PRIMORDIAL POWER
“EMBARGOED COPY”
By:
Leslie
Kenton
I am the heat Hephaestus
used to forge lightening bolts and
fashion jewellery for the gods.
Spirit
of Creation from Journey to Freedom
Scientists tell us that
metabolism recapitulates biogenesis - the
origins of life. What goes on in your
cells mirrors the creation of the universe. Within your own mitochondria, your
body’s master enzyme – Coenzyme A –
continually initiates the production of ATP. Enhance CoA levels and you can
de-age your body.
Enzymes matter. Without them
there would be no life. An enzyme is a compound which initiates or accelerates
specific metabolic processes by acting as a catalyst. You find them in all
living things - from daffodils to buffalo. So far science has identified
thousands of enzymes which help the human body function. One stands out above
all the rest – Coenzyme A.
ENERGETIC
MASTER
Coenzyme A is your body’s
most active and most important catalyst. It’s needed to trigger hundreds of
chemical reactions from the production of energy and hormones to the
detoxification of dangerous chemicals. When CoA is in plentiful supply, your
body is vital. When levels fall, your vitality and resistance to ageing
plunges. CoA also works its life generating magic in your blood and in your
brain. Most important of all, adequate CoA protects your mitochondria from
genetic damage that can wreak havoc causing your body to age rapidly.
UNIVERSAL CATALYST
Every organ in
your body has Coenzyme A in its tissues. Together with ploynucleotides and
acetyl carrier proteins, CoA emerged from the primordial soup to provide matter
with the hydrogen and sulphur based chemical reactions it needed to create
life. When you have optimum levels of CoA, this makes you highly resistant to
fatigue and degeneration. The problem is that Coenzyme A is constantly being
gobbled up by all the metabolic processes it looks after. This is why it needs
replenishing.
WHERE
IT’S AT
Many age researchers now
believe our mitochondria not only to be the focal point of life but also of
degeneration. This is not only because they produce metabolic energy on which
our vitality depends, but also because when our mitochondria gets out of whack,
degeneration gets the upper hand.
The revelation that our
mitochondria, these ancient monsters we thought were tame and benign, are in
fact our silent executioners, has reinvigorated the field of mitochondrial
research, putting it at the forefront of biological and medical research.
Guy Brown
SHEER
GENIUS
Interesting things,
mitochondria. These organelles, found inside each of our cells whose job it is
to provide us with life energy, were once denizens of a primordial world -
purple photosynthetic bacteria. When oxygen appeared on the earth, instead of falling prey to its dangers, they
learned to exploit its chemical and energetic reactivity. Like quantum
physicists looking for a new source of power, these microscopic beasties
invented ways of taking in a potentially lethal gas and transmuting it into a
radical opportunity.
Slowly but inexorably purple
photosynthetic bacteria evolved into masters of energy transformation. They
learned to oxidise materials at hand by trapping the energy of light. Over
endless eons, they honed their skills until at last they had learned to create
life’s energy storage compound, ATP. So
successful was the energy currency they created that it could be used by every
cell of virtually every living thing. And so efficient were their means of
creating it through oxidation, that other early forms of life, like the yeasts
and fungi - which rely on fermentation as an energy source - could never match
them. Fermentation, practiced by yeasts and fungi, produces only two molecules of ATP from each
molecule of sugar. Mitochondria can take the same molecule of sugar and coax
thirty-six molecules of energy from it - fifteen times more than their
oxygen-hating cousins.
That our mitochondria’s
ancestors where oxygen-respiring purple bacteria has been shown beyond a doubt
by DNA sequencing. Like a village ransacked by barbarians who ultimately became
civilised, fermenting organisms were stacked by oxygen using predators that
become mitochondrial labourers.
Lynn Marguils and Dorion Sigan
Let’s take a closer look at
the energy creating process these little geniuses came up with.
