Skin Deep Beauty with AlpineV

Soil has been likened to the skin covering our bodies. Both suffer serious erosion from wind, water and sun damage if left unchecked. Sandthorn is one of those rare plants which have proven to be very useful in landscape restoration and cosmetic care of the skin.

Erosion Control
The Dust Bowl of the l930's was the most tragic land calamity ever to strike the North American continent. Cattle overgrazing by ranchers and over farming by sodbusters removed virtually all of the grasslands from America's prairies, leaving the unprotected soil to periodic rain washouts and frequent driving winds.

A story circulating in those days told of an old Nebraska farmer sitting on his front porch during a horrendous dust storm. When asked what he was watching so intently, he drolly replied, "Oh, I'm just counting them Kansas farms as they go flying by."

Such are the ways of erosion when the land isn't properly cared for as it should be. Similar examples have been found in northern China, Pakistan and portions of the Indian subcontinent, where the systematic removal of old growth forests and the continuous under plowing of surface ground have caused serious soil erosions and landslides.

But agronomists soon discovered that the sandthorn shrub was extremely useful in helping bind earth and for good soil conservation measures; hence, millions of acres were eventually replanted with it.

The Living Barrier
Just as soil covers much of the ground we walk in, so does another type of material protect the delicate inner parts of our bodies against wear and tear, knocks and physical damage, and extremes of temperature. Skin is the body's largest and heaviest organ. It covers almost 21½-square feet (2 square meters) on an adult around 9 to 15 pounds (4 to 7 kilograms), representing about one-twelfth of the
body's total weight. If you've ever worn an overcoat that heavy, then you would begin to appreciate how heavy your skin is.

Like a shower proof raincoat skin keeps out most of the water and other fluids to which it is exposed, although it is not fully waterproof. Water is repelled by the natural oils and waxes made in the tiny sebaceous glands just under the surface of the skin. These sebaceous products also keep the skin flexible arid supple.

Skin insulates the body too. Underneath is a soft, yellowish layer called subcutaneous fat. It works like the padding in a quilted coat to keep the body warm and also absorbs knocks and bumps.

The world is full of microscopic germs. They float in the air and lie on the things we touch. Even objects that are apparently clean have germs on or in them.

Skin prevents germs from entering the body. Under a microscope, the skin's surface shows many dead, flattened cells that interlock and overlap tightly, like tiles on a roof. Few germs can penetrate this barrier, which completely covers healthy skin. But they can enter the body through cuts or breaks in the skin.

The natural waxes and oils on the skin's surface contain germ-killing chemicals. These are the body's own disinfectants, giving added protection against bacteria, yeasts, and other potentially harmful microscopic organisms.

Dermatological Miracle
The landscape of the skin, much like that of the earth1 undergoes numerous transformations over a lifetime. It experiences different types of erosions brought on by the elements of weather, poor diet, emotional upset, overuse of chemical cosmetics, and gradual aging.

Two types common to many older people are rosacea and eczema. The first condition is characterized by dilation of the facial capillaries, acne like pimples, and sometimes thickened skin on the nose. Certain foods - such as tea, coffee, alcohol, and those that are spicy - are associated with worsening of rosacea. A recent study indicates that the heat in coffee or tea may be responsible.

Eczema is an all-encompassing term, sometimes used synonymously with dermatitis, to describe inflamed, scaly, itching skin that may be due to any number of causes. Recent reports suggest a possible connection between this problem and impairment in the skin's metabolism of the essential fatty acid linolenic acid. Patients with this condition improved when given supplements containing a natural source of gamma-linolenic acid.

A woman somewhere in her sixties, Lisa J. of Taylorsville, Utah suffered with rosacea of the face and eczema of the scalp for many years. But when she started drinking an exotic fruit blend containing 42 percent sandthorn berry extract, she began noticing improvements in her appearance. In just two weeks most of the dry, rosy red patches on her nose and face had disappeared. And within a month her scalp had healed as well. The dermatologist she had been seeing for some twenty years was surprised by the outcome of things on her next visit to him. She attributed this to her daily two-ounce intake of AlpineV with the sandthorn drink. He told her to stay with whatever she was doing.

The Beauty in Fatty Acids
Fatty acids are common denominators for all life forms. Not only the amount but also the type of dietary fat plays major roles in maintaining health. The human body absolutely requires certain essential fatty acids in the forms of alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3) and linoleic acid (an omega-6). That is why they are termed "essential" fatty acids (EFP's).

