Celebrate Healthy Women with SoySentials

Many women spend their time caring for others while balancing education and career demands. With increasingly busy schedules, the concerns women have about their own health can fall by the wayside. May, Women’s Health Care month, is a great time for women to take stock of health goals, risk factors, family history and nutritional intake. This month, take time to evaluate all the ways you can experience the best that life has to offer by taking excellent care of your health.

Yearly Physical
Be sure you have a primary care physician that you trust, establish a relationship and visit yearly to get checked out, says Shantanu Nudy, MD, an internist at the University of Chicago Medical Center and author of Stay Healthy at Every Age. Blood work to check thyroid health and cholesterol will give you insight on your overall health and catch any emerging problems before they become serious concerns. Your doctor will check your body mass index and blood pressure as well.

Tip: Come to your appointment with a list of specific questions to ask. You can even request your blood work before the office visit so you’re reviewing the results with your doc and saving yourself a second appointment.

OB/GYN
Make a yearly gynecologist checkup part of your health routine. Regular pap smears and pelvic exams save lives and can help catch problems while they are still treatable. Your doctor will also give you an overall checkup, which may include a general physical exam, review and update of your health history and medication refills. This is also a great opportunity to establish a routine of monthly breast self-exams. Your gynecologist can offer advice about family planning, menstrual issues and menopause. It is important to continue getting an annual exam even if you think you are past the age of having children or are sexually inactive.

Emotional Health
While many women make time for yearly exams, mental and emotional health issues can go overlooked for years. Take time to evaluate your stress level and develop strategies for coping with temporary and long-term stressors. Don’t be afraid to ask for counseling if you feel that talking to someone would be helpful. Learn to recognize your reaction to mild, moderate and severe stress and react accordingly. You might benefit from keeping a journal, taking time to meditate or pray, conversing with a close friend or reaching out to a mental health professional. Your overall health can be affected by how you feel, so don’t be afraid to reach out if you need help coping.

Exercise
“Studies have shown that 20 to 30 minutes of exercise most days will help you maintain your weight,” says Barb Dehn, RN, NP. By the time you reach your 40s, if you want to lose weight you’ll need to go a full hour, Dehn says. Include weight-bearing exercise (walking counts) and strength training (with light resistance or weight bands). These types of exercises will help you preserve muscle mass and bone density as you age. Spend your life feeling energized and invigorated by maintaining a healthy weight and making exercise part of your day.

Skin Care
Proper skin care is more than just washing and moisturizing, although these are two very important steps. If you’re not already doing so, start wearing a daily moisturizer with at least SPF 15 to protect your skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. Reliv’s r collection for women makes skin nutrition simple. Our r day balanced moisturizer + RA7 features peptides that help promote the synthesis of collagen and elastin, creating younger, healthier looking skin. It’s also colorant, fragrance and paraben-free.

Bone Density
Your physician may want to start checking the density of your bones in your 40s or 50s, but you should definitely start paying attention to it by your 60s. Osteoporosis might be a family concern or you might be at risk from taking certain medications, but by age 65, all women need a bone density test (DEXA scan) according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Make calcium a priority in your diet, and consult your physician to ensure that you’re getting enough. Reliv Classic® and Reliv Now® each contain 1,000 mg of calcium per serving, which is the daily amount recommended by the FDA.

A Note from Dr. Carl:
Take Good Care of Yourself
When considering the nutrition a woman’s body needs, special health concerns must be taken into consideration.

Healthy lifestyle choices – such as including SoySentials® with LunaRich® in your diet – can have a substantial impact on the reduction of a woman’s health risks. SoySentials contains a unique blend of soy protein, antioxidants, probiotics and herbs that give you an edge. These ingredients work together to promote bone health, support the immune system and ease the symptoms of menopause and PMS to keep you feeling great.

LunaRich soy powder and LunaRich X™ are the first products to fully harness the power of lunasin, a naturally occurring soy peptide. Because it works at the epigenetic level within your cells, lunasin provides multiple health benefits that support:

• Cholesterol management
• Inflammation reduction
• Antioxidant benefits
• Improved immunity
• Overall cellular health

Take control of your health and make SoySentials part of your daily healthy living strategy.

