Amino Relax - Phil Richards Performance

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Helps with sleep, reduces stress levels and anxiety by quickly and naturally replenishing your Serotonin stores.

• Helps reduce anxiety and feelings of depression

• Improves memory, learning ability and sleep patterns

• Promotes an overall sense of balance, harmony and wellbeing

• Helps with sleep, reduces stress levels and anxiety by quickly and naturally replenishing your Serotonin stores.

• Contains 5 HTP, L-Taurine, LTheanine and Zinc Gluconate

• Designed to increase Serotonin and GABA levels in the brain

Recommended use:

1 – 2 capsiles one hour before sleep

Amino Relax can quickly, yet naturally, increase Serotonin and GABA levels in the brain, so you begin to feel more emotionally balanced.

5 HTP: Increases pain tolerance, induces sleep, and affects how hunger is perceived. The brain converts 5 HTP to Serotonin.

Taurine: Protects us from anxiety and other adverse effects of stress. It even helps control high blood pressure.

L-Theanine: Stimulates the production of alpha brain waves, creating a state of deep relaxation.

Zinc Gluconate: Can help to support short term memory and concentration. It may also ease pre-menstrual tension in women.

What is 5HTP and what can it do for you?

A mood-enhancing chemical, 5 HTP has attracted a good deal of attention lately because of its ability to increase pain tolerance, induce sleep, and affect how hunger is perceived. Unlike many other supplements (and drugs) that have molecules too large to pass from the bloodstream into the brain, molecules of 5 HTP are small enough to do so. Once in the brain, they're converted into an important nervous system chemical, or neurotransmitter, called serotonin.

The almost instant solution to most low serotonin problems is 5-HTP, which is made from an African Griffonia bean. Your body can make its own 5-HTP to convert into serotonin, but there is one catch. It must have enough tryptophan on hand, from food, to make it out of. Chances are it doesn’t! If you take a 5 HTP supplement like Amino Relax, your serotonin production will no longer be dependent on the tryptophan you may or may not get in your food.

That means that you can quickly yet naturally replenish your serotonin stores and begin to feel the return of your true emotional self. As an anti-depressant, 5-HTP is so effective that it has repeatedly matched or out-performed many of the most established drugs including Prozac, without the negative side effects so often associated with these drugs.

What is L-Taurine and what can it do for you?

Taurine: Calming Influence Taurine is an amino acid that plays a major role in the brain as an "inhibitory" neurotransmitter. Similar in structure and function to GABA, taurine provides a similar anti anxiety effect that helps to calm or stabilize an excited brain. Taurine has many other uses as well, including treating migraine, insomnia, agitation, restlessness, irritability, alcoholism, obsessions, depression, and even hypomania/mania – the "high" phase of bipolar disorder or manic depression. By inhibiting the release of adrenaline, taurine also protects us from anxiety and other adverse effects of stress.

It even helps control high blood pressure. You may have noticed it as an ingredient in some of the energizing, high-caffeine soft drinks, to soften any overstimulation. Taurine helps fight Cardiovascular Disease In the cell, taurine keeps potassium and magnesium inside the cell while keeping excessive sodium out. In this sense it works like a diuretic. But unlike prescription diuretics, it is not a cellular poison. It does not act against the kidney, but improves kidney function instead.

Taurine is very useful in fighting tissue swelling and fluid accumulation. Taurine has been very successfully used to treat people with high blood pressure. When excessive fluid is normalized, blood pressure becomes normalised. Taurine functions to dampen the sympathetic nervous system, thereby relieving arterial spasm. When blood vessels relax, the body’s blood pressure will fall.

Taurine & Cardiovascular Disease

In the cell, taurine keeps potassium and magnesium inside the cell while keeping excessive sodium out. In this sense it works like a diuretic. But unlike prescription diuretics, it is not a cellular poison. It does not act against the kidney, but improves kidney function instead. Taurine is very useful in fighting tissue swelling and fluid accumulation. People with heart failure, liver disease , late stage ovarian cancer, congestive heart failure frequently have unwanted fluid accumulation inside their bodies and people who take long plan flight usually have slight fluid retention.

Taurine has been very successfully used to treat people with high blood pressure. When excessive fluid is normalized, blood pressure becomes normalized. Taurine functions to dampen the sympathetic nervous system, thereby relieving arterial spasm. When blood vessels relax, the body’s blood pressure will fall.

There have been studies showing the positive effectiveness of taurine on heart failure. Aside from having diuretic properties, taurine is able to strengthen the heart muscles and maintain proper calcium balance. Together with Coq10 and
carnitine, taurine is able to regulate the heart’s contractility and guard against toxic threat of chemotherapeutic drugs such as adriamycin (doxorubicin).

