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Immune System Modulator
- In-Vitro studies suggest inhibition of reactive oxygen species formation.
- In-Vitro Studies suggest reduced growth of E coli.
- Studies suggest improved ratio of CD8-T cells to CD4-T cells.
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Human clinical studies suggest increased humoral B cell salivary IGA, indicating possible mucosal immunity.
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Human clinical studies suggest significantly shorter cold and flu duration of symptoms when compared with subjects taking placebo.
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EpiCor ORAC value higher than cranberries, blueberries, acai, red wine and pomegranate.
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Recommended dosage: 1 or 2 capsules a day with meals
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90 capsule count per bottle
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Made in the U.S.A to or above FDA Good Manufacturing Practice Standards
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Sold with full money back guarantee
IRS language: Nutritional supplements recommended by a medical practitioner as treatment for a specific medical condition diagnosed by a physician qualify as an eligble medical expense under IRS Publication 502. |
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Know Your EpiCor!
Caveat emptor - Let the buyer beware! Some "discount" marketers are reported to be selling diluted (cut) EpiCor as pure. Biosyntrx presents pure EpiCor as a 90 capsule (three month supply) to best assure product efficacy and consumer compliance.
The EpiCor Story
The extremely low incidence of plant employee health problems in a 63-year-old Iowa company, Diamond V® Mills, Inc., coupled with the minimal increases in company health premiums over the years, led researchers to look for potential human health applications of Diamond V’s propriety yeast culture designed to keep cattle healthy and increase milk production. Embria Health Sciences™, a division of Diamond V, spent more than $1,000,000 to develop a product specifically designed for humans, complete with safety and efficacy studies, before bringing EpiCor to the nutraceutical market.
EpiCor’s Composition Assay
EpiCor is manufactured from a safe, nutrient-dense form of the species of yeast called Saccharomyces cerevisiae through a proprietary multi-stage fermentation and drying process.
The processed yeast includes:
- A variety of macronutrients: lipids, organic acids, complex carbohydrates, including beta glucan, which stimulates macrophage (immune cell) phagocyte activity.
- Eleven (11) micronutrient minerals associated with production of nucleic acid DNA and RNA.
- The entire complex of B vitamins.
- Phytosterols and phenolics plant-based antioxidants associated with extremely high levels of intracellular and extra cellular activity (ORAC value higher than blueberries).
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Immune System and Eye Disease
Ocular inflammation can produce extensive damage to innocent bystander cells leading to vision loss and blindness. Fortunately, the eye possesses multiple strategies to help control immune-mediated inflammation, a phenomenon known as immune privilege. Nevertheless, virtually all severe or chronic diseases have, to a greater or lesser degree, an element of immune dysfunction that is central to the disease process.
Scientific literature now links many age-related degenerative diseases of the eye to an autoimmune inflammatory response to external and internal environmental conditions, including nutritional deficiencies. These responses include dry eye syndrome, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, iritis and uveitis.
Immune Modulation Definition:
The process of nutritionally regulating the immune system for optimal functionality. It’s a dynamic process requiring constant support.
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Genes, Nutrition and Immune System
Multipotent hemopoietic stem cells (MHSC) are stem cells found in the human bone marrow. These self-renewing cells are responsible for the formation of the immune system leukocytes (white blood cells) that defend the body against infectious disease. Proper development of theimmune system is dependent on the nutritional status of the body. This status also affects the macromolecule nucleic acids, including double helix deoxyribonucleic (DNA) and protein synthesis ribonucleic (RNA). These are the acids that signal intracellular genetic instructions responsible for disease susceptibility, including immune system responses that affect the entire body.
The Immune Cell Community
A properly modulated immune system sends clear instant cellular defense messages that protect the body against viral, bacterial, parasitic and fungal foreign invaders. This is particularly important, given the increased global risk of infection from one of these pathogens.
A healthy immune system is also able to distinguish between the body’s own cells: self vs. non-self. When the immune system is deficient in nutritional ammunition, it can send confusing signals that cause it to turn on itself (autoimmune response). This unleashes a torrent of inflammatory diseases, including some forms of arthritis, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, iritis, uveitis, dry eye syndrome, glaucoma and vascular disease, which contributes to macular degeneration. In other cases, a malnourished immune system responds to seemingly harmless foreign substances, resulting in mild or life threatening allergic response.
Immune System and Eye Disease
Ocular inflammation can produce extensive damage to innocent bystandter cells leading to vision loss and blindness. Fortunately, the eye possesses multiple stratefies to help control immune-immediated inflammation, a phenomenon known as immune privilege. Nevertheless, virtually all severe or chronic diseases have, to a greater or lesser degree, an element of immune dysfunction that is central to the disease process.
Scientific literature now links many age-related degenerative diseases of the eye to an autoimmune inflammatory response to external and internal environmental conditions, including nutritional deficiencies. These responses include dry eye syndrome, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, uritis and uveitis.
EpiCor Immune Modulation Study Results
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Inhibited formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) when cells were challenged with hydrogen peroxide.
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Reduced growth of E coli and C tropicallis.
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Inhibited interferon-gamma (IFN-g) production, indicating anti-inflammatory properties. (IFN-g is secreted by overactive T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Excessive IFN-g can precipitate an autoimmune inflammatory response.)
