Most multivitamins use minimal dosages of the least costly, but also least bioavailable, forms of vitamins, minerals, and herbs. For example, recent research shows vitamin D enhances calcium absorption and helps maintain optimal immune function. Yet, most multivitamins provide low amounts of vitamin D that don’t meet your daily needs, especially during the winter months when vitamin D from sun exposure is least available. Sound Nutrition formulas, on the other hand, contain double the amount of vitamin D found in most supplements on the market.

Every Sound Nutrition multivitamin uses the most bioavailable and scientifically proven forms of essential nutrients. Natural mixed carotenes from algae are the source of beta-carotene (instead of synthetic beta-carotene). Vitamin B6 is provided as pyridoxal 5’-phosphate, the most active form of the nutrient. Vitamin B12 is provided in highly bioavailable active forms—adenosylcobalamin and methylcobalamin. Most brands use cyanocobalamin, which then needs to be converted by the body into the active forms.

Sound Nutrition multivitamins are the only supplements in the retail market providing trace minerals as picolinates (copper, selenium, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, zinc, and boron). Picolinic acid is a natural compound produced in the pancreas that forms a complex with minerals to help transport them through the gastrointestinal wall and into the bloodstream. Use of picolinates provides optimal mineral delivery.

As for chromium, a critical trace mineral for blood sugar regulation, UltraChrome® is exclusively used. This is considered to be the most absorbable form of this important trace mineral. Compared to other chromium compounds, UltraChrome demonstrates the greatest effect on fat cells and is most effective at facilitating glucose uptake on the cellular level, which helps maintain normal blood sugar levels.

MATURE MEN

Ultra Pure Men +40 is a targeted multivitamin formula that includes all essential nutrients, provided in highly absorbable forms and at dosages that are known to be optimal for health maintenance.

Ultra Pure Men +40 is targeted to the health needs of the mature man and provides a standardized, potent extract of saw palmetto and the amino acids L-alanine, glycine, and glutamic acid for prostate health. The herb hawthorne is added for cardiovascular support.

MATURE WOMEN

Ultra Pure Women +40 is arguably the purest and best age-specific women’s multivitamin available today. Not only does Ultra Pure Women +40 use all of the same bioavailable nutrients found in all Sound Nutrition multivitamins, but since this formula is for mature women, it delivers more than 300 milligrams of the most bioavailable form of calcium—not as carbonate, which is poorly absorbed, but as citrate-malate (one of the best absorbed amino acid chelates). Other ingredients include vitamin D, provided in a higher dosage than most multis on the market, especially important for men and women living in sun-deprived Northern states; vitamin K and soy isoflavones for good bone and heart health, and the management of mild menopausal symptoms; and Rhodiola rosea root (standardized for 3 percent rosavins, the phytochemicals that normalize the brain chemicals involved in stress). This adaptogenic herb also improves mood and sleep, without causing drowsiness. Russian research shows that it improves both physical and mental performance and reduces fatigue.

PREGNANT WOMEN

Ultra Pure Gentle Prenatal is formulated to provide essential nutrients necessary for the pregnant woman, including extra amounts of calcium and magnesium (as citrate-malate); highly absorbable iron picolinate; and folates—5-MTHF and folinic acid, the two active, most bioavailable forms of folic acid.

Folic acid is a B vitamin that is involved in a number of biochemical processes in the body. The most recognized is its involvement in prevention of birth defects called neural tube defects, or NTDs. Women should take 800 micrograms of folic acid daily (preferably in the active forms, such as are in Ultra Pure Gentle Prenatal) for at least three months before becoming pregnant to help prevent NTDs.

DETOXIFICATION

For anybody who has suffered from, or experiences, chronic environmental chemical exposures, the specifically tailored Ultra Pure Detox Multi provides not only essential nutrients in their most bioavailable, useful forms, but also features a full complement of powerful nutrients known to be vital to successful detoxification. These nutrients help the body eliminate harmful substances and strengthen the organs of elimination—the skin, intestines, liver, lungs, kidneys, and lymphatic system.

Support of the liver is the focus of this multivitamin for chemical exposures. Ultra Pure Detox Multi features Siliphos®, a patented formula containing silybin—a key component of milk thistle extract. Silybin is bound to phosphatidylcholine, a vital element of liver cell membranes that allows for better delivery directly to the liver. There it protects against toxins while also improving the liver’s natural detoxifying capacity. Many published experimental and clinical studies indicate that Siliphos is at least five-fold better absorbed and produces better results than other milk thistle extracts.

Alpha-lipoic acid, an important antioxidant, helps protect against cellular damage from environmental insult. Only Sound Nutrition delivers this critical nutrient as fully natural R-lipoic acid (when most other brands use a mixture of R and the less active S form). These are some of the factors that make this formula and all of the Sound Nutrition formulas proven winners when it comes to your health.

Ultra Pure Detox Multi also provides N-acetylcysteine to help prevent damage from toxic substances and assist the liver in eliminating toxins (especially important for anybody regularly using acetaminophen products, such as Tylenol®). There is also scientific evidence that lipoic acid and N-acetylcysteine attach to heavy metals and assist in their removal from the body. The formula also provides methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), which provides elemental sulfur, needed for various detoxification reactions. Broccoli extract, green tea extract (standardized to contain 80 percent polyphenols), and turmeric (providing 95 percent curcumin) contain powerful antioxidants and flavonoids that support the liver’s ability to metabolize toxins.

ANTIOXIDANT PROTECTION

Researchers have studied antioxidants and their role in everything from boosting the immune system to slowing the aging process. Antioxidants protect us from free radicals that damage the cells and tissues of the body.

Ultra Pure Multi with Antioxidants is formulated with the most bioavailable nutrients, including active forms of the B vitamins, natural forms of antioxidants such as vitamin E and mixed carotenes, and the most readily absorbable minerals. Ultra Pure Multi with Antioxidants is the perfect formula for very active people who exercise a lot or who are involved in other kinds of taxing physical activies.

LIVE HEALTHY, LIVE BETTER

It’s impossible to obtain all the required nutrients from diet alone. Most nutrition experts agree that nutritional supplementation is necessary for just about everybody. But it’s your money, and when you purchase a multivitamin you want great results. With this kind of powerful shopping knowledge put to good use, you should expect to feel dramatic results. When you combine purity with bioavailable nutrients at optimal dosages—well, that’s truly the Sound difference. Purity and potency are everything, and this is where Sound Nutrition excels like no other brand today.

Lifestyle factors are equally important to ensure your optimum health.

• Eat a healthful diet, including five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and limit saturated fat intake.
• Exercise regularly. Get at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on most, if not all, days of the week.
• Watch the scale. Being overweight increases the risk of diabetes, stroke, and other diseases and adverse health conditions.
• Undergo routine exams and screenings. These include tests for blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, and C-reactive protein. Women: breast exams, mammograms, Pap smears, and pelvic exams. Men: testicular and prostate exams.
• Manage stress. Use exercise, meditation, or other healthy support.
• Don’t smoke or use tobacco products.
• Limit alcohol intake.
• Give yourself every opportunity to enjoy a healthier and better life with the daily intake of Ultra Pure Men +40, Ultra Pure Women +40, or another formula appropriate to your needs.

Common Toxic Exposures

• Living in an industrial area or large metropolitan region
• New carpeting
• New paint or varnish
• Tobacco smoke
• History of drug use or depend
• Industrial chemical exposure