What is cardiovascular disease?

Cardiovascular disease, which includes:

• Heart disease
• Heart attack
• Stroke
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Angina
• Thrombosis (blood clots)
• PAD (peripheral arterial disease)
• Varicose veins
• And many more...

...is the predominant cause of death and disability in the United States and other industrialized nations. It accounts for more than 1-½ times the number of deaths caused by all forms of cancer together. There are four general categories of cardiovascular disease that account for 90% of all cardiac deaths; ischemic heart disease, high blood pressure, valvular problems and congenital heart disease.

Ischemic heart disease is the most common of these four categories. Ischemia is defined as an imbalance between the supply and demand of the heart for oxygenated blood. As the arteries that feed a tissue become progressively more clogged with plaque, there is a reduction in the amount of blood that is able to be perfused into the area. Your heart is a muscle that never takes a break, it is going 24 hours a day, it is essential that there is an adequate network of vessels to bring a constant fresh supply of oxygen and nutrients to the muscle cells. It is also essential that the network is able to take away the waste material that accumulates from normal metabolism of the oxygen and nutrients. As the blood vessels that feed the heart become clogged, the heart muscle cells start to die from starvation, lack of oxygen, and drowning in their own waste, this can be a slow, silent process that suddenly causes death in someone who had no previous symptoms.

How does one get cardiovascular disease?

There are really two primary reasons that people will develop heart disease, more material coming into the system than the body can effectively utilize and then accumulation of that material on the insides of the vessels through which it transported. Eating more calories than one expends in a day is going to cause an accumulation of energy stores, the currency of excess energy is fat, that is what makes more than 50% of the population of our country overweight. Trying to move fat inside of our water soluble system is problematic at best, but we can do it if there isn’t a huge amount that comes in at one time. The presence of more fat than can be used increases the tendency that it will end up on the walls of our blood vessels; this increased tendency becomes a stark reality when there is any kind of inflammation present in the system. That is, any inflammation caused by infection, trauma or pollution greatly increases the deposition of fats on the insides of our blood vessels.

Preventing heart disease is primarily a matter of eating less and exercising more. If one emphasizes foods that help reduce inflammation, like fresh fruits and vegetables and lean protein sources like chicken, fish, and legumes, then you can really make a dramatic impact on preventing heart disease.

I’m taking medication right now for an existing cardiovascular condition. Can I take CircuPrime along with my medicines?

CircuPrime is compatible with most medications, the people that should be especially aware of possible cumulative effects are those taking blood thinners with names like coumadin, warfarin, lovanox, heparin, and plavix. The best policy for anyone on prescription medication is to discuss with a physician the pros and cons of adding a supplement like CircuPrime into their regimen. The difficulty for a lot of people is finding a physician who is knowledgeable enough about nutrition and botanical medicine to be able to make an intelligent recommendation. I would suggest looking on the website Naturopathic.org for help in finding such a physician.

I have a mother who had triple by-pass surgery. Can she take CircuPrime?

Your mother is exactly the person that circuprime should be able to help tremendously. It would be wise for her to stay in contact with her physician when she begins taking it because the amounts of her current medication will most likely need to be reduced.

How is CircuPrime different from other natural products on the market?

CircuPrime is like no other product on the market. While some products support one aspect of cardiovascular health CircuPrime does it in 3 ways. It helps reduce inflammation, it decrease blood viscosity (helps thin the blood) and helps control viral, fungal and bacterial infections. All 3 of these are major cause of cardiovascular disease and are detrimental to overall health. No other product has these actions on cardiovascular and overall health like CircuPrime.

Can CircuPrime thin the blood too much?

We have found that those people who are not on any prescription blood thinners have no problem with their blood becoming too thin while on CircuPrime. We have found that those people who are on prescription blood thinners will occasionally need to reduce the dose of their prescription medication.

Is CircuPrime something I have to take all the time?

CircuPrime provides a way for us to combat the negative effects of poor diet, lack of exercise, and living in a polluted environment. You don’t have to take CircuPrime all of the time; we think that you will feel well enough with it that you will want to take it all of the time. Of course, the only preventive measures that truly work are the ones that people do, having an unopened bottle of pills in your cabinet and dust on your weight set isn’t going to keep you out of the cardiac ward at the hospital.

It says to take one right before bed, why is that?

Our bodies undergo a tremendous amount of repair during sleep, having thinner blood and less inflammation allows those repair processes to proceed more efficiently. This is also the time of day where our circulation is less vigorous than any other time, the stagnant nature of the blood system increases the incidence of blood clots, CircuPrime provides a way to reduce that tendency.

I see that CircuPrime contains Nattokinase. Natto is a soy item. I don’t want to use soy because I’ve read all that is bad about it.

Soy has received a lot of negative press lately, some of it is based in truth a lot of it is probably exaggerated. What is true is that soy contains a substance called phytic acid, this is a mineral chelator that helps the soy plant survive in poor soils, but, tends to rob our bodies of necessary minerals. Most of this substance is removed when soy is fermented with certain bacteria. Soy fermentation has a long tradition in Asia that is comparable to how the Europeans cultured milk. Natto is a type of soy cheese and nattokinase is an enzyme that can be extracted from it that has a proven fibrinolytic activity; that is, it acts as a blood thinner. There is usually not enough other soy constituents present in nattokinase to cause any of the problems that whole soy is suspected to cause.

