StemPlex(T) by Simplexity

The Product

StemPlex is an all-natural stem cell proliferation product supported by an original research paper. StemPlex was formulated by leading university researchers who are world-class stem cell scientists. Their work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration, and other government sources.

Dr. Bickford and her colleagues demonstrated the proliferation effect of the ingredients included in the StemPlex formula on three types of adult stem cells in vitro.

The Research

The research showed that the combination of ingredients in StemPlex:

• Increased the proliferation of bone marrow cells by an average of 70%

StemPlex enhances cellular health in two ways:

1. It provides stem cell nutrition, as demonstrated in the proliferation effect.

2. Via its antioxidant capacity, the
formula protects existing stem
cells from the harmful effects of
free radicals; this is especially
important because during the
natural aging process, adult
stem cells are known to have
a reduced regenerative capacity.

The Results

This formula exhibits a synergistic effect, which means that the increase in number of new stem cells, from use of the formula, is greater than the increase that occurs through use of the ingredients individually. These ingredients are individually important in maintaining a healthy life style, but it is the unique and effective proprietary blend that supports your body's natural renewal system.

The research paper on this special product has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. This report is available for those who want the detailed technical information that supports this product's beneficial effects.

Even now, more research on this formula is in place, including human trials. The company is funding a three-year research program, and other stem cell-related products are in development.

The Ingredients

StemPlex's patent-pending formula contains six natural ingredients: a green tea extract, wild blueberry, carnosine, blueberry extract, vitamin D, and SBGA.

• Wild blueberry supports the health of the brain, heart, urinary tract, and eyes, as well as the proliferation of stem cells.
  
• Carnosine is an antioxidant amino acid naturally present in the human body that enhances the proliferation of stem cells and helps to protect against free radical damage. Carnosine may also delay the natural aging of cells and extend the lifespan of adult stem cells. The source of this Carnosine is 100% vegan!
  
• Blueberry extract enhances the proliferation of stem cells within the body, and promotes maintenance of healthy brain, cardiovascular, vision, 20 joint, and urinary tract function and normal glucose levels.
  
• Vitamin D3 supports adult stem cell renewal and helps these cells become immune cells for naturally fighting infections. The source is animal-friendly.
  
• Organic Super Blue Green® Algae is a freshwater algae, rich in protein, essential fatty acids, chlorophyll, beta-carotene, phycocyanin, phenylethylamine, vitamins, and minerals. It has a high antioxidant value, and has been shown to support the immune system.

Summary

• StemPlex is a natural product shown to increase stem cell proliferation by as much as 70%. Developed by reputable, leading stem cell scientists, StemPlex is supported by thei r original research report.
  
• Simplexity employs a first-rate Quality Assurance Program, and manufactures science-based, high-quality products

"How do you get world peace. You get world peace through inner peace.
If you've got a world full of people who have inner peace,
then you have a peaceful world." Dr. Wayne Dyer

"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will
interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet,
and in the cause and prevention of disease."
—Thomas Alva Edison: Was an inventor and businessman

How to Be 10 Years Younger

Nope, it's not a time machine you need if you want to be a decade younger. It's a treadmill. Or a bike. Or just a good pair of sneakers.

That's right. The most physically active folks in a recent study showed signs of being as much as 10 years younger on a cellular level.

Go Long on Protection
How does exercise do that? By keeping your telomeres long and healthy. What on earth are those, you ask? Simple. They're like the plastic tips on shoelaces. But in your body, they cap the ends of the DNA strands (chromosomes) in all your cells. Over time, your telomeres can shorten to the point where cells stop regenerating, and even die (think accelerated aging). Shortened telomeres also leave your chromosomes vulnerable to the kind of damage that may trigger diseases such as cancer. (Here's a whole slew of ways to keep your telomeres from getting shorter.)

Running from Old Age
The fact that exercise keeps your cells renewing themselves and protects your DNA is good motivation to get out there. But if you need another push:

• Get comfy. Watch this video to find out how you can measure your arch for the perfect exercise-shoe fit.
• Consider a quickie workout. It's good for you, too!
• Take breaks. Here's why taking a break during your workout is actually best.
• Get more out of less by following these 10 easy guidelines on form.

Find out why it's more important to exercise than to be thin.

RealAge Benefit: Exercising regularly can make your RealAge as much as 9 years younger.

References Published on 09/02/2008.

Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells' Function

Advance Stirs Up Debate on Embryos

By Rob Stein

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2008; Page A01

Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that could lead to cures for a variety of illnesses and sidestep the political and ethical quagmires

associated with embryonic stem cell research.

