Let’s not pretend otherwise; there are a great many nutrient-based supplements out there that claim they can do a great deal for your health; claim they can cover so many bases. But can they? In too many instances they’re trying to pull the wool over your eyes. There’s a limit on the supplements out there that are genuinely organic and authentically made up of much-needed nutrients and vitamins.

Which is where we come in at The Finchley Clinic – we’re committed only to recommending and selling high-quality, organic, nutrient-featuring supplements that studies and customer feedback prove do a lot of people a lot of good. It’s what this business is built on, after all. And in that column of genuinely reliable supplements that provide an impressive number of benefits to the human body is NADH.

However, a word of warning to start with – it seems most of the products that are being sold as NADH are worthless; so, we only recommend and sell the genuine article, the NADH supplement that we import from the actual company based in Austria that was started by its creator, Professor Jorg Birkmayer. Indeed, the latter created, developed and made available to the market NADH (which is the abbreviated form of its full name, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide hydride; although it’s also known as Coenzyme 1, an active coenzyme form of Vitamin B3) as a supplement that could fulfil many beneficial functions for healthy living. To that end, NADH is liable to be able to help you with:

• Adrenal support
• Anti-ageing
• Antioxidation
• Boosting energy
• General health
• Heart health
• Immune health
• Memory maintenance
• Mood support
• Sports performance

Sure, you may doubt that; if so, check out our customer testimonials of the product to be found on our website – we sell NADH (the genuine article, that is) because our customers tell us it helps them; it’s as simple as that.

What is NADH – and why do we need it?

So, in this supplement form, just what makes NADH so useful; so beneficial? Well, in the words of Professor Birkmayer himself, NADH is ‘the most promising natural substance in our body’. A biological form of hydrogen, it naturally reacts with the oxygen present in every cell in the body, thereby aiding in the generation of energy and water.

And that means that, the more NADH present in an individual cell, the more energy that can be produced in that cell. And so, wherever that cell is and whatever it does, the better it’ll function and the longer it’ll be able to do it. After all, biological hydrogen’s known to be the fuel for cellular energy production.

Now, you may be thinking, if NADH is already in our bodies, why do we need more? Doesn’t that sound a bit unnatural? To the lay(wo)man, yes; perhaps. Yet, although we certainly extract some of the NADH we need from our daily diets (depending what our daily diets comprise), usually we don’t extract nearly enough of the substance from them – in fact, much of the NADH we ought to be getting from our food’s destroyed by us cooking it, sadly.

Why NADH is the answer – and an awesome antioxidant

The answer then is simple and, by now, surely obvious – our bodies can take on more of the NADH levels they need through proper, organically-derived, genuine NADH supplementation.

Moreover, NADH is quite brilliant at acting as a natural antioxidant in the cells of the body in which it finds itself. Indeed, a leading expert on the subject, the US-based biochemist, Dr Richard Passwater, has noted (these words are to be found in the foreword of the book ‘NADH – The Energizing Coenzyme’): “While there is no such thing as a singularly ‘most important’ compound in the body, or even a ‘most important antioxidant’, NADH comes as close as a single compound can.

“NADH is both the primary coenzyme that drives reduction and oxidation reactions in cellular metabolism and the most powerful antioxidant”.

So, there you have it; NADH, in supplement form, might well be one of the most essential products you might choose to consume for your body’s wellbeing – don’t just take our word for it; take those of the experts!

Don’t doubt it; the likelihood is, like it or not, your body’s natural defences are compromised. That’s right; the tiny yet so significant parts of your body that ensure (usually foreign) entities don’t manage to get inside it and affect your microbiome – the community of billions of micro-organisms that protects you against germs, breaks down food to release energy and produces vitamins – are compromised, so the competing, destructive chemicals can do their dirty work as they break down these defences.

Now, chief among your natural defences are the tight junctions between your body’s cells – and chief among the culprits that deplete them is the chemical glyphosate. Yes, the membrane plasma proteins that form these tight junctions between adjacent cells throughout the human body (but not least in the digestive system where so much of the microbiome is located, of course) effectively operate as your body’s intelligent defence system.

And this is because they work to latch cells together (basically like the zip on a coat), so what does and doesn’t pass through the gut lining can be regulated effectively. To that end, they form what might be referred to as a continuous membrane; practically a firewall that stretches all the way from the sinuses to the colon.

The effect of glyphosate on your natural defences

Yet, unfortunately, when these tight junctions start to degrade, the immune system takes the pressure; the latter being tasked to generate an antibody for every intruder type that breaks through these barriers and into the body’s unprepared cells. And, as noted, one of the greatest enemies to these tight junctions is glyphosate; the most widely sold herbicide (or what’s more commonly referred to as weed-killer) in the world – and one of three pesticides regularly found in routine testing of British bread.

Indeed, results from animal studies have discovered that glyphosate’s a toxic chemical when it comes into contact with beneficial gut bacteria, while its presence in human bodies is believed, according to certain studies, to have increased by as much as 1,000% over the past 20 years, thanks greatly to the farming of genetically modified crops.

Restore – the naturally-derived solution

All is not lost, however; thankfully, a liquid lignite extract named Terrahydrite can be relied on to combat glyphosate and help to repair the tight junctions, the body’s natural defences, especially in the gut’s linings so they might function to its optimal level. But from where and how to boost your body’s levels of Terrahydrite? Well, one way – indeed, surely the easiest and best way – is to rely on the excellent, naturally-derived, thoroughly organic supplement that’s Restore.