I’ve never heard of Galangal or Zinc Undecylenate. Why is that if they are so great?

Most of the substances that enter the health food store market are the least expensive and easiest to procure items available. Most companies don’t have to go that far out of their way to purchase their raw materials, and production costs are typically the least expensive aspect of doing business. We decided to formulate a product without regard to how difficult it may be to procure or expensive for us access; we wanted a product that would be the absolute safest and best that nature has to offer for this purpose. Although Galangal (Alpinia galanga) is not that well known in our country, it is legendary throughout the rest of the world as an essential cooking herb. We purchase the highest grade available to ensure the best results. Zinc undecylenate is actually a very commonly used anti-fungal, most people reading this right now have some sort of undecylenate in their medicine chests. These are the most commonly used topical anti-fungals in the world. Zinc undecylenate is derived from castor beans and it is has to go through a fairly extensive and expensive processing before it is appropriate for oral use, again we wanted the best and safest ingredients and not necessarily the most affordable for us.

Why is CircuPrime so expensive?

CircuPrime is very expensive to produce. That being said, CircuPrime is actually a very reasonably priced supplement. If you were to go out and buy Nattokinase as an individual supplement, you could pay as much for it alone as you would for CircuPrime. We at EarthShine products purposely kept the price down on CircuPrime for one simple reason. We want to help people. We want to help improve one’s health. We want everybody to be able to take CircuPrime.

We also offer specials that can help bring your per bottle cost down considerably. For more details call our customer support line to learn more about our special offers. 1-800-411-9931

Will CircuPrime lower my cholesterol?

When a company makes an agent with the intent to change the structure or functioning of the human body, in this case, to lower cholesterol, then the agent that does that job is defined as a drug by the federal government. We did not want to create another cholesterol lowering supplement because we didn’t want to add to the confusion that is already present in the industry. Cholesterol is an important precursor to all steroid hormones in the body; these include estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and cortisol. Cholesterol doesn’t stick to the insides of your blood vessels unless there is some inflammation present in the walls of those vessels. We feel that by targeting the inflammatory basis for heart disease, we could make a more dramatic positive impact without adversely affecting the normal functioning of the body.

Are there any side effects from taking CircuPrime?

No, there really is not. Once in a great while, we will have reports of nausea or stomach upset from taking CircuPrime. We usually will then advise those who experience these disturbances to take it with food. This usually clears up any problem one may have.
CircuPrime is a very well tolerated product.

I was taking a cox-2 inhibitor for my pain, and the FDA had these products pulled.
Why was that?

Cox-2 is short for cyclooxygenase type 2 which is an enzyme that helps make inflammatory substances in your body when you have been injured. Inflammation is an absolutely essential part of the repair process in the body. Sometimes the inflammatory cascade gets stuck in a loop where the inflammation causes damage which brings an immune response that creates more inflammation which causes more damage and the cycle repeats. The answer is not to stop the inflammation, necessarily, but rather, to prompt quicker resolution of the cascade. The cox-2 inhibitors stop the inflammatory process before the repair aspect is able to kick in and the body isn’t able to protect and repair itself as it should. This causes, among other things, an increase in one’s risk for cardiovascular disease. This is why those agents were taken from the market, they represented a potential threat to the public’s health.

Can CircuPrime help with pain?

CircuPrime is generally anti-inflammatory; it accomplishes this by supporting more rapid resolution of inflammation through its normal, natural course, rather than stopping the process during a critical phase of healing. CircuPrime can help with pain, it can also help promote a more thorough healing response so that, ideally, a person is able to reach the point where pain is a rare occurrence rather than a daily one.

Who should take CircuPrime?

Anyone who is interested in taking a more proactive role in maintaining their quality of life should consider taking CircuPrime. We would all like to live for as long as possible, none of us wants to do that while in pain or unable to experience the full richness of life for any reason. CircuPrime is an excellent way to help ensure the best quality of life for the years to come.

I’m a vegetarian. Are there any animal by products in CircuPrime? How about fillers?

CircuPrime is an all vegetarian formula, including the capsules it comes in.
The bottling company uses a flowing agent for production, but it is also from a vegetarian source.

There are no fillers in CircuPrime. Instead of using fillers, we used extra amounts of the herb Galangal to help fill the capsule so you are reaping the extra benefits of this amazing herb

How does CircuPrime affect memory loss?

Modern research is beginning to recognize the primary role that inflammation plays in causing memory loss, Alzheimer’s and dementia. Consider the negative effects of ischemia on the brain. The brain tissue is arguably the most important tissue in the body when it comes to maintaining a good quality of life. The brain has an amazing metabolism that requires a vast network of blood vessels to supply oxygen and nutrients and to take away the accumulated waste material. When inflammation causes these vessels to swell and begin accumulating plaques, the blood supply network becomes unable to do its job. Free radical damage begins to accumulate and the tissue begins to die. The brain is amazingly resilient and can function under these conditions for years with just a gradual decline in function until frank memory loss is present. The addition of an agent like Ciruprime can help improve the resiliency of the brain so that the more aggressive changes related to memory loss are staved off for a longer time.