High Potency Joint Support - Shellfish free/Gluten free
32 oz. Liquid ~ 30 Day Supply
Natural Tropical Pineapple Flavor

FAQ: Gluco Matrix

1) What You Can Expect 2) Best Results, Gluco & Neptune Krill 3) Why Gluco Matrix Works 4) Watch Out for These Toxic Fillers 5) A Note from the CEO of Vital Earth 6) NSAIDs and Prescriptions MAY NOT Be the Best Solution

1) What can you expect from Glucosamine, Chondroitin, and MSM ? The Gluco Matrix Ingredients: Shellfish Free Glucosamine As we age, we experience a decrease in synovial fluid.  Loss of this cushioning fluid is one of the leading causes of pain, stiffness, and discomfort.  Glucosamine is a building block for the critical lubricants necessary to maintain and restore healthy, pain-free joints. Studies show that Glucosamine may actually encourage your body to regenerate damaged cartilage, form healthy ligaments, bones, tendons, skin, and eyes.  This natural component helps produce lubrication and protection for your joints, and it inhibits the COX-2 enzyme.   Research shows that Glucosamine may be the most powerful COX-2 inhibitor known to science. The Glucosamine HCI (hydrochloride) in Gluco Matrix is from a certified Kosher vegetable source.  Other glucosamine products are derived from the waste product shells of shellfish.  Gluco Matrix's all vegetable Glucosamine HCI offers a higher quantity of usable glucosamine, as  compared to the more commonly used Glucosamine Sulfate. Chondroitin Chondroitin is what helps attract the “cushioning” fluids in cartilage that allow mobility and pain free movement. It can also help slow the painful narrowing between joints that most arthritic sufferers experience.  Chondroitin is a major component of cartilage providing the strength needed for retaining fluids and nutrients.  It has anti-inflammatory properties and combats harmful and damaging enzymes, helping alleviate cartilage degeneration. MSM - a vital ingredient for arthritis sufferers! The third largest nutrient found in the body is MSM, or Methyl-Sulfonly-Methane, the nutritional form of biological sulfur. The body uses MSM to create healthy connective tissues and joints. It is known for its ability to reduce inflammation and inhibit arthritic pain. MSM can help maintain cell membrane flexibility and permeability, which means more nutrients are able to enter the cells and waste products are able to more easily leave cells.  This exchange allows toxins, such as lactic acid, to flow out of cells.  More nutrients and fewer toxins in cells are exactly what's needed for relief from inflammation. Studies show that MSM in the body begins to decrease with age, so all natural alternatives like the ingredients in Gluco Matrix Liquid may help you stay more active! Fulvic, Vitamin C Fulvic increases the powerful rebuilding, mobility, and pain relieving effects of Gluco Matrix.  This unique ingredient provides the catalyst for superior utilization and absorption of all the ingredients in the Gluco Matrix formula, offering advanced and noticeable results.  And Vitamin C helps to maximizes absorption, along with boosting immune system function. Put all this together and you have a formula that helps restore the pain free, effortless joint movement enjoyed in youth.   BACK TO TOP 2) For even better results, take Gluco Matrix along with Neptune Krill Omega 3 The high prevalence of arthritis is believed by many scientists to be due to the over consumption of Omega 6, in proportion to the amount of Omega 3 in our diets.  This shift has only started in the last 60-70 years.  Omega 3 and Omega 6 should be consumed in roughly equal amounts, but the average American diet contains 15 to 20 more Omega 6.  This is due to the abundant use of vegetable oils.  They’re in most baked goods, crackers, packaged snack foods and more. Studies show that arthritic sufferers in the U.S. have a 40% deficiency in Omega 3, as compared to other Americans, and are 100% deficient when compared to non-industrialized nations.  An excess of Omega 6 interferes with absorption of Omega 3 in the diet, so even if you are consuming foods rich in Omega 3, you may not absorbing them. Solution:  Eat less process foods containing vegetable oils, and supplement with high absorbency Omega 3, such as Neptune Krill.  Krill is the only marine oil that contains a combination of Omega 3 essential fatty acids, phospholipids, and antioxidants.  It is 5 times more absorbable than regular fish oils, and it won’t oxidize.   Neptune Krill BACK TO TOP 3) Why do some Glucosamine products work and others don’t What does NOT work What DOES work! Gluco Matrix  Low potencies Inferior delivery systems  Ingredients in poorly absorbed forms  Lack of the synergistic reactions between ingredients Products loaded with sugar…or worse, artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin Products containing harmful chemical preservatives, colorings and dyes that inhibit absorption Less effective shellfish forms of Glucosamine Synthetic ingredients Poorly absorbed capsules and tablets packed with fillers, excipients, and binders that are toxic and inhibit absorption by as much as 75%.    