Working together with magnesium, taurine also is able to regulate heart rhythm and help to stabilise it.

Taurine & Women’s Health

Taurine is an important amino acid in the female body. The female hormone estradiol depresses the formation of taurine in the liver. Women who are on estrogen replacement, birth control pill, or those suffering from excessive estrogen (this is a widespread condition commonly called estrogen dominance) may need more taurine. Taurine is also helpful in clearing excessive fluid retention during menstrual period.

Furthermore, synthetic estrogen replacement therapy blocks the production of taurine in the body , as well as in the case of chemotherapy or the lack of good bacteria in the intestinal tract.

What is L-Theanine and what can it do for you?

L-Theanine is a free (non-protein) amino acid found almost exclusively in tea plants (Camellia sp.), constituting between 1 and 2-percent of the dry weight of tea leaves. It is the predominant amino acid in green tea leaves. Physiological Effects The calming effect of green tea may seem contradictory to the stimulatory property of tea's caffeine content but it can be explained by the action of L-theanine.

This amino acid actually acts antagonistically against the stimulatory effects of caffeine on the nervous system. Research on human volunteers has demonstrated that L-theanine creates a sense of relaxation in approximately 30-40 minutes after ingestion via at least two different mechanisms. First, this amino acid directly stimulates the production of alpha brain waves, creating a state of deep relaxation and mental alertness similar to what is achieved through meditation. Second, L-theanine is involved in the formation of the inhibitory neurotransmitter, gamma amino butyric acid (GABA). GABA influences the levels of two other neurotransmitters, dopamine and serotonin, producing the key relaxation effect.

Effects of Zinc deficiency:Behaviour and Function

The functional symptoms of chronic zinc deficiency include learning and memory problems, especially short term memory problems including working memory and behavioral problems, most notably with concentration and impulsivity. This is not surprising as levels of zinc are highest in the frontal lobes and gray matter of the cerebral cortex, and the hippocampal short term memory areas. The frontal lobes, site of your executive functions such as rational thinking, analysis and understanding cause and effect, allow you to delay gratification and control social behavior to stay within the bounds of social norms by inhibiting more impulsive reactions to various stimuli. The memory problems are often expressed as an inability to retain previously learned tasks and there are often difficulties learning new things.

Many people who are chronically zinc deficient have a particular type of memory problem – they can remember numbers, but just cannot remember names. The brain appears to prefer zinc gluconate and that’s why you’ll find it in amino relax.

Zinc, Testosterone and Obesity Link

Zinc is necessary to maintain normal serum testosterone. Inadequate zinc levels prevent the pituitary gland from releasing luteinizing and follicle stimulating hormones, which stimulate testosterone production. Zinc also inhibits the aromatase enzyme that converts testosterone into excess estrogen. The testosterone to estrogen ratio in men declines with aging from a high of about 50:1 to half of that, or even a low of 10:1.

Higher estrogen activity results in increasd risk of heart disease, weight gain, and obesity. One reason for the progressive weight gain with age is that fat cells contain aromatase. More fat cells mean more estrogen which means more fat deposition. In addition to the impact on hormone levels, zinc also has been proven to help the body produce healthier sperm by increasing sperm count and motility.

A USDA study found that semen volume dropped 30 percent when zinc intake was low. Research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that male volunteers who consumed low amounts of zinc exhibited decreased semen volumes and serum testosterone concentrations. Zinc deficiency has been found to have a severe impact on the male prostate gland. Zinc deficiency predisposes the prostate to infection (prostatis) which may lead to enlargement of the prostate gland (prostatic hypertrophy).

Zinc And Pre-Menstrual Syndrome

Zinc may also help in the treatment of pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS). PMS affects 50 percent of all menstruating women. There is growing evidence that a deficiency of progesterone underlies PMS. Trace amounts of zinc regulate the secretion of many hormones, including progesterone. Early research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found significantly lower levels of zinc among women with PMS during the luteal phase of menstruation, the 13 days preceding menstruation. This reduction could lead to a decrease in secretions of progesterone and endorphins.

Endorphins are the natural painkillers our bodies produce. While research is ongoing, it suggests that some women's PMS symptoms may be improved by zinc supplementation.

Nutritional details:

No artificial ingredients

No GM products

No animal proteins

Suitable for vegetarians and vegans

Active ingredients:

5 Hydroxy tryptophan 100mg

L - Theanine 200mg

L - Taurine 500mg

Zinc Gluconate 60mg

If you are taking any prescribed medication or have any medical conditions always consult your doctor or pharmacist before taking vitamins or supplements.

Keep out of sight and reach of young children.

Do not exceed stated recommended intake.

Food supplements must not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.

If pregnant or lactating, consult your doctor before use.

Store in a cool, dry place.