Through a series of painstaking experiments involving mice, the Harvard biologists pinpointed three crucial molecular switches that, when flipped, completely convert a common cell in the pancreas into the more precious insulin-producing ones that diabetics need to survive.

The experiments, detailed online yesterday in the journal Nature, raise the prospect that patients suffering from not only diabetes but also heart disease, strokes and many other ailments could eventually have some of their cells reprogrammed to cure their afflictions without the need for drugs, transplants or other therapies.

"It's kind of an extreme makeover of a cell," said Douglas A. Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, who led the research. "The goal is to create cells that are missing or defective in people. It's very exciting."

The work was hailed as a welcome development even by critics of research involving embryonic stem cells, which can be coaxed to become any tissue in the body but are highly controversial because they are obtained by destroying embryos.

"I see no moral problem in this basic technique," said Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a leading opponent of embryonic stems cell research. "This is a 'win-win' situation for medicine and ethics."

Researchers in the field, who have become accustomed to rapid advances, said they, too, were surprised by the advance.

"I'm stunned," said Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., a developer of stem cell therapies. "It introduces a whole new paradigm for treating disease."

Melton and other researchers cautioned that many years of research lay ahead to prove whether the development would translate into cures.

"It's an important proof of concept," said Lawrence Goldstein, a stem cell researcher at the University of California at San Diego. "But these things always look easier on the blackboard than when you have to do them in actual patients."

Although the experiment involved mice, Melton and other researchers were optimistic that the approach would work in people.

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Jackie Johnson, 2008 Olympian, Heptathlete

Going to the Olympics is a "dream come true" for our newest member of Team Simplexity Health, Jackie Johnson!

During the 2008 Olympic Trials that were held in Eugene, Oregon, Simplexity Health was fortunate enough to meet Olympic contender Jacquelyn (Jackie) Johnson. Jackie will make her Olympic debut this year in Beijing where she will compete in the heptathlon. The women's heptathlon consists of the following events: 100-meter hurdles
High jump, Shot put, 200-meters, Long jump, Javelin throw, 800-meters. Her strongest being the hurdles and high jump.

Jackie is being named the most accomplished heptathlete in collegiate history and is coached by our very own Olympic decathlon gold medalist, Dan O'Brien. It's this connection with Dan that first lead her to Simplexity Health products in the fall of last year and her love of Alpha and Omega Sun along with Super Q10 that have kept her coming back for more.

Dan O'Brien's Golden Vault

BY NANCY GONDO

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Posted 8/8/2008

America had no doubt Dan O'Brien would make the 1992 Olympic decathlon team and bring home a gold medal from Barcelona, Spain.

As it turned out, he never went.

During the track and field trials in New Orleans, he missed all three pole vault tries at his opening height of 15 feet 9 inches. So he scored no points in the discipline and failed to qualify for the Games.

As devastating as that was, he refused to let it finish him.

"What '92 did was it took me from wanting to win the gold medal to a pursuit of perfection," O'Brien told IBD.

He remembers saying: "I'm never going to let that happen to me again. I'm going to become the best pole-vaulter that I possibly can. I'm not going to make any mistakes."

He didn't. During the four years after those trials, he won all eight of the decathlons he entered, including his second and third world championships.

He made it look easy, though it took sweat and guts to get past the obstacles. "Every pole vault competition since 1992 has been nerve-racking for me," he told Sports Illustrated in 1996. "I get an increased heart rate, sweaty palms. I have to force myself to relax and do things correctly. But in the end I've always been very competitive."

Despite the pressure, by the time the 1996 Olympic trials hit, he was well ready. He made the U.S. team — and won a gold medal in Atlanta.

He held the world record for total points (8,891 in 1992) in the decathlon for nearly seven years and the American record for almost nine.

Rising To The 10 Events

"Dan is an extremely gifted athlete," said Rick Sloan, one of O'Brien's former coaches and current head coach of Washington State University's track and field team. "He is very powerful and explosive for an athlete his size. He is a great performer, very competitive and has a strong work ethic."

Only a solid athlete can compete in, let alone win, a decathlon. It consists of 10 grueling track and field events: the 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400 meters on Day 1; the 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run on Day 2.

How did O'Brien decide to pursue such a physical challenge?

"I got to meet Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988 at the Olympic trials and I was so impressed with her physical presence that I thought that's who I want to be," he said, referring to the heptathlon gold medalist in the '88 Seoul Games and again in Barcelona. "I wanted to be the male version of Jackie Joyner-Kersee."

