How can InfiAid® help you?

• Faster recovery for active lifestyles
• Helps maintain healthy musclesand joints
• Optimizes the body’s natural healing process
• Supplies a unique combination of the most potent antioxidant ingredients – Grape Seed Extract, Turmeric and Lycopenes
• Exclusive SOD Precursor System supplies antioxidant building blocks necessary for the body to make its own powerful antioxidant – SOD
• Includes exclusive all-natural CAeDS® to system to provide maximum nutrient delivery and effectiveness
• Utilizes natural proteolytic enzymes that support the immune system
• Contains no dangerous synthetic drugs

The Role of Enzymes

The muscle and joint discomfort associated with an active lifestyle is hard to ignore. InfiAid® is a proprietary blend of enzymes, powerful herbs, and antioxidants specifically formulated to support muscle and joint health. InfiAid® provides highly concentrated proteolytic enzymes, including bromelain, to augment the body’s natural anti-inflammatory systems. These enzymes are combined with powerful herbs like Boswellia, which have been used for centuries in herbal medicine to support the body’s healing processes. In addition, InfiAid® provides a potent combination of antioxidant nutrients to help the body fight the free radicals released after an injury or in inflammatory conditions.

Powerful Antioxidants

In addition, InfiAid® provides a powerful combination of antioxidant nutrients to help the body fight the free radicals released after an injury or in inflammatory conditions.

Guaranteed Nutirent Delivery

The secret behind InfiAid®’s effectiveness is CAeDS®. The exclusive, all-natural delivery system CAeDS® is a highly refined and sophisticated system that provides the necessary nutritional co-factors and patented amino acid chelated minerals for full activation and assimilation of InfiAid®, without “robbing” from your body’s limited supply!

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Natural Proteolytic Enzymes

InfiAid® utilizes a unique blend of proteolytic enzymes that supports the body’s natural anti-inflammatory processes.  Most prescription and over-the-counter pain remedies are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs.)  Recent Studies have serious concerns over the safety of NSAIDs, especially to the cardiovascular system and heart health.

Proteolytic Enzymes:

• Promote tissue recovery
• Promote the body’s natural anti-inflammatory process
• Enhances and regulates the immune function

NSAIDs:

•  “NSAIDs account for as many as 100,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths per year due to stomach bleeding and other gastrointestinal damage”*
• “NSAIDs boost blood pressure and can counteract the affect of some blood-pressure lowering drugs.”*
• “Contribute to platelet clumping and constriction of blood vessels.”*

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Nutrition and CAeDS®

When most people think of nutrition, they think only of the food they eat or the supplements they take. The true definition of nutrition, however, is to nourish the cells of the body in order to optimize metabolism and provide energy to live. This is cellular nutrition. Cellular nutrition does not happen automatically, but instead requires several complex steps. These steps were designed by nature, not science, and are essential for complete cellular nutrition to occur. When any of these steps does not function correctly, nutrients will not be delivered to the cells of the body. These processes can be simplified into the “seven steps of nutrition”:

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Ingredients and Technical Information

InfiAid® Technical Information

Inflammation is a natural reaction to injury or infection. Unfortunately, the body is not always equipped to deal with the stress associated with injury, infection and inflammation. Excessive free radical production in inflammatory conditions can deplete the body’s antioxidant stores and overtax the body’s healing systems, delaying recovery and tissue repair (18; 21; 32; 50). Specific nutrients and natural herbs can support the body’s natural healing processes in conditions of stress or pain associated with athletic or acute injury (40), and aid recovery from exercise (43). Infinity2’s InfiAid® provides a proprietary blend of enzymes, powerful herbs and antioxidants specifically formulated to nutritionally support the body’s healing processes.