To your health,
Dr. Carl W. Hastings
Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer

Thank you Reliv for another enlightening article!

Sources:
http://www.womenshealth.gov/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/womens-health/MY00379
http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/health-musts-for-every-decade-104678

Supplemental Benefits

What is a dietary supplement?

A dietary supplement is any product containing vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids or enzymes, according to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Given the broad nature of this definition and vast spectrum of forms in which supplements are available, it isn’t a stretch to say that not all supplements are created equal.

Why is supplementation so important?

As you age, your body goes through major physical transformations and along the way can be introduced to some far-from-healthy environmental factors and unhealthy eating habits. Many people who are moderately health conscious may get the proper amount of fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, however, are often under consumed. Immune systems need all of these nutrient groups. Supplementation helps make sure your immune system has what it needs to function properly and fend off health threats.

Maintaining optimal cell health also requires additional means of absorbing nutrients. Supplementation with beneficial bioactive compounds can provide your cells with nutrition necessary to combat today’s environmental stresses and decrease your risk of chronic disease. Lunasin, for example, is a soy peptide that has been shown to work at the epigenetic level within cells to promote overall cellular health.

The benefits of supplementing are far-reaching. A recent study from The University of Melbourne and Swinburne University of Technology found women in particular receive an energy level benefit following supplementation. Participants of both genders reported a trend toward better sleep, improved mood and emotional state. Supplementation has also been shown to aid in motivation, exercise performance, recovery and the regulation of calories.

Supplements may boost heart health

Heart disease is the country’s number one killer. “Supplements can be very beneficial to heart health,” says Mimi Guarneri, the founder and medical director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California, and the author of The Heart Speaks. Supplementing with these nutritional compounds in particular can benefit your heart:

• Omega 3 fatty acids
• Plant sterols
• Fiber (psyllium)
• B-complex vitamins (B3, B6, B12, folic acid)
• Coenzyme Q10
• Policosanol
• Lunasin

Note: All ingredients listed above can be found in Reliv products.

Supplements may slow a biological effect of aging

In addition to overall cellular health and increased immunity, your body can experience anti-aging benefits from supplements. Another recent study from The Ohio State University found that inflammation can be positively affected by Omega-3 supplementation.

“Inflammation in particular is at the heart of so many health problems,” said Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State and lead author of the study. “Anything that reduces inflammation has a lot of potentially good spinoffs among older adults.”

Additionally, supplementing with Omega-3s garners the potential to lower the risk for “a host of concerns associated with aging,” said Kiecolt-Glaser.

Takeaway 

Bottom line: taking supplements, Reliv products in particular, can help you feel healthier, happier and more energetic. It is also a proactive approach to taking control of your own health. So the question is no longer “Why supplement?” but rather “Why wouldn’t you supplement?”

A Note from Dr. Carl: The Best Supplements Around

Reliv’s approach to nutrition focuses on bioavailability, that is, how effectively a nutrient is absorbed by the body. Reliv products, chock full of nutrients, come in easily absorbed shakes. While LunaRich soy powder features lunasin, a key peptide in soy, other Reliv products feature a cocktail of nutrients.

For example, Innergize!® is stacked with Vitamins A and C, ChromeMate® and OptiZinc® (the most readily absorbed forms of Chormium and Zinc available), as well as L-Carnitine and L-Glutamine to help transport fatty acids, release more energy, and promote lean muscle development. Cardiosentials® has Policosanol, which helps reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol and improve coronary blood flow, as well as CoQ10, which energizes heart function.

If you’re looking for the anti-inflammatory benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids, you need look no further than Reliv’s 24K™, GlucAffect®, ReversAge® and Reliv Now® for Kids. People of all ages will benefit, whether they’re children growing strong minds and bodies or adults maintaining their health and longevity. You can optimize your results by adding LunaRich X™—the most pure, concentrated form of lunasin ever produced—to your Reliv regimen. In addition to its own health benefits — from cholesterol reduction to overall cellular health — LunaRich X powers up the benefits you receive from other Reliv products.

We’ve taken people of all ages and from all walks of life into consideration when creating Reliv’s premiere line of supplements. You can feel good inside and out knowing that our ingredients come from the most reputable suppliers and undergo rigorous testing when they first enter our plant, and again at each step in the manufacturing process. And because we own our manufacturing facility, we are able to ensure product purity and potency in every can— guaranteed.