ENERGY CYCLE
The
tricarboxylyc-acid-cycle or TCA cycle, also known as the Krebs Cycle or citric
acid cycle, consists of a number of chemical reactions within the mitochondria
whereby nutrients from the foods we eat are oxidised to get energy. The complex
chemical reactions involved in the TCA cycle were formulated in 1937 by Sir
Hans Krebs, who won a Nobel prize for his work. So important is the TCA cycle
that, in one form or another, it takes
place in virtually every type of lifeform. Each step on this cycle is catalysed
by specific enzymes, arranged in such perfect sequence that energy creation
happens with remarkable grace. Without adequate CoA it doesn’t happen.
Before long the ancestors of
our mitochondria gave up their bacterial independence and settled happily into
larger organisms. By then they had so drastically changed that they would never
again be able to live outside. There they have remained ever since - nurtured
and safe within our living bodies.
BEWARE
FREE RADICALS
Mitochondria have a
remarkable distinction: They possess their own DNA. Even though they can no
longer live alone, your mitochondria still reproduce very much the way bacteria
do within our cells. It was not until the late sixties that scientists
discovered mitochondrial DNA. They noticed that our mitochondria divide in
completely different cycles than do the cells in which they reside.
In recent years mitochondria
have come under close scrutiny by age researchers. First, they are the
cauldrons in which ATP, our life energy, is made. Second, since the creation of
ATP is an oxidative process, the DNA
of our mitochondria is ten to twenty times more susceptible to free radical
damage than the nuclear DNA of our cells.
The mitochondrial theory
of ageing proposes that our mitochondria continually produce toxic free
radicals that inexorably attack our mitochondria, mutating its DNA. The
mitochondrial damage may cause an even greater production of free radicals, in
an increasingly vicious circle. For mutant mitochondrial DNA is associated with
a frightening range of progressive degenerative diseases, including
Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s, diabetes, atherosclerosis and, of
course, ageing itself.
Guy Brown
THE MITOCHONDRIAL THEORY OF AGEING
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Mitochondria create life energy to fuel healthy
metabolism.
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Good functioning mitochondria are essential to
preventing age degeneration.
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Mitochondrial DNA is highly susceptible to oxidation
damage.
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Respiratory electron transport in mitochondria is
accompanied by the generation of high levels of free radicals and associated
with chronic degenerative diseases.
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Defective mitochondrial functions and damage to the
mitochondrial DNA are major factors in speeding up the ageing process.
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A depletion in Coenzyme A leads to mitochondrial
dysfunction, producing an energy deficit in the body and fostering degenerative
processes.
MUTATION
MEANS TROUBLE
Now, this is serious
business. For when mitochondrial DNA undergoes injury, daughter cells - the new
mitochondria created – become mutated and progressively less able to produce
energy. Without a continual supply of high level energy, our metabolic
processes can’t work properly. Our cellular messages get garbled. This alters
the expression of our genes. Cellular physiology is undermined. Rubbish
accumulates - in our cells and eventually our tissues - so much that our immune
system can become sensitive to the body itself, creating auto-immune disorders
- from arthritis to food allergies and systemic
lupus. Neurological functions and neuroendocrine functions are undermined.
Hormones fall and serious metabolic imbalances can ensue, making it easy for
degenerative processes to take hold.
Once damaged,
mitochondria DNA is more slowly repaired than nuclear DNA. As a result it can
accumulate mitochondrial DNA mutations.
Jeffrey Bland PhD
It is little wonder that
many scientists believe, that at its core, ageing is the result of an
accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations. As these DNA distortions
accumulate they interfere with our bodies ability to produce ATP. Insufficient
ATP in turn impairs system functions. That’s where Coenzyme A and its cohort
coenzymes come in.
COENZYME
POWER
Coenzymes are chemicals -
biologically active forms of vitamins in fact. It is their job to potentize
enzymic reactions. For a long time scientists believed that, like the enzymes
they support, coenzymes could be recycled as substrates. Now we know that this
is not true. Destroyed in performing the functions they are designed for,
coenzymes such as the master CoA, CoQ10 and NADH – all necessary for the
production of energy in the mitochondria to take place - need to be continually replaced. Each has a specific role to play in the
creation of energy via the TCA cycle.