He also knew he couldn't beat Carl Lewis in the long jump or run the 100-meter dash in 10 seconds. He did think he could become the next Bruce Jenner, America's decathlon darling of the 1976 Olympics.

While at a decathlon camp in 1990, O'Brien realized that he wanted to be an Olympic champ. Milt Campbell, who pulled off the feat at the 1956 Games, asked O'Brien about goals.

When O'Brien said he wanted to be a great athlete, Campbell said, "Quit, 'cause you're already a great athlete. What is it that you truly want to be?"

Then it hit him: He wanted to be the Olympic champion. From that day on, O'Brien pursued his goal.

"I went to bed with a goal and a plan each and every night," he recalled. "When you create that goal for yourself, then you do everything you possibly can to attain it."

He began seeing a sports psychologist and massage therapist, while continuing to work with coaches Sloan and Mike Keller.

On the mental front, he learned how best to breathe, relax and battle self-doubt. He taught himself how to sweep out negative thoughts.

"(I told myself to) think about how many times you came through," he explained. "Think about how many times you worried about something and when you actually got to that point it wasn't as bad as you thought it was going to be."

O'Brien also knew how to pull through from past experience. His path was easy. He'd had to overcome more hurdles than on the track.

In the mid-1980s, the athlete found himself out on the street after losing his college scholarship.

He'd excelled on the field, but let his grades slip until he was no longer eligible for sports at the University of Idaho. O'Brien had lost his way — but didn't want to give up. And he wasn't afraid to ask for help. "I didn't get into a lot of trouble, but I definitely wasn't taking advantage of the opportunities around me," he said. "So when I lost everything . . . I went to people for help and said, look, I'll do whatever you say."

One of those he asked was Idaho coach Keller, who encouraged him to enroll in a local junior college, find full-time work and train. Grateful and determined to dig out of his hole, O'Brien happily agreed.

He learned all about digging deep from his adoptive parents. After his birth parents gave him up for adoption, he spent his first two years in foster homes. When the O'Briens adopted him, he joined them at their home in Klamath Falls, Ore.

O'Brien was a natural when it came to sports — a good outlet for his boundless energy. He got started in track and field in the fifth grade, when he ran a one-mile fun run and won. In junior high, he ran cross country and then took up sprinting.

He took on even more, excelling in baseball, basketball and football in high school. At one point, he began training for the decathlon.

During his senior year in 1984, he placed fourth in the USA Junior Decathlon Championships. That helped him earn an athletic scholarship to the University of Idaho, where he first met Keller.

O'Brien flourished under his coaches' guidance. "I was willing to buy into somebody else's system and say you tell me when to be here, I'll train, you tell me how to throw, how to jump, and I'm going to do it your way," he said.

He credits that willingness — plus good coaching — for helping him improve vastly in the decathlon.

"Dan was easy to coach. He was a hard worker and loved to train," Sloan said. "He listened to what I had to offer and was able to develop his techniques."

In 2006, O'Brien was inducted into the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in New York City, joining former decathlon greats Jenner, Rafer Johnson, Bob Mathias and Jim Thorpe.

He didn't grasp the honor right away, but he sure does now. "Those names are godlike. (They) transcend the event, and you never put yourself into that category when it's happening to you," he said. "I really enjoy it and like the fact that I can be mentioned with names like that."

Keys To His Lock

O'Brien's record made him a lock for the Hall, says Jill Geer, spokeswoman for USA Track & Field, the governing body for track, long-distance running and race-walking.

"First and foremost, what voters are looking for is an athletic record," Geer said. "I'd say being the three-time world champion, gold medalist and the world record holder, he pretty much hit the big trifecta of (athletic) accomplishments."

O'Brien is also a member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and the University of Idaho's Hall of Fame.

Today O'Brien, 42, lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife and shares his love of track as a volunteer coach at Arizona State University.

He's also a spokesman for blue-green algae products distributor Simplexity Health and specialty treadmill maker Pneumax, and does motivational speaking.

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all things HOLD TOGETHER with laminin

FWD: Carol Bernal

A couple of days ago I was running on my treadmill watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio! I want to share what I learned.

He (Louie) was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is...how He spoke the universe into being...how He breathes stars out of His mouth that are huge raging balls of fire...etc etc. Then He went on to speak of how this star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO knitted our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING it (fascinating from a medical standpoint, you know.) .....and I was remembering how I was constantly amazed during medical school as I learned more and more about God's handiwork.

