary, yet most vitamin E supplements are rich in tocopherols, not tocotrienols.

Headaches alone account for one of 25 doctor visits.  15-45 million Americans have chronic headaches. [20] $2 billion is spent on over-the-counter pain killers.  In a 1996 Business Week survey of what Americans feel they can't live without, 19% say they can't live without aspirin.

All of these are degenerative diseases or conditions.  Two things contribute to the development of degenerative diseases:

• Too much bad stuff - toxic chemicals
   
• Not enough good stuff - nutrients.

Take out the bad and put in the good.
Then your body will work as it should!

What's going to protect you from truckloads of harm?

We are exposed to amounts of toxic chemicals well beyond what our bodies were designed to cope with.  For example, in 1989, according to the 1989 Toxic Release Inventory National Report, U.S. EPA, Office of Toxic Substances: [30,31]

• Over 1/2 billion pounds of industrial chemicals were dumped into the public sewage system.
   
• 1.2 billions pounds of chemicals were released into the ground, threatening our natural aquifers (water sources).
   
• Almost 200 million pounds of chemicals were discharged into surface waters.
   
• Almost 2.5 billion pounds of air emissions entered the atmosphere.

In short, over 5.7 billion pounds of chemical pollutants were released into the environment in 1989, in the U.S. alone.  To put this huge number into perspective, imagine these toxins filling semi-trailers, each holding 45,000 pounds.  This convoy of trailers could form an unbroken line reaching from Los Angeles to Des Moines, IA! [31]  The question becomes: How much of this is in your body?

Since all this poison is more than we can deal with, it becomes clear that we need some help.  Help comes in many forms, but two major sources are:

• Feeding the good guys - Nutrients to help feed and protect our bodies, including our natural detoxification systems, and help them perform optimally.
   
• Disarming the bad guys - Antioxidants to help prevent free radical damage, widely talked about in the news and discussed throughout this book.

Without added synthetic vitamins, what we eat may not even qualify as food!

In addition, probably 80% of the food in the average supermarket is highly processed, the only exceptions being produce, meat and milk.  However, even meat is so tainted that a person who regularly eats meat may be getting as much as a glassful of antiobiotics and steroids per year!  Processing further destroys and depletes nutrients to the point that manufacturers must add synthetic nutrients to some products so the product will qualify as food!

Did you know:

• Apples and cucumbers are coated with a wax similar to car wax so they will look pretty and shiny in the bin.
   
• Oranges are dyed orange so they will fit the consumer idea of what a ripe orange looks like.
   
• Cows in feedlots are fed grain that is so pesticide-laden that their droppings will not even attract flies.
   
• Powerful and toxic pesticides such as DDT, banned for decades for use in this country, are shipped to other countries, which use them on foods and are then shipped back to us.
   
• Your milk and meat may come from cows which have been given bovine growth hormone (BGH), which helps increase milk production and calf growth.  We are ingesting powerful hormones and substances designed to increase weight with our food.
   
• Nuclear radiation and chemical preservatives are used to reduce or eliminate spoilage.  Think about it.  If even bacteria can't live in a food, what good is it to us?

We know things are getting pretty bad when we need to be protected from our own food!

So is the solution to take synthetic supplements?

Supplements are often promoted as a way to make up for the deficiencies in our food supply.  Supplements usually consist of synthetic isolated nutrients, alone or in combination.  However, nutrients do not work in isolation.  They are synergistic, or interdependent.  An excess or deficiency of one of them will affect the function of others.  For this reason not only the absolute amount but the balance is important.  No nutrient can substitute for another.  And what about the nutrients that make nutrients work?

What goes around comes around

We have nearly come full circle in our attitudes about food and supplements - foods to devitalized foods to supplements and back to nutritious foods, or Superfoods, as shown in the following graphic.

Toxic Time Line
The Evolution of Nutritional Supplements

Supplement nutrients are often synthesized, nor not directly from natural sources.  One question that often comes up is:  Are synthetic vitamins identical to natural vitamins from food?  The answer is:  yes and no.  With synthetic vitamins, the molecular structure of the vitamin is the same as that of the natural vitamin as far as science knows today, but that isn't the whole story.  Natural vitamins from food sources contain cofactors without which the vitamin does not work as it should.  For example, a molecule of synthetic ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is identical to a molecule of natural ascorbic acid.  However, the natural ascorbic acid has cofactors called bioflavonoids.

Additionally, using the example of vitamin C:  If you take pure ascorbic acid, especially in large doses, it may deplete the body of essential minerals, especially copper.  Food which naturally contains vitamin C usually contains some copper to offset this.

The point here is that taking isolated vitamins is not the same as using a complete, nutritious whole food product.

We don't even know what we don't know

Foods contain many nutrients and cofactors which haven't been discovered or named yet.  Thus scientists haven't discovered how to synthesize them.  New nutrients are still being discovered, and it is more likely than not that there are some yet to be found.  For example, Risotriene was listed as having 70 antioxidants just last year, and in one year four more have been discovered in the product.  As we get smarter, Risotriene gets better.  A supplement based on only known nutrients is bound to have something missing, no matter how complete it is according to existing knowledge.

The more we know, the better RiSoTriene gets

In 1996, it was discovered that glyconutrients help communication between cells, and help other nutrients work.  Risotriene is full of glyconutrients naturally; but if we were making a synthetic mix of nutrients, we would not have known to put glyconutrients in prior to 1996.

Are you really what you eat?

So foods aren't adequate and supplements aren't adequate.  There is yet a third complicating factor - you are not what you eat, not entirely.

Nutrition can be broken down into four components:

	Diet		What you eat
	Digestion		What is broken down into is primary parts
	Absorption		What passes through the intestinal wall into the blood
	Utilization		What the body actually uses at a cellular level

What You Eat (Diet)

What You Digest

What You Use

Nutrition

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