Carb BLX™ Advanced Carbohydrate Blocking

Breads, pastas, potatoes and sweets . . .Why is it that many of our favorite foods help add fat to our bodies? To more effectively manage weight, many people try to avoid calories composed of fat and starch, but there is nothing easy about shying away from these types of foods that we often crave and use as a reward or special treat for ourselves. To help ease the "weighty" effects of fatty and starchy foods, 4Life proudly offers a Carb BLX formula for support in carbohydrate blocking. The formula blend scientifically studied ingredients such as Cassia nomame, jaborandi and white kidney bean extract to provide increased support for all metabolic types.

Key Points

� Metabolism:The way your body metabolizes food, particularly carbohydrates, is important to your weight management success. While some individuals may burn carbohydrates very quickly, leading to more frequent hunger pangs, snacking and overeating, other people tend to have much slower metabolisms, causing them to need a diet that pushes their metabolism to function at a faster rate. To more effectively meet the needs of all metabolic systems, 4Life offers a single Carb BLX formula to address both types of metabolism.

� Carb BLX : Helps to strengthen weight loss efforts and limit fat production by utilizing the power of natural amylase inhibitors. Amylase is the enzyme that is responsible for the breakdown of carbohydrates in the body. By inhibiting this process, the amount of carbohydrates available to convert to fat is reduced, increasing your chances of overall weight management success.*

� Carb BLX :Formulated to help prevent carbohydrates and fat from being absorbed by the body. It features key ingredients that inhibit the enzymes lipase and amylase from performing their function. This ultimately prevents carbohydrates and fats from being absorbed into the body, strengthening your weight loss efforts.**

Technical Points

� Green Tea contains polyphenols and flavonols which posses potent antioxidant activity. Many health benefits from Green Tea have been researched, including its ability to enhance immune function and weight loss.

Primarily functions as a carbohydrate/sugar blocker. The ingredients in this formula work together to diminish starch digestion. Slowed digestion of starch blunts the rate at which sugars are released from the starch; consequently there is less sugar available for absorption and fat production. Also, slowing starch digestion leaves some starch undigested, which can act as fiber and is simply eliminated from the body. Eliminated starch means fewer calories absorbed and fewer calories absorbed means less fat production!

Ingredients:
Proprietary Blend 490 mg **
Cassia nomame Extract - Blocks Lipase
White Kidney Bean Extract - Blocks Amylase
Cocoa-Almond Extract
Green Tea Extract (polyphenols 90%, catechins 70%)
Jaborandi Extract
Arabinose

The immune system has many different types of cells acting together to take care of unwanted infections and altered cells. Cytokines are the chemicals produced by these cells in order to communicate and orchestrate the attack. Just as hormones in the endocrine system can produce an effect on other cells, so cytokines can act on other immune cells, especially cells that are close by. Cytokines act as biochemical "messenger molecules". The "message" or "instruction" is sent by Signal Transduction to every cell of the immune system and others. Signal Transduction acts with a "Lock and Key" specificity. Glycoproteins are the cell wall receptors, made up of eight essential monosaccharides and comprising about 40% of the mass of the cell wall.

Cytokines have several important characteristics:

The same cytokine may be made by a number of different cells.

The same cytokine may have different effects in different circumstances. (This is called 'pleotropy')

Different cytokines may have the same activity depending on the situation ('redundancy').

Cytokines often act together and increase the effects of one another ('synergy'). They may also act as antagonists. [as IL-6 acting as a proinflammatory agent and IL-10 acting as an antiinflammatory agent]

Most cytokines have either paracrine or autocrine effects. Paracrine means they act on cells near to them or that they are actually touching. The autocrine function of IL-2 is well known because, when a T cell is stimulated to make IL-2, it stimulates itself via the IL-2 receptor to proliferate. An example of an uncommon endocrine function for cytokines is IL-1 which can cause fever by stimulating the hypothalamus.

Originally, the cytokines were named according to their function (like T cell growth factor, now called IL-2) but then the pleotropy of cytokines was observed, making function specific names confusing. After more and more cytokines were identified, and in order to avoid confusion, immunologists started naming some of the cytokines 'interleukins' (or IL for short) and numbering them as they were found. The first interleukin identified therefore was IL-1 and the most recent one is IL-16.

You will find that some cytokines are more important than others in basic immunology. Take a look at the following table. The functions of cytokines are best studied within the context of an actual immune response.

Table of cytokines

Cytokine Principle Source Principle Activities

IL-1 Macrophage T,B, cell activation;
IL-2 T cells T cell proliferation
IL-3 T cells Growth of many cell types
IL-4 T cells B cell growth/differentiation
IL-5 T cells B cell, eosinophil growth
IL-6 Macrophages B cell stimulation, inflammation
IL-7 stromal cells Early B/T cell differentiation
IL-8 Macrophages Neutrophil (PMN)attraction
IL-9 T cells mitogen
IL-10 T cells Inhibits Th1 cytokine production
IL-11 Bone marrow stroma Hematopoeisis
IL-12 APC Stimulates T, NK cells
IL-13 T cells Similar to IL-4 [B cell growth and differentiation]
IL-14 Dendritic cells,T cells B cell memory
IL-15 T cells same as IL-2 [T cell proliferation]
IFNa Most cells Anti-viral
IFNb Most cells Anti-viral
IFNg T, NK cells inflammation, activates macrophages TGFb macrophages,lymphocytes Depends on target TNFa Macrophage Inflammation; tumor killing
TNFb T cells Inflammation; tumor killing; enhances phagocytosis

Transfer Factor is an important part of a white blood cell (a lymphocyte), a protein peptide in the cytokine family often called a lymphokine like interferon and interleukins.

Four Key Fractions of Transfer Factor

(1) The INDUCER FRACTION of transfer factor; links the immune cells with an antigen-binding site, thereby increasing their reactivity to an antigenic stimulus.

(2) SPECIFIC ANTIGEN FRACTIONS "teach" the immune system to recognize, search out and destroy certain invading microorganisms. While the "memory" of these specific tasks is quite persistent, time does allow that "memory" to fade. A renewal of those "immune lessons" is required from time to time. This is the basis for administration of "Booster" Vaccines.

(3) NON SPECIFIC FRACTIONS instruct the immune system to recognize, and eliminate toxins and those cells that harbor toxins and the organisms that produce toxins.

(4) The SUPPRESSOR FRACTIONS block the response of the T-cells, and signals a down regulation of the immune response after an adequate response has been made. This is useful in allergic or autoimmune conditions. Never before has there been adequate treatment for autoimmune conditions such as Lupus, Auto Immune Hemolytic Anemia, Fibromyalgia and etc.