ACTIVE METABOLITES
Unlike the
enzymes they potentize, coenzymes are biologically active forms of vitamins.
Often they are made from the B vitamins, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin,
pantothenic acid and biotin, all of which help release energy from carbohydrates,
fats and proteins and also help synthesise new proteins from amino acids. B6
for instance aids in the metabolism of amino acids, while B12 helps cell
multiplication. Coenzyme A is made within your cells from the most active form
of vitamin B5 – pantothenic acid. This active form of B5 is called pantethine
and, among other things, it exerts an enormously beneficial effect on the
utilisation of fats and carbohydrates in energy production as well as in the
manufacture of adrenal and sex hormones
and red blood cells. It also has significant cholesterol and triglyceride
lowering activity. When incorporated into the CoA molecule these powers are
increased significantly. While your body can synthesise some coenzymes such as
Q10, which is a downstream metabolic product initiated by the presence of
Coenzyme A, those that it cannot make – such as the master CoA itself - need to be taken in through the foods you
eat.
ENGINE
FOR ENERGY
Think of your mitochondria
as a car engine, Coenzyme A is the ignition switch. It triggers all other
enzymic and hormonal biochemical reactions involved in energy making which is
one of the reasons it is so important.
Co Q10 acts as the carburettor. It keeps feeding oxygen for the process. Coenzyme1 – also known as NADH – acts like
the sparkplugs. It keeps the electron transport moving.
In recent years CoQ10, also
known as ubiquinone, has made biochemical news as a highly effective natural
treatment for high blood pressure, periodontal disease and immune
deficiencies. It enables the body to
make better use of oxygen. NADH, a special form of the B vitamin niacinamide,
has recently become available in supplement form too. It is being used to treat
people with Parkinson’s disease as well as chronic fatigue syndrome. NADH is
also being used to enhance mental function.
PREVENTATIVE POWER
Since its
discovery in 1947, Coenzyme A’s crucial importance in maintaining high level
health and preventing degeneration has been intensively studied. Apart from its
central role in initiating the TCA cycle, Coenzyme A triggers the manufacture
of a vast number of other substances that the body needs for high level health.
These include acetylcholine - the calming neurotransmitter in the brain which
dilates blood vessels, slows heart rate and improves digestion, learning and memory. Coenzyme A also
initiates the production of steroid hormones in the adrenal glands: aldosterone
and hydrocortisone, as well as many other hormones such as pregnenalone, DHEA, oestrogen,
progesterone and testosterone. Hormones fall dramatically with age when the
body becomes deficient in CoA. When it
is supplied by nutritional supplement – which until recently was believed to be
impossible - hormone levels often return to normal, literally rejuvenating the
body.
PALEOLITHIC
REFERENCES
Found readily in raw fruits
and vegetables in minute quantities, pantothenic acid – B5 - is needed for your
body to make Coenzyme A. CoA is easily destroyed by exposure to light, heat or
radiation. The word pantothenic comes from the Greek word pantos, meaning everywhere. Vegetables and fruits are sources of
B5, meats fish and eggs and all animal foods are rich in CoA. The most abundant source of CoA in nature are
the raw glands and organs of animals. One of the reasons why the tradition in
natural medicine of using animal glandulars in the natural treatment of human
illness has been so successful is likely to be because these products are rich
in CoA and its substrates. Our
Paleolithic ancestors got plenty. They were hunters and gatherers and, like the modern Inuit, on killing an animal,
they immediately consumed the raw viscera. They also ate massive quantities of
fresh raw vegetables, herbs, grubs and insects – all good sources of CoA which
their bodies could then break down into its component parts through digestion,
providing the cells with the wherewithal to synthesise new CoA for the body. As
a result our ancestors had very high levels of CoA available to their
mitochondria. Today, our CoA levels are low by comparison and our tendency to
degeneration high.
COA MASTER ENZYME
Here are a few of
the ways that CoA protects your body from degenerative damage:
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CoA initiates the TCA cycle which produces 95
percent of the energy your body needs to stay alive and resist ageing.