Reliv goes beyond the minimum daily requirements to follow the standard of optimal nutrition, developed by researchers who have shown that higher levels of key nutrients are essential to good health and well-being. We have a seat on the board of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, Australian TGA approval and are the first corporate partner of the Missouri Plant Science Center—affiliations of which we are proud!

To your health,

Dr. Carl W. Hastings
Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer

Thank you Dr. Carl for your great article!!!

 

Soy Much Better

Not all soy is created equal. Want proof? Just look at the facts:

Year: 1995

Research: Meta-analysis of clinical trials shows a 12.5% reduction of LDL cholesterol with the daily consumption of 25 grams of soy protein.

Result: FDA approves health claim in 1999: 25 grams of soy protein a day, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease.

Year: 2006

Research: Meta-analysis of clinical trials conducted after the FDA approval shows that, on average, 50 grams soy protein per day reduces LDL cholesterol by just 3%.

Result: American Heart Association (AHA) petitions to repeal the 1999 FDA health claim on soy protein.

So what happened between 1995 and 2006 to soy protein’s ability to lower cholesterol? The demand for soy products skyrocketed with the FDA health claim, and producers developed more efficient manufacturing processes to meet that demand. Unfortunately, many of these processes removed the component in soy protein responsible for lowering cholesterol in the first place: lunasin, a naturally occurring peptide.

Breakthrough Discovery

Dr. Alfredo Galvez first discovered lunasin at UC Berkley in 1996. More than 50 published studies on lunasin at more than 25 research institutions followed. In 2012 the AHA, the very organization seeking to repeal soy protein’s FDA health claim, acknowledged lunasin’s ability to support cardiovascular health.

Year: 2008

Research: Clinical study identifies the lunasin peptide in soy protein as the active ingredient responsible for lowering LDL cholesterol.

Result: American Heart Association invites Dr. Alfredo Galvez, the leader of the study and discoverer of lunasin, to present at its national convention and publishes the study abstract in its journal Circulation in 2012.

A Better Bean

No other products optimize lunasin content like Reliv’s LunaRich® line. It’s all thanks to a seed selection and manufacturing process exclusive to Reliv’s partners at Soy Labs and the Missouri Plant Science Center. The LunaRich germ plasm soybean screening is conducted at the National Center for Soybean Biotechnology. (NCSB), located in the Bond Life Sciences Center on the University of Missouri campus. Scientists there have created a database of the traits of thousands of varieties of soybeans. Only those seed varieties that have the highest concentration of lunasin are  selected for use in LunaRich.

These specific varieties are continually being enhanced through natural plant breeding, so each successive seed harvest yields even higher lunasin levels. That means that all soybeans used in LunaRich are non-GMO, of the absolute highest quality and only getting better.

Healthier Harvest

The manufacturing technology used to produce LunaRich is also critical. This proprietary process does not use any harsh chemicals that could destroy or wash away the peptide. Many soy powders are manufactured through a chemical extraction method; however, LunaRich is manufactured using only mechanical extraction to separate the various soy components.

The resulting products, LunaRich soy powder and the further refined LunaRich X™, are the only products on the market that can guarantee the amount of bioactive lunasin they contain. With LunaRich you can rest assured you’re getting the full benefits of this remarkable soy peptide with every serving.

A Brief History of LunaRich

1996: Lunasin discovered by Dr. Alfredo Galvez at UC Berkeley

1999: FDA approves heart health claim for soy protein

2008: Dr. Galvez presents lunasin’s epigenetic mechanism of action for lowering cholesterol

2009: Soy Labs awarded U.S. patent for mechanism of action

2011: Missouri Plant Science Center opens, Reliv partners with Soy Labs and MPSC

2012: Reliv introduces LunaRich soy powder

2013: Reliv launches LunaRich X and LunaRich points system

Set Your Heart on Health

February is American Heart Month and the perfect time to take an active approach to better heart health. Even if you have a family history, heart disease and attacks are preventable. Lower your risk by incorporating these suggestions into your healthy lifestyle.

