A New Chapter in Immune Support

Our Antibiotic Culture
At some point, ingesting massive amounts of synthetic antibiotics came to be considered ‘conventional’ or ‘traditional’. As a result, we now live in an antibiotic culture. In fact, antibiotics are even present in most of the meat, poultry and fish we eat. While antibiotics are absolutely necessary in some cases, they disregard one crucial truth: Our bodies, and our immune system in particular, are not synthetic. Rather, we are living organisms, and thus a natural, probiotic approach to immune support and daily defense makes perfect sense.

A Probiotic Approach
Probiotics are the healthy bacteria every body needs, and are found naturally in select foods such as yogurt, sauerkraut and red wine. These healthy bacteria are living organisms that play a vital role in our immune system. The problem is, most of the foods we eat regularly are not naturally rich in probiotics. This is why we advocate supplementing our diets with vital strains of immune-boosting probiotics, delivered in a whole-food complex our bodies easily recognize and absorb, just as nature intended. This natural, food-driven, probiotic approach to immune support continues to cultivate widespread support from both the medical and scientific communities in the U.S. And while it’s not yet considered ‘traditional’ here, it’s an approach that’s been used by billions of people for thousands of years, with great success.

A Whole Food Approach
Research on important antioxidant nutrients has demonstrated that only when the nutrient is in the form of food will it deliver its full wisdom to support health.* For example, take Vitamin C, which is widely recognized for its cell protective and immune supportive effects. As a whole-food complex it’s far more useful to the human body than the megadose of chemically isolated, ascorbic acid found in synthetic supplements and multivitamins. Why? Because your body won’t fully recognize and absorb all of the synthetic Vitamin C, allowing many of the milligrams to pass right through your body, potentially reducing their benefit. Not to mention that the synthetic Vitamin C has none of the health-giving phytonutrients nature intended – the ones your body needs and will benefit from when the Vitamin C is delivered as a whole-food complex.

Nature’s Immune Supporting Wisdom
Nature has provided us with an array of foods, herbs and probiotics that, when sufficiently concentrated and intelligently blended, can support our immune function. You’ll find Nature’s immune supporting wisdom in many of our products, from our Whole-Food Probiotic Nutrients to our Herbal Therapeutics, Probiotics and Superfood Greens.

Maximizing Effectiveness
While the benefits of many of nature’s immune supporting foods and botanicals are widely recognized, maximizing their effectiveness requires so much more than simply “including them” in the formulation. Take New Chapter’s Probiotics, for example. We provide a full spectrum of beneficial bacteria, then grow them in a whole food medium to create superior phytonutrients that support our health. Or, consider New Chapter’s Herbal Therapeutics. We use a patented, safe and chemical-free Supercritical Extraction Process to retain the full immune-boosting spectrum of nature’s powerful, health-giving phytonutrients.

As a result of our ability to maximize the wisdom of Nature, every single one of our immune support products represents a “new chapter” in immune support.

Here’s just a few examples of nature’s wisdom in immune support, and how New Chapter helps to deliver it.

Elderberry
The elderberry is a dark purple berry that grows in many European countries, particularly Austria, and has long been trusted there for its immune support properties. Israeli research has demonstrated significant potential of this fruit extract's components to support healthy immune function, and recent German research showed that elderberry anthocyanins enhance immune function by boosting the production of cytokines.* These unique proteins act as messengers in the immune system to help regulate immune response. You’ll find the wisdom of elderberry in New Chapter’s Immunity Take Care.

Ginger
This “superherb” has been used for thousands of years worldwide for its numerous potent healing benefits, and it's also a superb digestive aid and nausea reliever. New Chapter’s Gingerforce™ is the world's most potent full-spectrum ginger extract, at least 250 times the concentration of fresh ginger. Because this is a full-spectrum extract, it contains hundreds of naturally occurring beneficial ingredients not similarly present in other extracts. In fact, recent British research shows ginger has at least 12 phytocompounds with immune-defensive benefits.

Garlic
This renowned antioxidant is universally appreciated for its cardiovascular benefits. New Chapter's Garlicforce,™ the world's first and only dual extract of supercritical and ethanolic garlic, contains the purest, highest and broadest spectrum of stable sulphur-nutrients from allicin, such as ajoene, dithiins, and alkyl-polysulfides, the very center of activity of garlic. And because ginger has been proven to significantly potentiate the activity of garlic, New Chapter’s Garlicforce™ also includes supercritical ginger to maximize the free-radical scavenging and cardiovascular benefits of this amazing herb.*

Probiotics
Remember that probiotics are the healthy bacteria that play a vital role in our immune system’s ability to defend against virus and infection. New Chapter’s Probiotic Immune Support™ features 10 beneficial strains, including the Lacto 5™ and Bifido 4™ cultures -- the best researched probiotic species with immune-active (B. longum) and digestive health benefits (L. plantarum).* Best of all, these precious bacteria are cultured in immune-boosting organic fruits, vegetables and herbs such as American elderberry, spinach, parsley, okra, oregano, cumin, ginger, milk and nutritional yeast.*

Echinacea
The Echinacea flower is one of the most researched plants in the herbal pharmacopia. As with any plant, the type and level of immune supporting phenol compounds vary greatly from species to species. Our echinacea is a full spectrum dual extract of two species, E. angustifolia and E. purpurea, offering all the historic and researched benefits of this remarkable herb. It’s immunoactive effects are enhanced by ginger's synergistic phytonutrients in New Chapter’s Immune Support-Echinacea Ginger Tonic, which also includes organic honey and organic lemon oil. Additionally, Echinacea plays an important role in New Chapter’s Sinus and Respiratory, which optimizes wellness through dozens of confirmed immunoactive botanical pathways.*