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Adaptation is one of the most important and defining characteristics of life. By increasing the body's natural and life-sustaining capacity to adapt to stress, it is possible to directly and noticeably improve one's health and well-being.
Adaptogens have been used for thousands of years to build the immune system, increase the general resistance to stress by enhancing the natural adaptive response, improve mental concentration and cognitive function, and improve stamina and recovery in the face of exhaustive physical labor.
HISTORY
Because of the long history of use in local populations, Soviet scientists were intrigued by the claims made for these rare herbs. In the middle of the 20th century, Israel I. Brekhman began the first serious investigations into the properties of adaptogens. It was a curiosity which would become his life's purpose.
After nearly twenty years he produced clinical evidence of the active compounds of several important adaptogenic herbs, including Eleutherococcus senticosus, and their various actions in the body. He believed it was a discovery of great significance. Unaccountably, he was greeted within his own country with little enthusiasm. It was simply not clear to the scientific community how stress and adaptability were important to maintain or improve health.
The Space Race of the Sixties between the United States and the Soviet Union changed everything. Because the Soviet space program had been built around scientists instead of athletes, the Soviets found it impossible to put a man in space. None of their top scientists were capable of withstanding the stress of space flight. Suddenly Brekhman's work was of value. Could adaptogens help the cosmonauts withstand the stresses of space flight? Yes, was the unequivocal response. And the rest, as they say, is history.
With the success of the space program, the value of adaptogens to the Soviet government was firmly established. Adaptogens became an integral part of the Soviet military, the state-run program for the training and competition of their Olympic athletes, and were made available to many of the Soviet elite. Chess players and ballerinas alike took adaptogens.
For Brekhman, the recognition of the extraordinary value of adaptogens by his government had a certain undeniable satisfaction, but his life-long passion had been to see the benefits of adaptogens become available to everyone. In the early 1990's when Glasnost opened the Soviet Union to the world, Brekhman was able to emigrate to the United States with his life's knowledge and research.
Since 1993 high quality adaptogens have been available in the United States. Auburn Laboratories, Inc. has been marketing our proprietary formula of the highest quality adaptogens since 1999. Only APF is supported with university level research.
HOW IS STRESS TODAY MORE DANGEROUS?
Modern day stress was called "the epidemic of the eighties" in a June 6, 1983 Time Magazine cover article entitled, "STRESS: Seeking Cures for Modern Anxieties." It is no less an epidemic as we enter the 21st century.
But why is modern day stress so dangerous to our health? Largely because our bodies evolved to react to short-term, intense stress. Running from a bear or fighting for our lives had an immediate resolution - we either won, or the outcome resolved the stress. Today's stresses are far more likely to be long-term and psychological rather than short-term and physical. This reality results in many of us enduring stress to the point of exhausting our physical reserves.
The adaptogens in APF are crucial to restoring your body's capacity to rally its resources efficiently in times of actual stressful events, as well as to balance and conserve energy more effectively during the day-to-day stress of modern life.
With adaptogens, the negative effects of stress are mitigated, with cellular energy metabolism maintained and the adaptive response protected.
"Instead of preventing diseases only by protecting the individual against their agents, we must, by increasing the efficiency of his adaptive functions, render each man capable of protecting himself."
Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown (1935)
IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 75 - 90% OF OFFICE VISITS TO PHYSICIANS HAVE STRESS AS AN UNDERLYING COMPONENT.
Time Magazine, June 6, 1983
75% OF PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE "STRESSED" OR "VERY STRESSED" ON A DAILY BASIS.
A MAJOR DIFFERENCE IN OLDER ADULTS IS A MUCH SLOWER RATE OF ADAPTABILITY.
Dr. Richard D. Adelman, Life Extension (1982)
"STRESS IS THE RATE OF WEAR AND TEAR ON THE BODY."
Hans Selye
Cortisol released by stress can reduce glucose uptake in cells by 20% or more.
Stress from any source creates complex molecules called beta-lipoproteins which can result in a 30-40% decrease in the utilization of glucose within the cell.
The common cold is truly common. Almost 90% of people in the US come down with at least one cold per year.
Serving Size: 1 full dropper (1 ml)
Take one or more servings several times daily as needed. If desired, mix with liquid of choice.
Contains no added starch, salt, wheat, gluten, corn, coloring, or dairy products.
AVAILABLE IN 120 mls bottle
Retail Price
120 mls $58.95
Ingredients: in a water-alcohol extract -
Eleutherococcus senticosus, Schizandra chinensis, Rhodiola rosea, Echinopanax elatus
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