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CoA increases your body’s ability to deal with
stress and inhibits degenerative processes associated with it.
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CoA initiates the manufacture of specific
neurotransmitters and hormones which play a critical role in brain health and
adrenal support.
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CoA acts as the “universal acetate carrier”. This is
the primary biological co-factor used in important acyl group transfers which
initiate the metabolism of fatty acids as well as support detoxification.
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CoA supports critical functions of your immune
system.
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CoA facilitates the repair of DNA, RNA and injury to
both mitochondria and cells, helping to protect them from oxidation damage.
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CoA empowers the
manufacture of connective tissue.
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CoA helps form and repair cartilage.
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CoA greatly enhances physical performance.
Studies show that people
with rheumatoid arthritis, as well as gout and auto-immune disorders, have very
low levels of CoA. In order for your
body to manufacture it you need to be provided with good quantities of pantothenic
acid either through foods or dietary supplements. Leading edge age researchers have long known
that if we could find a way to raise the levels of CoA in the mitochondria,
production of ATP would be enhanced, mitochondrial DNA would receive greater
protection from damage, and the degenerative processes in the body could be
slowed.
But, unlike CoQ10 and NADH –
both of which now exist in supplemental form - no-one has ever been able to
figure out how to create a nutritional supplement of CoA. For CoA can only be
manufactured in the cells of your body. And no matter how much pantothenic acid
you put into your body, because of an inhibiting enzyme within the cells, only
a certain percentage of it will be turned into Coenzyme A.
FAT
BURNING
Coenzyme A is also your
body’s “universal acetate carrier”. This enables CoA to initiate fatty acid
metabolism by adding or removing an acyl group from their molecules. Efficient
fatty acid metabolism is essential to protection from raised cholesterol and
triglycerides. CoA must be in adequate supply for your body to be able to burn rather than store fat as well. Thanks in part to its role as universal acetate
carrier, CoA also initiates the detoxification of many dangerous substances
like acetaldehyde, protecting the body from age-related destruction caused by
the build up of dangerous wastes. It also enhances immune functions and
activates white blood cells whose responsibility it is to destroy and eliminate
invaders. It spurs the formation of haemoglobin needed for new red blood cells.
Finally, CoA both initiates and facilitates the manufacture of important
components and connective tissue. Take Chrondroitin sulphate and hyaluronic
acid for instance, necessary in the formation and repair of cartilage and
collagen - essential for youthful
skin.
BREAKTHROUGH
In the mid nineties,
Nicholaos Skouras, cell biologist and expert in Coenzyme A metabolism, made a
significant breakthrough in the search to enhance levels of CoA in the human
body. He created a unique delivery system which enables the body to make more
CoA itself within the cells. And he did this in a way that is completely natural.
A Greek, who currently works
in the
INTEGRATIVE
APPROACH
Looking at an anti-ageing
programme from the point of view of integrative biochemistry, asks that the
biochemist work with nutritional substrates as highly biologically active
substances – vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nucleacides and nucleotides and
even special sugars which act as communicators. These raw materials, present in
foods or in the living body, are used to create a complexity of effects on the
body each of which contributes to its well-being by making it possible for the
body’s own metabolic systems to support health and good looks in the most
natural and effective way possible.
Skouros believes that,
supplied with optimal quantities of essential nuts and bolts in a highly active
form which it can use at a cellular level, the human body likes to manufacture
its hormones and enzymes itself from whatever metabolites it most needs. He
insists it is better to support the body’s own biochemical mechanisms for
producing energy, hormones, anti-inflammatory and anti-ageing effects, than to
supplant them by offering artificial hormones which eventually undermine the
body’s ability to make its own. For hormones introduced from outside can,
Skouras insists, undermine the body’s ability to manufacture its own.
NUTRIENT
MATRIX
Recognising that the
synthesis of Coenzyme A begins in the cells, Skouras set out to find a way of
supplying direct to the cells exactly what they need to enhance production of
the master catalyst. It was by no means a simple task.
