Escalating health care costs and what to do

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1 The World s Best Multis and Longevity Enzymes Success begins with good health. Al Amatuzio President and CEO, AMSOIL INC. SEPTEMBER 2013 Lifestyle Choices Can Help Turn the Tide of Rising Health Care Costs Escalating health care costs and what to do about them are hot topics. That s not surprising considering that since 2002, employer-sponsored health coverage for family premiums have increased by 97 percent, placing increasing cost burdens on employers and workers. The U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation on its medical care, at 17.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. Individuals increasingly are looking for ways to cut the costs of health care. Don t smoke Eat nutritious food Exercise Take supplements While it is said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, costs are not reduced by preventive testing. Health care savings are not found in early detection screenings, according to physician and journalist Abraham Verghese in a Wall Street Journal article, "The Myth of Prevention." If your preventive strategy is medical, if it involves us, if it consists of screening, finding medical conditions early, shaking the bushes for high cholesterols, or abnormal EKGs, markers for prostate cancer such as PSA, then more often than not you don t save anything and you might generate more medical costs, according to Verghese. What Is True Prevention? True preventive medicine comes through common sense, science-based lifestyle choices that can prevent and even reverse heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and other chronic degenerative disease. Consumers can make lifestyle and dietary choices that pay true health dividends. This is a practical solution to the nation s runaway health care costs. Choices Can Help Cut Health Care Costs Prevention continues to be the best solution to rising health care costs. Remember, don t smoke; eat a healthy diet that includes whole foods, unrefined whole grains and lots of fruits and vegetables; and exercise regularly. ALTRUM nutritional supplements offer a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that can help keep your body in balance throughout your lifetime. Feel Your Best With These ALTRUM Core Supplements Save Now On Future Health Care Costs Core Nutritional Products **Please check with your physician when using prescription medications in combination with food supplements. All testimonials about ALTRUM nutritional products are non-scientific reports and are not intended to draw any direct cause and effect link between discussed events or results.

2 Get Joint Comfort With MSM Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common part of aging. More than 46 million Americans have some form of degenerative joint disease, including 80 percent of people more than 50 years old. By the seventh decade, OA is nearly universal, producing the highest rate of occurrence of any disease. What Happens to the Joints Joints affected by OA suffer from uneven loading, which leads to altered lines of weight bearing. Cartilage begins to build up to compensate for the uneven load, which forms roughening and deformities in the joint surface. The joints inflame and no longer operate smoothly, but instead the ball and socket rub unevenly from the friction of the outgrowths of cartilage and bone, called osteophytes. These changes cause irritation, which triggers more cartilage growth and inflammation and the cycle of degeneration is set into motion. Science has been unsuccessful in finding a cure for OA. Instead, treatment focuses on easing the symptoms. Sports injuries, tennis elbow and tendonitis involve inflammation and micro-trauma to the soft tissues around the joints. The inflammation caused by these injuries can easily become chronic from overuse or improper after-care, resulting in symptoms not unlike arthritis: soreness, stiffness, and general pain in the region. The Role of Sulfur in Joint Pain Though the pain relieving properties of MSM are well known, mechanisms by which it accomplishes this are still under investigation. Evidence shows MSM most likely inhibits inflammatory prostaglandins and leukotrienes, hormone-like substances that create inflammatory cascades in the body associated with pain production. ALTRUM Supplements Sources of MSM MSM contains a lot of sulfur 34 percent by weight. Science is still researching how the body absorbs the sulfur it needs from MSM, but preliminary studies in mice and in horses suggest the sulfur in MSM is incorporated into proteins and into joint tissues. ALTRUM Joint Formula contains 1,800 mg of MSM in the suggested daily six tablets. Ultra Multis contain a daily nutritional supplement amount of 300 mg of MSM in the suggested daily six tablets.* MSM is thought to deliver sulfur to the body in a usable way. Sulfur helps maintain the structure of connective tissue by forming cross-linkages through disulfide bonds, i.e., sulfur strengthens the tissues that make up the joint. Sulfur is critical to good joint health. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are the fundamental building blocks of joint cartilage, and GAGs molecules are linked together in chains by disulfide bonds. As the name implies, these bonds are between two sulfur atoms. The disulfide bridges reduce conformational flexibility of GAGs chains, making cartilage firm and resilient. Cartilage integrity is thus a sulfur-dependent state. MSM Improves Skin, Hair and Nails MSM s effects on connective tissue are also well known. It is presumed, though not proven, that the beneficial clinical effects noted in humans on skin, hair, nails and joint cartilage has to do with MSM s sulfur content. Sulfur is abundant in connective tissue, and sulfur depletion in connective tissue is known to lead to problems. ** Please check with your physician when using prescription medications in combination with food supplements. All testimonials about ALTRUM nutritional products are non-scientific reports and are not intended to draw any direct cause and effect link between discussed events or results and consuming the nutrients contained in the products described. Results are individual and will vary from person to person. 2 SEPTEMBER 2013 ALTRUM