Eat Your Heart Out — the Healthy Way

Saturated and Trans Fats Antioxidant-Rich Fruits and Vegetables

While foods with more than 2 grams of saturated fat per serving do your heart more harm than good, a study published in Circulation found that women who ate three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries per week reduced their heart attack risk by as much as one-third!

• – Avoid packaged snack foods with more than 1 gram of trans fat per 100 calories.
• – Mix delicious berries in with cereal at breakfast, salad at lunch, or frozen yogurt after dinner.
• – Challenge yourself to add fruits and veggies to 2 meals and 1 snack daily.

Red Meat Soy and Salmon

Red meat is particularly high in saturated fat, yet soy foods have far less of it than common meat protein sources. Soy foods have been shown to reduce LDL (“bad”) blood cholesterol levels.

• – Add soymilk to a bowl of oatmeal or whole-grain cereal — it tastes great!
• – Look for natural sources of soy in edamame and organic silken tofu, or add Reliv Now® with LunaRich® and LunaRich X™ to your daily regimen.
• – Work on cutting portion sizes of steaks or substituting chicken or fish.  Salmon is a great option because it is high in omega-3 fatty acids (see Dr. Carl’s letter below).

Find mouth-watering recipes from Health Magazine’s “10 Best Foods for Your Heart” here.

Work Your Heart Out

Engaging in physical activity can help you feel better and make your heart stronger. Exercise alone can reduce your risk of heart attacks by 35-50%! The American Heart Association recommends exercising for at least 30 minutes most days.

• – Aerobic exercises like running and dancing, even gardening or housekeeping, can get your heart pumping, juices flowing, and spirits up.
• – Aim to boost your physical activity by 10 minutes a day, even if it means walking around during commercials or phone calls.

Give Your Heart a Break

Sleep deprivation and stress are awful for your heart’s health — most adults need 7-8 hours a night to function and feel their best. Every extra hour of sleep added to your nightly average reduces coronary artery calcification, a heart disease risk factor, by up to 33%, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association study.

• – Lengthen your sleep by closing your eyes at least half an hour earlier than you usually would. That extra episode on Netflix will still be up tomorrow and hey, maybe you’ll enjoy it more if you’re well-rested.
• – Reduce stress by practicing yoga, tai chi, or meditating and focusing on relaxation for a few minutes each day.

A Note from Dr. Carl: Show Your Heart a Little Love

Your heart is responsible for countless vital processes, and its health is closely intertwined with that of your body and brain.

In honor of American Heart Month, I urge you to show your heart a little love: eat healthy, exercise, relax and incorporate Reliv’s LunaRich products into your heart-healthy regimen.

Lunasin: Soy’s Not-So-Secret Ingredient

Lunasin is the peptide behind many of soy’s remarkable cholesterol-lowering health benefits, and Reliv’s LunaRich soy powder products and LunaRich X are the first products to fully harness its nutritive power.

Cholesterol comes from two sources: dietary intake and our body’s own production in the liver. Over 80% of cholesterol comes from the liver, so the most effective way to lower LDL (bad) cholesterol is to control the liver’s internal production. Lunasin works to lower cholesterol in two ways:

1. disrupts the production of cholesterol in the liver
2. improves the liver’s ability to clear LDL cholesterol from the bloodstream

Omega-3s: Good-for-You Fat

Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish, nuts and other healthy foods, protect the heart by decreasing arrhythmias, blood clot formation, blood pressure, inflammation, and can even improve the function of artery cells. Omega 3s are necessary for heart and overall health, but your body can’t make them. That’s why supplementing is key. Reliv products containing omega 3s include 24K™, GlucAffect®, ReversAge® and Reliv Now® for Kids.

CardioSentials®: A Nutritional Approach to Total Heart Health

This revolutionary formula has been clinically shown to moderate cholesterol and blood glucose levels. OptiBerry, an assortment of powerful antioxidants, relaxes arterial walls to keep blood flowing, CoQ10 works to energize your heart and phytosterols moderate cholesterol levels. CardioSentials provides nutritional support that your heart’s sure to love, especially when taken with LunaRich X.  

To Your Health,

Dr. Carl W. Hastings
Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer

Lift for a Better Life

Strength training offers strong benefits to your body inside and out.