The problem was this: When a nutrient such as pantothenic acid, or
even CoA itself, is taken in through foods – fresh raw organ meats, for
instance, or vegetables, herbs and seeds - it comes packaged synergistically in
nature, in a matrix with other related substances and compounds in a
magnificent and ordered balance. The fresh food carries structural information
of highest quality and complexity. A
food may contain enzymes, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals of which the
particular nutrient is only a part.
Plant matrices have an affinity for the human body. For we have eaten
plants throughout our own evolution and our body is programmed to welcome them.
When nutritionists or doctors try to give a particular vitamin on its own –
say, pantothenic acid, in the treatment of arthritis for instance - the substrates
that came packaged with it in nature are missing and the body can not therefore
make optimal use of the vitamin.
You might think that you
could simply give large doses of pantothenic acid – or even of its most active
form, pantethine - and this would enable your body to make its own CoA. Or
perhaps you could create an artificial molecule of Coenzyme A, a drug, and
introduce it into the system thereby raising levels of the master CoA in the
cells.
Great plan, but it just
doesn’t work that way. Both approaches have been tried many times without
success. The first approach is
undermined by an inhibitory process in the body’s cells so that the amount of
CoA they can make from pantethine and other substrates becomes strictly
limited. The second approach fails
because B5 or CoA themselves are simply broken down when they reach the body so
that there is no way of ensuring they will ever reach the interior of the cell
where CoA could be manufactured. The other problem is that, even if you could
devise a way of accomplishing that task, there was no known way to get the CoA
to cross the mitochondrial barrier which it needs to do to initiate more ATP
energy production.
PERFORMING
THE IMPOSSIBLE
What Nicholaos Skouras has
been able to do – after many years of complex manoeuvring of pantethine and
other substrates involved in CoA production in the cells – is to create a
matrix of his own that ingeniously mimics the way nature does things. This
matrix was created through a complex series of chemical reactions and co-valent
bonds, which makes it possible for the matrix to perform not one but three
impossible feats: It not only joins
together nutrients and substrates, in exact amounts and balance, which your
body needs to create its own CoA within the cells. It is also able to bypass
the inhibitory processes which limit the amount of CoA cells can produce.
Finally, Skouras worked out how, once the cell has made CoA, to get it
transported across the mitochrondrial barrier so it can initiate production of
high levels of ATP there.
A
PASSION FOR MOLECULES
Like many exceptionally
gifted scientists, Skouras lives and breathes his work. Interviewing him, one
has the impression there is nothing he would rather do than spend the wee hours
of the morning, with no telephone to ring and no administrative duties to
perform, playing with his passion: inventing new ways to perform other
apparently impossible feats – always naturally, and with respect for the human
body’s ability to heal itself.
His piece de resistance is a
product called, simply, Coenzyme ATM - without doubt the world’s best kept
anti-ageing secret. Biochemists praise it. Doctors who have used it report it
is capable of turning patients lives around. But, because of the complexity and
the ingeniousness of the way it has been formulated, very few people in the
general public are as yet aware of how transformative it can be.
Except for those who have
used the product of course. Reports from
them of enhanced vitality, increased capacity to handle stress, more rapid
healing from both acute and chronic conditions,
and improved skin and hair, joints and muscles are legion. Men and women
previously on hormone replacement therapy report their bodies are now producing
their own hormones. Others speak of
CoA’s ability to enhance immune functions and repair physical injuries and
claim using Coenzyme ATM has made them highly resistant to illness and to
ageing.
AGE
POWER PLUS
One of the great things
about most of Skouras’s inventions is that he himself looks upon them not as
magic bullets but as useful and effective adjuncts to a health-enhancing way of
eating and living. They are useful and
effective as part of a natural approach to countering ageing. They address directly many of the issues
of biomarkers. Clear Skin ImageTM is the exception
but worthy of note for anybody who has ever wrestled with skin inflammation or
acne. This product was created to clear
acne by supplying CoA to skin cells while simultaneously correcting lipid and fatty
acid metabolism which underlies acne. Another, Body ImageTM increases lean body mass and spurs fat
burning. It is useful for weight loss without hunger or energy loss. Healthy
Joint ImageTM supports the repair of joints, bones, ligaments and connective tissue.