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5 Dealer Finds ALTRUM Supplements Meet His Changing Needs Dealer Walter Smaga of Alamagordo, N.M. is building a home, mostly by himself. I hire my brothers when I need more than two hands, Smaga said. Most days, he rides a bicycle several miles to and from town, or jogs in combat boots. At 70, Smaga likes to keep his body moving. In addition to jogging and riding a bicycle, he lifts weights, walks and stretches in the mornings to help his muscles limber up, he said. We re all responsible for our own health, Smaga said. My body is frugal, it hangs on to everything (I eat). He learned healthy habits from an early age when his parents taught him and his siblings to pay attention to their bodies and do what worked for them. The training at home was further influenced by athletics throughout his school years and then active duty in Vietnam, where he was a technician assigned to the National Security Agency and assisted Special Forces in their missions. He trained and ran in combat boots, Smaga said. After the war, he worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, coaching youth on a reservation. The remote location was between 55 and 70 miles from civilization in all directions. The Ramah Navajo Reservation was laid out in sections, and Smaga jogged four miles every other day in his combat boots. Joint Formula Helps With Hip Discomfort Smaga s sister told him he would hurt his hips and knees with all that running and in those boots, but he didn t pay much attention. About four years after he started that jogging routine, he noticed some discomfort in one hip after sitting for a while. He started taking ALTRUM Joint Formula. After about three weeks there was no more discomfort, he said. That product works. Good Habits Form Basis for Continued Health His education included studies in anatomy, nutrition, kinesiology and psychology, which further qualified him to work with young athletes. He always encouraged them to drink water and insisted they avoid soda. If they drank other sugared drinks, he encouraged them to follow up with water. His diet consists of salads, fresh vegetables, extra virgin olive oil and typical New Mexican fare jalapenos, hot sauce and salsa. They re all hot, he said. I don t have any trouble with those foods. However, foods made with lard, such as pie, give him some digestive trouble. He takes an Ultra Daily Enzyme and Ultra Calcium when that happens and it s gone, he said. IN ALAMAGORDO Dealer Walter Smaga is enjoying life with no ailments and no medications, thanks to a healthy lifestyle that includes plenty of exercise, good foods and ALTRUM nutritional supplements. He was in his 60s when he started experiencing acid indigestion in the afternoons. It typically occurred from one to two hours after eating his mid-day meal. I began to use ALTRUM Ultra Daily Enzymes, one capsule in the morning with my breakfast meal, along with A.J. s Ultra Multi, he said. Within two days I noticed that I no longer was experiencing acid indigestion. Family History Motivates Healthy Lifestyle Smaga s family has a history of heart disease, resulting in early deaths for some family members. His lifestyle of plenty of exercise, eating nutritious foods and taking ALTRUM nutritional supplements is geared toward keeping him free of heart disease. As his needs have changed through the years, Smaga has added Longevity Enzymes, Nutritional Oils, Vision Power, Joint Formula, Ultra Calcium, Prostate Formula, CoQ-10 and alternates taking Daily Garlic Support and Superfood Alfalfa. ** Please check with your physician when using prescription medications in combination with food supplements. All testimonials about ALTRUM nutritional products are non-scientific reports and are not intended to draw any direct cause and effect link between discussed events or results and consuming the nutrients contained in the products described. Results are individual and will vary from person to person. 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 ALTRUM

6 CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID AMSOIL Feel Your Best With ALTRUM Nutritional Supplements REORDER AUTOMATICALLY ALTRUM is published by the ALTRUM Division of AMSOIL INC. ALTRUM product and Dealer Information is available from your independent AMSOIL/ALTRUM Dealer, or write to AMSOIL INC., 925 Tower Ave., Superior, WI Order ALTRUM products quickly and easily. Call and use your VISA/MASTER/DISCOVER CARD. Recycled Paper Glucosamine, Chondroitin May Work With MSM for Joint Comfort The compound glucosamine exists in healthy cartilage. It is an important component in the body s ability to make proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) which are compounds of cartilage. Normally, as the body moves, cartilage is worn away and reshaped. At rest, it resumes its normal shape and restores itself. If glucosamine levels are low, the repair process is slowed down. Research shows taking glucosamine supplements can increase the body s production of proteoglycans and dramatically improve the natural repair process. Chondroitin is actually chondroitin sulfate and is one of the glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Molecules of chondroitin sulfate blend with proteins to make proteoglycans. Proteoglycans are essential to all connective tissue in the body such as cartilage, ligaments and tendons, according to a recent online article from Mayo Clinic. Chondroitin supplements appear to increase the hyaluronic acid, an important part of the synovial fluid that lubricates joints. It also decreases pain and swelling, according to the article. **Please check with your physician when using prescription medications in combination with food supplements. All testimonials about ALTRUM nutritional products are non-scientific reports and are not intended to draw any direct cause and effect link between discussed events or results. Together, glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM, methyl sulphynol methane, may improve the consistency of the synovial fluid in joints, according to an article by Dr. Richard S. Walker, retired pain consultant and founder of the Pain Clinic, an online resource in the United Kingdom. The sulphur compound MSM is a fundamental mineral used by the body to maintain the immune system, balance hormones, control the activity of enzymes and promote healthy joint function. Some research implies MSM can improve the flexibility of joints, while minimizing pain and swelling. It is thought to be able to reduce and soften scar tissue and break down calcium deposits while improving circulation Research shows these natural compounds work together to help reduce swelling in the joint and decrease associated pain. MSM may enhance the body s ability to repair cartilage and other connective tissues and improve flexibility. The effects of the three supplements working together is greater than if only one or two compounds are taken, according to Walker. ALTRUM Joint Formula contains this combination of compounds in a balanced formula that may help maintain normal joint function. 6 SEPTEMBER 2013 ALTRUM