INGREDIENTS

• Vitamin C

  Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that neutralizes damaging natural substances called free radicals. It works in water, both inside and outside of cells. Vitamin C complements another antioxidant vitamin, vitamin E, which works in lipid (fatty) parts of the body.

  One double-blind, placebo-controlled study found evidence that use of vitamin C led to an increase in intercourse frequency in healthy women, presumably because it increased libido.

  Brody S. High-Dose Ascorbic Acid Increases Intercourse Frequency And Improves Mood: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Biological Psychiatry. 2002;52:371.

  Preliminary studies suggest that vitamin C may improve sperm count and function

  Dawson EB, Harris WA, Rankin WE, et al. Effect Of Ascorbic Acid On Male Fertility. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1987;498:312-323.

  Vitamin A

  Vitamin A is a fat-soluble antioxidant that protects your cells against damaging free radicals and plays other vital roles in the body.

  Beta-carotene belongs to a family of natural chemicals known as carotenoids. Beta-carotene is a particularly important carotenoid from a nutritional standpoint, because the body easily transforms it to vitamin A.

  Office of Dietary Supplements - National Institute of Health:
  http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamina.asp

  Vitamin D

  Vitamin D is both a vitamin and a hormone. It's a vitamin because your body cannot absorb calcium without it; it's a hormone because your body manufactures it in response to your skin's exposure to sunlight.

  Vitamin D 3 (cholecalciferol) is made by the body and is found in some foods. Vitamin D 2 (ergocalciferol) is the form most often added to milk and other foods, and the form you're most likely to use as a supplement.

  Some evidence suggests that getting adequate vitamin D may help prevent cancer of the breast, colon, pancreas, prostate, and skin, but the research on this question has yielded mixed results.

  Studzinski GP, Moore DC. Sunlight — Can It Prevent As Well As Cause Cancer? Cancer Research. 1995;55:4014-4022.

  Blutt SE, Weigel NL. Vitamin D And Prostate Cancer. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. 1999;221:89-98.

  Office of Dietary Supplements - National Institute of Health: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/87/4/1080S

  Vitamin E

  Vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects cell membranes and other fat-soluble parts of the body, such as low-density lipoprotein (LDL; “bad” cholesterol) cholesterol, from damage.

  In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 110 men whose sperm showed subnormal activity, daily treatment with 100 IU of vitamin E resulted in improved sperm activity and increased rate of pregnancy in their partners.

  Suleiman SA, Elamin Ali M, Zaki ZMS, et al. Lipid Peroxidation And Human Sperm Motility: Protective Role Of Vitamin E. Journal of Andrology. 1996;17:530-537.

  Niacin – Vitamin B3

  Vitamin B 3 is required for the proper function of more than 50 enzymes. Without it, your body would not be able to release energy or make fats from carbohydrates. Vitamin B 3 is also used to make sex hormones and other important chemical signal molecules.

  Sanjukta Sanyal MD, Richard H. Karas MD, Jeffrey T. Kuvin MD. Present-Day Uses Of Niacin: Effects On Lipid And Non-Lipid Parameters. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy. 2007;8;1711-1717.
  http://www.expertopin.com/

  U.S. National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002409.htm

  Vitamin B6

  Vitamin B6 is the master vitamin for processing amino acids—the building blocks of all proteins and some hormones. Vitamin B6 helps to make and take apart many amino acids and is also needed to make the hormones, serotonin, melatonin, and dopamine.

  Office of Dietary Supplements - National Institute of Health:
  http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitaminb6.asp

  U.S. F.D.A. - Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition:
  http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-ltr12.html

  Folate

  Folic acid is a B vitamin needed for cell replication and growth. Folic acid helps form building blocks of DNA, the body’s genetic information, and building blocks of RNA, needed for protein synthesis in all cells. Therefore, rapidly growing tissues, such as those of a fetus, and rapidly regenerating cells, like red blood cells and immune cells, have a high need for folic acid.

  Office of Dietary Supplements - National Institute of Health: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/folate.asp

  Vitamin B12

  Vitamin B 12, an essential nutrient, is also known as cobalamin. The cobal in the name refers to the metal cobalt contained in B 12. Vitamin B 12 is required for the normal activity of nerve cells and works with folate and vitamin B 6 to lower blood levels of homocysteine, a chemical in the blood that might contribute to heart disease. B 12 also plays a role in the body's manufacture of S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe).

  Office of Dietary Supplements - National Institute of Health: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitaminb12.asp

  Calcium – Calcium Citrate Is Superior To Carbonate

  Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body, making up nearly 2% of total body weight. More than 99% of the calcium in your body is found in your bones, but the other 1% is perhaps just as important for good health. Many enzymes depend on calcium in order to work properly, as do your nerves, heart, and blood-clotting mechanisms.

