STRESS Rx represents the most advanced B complex and vitamin C formula available. Up to now, most similar formulas are based on an arbitrary even amount of the different B vitamins such as 50 mg of each of the B complex members. This practice began many years ago when a clear knowledge of the right proportions of each B vitamin to the other was not fully understood. This practice, while providing high levels of some of the B vitamins, provides less than even the minimum RDA of others. For example the RDA for folic acid is 400 mcg, so a 50 mg/mcg formula would only provide 12.5% of the RDA. Another example is biotin. The RDA for biotin is 150 mcg, so a 50 mg/mcg formula would provide only 33.3% of the RDA. STRESS Rx contains a full 1000 mcg of folic acid, a nutrient specifically effective in managing stress, and 150 mcg of biotin, a nutrient intimately involved in energy metabolism.

STRESS Rx is formulated to take into account the ratios between the different B complex members based on the 15 year SONA study as undertaken by senior investigators Drs Cheraskin and Ringsdorf of the University of Alabama Medical School, with special emphasis on the particular B vitamins that are directly effective in stress management such as folic acid, vitamin B12 and pantothenic acid. Vitamin B3 as the natural niacin is used rather than the synthetic niacinamide. Unlike niacinamide, niacin helps to lower cholesterol, dilates blood vessels and neutralises tryptamine-rated brain toxins. STRESS Rx is also one of the very few formulas to provide an ideal 10 to 1 ratio between folic acid and vitamin B12.

STRESS Rx contains 1000 mg of vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant which protects the B complex vitamins from oxidative destruction, as well as provides important stress protection characteristics on its own. Vitamin C is involved in almost every biological and biochemical reaction in the body and stress as well as smoking, fever, antibiotics, aspirin and various contaminants in the environment antagonize vitamin C. The high level of vitamin C in the formula, along with high potency and balanced ratios of the B complex vitamins makes STRESS Rx the most effective stress formula available.

While vitamin C and the B complex vitamins are essential nutrients upon which life depends, they are only part of the nutritional requirements necessary for good health. A proper nutritional supplement programme which includes balanced levels of all the essential vitamins, minerals, enzymes and essential fatty acids is necessary to help maintain good health over one's lifetime. Enerex's famous "Optimal Health Pack" which consists of the SONA, multiple vitamin, chelated mineral and enzyme formula and the OMEGA 3-6 essential fatty acid formula provides this optimal nutritional support for the STRESS Rx formula.

STRESS Rx contains a base of Nature's most nutritionally complete and powerful "greenfoods": organically grown Alfalfa Leaf Powder, organically grown Green Barley Juice powder, and Spirulina Blue-Green Algae. These green "superfoods" support the efficacy of the formula by providing antioxidant support in a live, whole food, rich in natural enzymes, vitamins, amino acids essential fatty acids and other nutrients.

NOTE: This formula contains niacin which may cause a transient "niacin flush" in most people. A warm feeling and a red flushing may spread over the extremities (sometimes accompanied by itching), and the heart may beat more strongly. This harmless phenomenom which lasts for 20 to 30 minutes, is due to the increased blood flow to the extremities due to niacin-induced histamine release. The vitamin C in the formula helps to reduce the flush reaction. It is also important to take STRESS Rx with a meal, as the presence of food in the stomach will also reduce the flushing effect.

Suggested Use: One or two tablets daily, in divided doses with a meal