Healthy Cholesterol ImageTM inhibits the body’s synthesis of fatty acids into
cholesterol and triglycerides and helps lower both.
Using Coenzyme A tm together with Age Power’s Insulin Balance Programme
can be powerfully detoxifying thanks in no small part to its ability to enhance
acetyl transfer, central to the body’s phase II detoxification processes. But, unlike a juice fast or most of the
standard programmes designed to cleanse your system, it does not weaken
it. Coenzyme ATM and Insulin Balance eating
actually strengthen metabolism while
they are cleansing. I have experimented with it myself for several months and
suggested it to others, and I have been surprised to find there is a surprising
pattern of change which seems to occur. Although each human being is utterly
unique, there appears to be a deep process of regeneration which occurs in a
characteristic way for most people.
PASSAGE TOWARDS AGE POWER USING
COENZYME ATM
Using Coenzyme ATM together with
Age Power’s Insulin Balance three times a day on an empty stomach for three to
six months at a time enhances health in surprising ways. It usually happens sequentially, step by step,
something like this:
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A subtle growing rise in energy occurs coupled with
a noticeable improvement in your ability to deal with stress. Life may be
as challenging as ever but you feel more on top of things.
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As your body clears itself of acetaldehydes and
other toxic chemicals you feel mentally clearer.
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Strength increases.
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Libido rises and with it often creative energies of
other kinds. (This can be especially
helpful to perimenopausal, menopausal and post menopausal women, whose many
years of reproductive hormonal cycling has depleted their body energy and
suppressed hormone production).
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The body gains metabolic momentum. Everything from digestion to physical
movement seems to take place better and more easily.
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Mental acuity is heightened.
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A growing sense that some kind of emotional or
spiritual reawakening may be happening.
PRIMORDIAL TRANSFORMATION
It is almost as though the whole process of improving CoA levels on a
biochemical level parallels the process of clearing and strengthening the
psyche on a spiritual level described in DARKNESS INTO LIGHT through
meditation, autogenics or good binaural technology. (see page 000) I have yet to experience anything quite like
it. It gave me the opportunity to
experience within my body and my being the primordial nature of this and to understand
just a little of what scientists mean when they insist that metabolism
recapitulates biogenesis. You feel it happening progressively within your own
life.
Central to the evolutionary processes which created cellular life,
Coenzyme ATM is capable of bringing about
profound regeneration in living systems. Race horse owners have long
experimented with ways of increasing CoA in their animals in the hopes of
helping them run longer and harder without lactate build up in muscles to
undermine speed. For me the experience of what CoA enhancement brings to the
body was like a personal lesson in just how all-encompassing the primordial
elements which created life can be when let loose within my body.
TASTE OF ENERGY
A simple and easy to carry out 10 days experience of CoA’s potential is
the CoA Ten Day Detox and Rebuild. You can do it while working or while on
holiday – really anywhere or any time.
TEN DAY APPLE DETOX AND REBUILD
The processes involved in
regeneration and rebuilding based on CoA takes time to reap full rewards – a
few months at least, more for some. But
it is remarkable how quickly you can begin to feel the benefits in how you look
and feel by combining Age Power’s Insulin Balance Programme with Coenzyme ATM supplements
taken three times a day on an empty stomach together with a good quality high
potency B vitamin supplement and an apple (preferably organic). The apple is not only rich in pectin which
helps remove heavy metals and other pollutants from your body, it is also a
good source of malic acid which further empowers the energy-making and initiatory
processes CoA carries out in living systems. It is essential you drink a 10
ounce glass of clean water with each dose of supplements. The only way to find
out is to do it yourself.
