This past year, my life, and the lives of hundreds of my patients, has been dramatically changed for the better. We've been using a naturally occurring, completely safe nutrient that was discovered over 35 years ago, although it just recently become known to us in the health care profession. This nutrient has had more far-reaching effects on addressing diseases related to aging than any one thing I have ever found. The number of conditions that it can help is amazing, but the relative speed and thoroughness at which it works is truly astounding!
In this booklet, I will introduce you to Collastin, no doubt the most potent anti-aging product that I've ever had the privilege to work with. I'll also share some other synergistic nutrients that complement Collastin and multiply the effectiveness of each of these nutrients many times over.
Anti-aging is big news these days. And rightly so. The first of the baby boomers just turned 50 years old last year! Science has accomplished great feats toward increasing the number of years spent on the planet - or chronological age - but there is a lot more that needs to be done to increase the quality of our lives - or physiological age. I'm finding that a lot of research is being done, but very little of it actually gets to your health care practitioner. And then only a few of them incorporate these research findings into their practices and share them with their patients.
The chance that you will hear about Collastin from your physician is slim-to-none. Natural products like Collastin can't be patented, so the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in manufacturing them. No drug company is going to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars it takes to get FDA approval and bring the product to market if they can't have patent exclusivity. With no patent, there is no control of the market and no huge profits. And so, unless your physician is a renegade practitioner -- willing to recommend something out of the ordinary -- he or she probably has never heard about this extraordinary product. The few physicians and health care practitioners who are recommending it to their patients are saying that the active ingredient found in Collastin, when it comes to reversing the aging process, will be bigger than melatonin and DHEA combined! Collastin may well be the nutritional discovery of the century!
Collastin, What Is It?
Collastin is a mixture of fatty acid esters. The principal fatty acid ester, and the one you may have heard a little about already, is cetyl myristoleate. Some of you have heard cetyl myristoleate being called CMO™. I know that probably doesn't mean much to most of you. It didn't mean much to me either when I first heard the explanation, and I've had seven different chemistry classes!
Let me start with just a little explanation using some terms that most of you do know. Fatty acids are the individual components or building blocks of lipids (fats) or oils in the same way that amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. If we take a fatty acid and add an alcohol molecule to it, we create an ester of that fatty acid. The ester, in this case, is called cetyl myristoleate. It's created by combining myristoleic acid, a fatty acid, with cetyl alcohol. You have just completed Organic Chemistry 101. That wasn't so bad, was it?
Now if we take the cetyl myristoleate and combine it with a mixture of other fatty acid esters that work to complement each other, we create Collastin -- the Rolls Royce of anti-aging products!
There are presently six different suppliers of cetyl myristoleate and related products. I'm sure that by the time you read this booklet there will be a few more. Some of them make a fairly good product and, unfortunately, some of them have no cetylmyristoleate in them at all! I've researched all of them quite extensively and have personally used several of them. Collastin, with its unique formulation, is the best cetyl myristoleate product available today.
How Does Collastin Work?
Cetyl myristoleate, the active ingredient in Collastin, was introduced to me as the best arthritis treatment on the planet! Knowing that arthritis has many different faces and many different causes, I found it hard to believe that one nutrient could address all the causes of this complex disease. During this past year, I've used it to treat osteoarthritis; rheumatoid arthritis; psoriatic arthritis; some of the spinal arthritic conditions called spondyloarthropathies; andeven gouty arthritis. It has had truly amazing results! I've used it to treat fibromyalgia, a very painful muscle condition, with wonderful results. And the reports coming back to me concerning a myriad of other physical ailments that are being resolved have convinced me that we have a true anti-aging phenomenon on our hands.
The exact mechanisms of Collastin's action are not fully understood. However, we can observe the results; and knowing the various etiologies or causes of certain diseases, we can make a hypothesis as to its mechanisms of action. First, Collastin functions as a surfactant, or super lubricant - a kind of WD-40 - for the joints, as well as all of the other body tissues. A surfactant not only has a dissolving or thinning action, it also makes other nutrients easier to absorb. Because of Collastin's lubricating abilities, it makes the joints move more freely; it makes muscles glide more smoothly over other muscles, bursas, and bones; and at the same time, it softens these tissues making them more pliable. It also makes blood vessels more resilient, which allows them to expand and contract with the increase and decrease of blood volumes as the heart pumps. Hardening of the arteries which contributes to heart disease - one of the major causes of death in our country - can also contribute to high blood pressure due to inelasticity of the arterial walls. I personally experienced a decrease in my blood pressure after starting Collastin. If you are starting to experience an increase in stiffness and occasional joint pain, Collastin can help. One of the more common statements I hear after a patient starts the treatment is that they've lost their morning stiffness and their joints now move more freely. Collastin not only lubricates the muscles, tendons, blood vessels, and joints, but every part of your entire body!