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Decreased Interleukin-2 stimulation of IFN-g production.
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Increased levels of nuclear factor kappa B (NFkB), which plays an important role in inflammation, immunity, autoimmune response, and cell adhesion, proliferation, development and death (apoptosis) by regulating the expression genes involved in these processes. (This could be particularly important when considering the pathology associated with all chronic degenerative eye disease.)
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Modulated expression of certain adhesion molecules on human NK cells, T cells, B cells and dendrite cells, as well as induced calcium signaling. This is pivotal to cellular coordination response in tissues and organs within the whole body, including the eyes.
EpiCor Safety Testing Results
Both acute (14-day) and sub-acute (90-day) toxicology studies were performed on EpiCor.
The results:
- Negative for oral toxicity.
- Negative for mutagenicity (AMES Test), and for mitogenicity.
- Free of 139 pesticides at detection limits.
- Study results indicate that EpiCor is safe, non-toxic, non-mutagenic, non-mitogenic and is pesticide free.
- Pharmaceutical drug metabolism testing suggests no interference from the nutrients in EpiCor.
- Stability tested for a microbiological shelf life of at least 24 months when stored at ambient temperature and humidity.
- EpiCor has obtained generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status.
Other Epicor Reference
Discovery of edible fermentation product with unusual immune enhancing properties in humans. Schauss A, Vojdani A. The FASEB Journal 2006;20:A143 [ abstract]
Brewer's/baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and preventive medicine: part 1. Moyad MA, Urol Nurs. 2007 Dec;2796):560-1 [ abstract]
Effects of a modified yeast supplement on cold/flu symptoms. Moyad MA, Robinson LE, et al. Urol Nurs. 2008 Feb;28(1); 50-5 [ abstract]
Brewer's/bakers yest (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and preventive medicine: Part II. Moyad MA. Urol Nurs. 2008 Feb;28(1):73-5 [ abstract] |
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"I have never been as impressed by the effects of a compound as I have been with EpiCor. This product's positive impact on the immune system is of particular interest to the aging population because of their increased susceptibility to chronic infection."
Alexander Schauss, PhD
Dr. Schauss has been a member of two National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisory committees and he chairs the safety committee for the National Products Association (NPA).
"A maximum quality of life with limited loss of vision is a realistic goal. For this we need an intact and vigilant immune system. The continuing evolution of medical knowledge suggests supporting the process of immune modulation with appropriate nutritional supplementation."
Jerre M. Freeman, MD
"The large amount of science that supports immune system modulation, coupled with EpiCor safety and efficacy studies, convinced me to recommend it to my patients."
Jeffrey Anshel, OD
Author - Smart Medicine for Your Eyes
"Thank you, thank you. I am a believer! My wife and I have not caught colds, despite significant exposures, since we began taking EpiCor. Pure GENIOUS. "
Howard Bruckner, MD
"EpiCor, a powerful immune booster that activates your entire immune response. "
Julian Whitaker, MD
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Customer from Salt Lake City  |
EpiCor has changed my life. I'm very susceptible to fall and winter colds and flu; so much so, that I have avoided crowds for the past 15 years. After starting to take EpiCor daily in the fall of 2007 I noticed that I rarely get a cold, and when I do, the symptoms are mild and the cold only lasts for 3 or 4 days, not my usual 7-14. I have not had the flu since I started taking EpiCor; here's hoping I don't get it this year's version either. Herb Cross 84
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| Customer from Colorado Springs |
Knowing that EpiCor was being recommended by NIH advisors like Dr. Alexander Schauss influenced my decision to make EpiCor one of my daily supplements. I have been taking it for over a year and during this period I have only had one minor cold, instead of my normal two or three colds a year. Thanks Biosyntrx for bringing this product into your line. Judy 83
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| Customer from Chicago, IL |
I hope your doctors are recommending this product to everyone. My husband and I have not had a cold or the flu in over two years. We know it's due to EpiCor because our grown children and grandchildren have been sick a lot, and we don't get what they have.
Molly G. 77
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| Customer from San Francisco, CA |
| My job requires that I do a lot of third world travel, which continually exposes me to new bugs. I have been taking EpiCor consistently for six months and I will NOT leave this country without without it. It works! 76
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| Customer from New York |
This is my third winter on EpiCor and I have not had a cold or flu
that lasted more than 24 hours, while those around me seem to be
staying sick and miserable for two weeks, or more. Susan Oliver,
RN 74
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| Customer from Berkeley, CA |
This is my second year on EpiCor and I have yet to develop a cold or the flu that lasted for more than a day or two. Lindsey Miller
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| Customer from Colorado Springs, CO |
I had come to expect that every Colorado winter would feature at least one and often two prolonged episodes of cold/flu followed by painful and prolonged bronchitis. While I twice awakened to symptoms that had in the past led to weeks of misery, the symptoms disappeared within a day or two; apparently thanks to the immune system modulation associated with my daily intake of EpiCor.
John Hazlehurst, metro columnist - The Colorado Springs Business Journal. 66 71
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| Customer from Los Angeles, CA |
| EpiCor Rocks!!! I did not get sick once this flu and cold season. Jerry Spade 68
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