HERES
HOW:
On
rising (at least half an hour before breakfast):
1 Coenzyme ATM capsule
1 High potency B Complex
1 apple
10oz glass of spring water
or filtered water
Your
Insulin Balance Breakfast (see page 00
for suggestions)
½
hour before lunch:
1 Coenzyme ATM capsule
1 High potency B Complex
1 apple
10 oz glass of spring or
filtered water
Your
Insulin Balance Lunch
½
hour before dinner:
1 Coenzyme ATM capsule
1 apple
10 oz glass of spring or
filtered water
Your
Insulin Balance Dinner
The 10 Day Apple Detox and
Rebuild is an ideal way to start Insulin Balance. It helps your metabolism make
major shifts away from the standard diet full of high-glycaemic carbs with
greater ease and efficiency. It can also
give you an inkling of what Coenzyme A might do to enhance your energy and life
as a whole used longer term.
PIONEER IN SKINCARE
With irrepressible curiosity and what appears to be an all-consuming
passion for his work, the talented Dr. Skouras has recently been delving into
the processes of ageing skin. He has now created both external and internal
formulas based on the principle of integrative biochemistry to counter it. Skouras was not content to copy what was
already being done in the external skincare anti-aging area. With respect for
the excellent anti-oxidant skincare range created by Yale dermatologist Nicolas
Perricone (which is currently seriously undermining many of the most
established cosmetic giant’s ranges), he bowed to it, but chose to move beyond
it. He also chose to ignore the hormone route – adding melatonin, or DHEA - to
emulsions in an attempt to produce active anti-ageing cosmetics or
cosmeceuticals.
In keeping with his commitment to first principles, Skouras went back
to basics asking the question, ‘what do we need to supply the skin with, both
externally and internally, to empower its own innate capacity for regeneration
and radiant health and how best do we deliver the active ingredients so the
body can make best possible use of them?’
SKIN MATRIX
The two products he has created as answers to these questions -
SkinMatrixTM External and Skin Matrix InternalTM - are like nothing else I have
ever seen either in their anti-ageing effectiveness or their speed of action.
The development of Skin Matrix InternalTM and Skin Matrix ExternalTM took place over a period of almost three years
during which Skouras focused on natural ways of re-establishing homeostasis in
the human body as well as specifically in the skin – its largest organ. He went
right to the core of the four processes of ageing – oxidation, glycation,
methylation and inflammation - and approached them from an evolutionary point
of view, still working with Coenzyme A, but also with some extraordinary sugars
– especially the pentoses. He used these first because they, like the
primordial power of CoA, are cellular communicators capable of enlivening skin
metabolism and spurring repair. They also carry a high level of energy and a
negative charge so that they become part of a highly active transport, carrying
metabolites and substrates through the positively charged stratum cornium for
high impact on skin. His skin matrix also encompasses active forms of specific
vitamins which carry an ability to protect the skin from the damaging effects
of radiation as well as nucleoides – components of DNA – and sulfahydral
compounds along with negatively charged metabolic enzymes for enhancing
methylation and bringing energy to skin.
SPRAY ON REGENERATION
The result is a spray that
you use only twice a day on clean skin. It prevents the formation of AGEs,
protects from oxidation damage, calms inflammation and supplies more
regenerative power than any product I have ever seen and is all you need in
terms of skin treatment. You can then apply a moisturiser on top if you like or
just leave it as it is. The product is so pure you could literally drink it if
you wanted to. Everyone I have interviewed who has used it so far claims they
would never want to be without it. So potent are its skin enhancing properties
that you notice a real improvement in texture, firmness and diminishment of
fine lines within a day or two. The
longer you use it the better it gets.
BEST TO COME
Skin Matrix InternalTM works very much the same way enhancing skin from
inside out. And, like its external mate, it carries a specific plant ceramide
of plant origins which targets the skin’s cells themselves. It comes in capsule
form and is best used three times a day on an empty stomach together with a
capsule of Coenzyme ATM.
I am told that Nickolaos
Skouras is now in the process of creating an even more potent Skin Matrix
Serum. If it is even half as good as his two original skin products, it is
bound to bring yet another life-changing breakthrough delivering primal power
where it is needed most in the service of Age Power.