The best delivery system - liquid - for 98% absorption and faster pain relief Higher potency ingredients so effects are intensified A full 2000 mg. of usable, absorbable, Shellfish Free Glucosamine HCI 1200 mg. Chondroitin 500 mg. MSM Plus, Vitamin C Plus "FULVIC" - The magic ingredient other formulas don’t have Better quality, proven, nutrient forms Powerful ingredient combinations that enable vital synergistic reactions Low Glycemic - diabetic friendly NO Shellfish NO wheat or dairy NO added sugars or crystalline fructose NO artificial sweeteners NO synthetics, harmful additives, chemical preservatives, colorings or dyes And it tastes GREAT!   Delicious natural tropical pineapple flavor. Many heavily advertised formulas contain as little as 700mg to 1,000 mg of Glucosamine and contain large amount of fillers, binders, sugars, and artificial ingredients.  Plus, if its in tablet or capsule form you can cut that in half again because that is the most the body can absorb from those forms.   Check the label and compare to Gluco Matrix before you buy. BACK TO TOP 4) Watch out for these toxic fillers and binders- they’re in most joint formulas Polysorbate 80 Sodium Benzoate Aspartame Sucralose Saccharin Silicon Dioxide Polyethylene glycol Crystalline Fructose Colorings or dyes Magnesium Stearate Titanium Dioxide Many of these are not only dangerous toxins, but known carcinogens as well. None of these ingredients should be part of any natural health program.  Stearates, commonly found in capsule glucosamine products, are added to raw materials in the production process as a lubricant to allow encapsulating equipment to run at top speed, thereby speeding production.  In a study published by Pharmaceutical Technology, absorption was at 90% without stearates, and went down to 20% when stearates were added. Did you know that most capsules only have about a 40-50 percent absorption rate?  That means if you take a capsule with 1,000mg of glucosamine, you are only absorbing 500mg at best!  And hard pills are even worse!  Their absorption is only between 8-10 percent! Yikes!  How would absorption that low do anything at all???!!!  If a manufacturer doesn’t prominently list: • Their supplement facts panel • Their “Other Ingredients” paragraph Then you have no way of knowing what harmful ingredients the product may contain, or if some of the ingredients are in very low potencies and inferior forms. Buyer Beware!  Read and compare labels before you buy.  BACK TO TOP 5) A note from the CEO of Vital Earth…her personal experience with Gluco Matrix A note from the CEO of Vital Earth Minerals: “Before I became aware of proper eating and nutrition, and the damaging side effects of some prescriptions, I took a thyroid drug that created severe, crippling joint pain, amongst other undesirable side effects.  Walking was extremely painful; I had to cling to the hand rail on stairs, and could no longer ski, rollerblade or wind-surf.  The pain was especially intense in my ankles and knees. In my quest for a natural remedy to my hyperactive thyroid, I began educating myself and found a little known, organic solution … fulvic minerals; which then led me to Vital Earth Minerals.  By using their high potency supplements, making dramatic changes to my diet, and detoxing and boosting my immune system with fulvic, I was able to completely reverse my hyperactive thyroid condition.  That success inspired me to become a part of the Vital Earth Company, and to direct the development of additional products that offer help to people who may be suffering from the same debilitating joint pain as I had.  So, using the expertise of highly trained researchers and bio-chemists, Gluco Matrix was created. Because I know what it’s like to no longer be able to do the activities you love because of painful, inflamed joints, I'm thankful every day for Gluco Matrix.  This product gave me relief from my joint damage, and allowed me to return to the sports I dearly love, and I am delighted to share it with you!” Jody Ahrens, President, Vital Earth Minerals BACK TO TOP 6) NSAIDs and prescriptions may not be the best solution Pain relievers may offer arthritis sufferers temporary relief, but long term use can cause erosion of the gastrointestinal lining and decreased immune system function.  Most people are now aware of the terrific dangers of the arthritis drug, Vioxx, which has been withdrawn from the market.  The manufacturer, Merck, was involved in over 27,000 lawsuits, and has recently agreed to pay 4.85 billion.  An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) states that Merck knew of the dangers associated with the arthritis drug, Vioxx, for as many as 3 years before the massive nationwide recall.   Information was intentionally downplayed and withheld from federal officials. People enrolled in two Vioxx clinical trials were dying at three times the rate of those taking a placebo.  Other Cox-2 inhibitor drugs have been pulled from the market as research shows an increased risk of heart attack associated with their use.  Research also indicates that current drugs being used in the treatment of osteoarthritis actually inhibit the healing process, and accelerate the progression of joint destruction. If you’re not convinced that natural alternatives are the safest, most effective route, please visit the internet and investigate the risks of arthritis drugs and NSAIDs for yourself.   BACK TO TOP