Utra Natural Prostate, 60 Softgels
As a man ages, maintaining a healthy prostate is key. This next-generation prostate health formula contains a broad array of ingredients to promote healthy prostate function and support normal urine flow. Botanical extracts like saw palmetto, nettle root, lycopene and more make Ultra Natural Prostate the most comprehensive prostate health supplement anywhere.
Benefits at a Glance:
- Supports prostate health with cutting-edge nutrients
- Helps protect against excess estrogen levels
- Promotes healthy prostate size and structure
- Inhibits undesirable cell division changes
- Supports healthy urinary patterns and flow
- Encourages a healthy inflammatory response
The prostate gland is intimately involved in male health. But as men reach middle age, 50% will suffer from an enlarging prostate. Although often benign in nature, this enlargement can impact urinary patterns.
Promotes healthy prostate size and cell structure
Lycopene is an antioxidant carotenoid and potent prostate health nutrient because it promotes healthy prostate size and structure. Boron has been shown to slow the elevation of prostate-specific antigen, and AprèsFlex® is an ultra-absorbable extract of Boswellia that supports normal inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme that is associated with undesirable cell division changes — both key aspects of maintaining prostate health at the cellular level.
Supports healthy urination & inflammation response
Supporting healthy, comfortable urination and inhibiting prostate-related inflammation are essential parts of maintaining prostate health. Graminex® Flower Pollen Extract™ relaxes the smooth muscles of the urethra and helps regulate inflammatory reactions. Saw Palmetto CO2 extract supports normal urinary flow and promotes a healthy inflammatory response as well.
Pygeum extract also supports healthy urination patterns. And one of the active compounds in pygeum is beta-sitosterol, which enhances pygeum’s effects. This formula contains additional beta-sitosterol (from pine) as well as pumpkin seed CO2 oil to complement the active compounds of both saw palmetto and pygeum plant extracts.
Encourages healthy estrogen levels
As men age, testosterone often converts to estrogen at higher rates. But prostate cells are sensitive to estrogen’s effects. So Ultra Natural Prostate contains powerful ingredients to address the effects of estrogen on the aging prostate.
Standardized lignans from flax seed and Norway spruce knotwood convert to enterolactone in the body. Enterolactone helps support vulnerable prostate cells against the effects of excess estrogen levels. Stinging and Dwarf nettle root extracts help support prostate cells against excess estrogen levels.
Simply put, no other prostate health formula delivers this many potent nutrients for male health in a single, science-based formula. Get the next-generation nutrition your prostate needs, and stay healthier, longer. Try Ultra Natural Prostate from Life Extension® today!
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Additional Information
Life Extension – Ultra Natural Prostate – 60 Softgels
Life Extension Ultra Natural Prostate contains the most scientifically substantiated nutrients to help protect the prostate gland and maintain its health function. The latest formulation of Ultra Natural Prostate contains key ingredients like Saw Palmetto, Nettle root, Pygeum extract and lignans from flax seed. Ultra Natural Prostate provides scientifically validated standardized botanical extracts that have been shown to promote healthy prostate function. No other prostate protection formula provides such a broad array of nutrients to support the multiple factors involved in maintaining a healthy prostate gland.
Ultra Natural Prostate Features:
- Comprehensive support for aging prostate glands
- Includes standardized botanical extracts
- Softgels
Ingredients
Lignans from Flax
Standardized lignans from flax seed and Norway spruce knotwood convert to enterolactone in the intestine, which is then absorbed into the bloodstream to provide support for prostate cells against excess estrogen levels. Testosterone often converts to estrogen at higher rates as men age—and prostate cells are sensitive to estrogen’s growth stimulatory effects.
AprèsFlex
AprèsFlex, an extract of Boswellia, supports normal inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase or 5-LOX, an enzyme that is associated with undesirable cell division changes. AprèsFlex absorbs into the blood nearly 52% better than standard Boswellia, for superior effectiveness.
Nettle Root
Nettle root extract helps support prostate cells against excess estrogen levels by mitigating the activity of the aromatase enzyme needed to create estrogens.
Saw Palmetto
Saw palmetto extract helps inhibit dihydrotestosterone (DHT) activity in the prostate, helps inhibit alpha-adrenergic receptor activity (to support normal urinary flow), and helps regulate inflammatory reactions in the prostate.
Pygeum Extract
Pygeum (Pygeum africanum) extract helps suppress prostaglandin production in the prostate and supports healthy urination patterns.
Pumpkin Oil
Pumpkin seed supercritical CO2 oil, from select pumpkins, enhances the composition of free fatty acids and augments saw palmetto’s benefits.
Beta-Sitosterol
Beta-sitosterol is a biologically active constituent of pygeum and saw palmetto that enhances pygeum’s protective effects and helps improve quality of life.
Graminex Flower Pollen Extract
Graminex Flower Pollen Extract, a European pollen extract has been shown to help relax the smooth muscles of the urethra and help regulate inflammatory reactions.