Muscles

Having stronger muscles not only helps you lug more grocery bags at once, it also increases your flexibility and balance. Poor balance often contributes to falls and broken bones in older people, which can lead to disabilities and life-threatening complications. A study showed post-menopausal women who progressively strength trained just two days a week had a 75 percent increase in strength and 13 percent increase in balance.

Bones and Joints

Stressing bones through strength training increases bone density and reduces the risk of osteoporosis and fracture. In addition, a study of postmenopausal women showed gains in hip and spine bone density through just two days a week of progressive strength training. Strength training also can reduce pain in joints. In a study of older men and women with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis, strength training decreased pain by 43 percent. At the same time, it increased muscle strength and general physical performance, improved the clinical signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis, and decreased disability.

Heart

Running for miles or doing other aerobic activity isn’t the only way to strengthen your heart. Strength training also builds the heart’s aerobic capacity. Because of this, the American Heart Association recommends strength training to lower heart disease risk and as therapy for patients in cardiac rehabilitation. Strength training also helps heart health by lowering LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and triglycerides while raising HDL (“good”) cholesterol. In addition, when you’re conditioned through regular strength training, your heart rate and blood pressure are more likely to stay steady during activities like lifting or carrying, so your heart is less strained.

Weight Loss

It’s simple math. Muscle burns more calories than stored fat. So people with more muscle mass have a higher metabolic rate. In fact, strength training can boost metabolic rate by 15 percent so you’re burning more calories to help you lose weight. And the more muscle you have, the easier it is to control your weight. Also, as you age, you naturally lose muscle mass especially after age 50. Unfortunately, if you don’t do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose, the percentage of fat in your body increases. Strength training will replace the muscle you would otherwise lose to keep your body leaner.

Powerful Partners

Give your workouts a shake and a shot! A ProVantage shake provides nutrition you need for strength and muscle building. And a shot of 24K can give you that added boost of energy you need to power through your workout!

Reliv supports every part of your active lifestyle through nutritional products, online support, health tips and the Team Reliv Fitness Club.

ProVantage® and healthy energy shot 24K™ are perfect complements to strength training. They’ll maximize the results from your efforts while energizing you through every rep. Packed with 13 grams of soy protein, ProVantage provides a balance of nutrients formulated to improve performance, endurance, recovery and repair. 24K nourishes your body and provides fuel for healthy, real energy to promote peak performance throughout the day. Take a look at how a few key nutrients found in these products partner with strength training for real results:

Soy protein: Increases muscle mass and function, reduces fatigue, burns excess body fat for increased energy and promotes maximum fitness levels.

Creatine: Helps extend peak athletic performance for longer periods of exercise and reduces muscle recovery time. Studies show combining creatine and strength training leads to greater gains in strength and lean muscle mass and helps adults over age 50 better retain strength and muscle mass that they lose as they age.

Tonalin® (CLA — conjugated linoleic acid): Helps reduce body fat and increase muscle tone by helping the body extract more energy from less food. A study showed those taking a combination of creatine and CLA while strength training had greater gains in muscle endurance, an increase in fat-free mass and a decrease in body fat percentage.

Coenzyme Q10: Promotes energy production and boosts athletic performance so you can power through your workout.

Resveratrol: Helps muscles use oxygen more efficiently to enhance performance. Also may increase exercise endurance.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Aid in energy production. Also may help with oxygen delivery to active muscles to delay fatigue during exercise.

Bigger Biceps, Better Health

Today, building muscle is more about brains than brawn. It’s a smart way to stay healthy now and into the future. Strength training is for everyone of every age, young adults to the elderly, men and women.

Sure, impressive biceps and six-pack abs can be a perk of strength training, but strength training also builds multiple health benefits for every part of your body — seen and unseen.

When you strength train, you strengthen your tendons and ligaments to better protect your joints from injury. Your range of motion improves. Your bones get stronger. You have better balance and function. Your cardiovascular health improves. Strength training also can reduce the signs and symptoms of many chronic conditions, including arthritis, back pain, depression, diabetes, obesity and osteoporosis. Research also suggests that regular strength training helps improve blood sugar control.