Quite simply, Restore’s unlike any other supplement you’ll come across. It’s a soil-derived, scientifically-backed product that blends Terrahydrite with purified water, while also containing trace soil amino acids and minerals, ensuring it’s somewhat similar to a fulvic acid supplement. Through both laboratory-based and clinical testing then, Restore’s been proven to aid in supporting the functioning of the gut barrier; thus, improving gut health thanks to its decisive role in strengthening tight junction cells.

Indeed, as Restore’s creator Dr Zach Bush puts it (Zach’s a US-based MD and co-founder and CEO of Biomic Sciences LLC, Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Hospice Care): “It is important for people to know that Restore produces a significant outcome for gut health. I use it in my Virginia clinic as a foundation for helping to create a strong immune system and gut biome.

“Microbiome balance and tight junction integrity are widely recognized to constitute a major portion of the human immune system, and directly affect DNA transcription of human cells to promote optimal health and prevent a leaky gut. The well-proven biology of Restore demonstrates its role as a foundational resource in your pursuit for optimal health.”

So, there you have it; from the horse’s mouth. If you want to ensure the tight junction cells in your gut and elsewhere in your body can survive whatever’s thrown at them by the likes of glyphosate, then the solution is Restore – to help restore your gut health… and your body’s all-round health.

Most of the time, nutritional supplements are marketed as best consumed for one or two health reasons but, occasionally, a supplement pops up that bucks that trend. Occasionally, a supplement may be advanced enough to offer several different benefits at once – and potentially have the capacity to do more. Such a nutritional supplement is Poly-MVA (sold by us in a 236ml version).

Officially referred to as Palladium linked Alpha Lipoic Acid, Poly-MVA is principally a product that can help greatly in supporting the oxygenation of cells and tissues as well as operate as a powerful antioxidant (and even though these two properties of the supplement sound like they ought to be contradictory; they’re apparently not).

Formulated unlike any other supplement you’ll come across in its blend of minerals, vitamins and amino acids, Poly-MVA was created specifically to help cellular energy production in the human body – as well as to promote overall health, not least because it may also help maintain reliable immune response. To wit, it’s a complex of alpha-lipoic acid, the mineral palladium, Vitamins B1, B2 and B12, methionine, N-Acetyl cystiene and trace amounts of molybdenum, rhodium and ruthenium.

An impressive line-up of nutrients? Yes. And the manufacturers claim it’s possible the supplement can deliver all the following nutritional benefits for the body:

• Help the body produce energy
• Support the liver in removing harmful substances from the body
• Aid in preventing cell damage
• Help the body remove heavy metals from the bloodstream
• Act as both a powerful antioxidant and detoxificant
• Prevent B12 deficiency-related mental issues in elderly people
• Support nerve and neurotransmitter function
• Enhance white blood cell function
• Support pH balance, helping to maintain oxygenation of cells and tissues.

Poly-MVA – how it works

The supplement’s formulation of ingredients then, in being designed to provide energy for compromised body systems, looks to alter the electrical potential of human cells and ensure aerobic metabolism within them can take place effectively. And, as a member of the group of the Lipoic Acid Mineral Complexes (LAMC), Poly-MVA may well prove to be able to help boost immune response in many people thanks to it replenishing of key nutrients and so supporting cellular metabolism.

That said, to understand what truly makes Poly-MVA unique, you have to get down to the science. The fact is, its uniqueness is defined by the proprietary manufacturing process that sees the palladium it contains sequestered to its lipoic acid; it’s this preparation and bonding process through which its LAMC’s manufactured that makes Poly-MVA unlike any other supplement out there. The formulation of its LAMC then, along with its other vitamins, minerals and amino acids, is what ensures it delivers a heady cocktail of nutritional support – ensuring it can help drive optimum functioning of essential body systems.

Why is this? Well, when lipoic acid, a highly potent antioxidant, becomes attached to an electrically-charged mineral substrate, as well as associated with B vitamins, it creates a complex of minerals that boasts enhanced solubility both in water and body fat. And this means that it’s easily and safely capable of travelling wherever it wants throughout the body – and that, highly impressively, includes across the blood-brain barrier.

This latter capability (something impossible for most medication, let alone normal nutritional supplements) could well mean that, as a supplement, Poly-MVA might be capable of more besides – it may, depending on further research and evidence, be able to go yet further beyond what nutritional supplements can do.

Poly-MVA – it’s worth it

Now, despite all it can do, yes, it’s true; Poly-MVA is, unfortunately, far from the cheapest of nutritional supplements. We regret that fact and, were there any way for us to sell it cheaper, we genuinely would try to. Yet, sadly, when you consider necessary customs, shipping, airline handling and duty prices we incur in order to sell it here in the UK, it’s simply impossible to make it available at a cheaper price.

But sometimes you do have pay for quality and Poly-MVA, with all its benefits for the human body, is most definitely a high-quality supplement we recommend. Not least when you consider that its manufacturers advise its beneficial effects can be enhanced by combining it with the likes of CoEnzyme Q10 (at least 100mg per day) and Vitamin D (5,000-10,000iu per day). We also believe the results of combining it with NADH on 2-4 tablets per day may well be very effective.