Boron
Boron has been shown to slow elevation of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), seemingly a result of this mineral’s positive effect on the body’s regulation of protein-degrading enzymes.
Lycopene
Lycopene, a carotenoid associated with the tomato’s red color, supports efficient cellular communication, helps maintain healthy DNA, regulates hormonal metabolism, and promotes healthy prostate size and structure.
Phospholipids
Phospholipids enhance the absorption of active compounds.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Life Extension’s quality control standards?
Life Extension uses only premium quality vitamins and other ingredients. Their dedication to excellence insists that their nutritional supplements meet the highest standards and criteria.
That is why Life Extension insists on purchasing only the highest quality raw materials from all over the world, primarily from leading US, Japanese and European sources. Life Extension goes one step further by using advanced analytical methods, such as high-performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, to ensure their products meet label claims for potency and purity. Life Extension tests its raw materials using US Pharmacopeia and other exacting pharmaceutical assay standards.
Why are Life Extension’s nutritional supplements more advanced than other dietary supplements?
The unique ingredients included in Life Extension’s products are often years ahead of the products sold by commercial vitamin companies. Life Extension scientists analyze thousands of scientific studies every week to make sure their health-promoting formulas include the most advanced life extending ingredients in the world. The Foundation interacts with the world’s foremost gerontology researchers in order to obtain inside information about antiaging breakthroughs before these findings are published. The Life Extension Foundation funds the most advanced anti-ischemia laboratory in the world, where antioxidant vitamins, hormones, and pharmaceutical agents are used to prevent free radical induced cellular damage.
Are Life Extension vitamins natural or synthetic?
Life Extension carries a combination of natural and synthetic vitamins and supplements. Some advertising statements would have them believe that “natural” is better, but natural supplements in some instances contain impurities such as pollen and naturally occurring hormones that can cause problems for some people. Synthetic nutrients are manufactured to be chemically identical (with the exception of vitamin E) to those extracted from natural sources, and are the most pure nutrient vitamins.
What does Life Extension do to ensure the quality of its products?
They focus on three specific areas.
- Raw Materials: Unlike other supplement companies, the natural ingredients that go into Life Extension’s supplements are not chosen based on cost. Instead they are chosen based on purity (to exclude contaminants such as microbes and heavy metals), potency, and usage in successful scientific research.
- Validation of the Efficacy of Ingredients by Scientific Research: Life Extension uses ingredients and dosages that accurately replicate the most successful results obtained in scientific studies for maximum efficacy.
- Manufacturing:Naturally, Life Extension is in strict compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for manufacturing, packaging, and storage.
Does the label accurately list exactly what’s in the bottle?
Yes. All active ingredients from patented, scientifically validated raw materials as well as final, finished products are verified using advanced analytical methods such as HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography), MS (mass spectrometry), etc., to ensure each and every product accurately meets label claims in strict compliance with their demanding product specifications.
When it comes to supplements, is cost an indicator of quality?
Where Life Extension is concerned, yes. Patented materials validated in scientific studies cost more – period. In contrast with many commercial brands focused on driving up margins by using the cheapest raw materials available, Life Extension collaborates with raw material suppliers who invest in scientific validation of their ingredients, which increases material costs. With Life Extension products, you get the quality you pay for.
What are the “Other Ingredients” on the label, and why are they important?
They are inactive ingredients (excipients) that play a number of critical, essential roles in the manufacturing process including:
- Achieving uniform density for accurate dosing
- Dispersing the active ingredients evenly throughout a solid tablet, capsule, and softgel
- Protecting active ingredients from rapid inactivation due to heat and moisture
- Promoting tablet disintegration, as well as capsule and softgel dissolution
- Sustaining the release of active ingredients into the body over time
Why do some companies refer to these excipients as a threat to your health?
Claiming any product is “pure and free of excipients” can be deceptive advertising, too frequently used to draw attention away from inferior active ingredients! The right inactive ingredients used in the right way do important things… like ensuring that a tablet disintegrates in your GI tract rather than just passing through your system without benefit, or keeping a product from breaking down and being susceptible to microbes. Take Life Extension blueberry extract, for example. It contains AuroraBlue wild-harvested, Alaskan blueberries. To retain their nutritional complexity, these berries are freeze-dried and carefully milled for capsule formulation. But being a whole fruit raw material, it tends to want to reconstitute itself with moisture, which would make it a breeding ground for bacteria. So Life Extension uses a drying excipient to keep the milled blueberry material dry, so it can safely deliver its superior nutritional value compared with other, less costly blueberry extracts in most commercial formulations.
All of the excipients Life Extension uses have earned GRAS (“Generally Regarded As Safe”) status. In many cases not using them compromises final product quality! Excipients are used in nutritional supplements to ensure uniform density of complex active materials, to achieve even dispersion of active ingredients, and to promote appropriate disintegration and/or dissolution of active ingredients inside your body.
Should one be concerned about the use of stearic acid?