I remember so many times thinking: "How can ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this?" Louie went on to talk about how we can trust that the God who created all this, also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.

And then I lost my breath. And it wasn't because I was running my treadmill either!!! It was because he started talking about laminin. I knew about laminin. Here is how Wikipedia describes them: "Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue." You see....laminins are what hold us together....LITERALLY. They are cell adhesion molecules They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew all this already.

But what I didn't know is what laminin LOOKED LIKE. But now I do. And I have thought about it a thousand times since....Here is what the structure of laminin looks like...AND THIS IS NOT a "Christian portrayal"' of it. If you look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see:

Amazing!

The glue that holds us together....ALL of us....is in the shape of the cross!!

Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind: "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, And in him all things HOLD TOGETHER."

Thousands of years before the world knew anything about laminin,

Paul penned those words The Creator knew EXACTLY what laminin "glue" would look like long before Adam even breathed his first breath!!

And now we see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are held together one cell to another....BY THE CROSS!!

Our Children, Our Future

"Healthy Food is a Recipe for Peace" That's quite a claim! It is a statement made by Bernard Gesch, a senior research scientist in the physiology department at Oxford University. Gesch is the director of Natural Justice, a British research institute that studies the causes of anti-social behavior. As printed in "ODE Magazine", June 2007 issue: In a British prison, we divided 231 prisoners into two groups. For 18 months, one group was given food supplements including the daily requirements for vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids. The other group was given a placebo. No one in the prison knew who was getting what. Those that were given the supplements committed 26% fewer offences and 37% fewer violent assaults compared with the placebo group. The study was set up to rule out ethnic or social factors potentially affecting the two groups so the supplementation must have been the source of the behavioral improvement. What would the future of these 231 men have been if they had grown up with better nutrition? We have to think about that. We all have to eat for good health and, so it appears, also for good behavior. And if it works in prisons, it will also work with school children. There will be increasing evidence that young people are undermined by what they eat. There is not a diet yet that takes behavior into account. In short: this is a societal time bomb. Bernard Gesch is very clear: "Poor nutrition can be an important source of anti-social behavior." The above study referenced by Bernard Gesch offers evidence that high quality, whole food nutrition makes a real difference in how people experience life's many potential stresses. I am so pleased to have strong scientific evidence that clearly supports what I have observed for over fifteen years! Most of us believe diet is important. But many people do not realize how essential diet is not only for life, but for how that life is going to be lived. Our minds, our emotions, and our intellect require specific nutrients. Lose one, and the amazing healing machine of our body will cope. Lose a few, and it will compromise to protect life. Lose enough, and that life changes dramatically. The most important gifts our children bring--their hopes and dreams--are also in danger-because along with a culture that venerates fast food and often ignores nutrition as an essential component of our children's health, we are also seeing dramatic increases in disorders that involve brain function. How many children and parents do you know who are dealing with: *ADD *Depression in an adolescent *Autistic Spectrum Disorder A look at the facts is frightening. *Preschoolers are the fastest growing market for antidepressants *20% of all children have some sort of legally defined mental disorder *Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in adolescents 15 and over *Adolescent suicide has tripled since 1960 Children-children!-under the age of 12 are now being diagnosed as clinically depressed, bipolar, and schizophrenic. Along with each of these labels come drugs, most of which have not been tested on children and which have never been studied for long term effects. It is heartbreaking to realize that at a time when innocent life is sweetest-before first grade is even begun-over a million children are so affected by unhappiness that they are prescribed antidepressants to get through the day. Footnotes 1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/ 2. http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehhe/ 3. Silvia Casabianca, Nutrigenomics: menus based on your genetic code, 10/03/2006 4. John A. Milner, Incorporating Basic Nutrition Science into Health Interventions for Cancer Prevention, The Journal of Nutrition 5. Carmia Borek, PhD., Fish and the N-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's Disease, Life Extension Magazine, November 2003 6. Morris MC, Evans DA, Bienias JL, et al, Consumption of fish and n-3 fatty acids and risk of incident Alzheimer disease, Arch Neurol. 2003 Jul;60(7):940-6.7. 7. Eva Edelman, Natural Healing for Schizophrenia & Other Common Mental Disorders, 1998 8. www.feingold.org

Gesch B, Hammond S, Hampson S et al., Influence
of supplementary vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids on the antisocial behaviour of young adult prisoners; Brit Journal of
Psychiatry 2002 July;181:22-8

Dr. Lukas Rist, British Journal of Nutrition