But most people are deficient in them and don't even know it. Data from the 2006 Health & Wellness Trends Database, created by the Natural Marketing Institute of Harleysville, PA, show that almost one-third of the general population were deficient in omega-3's. An even higher percentage were considered deficient in gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) (another omega-6 EFA).6 Yet all three of these EFA's are vital to the health of the skin. A few placebo-controlled studies over the past 15 years have demonstrated that they improve the symptoms of rosacea, eczema (sometimes called atopic dermatitis) and similar inflammatory skin problems.

It so happens that sandthorn berries are high in all three of these essential fatty acids,8 including others to be mentioned in the next chapter. Sandthorn yields 20-36 percent alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3) and 35-43 per cent linoleic acid (an omega-6).9 Patients with eczema were given sandthorn berry extracts for four months; during follow up they showed substantial improvement in their condition. The results were attributed to the high content of EFAs.10

Nature's Own Cosmetic
"A man of forty-five looks distinguished, but a woman of the same age is over the hill." So wrote feminist author Nancy Friday in her mind-jarring book, The Power of Beauty. "We live in a culture, she continues, "that trades in the currency of seeing and being seen. We want beauty not just for others; we want to look the way we feel, which is quite young, quite strong, and quite beautiful, although we are maturing."

Nature has provided the "natural cosmetic" for women to achieve this. It lies within the beautifying elements of the sandthorn berry. Palmitoleic acid is a principal constituent of skin fat and helps to maintain skin softness while minimizing wrinkles. Sandthorn has a very "high content" of this important omega-7 fatty acid, "which is uncommon in the plant kingdom," says one noted authority.

Conditions of skin inflammation also fare well with this particular berry. Japanese and Russian studies have shown extracts of sandthorn will reduce inflammation and promote the regeneration of new skin in many instances. My own father Jacob Heinerman took daily intakes of a certain beverage containing 42 percent sandthorn berry for the last six months of his life (he passed away in his sleep at age 93 in early Feb. 2007). His skin before this was as thin and delicate as parchment paper. But when he went on the berry juice the skin on his hands and forearms began getting back some of their natural tone and elasticity. To me, this was the greatest testament of all to sandthorn berry being nature's own cosmetic miracle for recreating skin deep beauty lost years before.

Scott Poe has been in the advertising and marketing field for over 25 years. He has helped to further market share with companies ranging from No Fear, GU Sports and Perfect Pushup. For more information on how to get AlpineV featuring the amazing Sandhtorn Berry please feel free to contact me at poeman@me.com and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

Another week

And so ends another week of trying to survive in this wonderful economy. Let's see, spent many many hours trying to get up to speed on the Web 2.0/Social Networking world. Pretty interesting stuff when it comes down to it. Looks like I'll be able to use this tool quite a bit in ALL my current pursuits. What hats did I wear this week, hmmm... Yacht Captain, Boat Manager, Graphic Designer, Nutrition Supplement Rep, Copywriter and most importantly – Dad. Overall a good week. Hope everyone out there is winding down their weeks as well.

See you Monday!

It's the Nutrition that counts!