Stearic acid functions as a flow agent in the manufacture of quality products, and stearic acid also occurs naturally in the foods you eat. For example, four ounces of dark chocolate contain 3,625 mg of stearic acid; a cup of kidney beans contains 1,655 mg of stearic acid; an ounce of raw ground beef (grass-fed) contains 2,063 mg of stearic acid; and a half pound of lean raw turkey contains 1,642 mg of stearic acid. Even a tablespoon of allspice contains 1,513 mg of stearic acid! Life Extension supplements, on the other hand, typically contain no more than 10 mg per capsule. They always use the lowest level of magnesium stearate possible.
Should one be concerned that products with soybean oil or lecithin are a source of phytoestrogens?
While it is true that soy isoflavones are phytoestrogens, the amount in soybean oil or lecithin is so minute, the USDA lists it in foods as having zero value for isoflavones. To give you a frame of reference, Life Extension’s Ultra Natural Prostate contains 4 mg of lecithin which supplies only about 0.006 mg of soy isoflavones!
Should one be concerned with the usage of genetically modified plants (GMOs)?
Soybeans are an example of a crop that has used extensive genetic engineering to increase crop yield. The reality is that soybean oil and soy lecithin are highly processed derivatives of soy, far removed from their soy origin. Genetic modification doesn’t alter the entire plant, only a specific gene. Thus, specific molecules like soy lecithin are the same whether they come from a GMO or non-GMO soy source. However, due to their sensitivity to customer concerns, products with corn and soy-based active ingredients are in process of having the labels updated to list when soy and corn-derived active ingredients have been certified to be from non-GM food crops.
Does the gelatin used in softgels and capsules contain MSG?
Gelatin does not contain MSG, but does contain about 0.05 grams of glutamic acid in one softgel. You ingest about 120 times more glutamic acid in a serving of asparagus, cabbage or tomatoes!
What’s the difference between tablets, capsules and softgels?
Sophisticated products require sophisticated delivery systems. The best companies choose the most effective finished form based on the characteristics of the raw materials, and the desired disintegration or dissolution characteristics of the finished product and the active ingredients.
Why aren’t Life Extension products organic?
The word “organic” conveys the perception of quality to consumers. But it actually relates to foods that are grown rather than products that are formulated. Many of their scientifically validated raw materials are not produced organically. Rather, their mandate includes rigorous testing and scrupulous processing. The objective is purity, both in terms of their raw materials and finished products.
About Life Extension
Life Extension was officially incorporated in 1980, but the founders have been involved in antiaging research since the 1960’s. Life Extension’s long-range goal is to extend the healthy human lifespan.
Commitment to Scientific Research
Commercial companies have made huge profits on products such as coenzyme Q10, melatonin and DHEA, each of which was introduced to the U.S. market by Life Extension at considerable risk.
Life Extension performed the research on these products, determined their validity and viability, and subsequently brought them to market based upon the strength of evidence behind them.
In the past seven years, Life Extension has funded over $21 million in research through their affiliations with such esteemed institutions as U.C. Berkeley and Mt. Sinai Medical Center. In 2004, Life Extension’s scientists were awarded a $900,000 grant to continue their pioneering work, and they collaborated with BioMarker Pharmaceuticals and scientists at the National Cancer Institute to develop new anti-aging therapies. This resulted in a recently accepted publication in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In addition, Life Extension has funded life span studies at the Universities of Wisconsin, California at Riverside, and Arkansas, gene transfer studies at the Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore, neurotransmitter studies to find the key to brain aging at the University of California at Berekely, and resveratrol studies BioMarker Pharmaceuticals in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Critical Care Research.
Over 30 Years of History
Life Extension has a history of being several steps ahead of the competition, and in many cases, ahead of the mainstream medical establishment and the media in terms of uncovering and reflecting the newest science and research insights.
Life Extension’s Vision
Life Extensionists believe in taking advantage of scientific research to help slow aging and enhance their chances of living longer, healthier lives through the use of nutritional supplementation and an integrative approach to health.
The goal at Life Extension is to increase the quality and longevity of human life with science-based, “cutting edge” formulations. The unique ingredients included in Life Extension products are sometimes five to ten years ahead of the products sold by commercial vitamin companies.
Every week, Life Extension’s in-house research staff analyzes thousands of scientific studies, reviews dozens of the world’s leading peer-reviewed scientific, health, and medical journals, and interacts with leading anti-aging researchers to uncover the very latest breakthroughs as they relate to nutritional supplementation. This information is then passed on to their product development team which develops scientifically innovative, health-promoting formulations.
For over 25 years, Life Extension has developed nutritional supplements with the highest degree of quality, potency, and purity. Unlike discount supplement providers, Life Extension differentiates itself through quality, not price. Many discount products, for example, use low grade vitamin C imported from China that contains traces of arsenic, lead, and iron. Since the FDA does not believe anyone should take more than 100mg a day of vitamin C, the FDA permits the importation of this contaminated vitamin C. Many Life Extensionists take over 3,000 mg of vitamin C a day, so it is crucial that they use top-quality vitamin C that has gone through 18 purification steps to remove contaminants.
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