Secondly, it functions as an immune system modulator and possible stimulator. This is not doubt one of the most exciting roles of Collastin. As an immuno-modulator, it has been found to be effective in treating auto-immune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. And last, it functions like the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in that it mediates inflammatory processes. This last mechanism is probably the reason that we are seeing such far-reaching effects.
Cetyl myristoleate is presently being used to treat many inflammatory conditions, including Crohn's disease; irritable bowell syndrome; chronic bronchitis and emphysema; bursitis; tendonitis; rheumatoid and osteoarthritis; psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis; muscle tension headaches; and prostatitis. The one symptom common to most disease processes at one state or another is inflammation. Inflammation is a normal response by the body to injury, and functions as part of the healing process. It becomes a problem, however, when it's uncontrolled and starts to produce more tissue damage.
To really understand how Collastin can work on so many different conditions, you need to know a little bit about prostaglandins and leukotrienes. This might be more in-depth than you need to go and, if so, I would not be hurt if you skipped this part. Prostaglandins are a large group of biologically-active, unsaturated fatty acids that act almost like hormones, but unlike hormones their effects are local. In other words, they don't travel in the blood and effect organs or tissues in other parts of the body. They are modulators of the tissues in which they are formed. Prostaglandins are not only important in regulation of inflammation, pain, and swelling, they also help to regulate blood pressure, heart function, platelet aggregation (clotting factors), gastrointestinal function and activity, pancreatic hormone function, and nerve transmission. So if we had something that regulated these prostaglandins, you could see how far-reaching such a product might be.
All these prostaglandins fall into three categories depending on how the carbon atoms are hooked together, specifically the number of double bonds. Series one and two come from the omega-6 fatty acids and series three comes from the omega-3 fatty acids. Series one and three prostaglandins in the second series are considered the unfavorable ones. For instance, prostaglandins of the second series cause increased inflammation, induce construction of blood vessels, and promote platelet stickiness - factors that can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. And as inflammation increases within damaged tissues, swelling and pain increase along with the chance of further damage by cutting off normal blood supply. In contract, prostaglandins of the first and third series reduce inflammation, prevent the platelets from sticking together, and improve blood flow. By adding Collastin to your daily diet you can manipulate prostaglandin metabolism, making sure that the good prostaglandins are in abundance and the bad prostaglandins are kept at a minimum. The big difference in Collastin - when compared to any other similar products - is the speed at which results are seen and the thoroughness of its activity. Patients who had been experiencing symptoms for years and had tried many, many different therapies, found total relief within a few days to a couple of weeks!
Leukotrienes are like prostaglandins in that they are chemical mediators of inflammation. Leukotrienes cause smooth muscle contraction in blood vessels and bronchial airways, and they also cause increased permeability in the blood vessels which results in edema or swelling of tissues. These substances also play an important role in asthma because of their ability to stimulate contraction of the smooth muscles that line the airways going into the lungs. Collastin may function as a leukotriene inhibitor. Many of my patients with airways that have been obstructed due to either inflammation or muscle contraction are now able to breathe better than they have in years!
One possible explanation of Collastin's ability to mediate an immune system that is attacking its own tissues and causing an auto-immune disease, is the inhibition of leukotriene B4 production. Leukotriene B4 is a compound that has potent chemotactic activity for certain phagocytic cells. These phagocytic cells normally ingest and destroy substances such as bacteria, protozoa, cells and cellular debris, but in auto-immune disorders they start to attack and ingest healthy tissues. In other words, leukotriene B4 sends out a message to these phagocytic cells which affects their ability to differentiate the "good guys" from the "bad guys," telling them to "come here quickly". Suddenly, in one location, we have a whole bunch of Pac-Man-like activity eating up healthy tissues! Leukotrienes C4, D4 and E4 are responsible for producing many of the symptoms related to allergic reactions. Inhibiting leukotriene production may be one of the explanations for Collastin's far-reaching results.
This past year, my life, and the lives of hundreds of my patients, has been dramatically changed for the better. We've been using a naturally occurring, completely safe nutrient that was discovered over 35 years ago, although it just recently become known to us in the health care profession. This nutrient has had more far-reaching effects on addressing diseases related to aging than any one thing I have ever found. The number of conditions that it can help is amazing, but the relative speed and thoroughness at which it works is truly astounding!