John Heinerman has been a medical researcher of many years, and has come to the conclusion that what the human body really needs is good nutrition (or what I call nutritionals) in order to repair itself and function reasonably well. A good part of this should obviously come from carefully selected foods that will do the body good and afford it the greatest amount of nutrients possible.
But another portion needs to come from supplemented sources which are easily absorbed into the body with minimal difficulty. Capsules and tablets don’t quite measure up to this as well as liquids do. Which is why AlpineV comes to you as a wonderful beverage enclosed in elegant glass instead of a plastic pill bottle. Being intimately acquainted with each of this product’s four lovely constituents and knowing well their full array of fine nutrients, I can understand how this remarkable beverage mix performs so outstandingly within human and animal systems.
Basically what happens is this: The full complement of nutrients contained therein goes to those parts of the body most in need of nutritional support. (lice those body parts, be they major organs, vital glands, or functioning systems, receive sufficient nutrition from adequate daily intakes of AlpineV, then they are able to return to normal operation. When this happens, any number of problems are remedied simply because the body was given the necessary nutritionals it so desperately needed for health restoration. I’ve heard countless tales from many well-intentioned distributors of competing exotic fruit drinks, making medical claims all over the place for presumed recoveries from this-and that ailment. As a scientist, such reports greatly concern me for two very legitimate reasons: (1) Those telling such improbable stories are making medical claims for the drinks they represent; and (2) assigning
pharmaceutical activities to such products, whether doing so unintentionally or otherwise. Only licensed physicians can diagnose and prescribe! For anyone else in a selling or management position to do so is being highly irresponsible. That is why the three co-founders of the company that sells AlpineV, and myself as their in-house ‘science guy’, have always insisted that those who represent this exceptional beverage, always do so from a nutritional rather than medical perspective. For it is the DYNAMIC NUTRITIONALS within that make it work so astoundingly well in helping the body to readjust in different ways, and going from vitamin-mineral deprivations to states of nourishment which account for true health after all. AlpineV doesn’t need wild medical exaggerations as many of its competitors seem to do to gain market notoriety. Nor does it want any of those representing it falling to the same ‘doctoring’ temptations that scores of other exotic fruit juice distributors have so carelessly done.
The incredible nutrition in the AlpineV drink speaks for itself and what it is capable of doing. For once the body
becomes use to this marvelous source of tremendous nutrition, it will actually crave it when daily intakes of 2 ounces somehow become temporarily interrupted. The body knows what’s good for it and immediately recognizes those few sources offering the greatest amount of nutritionals. Which helps to explain why the body remembers AlpineV for so long and is constantly communicating its desires for more of the same in different ways.
The above was written by John Heinerman, Best Selling Author and also known as the Nutrition Guy. AlpineV truly is an amazing product and is poised to be the next logical advancement in Super-Fruit nutritional juices. For more information on AlpineV please feel free to contact me at poeman@me.com and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have. That's for now, have a great Monday and I look forward to chatting with you again tomorrow!

The Super-Nutrition of AlpineV Part 1

In the last several years a number of exotic fruits have taken the American beverage industry by storm. Among the more well-known types are noni, mangosteen, and açai which have made their appearances in a variety of brands, but usually in severely diluted forms that include water and the inexpensive high-sugar juices of apple, grape, arid pear. Such beverages often list ten or more ingredients on their respective labels, with the exotic fruits themselves actually being a lot less than what unsuspecting consumers may realize. The plain truth of the matter is that such constituted fruit drinks are really cheap to produce for mere pennies on the dollar. Were they to really contain significant amounts of the exotic fruits mentioned, their individual production costs would soar dramatically. So to help keep such expenses down as much as possible more water, apple, grape, and pear are utilized than are the single exotic fruits themselves.

There is really nothing illegal about doing this except that the consumers end up getting short-changed and paying a great deal more than they should for products with very little nutritional value in them. Because this practice is SO widespread within the beverage industry, it prompted three astute businessmen, a medical anthropologist, chemists and industry professionals to roll up their sleeves and go to work to come up with an affordable alternative that included MORE exotic fruits and NONE of the high-sugar juice fillers such as apple, grape, and pear. Furthermore, they wanted something very high in its combined nutritional value that would do the body good and not play havoc with a person s blood sugar levels as many competing products seem to do.

After nearly a year of intensive research and considerable taste testing, the final result was AlpineV, a sensational drinking experience on a health gauge equivalent to a massive ten on the Richter scale that would measure earthquakes of such monstrous proportions. The underlying tremors to its strong nutritional goodness have already been felt by some of the competition who are deeply worried as to just how well their own exotic fruit beverages will perform alongside AlpineV. And as reports of its substantial value continue to spread with ever increasing popularity, the competition will, no doubt, be further shaken by the wonderful nutritional results being obtained with AlpineV.

The above was written by John Heinerman, Best Selling Author and also known as the Nutrition Guy. AlpineV truly is an amazing product and is poised to be the next logical advancement in Super-Fruit nutritional juices. For more information on AlpineV please feel free to contact me at poeman@me.com and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

That's for now, have a great Monday and I look forward to chatting with you again tomorrow!

Good morning everyone. Just a quick note to get this Blog started. AlpineV Blog will be the place to discuss and gather information on everything AlpineV and it's main ingredient, the Sandthorn Berry. We'll officially get this blog going tomorrow as it's Sunday, the sun's out and we're headed to coffee and then the beach! Be sure to check back often and if you have any questions regarding AlpineV and/or the Sandthorn Berry please feel free to send them on over and I'll do my best to answer them as quickly and concisely as possible.

Have a great Sunday!