Boswellia Serrata: Boswellia, a close relative of frankincense (B. sacra), has been used for many thousands of years as an astringent and anti-inflammatory (15). Modern researchers have found that boswellia’s anti-inflammatory properties come both from its antioxidant capabilities and its unique ability to inhibit the production of leukotrienes (chemical messengers of the immune system) associated with inflammation (4; 6; 8; 15; 20; 46; 49; 51; 55). Double blind studies have demonstrated that boswellia may be an effective support for osteoarthritis (31; 36).

Protease: Protease enzymes break down large protein molecules into smaller proteins and amino acids. As a natural part of healing, proteins can build up in an area of injury. Protease assists in breaking up waste protein in the area of injury (12; 13; 16; 17; 28; 47). By breaking up waste protein, protease enzymes support the natural healing processes and efficiency of the body in rebuilding damaged areas.

Bromelain: Bromelain is a special combination of protease enzymes derived from pineapple. In addition to its general protease effects, bromelain has been shown to modulate the chemical messengers of the immune system (cytokines and prostaglandins) (2; 3; 22; 24; 26; 29; 38; 41; 42; 54-56). By modulating the activity of specific chemical messengers (cytokines and prostaglandins) that are associated with pain and inflammation, bromelain may exert specific antiinflammatory and anti-edema effects. Bromelain has also been researched for its unique ability to improve the symptoms of arthritis (5; 34; 56) and to reduce exercise-induced muscle injury thereby improving recovery from exercise (10; 30; 33; 38; 53; 54).

Proprietary Blend: The InfiAid® Proprietary Blend provides specific enzymes, herbs and minerals to nutritionally support the body’s healing systems. This exclusive blend includes:

• Turmeric, a special herb grown in India, China and Southeast Asia that has been used traditionally in herbal medicine for bruises and other injuries (9; 27). More recently, it has been researched for its use in arthritis and postoperative pain and is thought to mediate cortisol levels during healing (11; 14; 27; 39).
• Feverfew, like Boswellia, is an herb with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties due to its ability to inhibit the synthesis of various prostaglandins associated with pain and inflammation (25; 35; 37; 44; 45; 52). • Grape seed extract, one of the most powerful antioxidants available, helps protect tissues from free radicals produced in conditions of inflammation (1; 7).
• Additional proteases, providing a full range of protease activity, ensure that waste proteins in the area of injury are completely broken down allowing the body’s natural healing processes to occur.
• Lycopene’s unique structure and biologic properties make it a potent antioxidant that has been shown to help improve recovery from exercise and support the body’s natural healing processes (40; 43; 48).
• Patented amino acid chelated selenium complex supplies the most bioavailable source of selenium helping to restore selenium levels, which are depleted during injury and inflammation (19).

SOD Precursor System: Interestingly, the body already contains the most potent and powerful antioxidant available: super oxide dismutase (SOD). The body’s ability to produce enough SOD during injury and inflammatory conditions is diminished (23). Supplementation may help to restore SOD levels. Unfortunately, supplemental SOD is often destroyed in the digestive system and is poorly absorbed when taken orally. However, based on research by Dr. Harvey Ashmead, InfiAid® provides a way for the body to have more of this natural free radical fighter. InfiAid® includes exclusive SOD Precursors, or what might be called SOD “building blocks,” which provide the body what it needs to produce its own SOD (23).

InfiAid®

Following an injury or strenuous physical activity, the body needs extra nutritional support to repair damaged tissues, fight free radicals released after an injury or exercise, and augment the body’s natural anti-inflammatory systems. The proprietary blend of enzymes, herbs and antioxidants in Infinity2’s InfiAid® nutritionally supports the body’s healing processes - and with CAeDS®, each nutrient and herb is delivered to the cells and tissues that need it.

The CAeDS® Difference

CAeDS® is a highly sophisticated nutrient delivery system that ensures the rich nutrients in Infinity2 products are absorbed and delivered to the cells of the body. The powerful combination of Infinity2’s premium quality ingredients, advanced formulations, and a cellular nutrient delivery system makes it virtually impossible for any other nutritional product to match the effectiveness of our products. Simply put, CAeDS® guarantees maximum effectiveness!

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