Supplement
Value for Money

This is probably what you care about most---getting maximum benefit for your money. The problem is that it’s difficult to quantify value for money.

It requires a bit of analysis.

Focus on 2 critical "value areas":

1. Choice/Potency/Dosage of ingredients.

2. Delivery system ensuring absorption.

You’ll find the best anti-aging supplement by investigating these areas.

Start by comparing the cost of ingredients, potencies, and dosages.

Key Anti-Aging Ingredient

L-Glutathione – essential for cell health and organ survival.

It’s the most abundant antioxidant in your body. But your body makes less and less glutathione as you age. So it’s a key ingredient in a supplement.

But it's needed in the "reduced" glutathione form.

With regular l-glutathione, the molecules are too big and can’t penetrate cell membrane walls---absorption is poor. If your supplement contains regular l-glutathione, you’re getting poor value for money.

NOTE: L-glutathione (reduced) is 80 times more expensive than vitamin C.

Vitamins & Minerals
How’s Their Value for Money?

Vitamins and minerals are the cheapest of all ingredients.

This is critical info when analyzing value for money. The bulk of many anti-aging supplements is comprised of vitamins and minerals. Sure, they’re essential nutrients, but not in such large doses.

If you’re using a supplement costing $40-50 per bottle, and it's made up significantly of vitamins and minerals...

You’re overpaying.

That’s not high-quality---it’s a grossly expensive vitamin/mineral tablet. A true anti-aging supplement is only 10-15 % vitamins and minerals.

So if vitamin and minerals are cheap, which ingredients cost the most? Besides reduced l-glutathione, here are six other expensive key nutrients that you’ll find only in professional supplement formulas:

• l-carnosine

• bilberry

• resveratrol (high potency)

• tumeric (high potency)

• zeaxanthin

• tocotrienols

Does It Have A Delivery System?

Absorption is very important in gauging a supplement’s value for money. What’s the point of paying for all those expensive ingredients if they don’t reach your bloodstream?

Enteric coating is a protective layer applied to supplements during manufacturing. It offers excellent value for money, because stomach acid significantly damages many nutrients.

Many experts believe that only 10-15 percent of active ingredients in supplements get into the blood. Stomach acid destroys the rest. Vitamins and minerals aren’t affected, but many essential ingredients are.

Ingredients vulnerable to stomach acid include:

• adenosine triphosphate

• aloe vera polysacharrides

• alpha lipoic acid

• amylase

• betain hydrochloride

• bromelain

• DMAE

• enzidase

• isolase

• l-carnosine

• l-glutathione

• lipase

• n-acetyl l-cysteine

• phosphatidyl choline

• resveratrol

• ribonucleic acid

• SAMe

If enteric coating is not used, absorption is severely reduced, as is your anti-aging supplement’s effectiveness and value for money.

Value for Money Wrap Up

You have to dig deep as a supplement consumer. The best anti-aging supplements are science-based, formulated by biochemists with years of experience and training.

One last time, these are the keys to great value for money:

1. Total number of ingredients (higher the better)

2. Potencies (higher the better)

3. Dosages (should be generous except for vitamins/minerals)

4. Low overall percentage of vitamins and minerals

5. Total number of non-active ingredients (the fewer the better)

6. Inclusion of expensive key ingredients listed above

7. Enteric coating