  One of the most important uses of calcium is to help prevent and treat osteoporosis, the progressive loss of bone mass to which menopausal women are especially vulnerable. Calcium works best when combined with vitamin D.

  Other meaningful evidence suggests that calcium may have an additional important use: reducing PMS symptoms.

  Office of Dietary Supplements - National Institute of Health:
  http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/calcium.asp

  Epimedium extract (50% single-peak icariin) (Medicariin™)

  Horny goat weed is an ornamental plant that also has a long history of traditional use in Asian herbal medicine. Its whimsical name is said to derive from folk observations that goats who grazed on the herb became unusually sexually active. It is considered a yang tonic, particularly for the "energetic organ" known as the kidney (which corresponds to some extent to the Western concept of the kidney). Enhancing kidney energy in this setting correlates to improving sexual function and fertility.

  National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

  L-Arginine

  The body uses this semi-essential amino acid as the primary building block for nitric oxide, a natural messenger molecule that’s involved in smooth muscle relaxation, dilation of blood vessels, and healthy erectile function.

  Thorne Research:
  http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/.fulltext/10/2/139.pdf

  Quercetin

  Quercetin belongs to a class of water-soluble plant coloring substances called bioflavonoids. Bioflavonoids have strong antioxidant effects when they are studied in the test tube. As a widely available plant substances, Quercetin is considered possible semi-nutrients, substances that are not essential for life but might help promote optimal health.

  Alpha-Lipoic acid

  Lipoic acid, also known as alpha-lipoic acid, is a sulfur-containing fatty acid. It is found inside every cell of the body, where it helps generate the energy that keeps us alive and functioning. Lipoic acid is a key part of the metabolic machinery that turns glucose (blood sugar) into energy for the body's needs.

  Lipoic acid is an antioxidant, which means that it neutralizes naturally occurring but harmful chemicals known as free radicals. Unlike other antioxidants, which work only in water or fatty tissues, lipoic acid is unusual in that it functions in both water and fat. By comparison, vitamin E works only in fat and vitamin C works only in water. This gives lipoic acid an unusually broad spectrum of antioxidant action.

  Berry Blend

  Among berries beneficial compounds are phytochemicals, nonnutritive plant chemicals. Within the body, phytochemicals function as antioxidants, compounds that protect the body against free radicals unstable oxygen molecules that cause cell damage leading to chronic and degenerative diseases.

  Research published in the International Journal of Impotence Research finds drinking pomegranate Juice daily may help the management erectile dysfunction and impotence.

  Tea and Catechins

  Tea is rich in catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Catechins are antioxidant plant metabolites which belong to the family of flavonoids. These compounds are abundant in teas derived from the tea-plant Camellia sinensis. EGCG is a powerful anti-oxidant: besides inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. It has also been effective in lowering LDL cholesterol levels, and inhibiting the abnormal formation of blood clots. The latter takes on added importance when you consider that thrombosis (the formation of abnormal blood clots) is the leading cause of heart attacks and stroke.

Experience Counts

• Dr. Fisch believes that Decades of clinical and research experience as a practicing urologist have led Dr. Fisch to the conclusion that the health of one's reproductive system is intimately related to his or her state of cardiovascular wellbeing.

   

In case after case, he has found that many of the most common problems facing his patients, especially those of a sexual nature, respond well to simple dietary modifications designed to bolster the body's entire circulatory system safely and naturally. To Dr. Fisch's patients and those who have attended his lectures or read his books and articles on this topic, this simple concept has become the cornerstone of a new paradigm in sexual-circulatory wellness.

INGREDIENT RESEARCH

• Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that neutralizes damaging natural substances called free radicals. It works in water, both inside and outside of cells. Vitamin C complements another antioxidant vitamin, vitamin E, which works in lipid (fatty) parts of the body.

   

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble antioxidant that protects your cells against damaging free radicals and plays other vital roles in the body. Beta-carotene belongs to a family of natural chemicals known as carotenoids. Beta-carotene is a particularly important carotenoid from a nutritional standpoint, because the body easily transforms it to vitamin A. .

Men, Women, Health and Sex

• Dr. Fisch believes that healthy sexual response is intimately related to the health of the circulatory system. His research and experience has found that certain plant foods, fruits and vegetables that are high in special antioxidant nutrients called bioflavonoids support healthy circulation throughout the body.

   

That's why he recommends a diet that is high in bioflavonoid-rich fruits for his patients who are seeking to optimize their sexual responses. And since today's active lifestyles don't always allow us to eat the way we should, Dr. Fisch developed Sexual Health Formula, the first easy-to-take daily bioflavonoid supplement for men and women.