WHY YOU NEED PERQUE PAIN GUARD FORTÉ
PERQUE Pain Guard Forté, a remarkable natural formula, is your
best nutritional solution for treating pain and inflammation.*
Inflammation means repair is blocked or incomplete. PERQUE Pain
Guard Forté effectively enhances the body’s innate ability to repair
itself.* Often, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), such
as aspirin or ibuprofen, are used to treat inflammation and pain.
However, NSAIDS stop and block the body’s efforts to repair itself.
Potential NSAID side effects include dizziness, constipation, ringing
in the ears, and peptic ulcers. PERQUE Pain Guard Forté achieves
these benefits in safer and more effective, natural ways.*
SUPERIOR CHOICE
PERQUE Pain Guard Forté provides quercetin dihydrate and
OPC, a special safe and effective flavonoid/ flavanol combination
that encourages the complete repair process and thereby reduces
pro-inflammatory enzymes. It also helps relieve common allergy
symptoms.*
Instead of covering up the pain of inflammation, quercetin
dihydrate and OPC support the mechanisms that resolve
inflammation by effectively stimulating repair. PERQUE Pain Guard
Forté uniquely promotes pain relief by accurately targeting the
causes of pain.*
UNIQUE COMBINATION
PERQUE Pain Guard Forté provides the following exclusive
benefits:
• Each tablet of PERQUE Pain Guard Forté contains 500 mg of
quercetin dihydrate, the safest and most easily absorbed form of
quercetin. The body only assimilates about 1% of most forms of
quercetin, but it can absorb up to 100% of quercetin dihydrate.*
• OPC flavanols (5 mg.), in the optimum ratio (100:1), are present to
advance function and repair.*
• Many other products use OPCs that are only 2% to 3% soluble.
In contrast, PERQUE Pain Guard Forté contains the 92%+, fully
soluble, bioactive, solvent free form of OPCs, making it a superpotent formula.*
The ingredients in PERQUE Pain Guard Forté are fully bioavailable,
and enzymes, which may be irritating or allergenic, are not needed
to activate them.*

FACTS ON PERQUE PAIN GUARD FORTÉ
Flavonoids, which are also called bioflavonoids, are pigments t hat
protect plants from free-radical damage, among other functions. The
human body cannot produce these phytochemicals, so we must get
them through diet and/or supplementation.*
Lower rates of heart disease and cancer are typically found in
populations that consume higher levels of flavonoids.*
QUERCETIN DIHYDRATE
Quercetin dihydrate is a yellow- green flavonoid that helps reduce
allergic and inflammatory responses by promoting repair. It has shown
anti-viral and antioxidant effects.
ORAC
ORAC values refer to the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity of a
food, which denotes its antioxidant power. When tested, it was found
that PERQUE Pain Guard Forté has an ORAC value of 171,000 per 100
grams - much higher than the well-known antioxidant-rich foods like
mangosteen, dark cherry, and prunes. According to USDA criteria, three
(3) PERQUE Pain Guard Forté have the ORAC protection equal to a
dozen portions of fruits and vegetables.
OPCs Proanthocyanidins that are bound together are collectively called
proanthocyanidin oligomers or OPCs. They can be absorbed into cell
membranes, protecting against both fat- and water- soluble free radicals. OPCs are also able to cross the blood-brain barrier and protect
the brain against free-radical damage.*
Because OPCs are so diverse, they deliver synergistic antioxidant benefits with vitamins C or E. In addition, OPCs quench the free radicals
involved in inflammation and allergies. They also enhance the effectiveness of the body’s natural killer cells and boost the body’s natural
anti-cancer defenses.*
QUERCETIN & ESTROGEN
Quercetin dihydrate antagonizes potentially harmful forms of estrogen in the body. Thus, quercetin dihydrate may be considered superior
to ipraflavanol.*

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