Strength training isn’t new. But people are finally recognizing how important it is to overall health. Pump up your health status with strength training and Reliv nutritional supplements such as ProVantage® and 24K™, ideal companions to keep you going strong today — and tomorrow.

To your health,

Dr. Carl W. Hastings, Reliv Vice Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer

Thanks Dr. Carl for another informative article!

3 Steps to Building Immunity

The immune system defends your body against bacteria, viruses and other harmful invaders. At full strength, it is an efficient protector against infection and illness. But like all aspects of your health, it takes healthy lifestyle choices to keep your immune system in top shape. Three vital areas in protecting and bolstering immunity are nutrition, exercise and stress reduction.

Immunity-Boosting Nutrients

Lunasin: Clinical studies continue to uncover the many benefits of this remarkable soy peptide. A recent study showed that lunasin boosts innate immunity by stimulating immune cell receptors. (See Dr. Carl Hastings’s message below for details.)

Antioxidants: Antioxidants are vitamins and minerals that remove free radicals from the bloodstream. Free radicals can damage DNA and suppress the body’s immune system. A few of the most important immunity-boosting antioxidants include vitamin C, vitamin E and beta carotene.

Zinc: A review in the Open Respiratory Medicine Journal concluded that supplementing with zinc may shorten the duration of the common cold by up to 40%.

Vitamin D: A study at the University of Copenhagen found that vitamin D is needed to trigger the immune system’s killer T cells and that a lack of vitamin D can render these cells inactive.

Probiotics: Fight the flu bug with these friendly bugs! In a Swedish study, a group of employees given a probiotic missed less work due to respiratory or gastrointestinal illness than did employees who didn’t receive the probiotic. Another study showed people taking a probiotic plus vitamins and minerals daily for three months had reduced frequency, duration and severity of cold symptoms.

Get Moving

A study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found those who exercised the most were least likely to suffer from colds in the winter months. Researchers followed a group of 1,002 healthy adults aged 18 to 85 over a 12-week period during the autumn and winter seasons.

Each participant reported daily any symptom of respiratory illness they experienced (sneezes, coughs, fever, etc.). On average, they reported such symptoms for 13 days in the winter and 8 days in the autumn.

But those who exercised regularly were much less likely to develop a cold, and when they did, it was much less severe. The fittest 25% (those who exercised five or more days a week) had 43% fewer days with symptoms than those in the lowest 25% (one day or less of weekly exercise).

Don’t Stress Out

The negative effects of stress on the immune system have been well-documented. Stress impacts your susceptibility to infection and overall wellness in two important ways:

1. Weakened Immune System: Chronic stress can raise cortisol levels, making us more vulnerable to colds and the flu, as well as more serious health problems.
2. Unhealthy Choices: In stressful situations, we often fail to sleep enough, eat well or exercise, increasing the likelihood of illness.

Lunasin Boosts Immunity… and So Much More

In February, Reliv introduced our exclusive LunaRich® soy powder — a breakthrough ingredient that delivers five to ten times more lunasin than ordinary soy powders. At the time, we were astounded by the amount of research backing lunasin’s wide-ranging benefits, from reducing inflammation to lowering cholesterol. Our excitement has grown exponentially in the nine months since.

Study after study continues to uncover more health benefits of this amazing soy peptide. Because it works at the epigenetic level — at the very root of gene expression and cellular function — lunasin impacts multiple aspects of human health. One of the most recent lunasin studies demonstrated its effectiveness in strengthening the immune system.

Immune cells in your body contain receptors that are genetically primed to respond to germs and other environmental toxins and remove them. If these receptors are slow to respond in your immune cells, your body’s innate defenses do not function properly.

A study conducted at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2012 showed that lunasin can affect this process. Results of the study demonstrated that lunasin works to stimulate immune cell receptors, thus boosting innate immunity — the body’s first line of defense against infections.

Lunasin-packed LunaRich soy powder can be found in several Reliv products including Reliv Now® and Reliv Now® for Kids, daily essential nutritional formulas that combine LunaRich with a host of other immune-boosting ingredients.

Stay tuned… more lunasin and LunaRich research coming soon!

To Your Health,

Dr. Carl W. Hastings, Reliv Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer

Thank you Dr. Carl for another great article!