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THE WORLD’S ULTIMATE SUPERFOOD BLEND
Tonic Alchemy™ is a remarkable, cutting edge, blend of “superfoods” from all around the world—from the deepest oceans to the world’s highest mountains. Ingredients come from almost every continent and every type of environment on earth. These superfoods are so nutrient-dense that just a single tablespoon of Tonic Alchemy™ blended with a liquid will provide more nutrition than most Americans assimilate in an entire day.Tonic Alchemy™ is delicious and is easy to prepare. You will look forward to each opportunity to enjoy this life-giving “superfood” matrix. Every serving is a step toward radiant health.
Tonic Alchemy™ is made up of a number of Component Groups, totaling 71 ingredients in 1 single blend. The Component Groups are:
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Nutritional Deficiency
A Huge Problem
Over the past forty years, tens of millions of Americans have become aware of the need for better nutrition.The farming system prevalent in America has resulted in depleted soil and foods deficient in nutrients. Since the Great Depression, the mass marketing of food has resulted in poorer quality food. The typical American diet is comprised primarily of foods rich in fats, sugar and chemical additives, and low in natural vitamins, essential nutrients, important phytochemicals, and beneficial trace minerals. Conventional medicine has only recently acknowledged the importance of nutrition in promoting health and preventing degenerative and infectious disease. Everyone now realizes that good nutrition is central to health, well being and longevity. The natural food movement has grown dramatically in the past few decades and the infrastructure that can support highly nutritional diets has developed to a sophisticated level. Nevertheless, the mainstream American diet has generally degenerated. The American diet generally suffers from a lack of truly nutritious foods.
The U.S. government has recently released its new dietary recommendations urging consumers to consume up to 13 servings per day of vegetables and fruits. This long overdue recommendation affirms what many of us have known for a long time. Still, most Americans will not be able to achieve these standards. Even those of us who eat consciously often find it difficult to eat well all the time—or even most of the time!
Luckily, with Tonic Alchemy™, now we can make a huge difference in our actual vegetable and fruit consumption. Tonic Alchemy™ contains “superfoods” —foods of extraordinary nutritive value—nutrient dense greens, super-tonic herbs, tonic mushrooms,antioxidant-rich fruits and sea vegetables, and vitamin-rich sprouts, all of which contribute to our higher nutritional needs. Tonic Alchemy™ is also a source of concentrated garden vegetables, the very ones we need to consume virtually every day. Tonic Alchemy™ is exactly the concentrated vegetable booster you need in order to achieve and to maintain glowing health.
The Thrival© Factor
The Wide Range of Nutrients Needed to Thrive
We live in extraordinarily complex times. Our lives are complex and our needs are complex. We now know so much about how the body works that it can be mind-boggling. We know that if certain nutrients are missing from our diet, we are going to suffer from the deficiency. Different cells and different tissues and systems require specific biologically active molecules and chemicals in order to achieve optimum performance.It is possible to “live” or “survive” without some of these substances, but just living or surviving is not the same thing as “thriving.” Thriving means living life to its fullest in a healthy, happy, flourishing, satisfying way. Nutritional variety plays a very key role in thriving. In fact variety is the ultimate Thrival© factor.
We all know about the “minimum daily requirements” for nutrition. These are not about “thriving.” Even “average daily requirements” are not about thriving. Thriving requires more and better. Not more in terms of any one nutrient, but more in terms of a variety of nutrients and phytochemicals and other life-promoting factors that the body can use for optimum living. And better in terms of the quality and completeness of those nutrients.
The superfoods contain numerous substances that are not available in the everyday diet. These substances contribute to radiant health—the kind of health we are all seeking.
The problems associated with consuming “variety,” however, are daunting for many people. If you want get all these nutritional factors into your diet, you must first find all of them and make sure they’re all real, and they’re all organic, and they’re all from the best sources. Secondly, you’d have to obtain all of them—and that would obviously be time-consuming and expensive. Thirdly, you’d have to prepare them all and eat all day long in order to get them all in—every day! Thank goodness there’s an easier way!
The solution lies in Tonic Alchemy™. We collect the most nutritious ingredients on earth from the best sources. We’ve created a delicious, 100% natural, easy to prepare, easy to consume blend of superfoods that ANYONE can EASILY get into their body EVERY DAY.
Tonic Alchemy™ contains 71 superfoods, plus a range of probiotic organisms. It is more than a complete food. It is a quintessential food! It is your daily assurance for a healthy diet.
Who do you know that FOR SURE is getting everything they need nutritionally every day? Well, if you know someone who is consuming Tonic Alchemy™ every day, then you know somebody.
Transcending "Normal Nutrition"
Tonic Alchemy™ is loaded with the essential vitamins, amino acids and minerals that we need on a daily basis to thrive in this modern world.But Tonic Alchemy™ does not just provide conventional nutrients—it transcends “normal nutrition.” This blend of 71 superfoods contains literally thousands of phytonutrients, many of which are extremely rare and yet incredibly valuable to human health and well being. Almost every vitamin, mineral, protein and co-factor so far discovered in whole natural foods has a part to play in nurturing and protecting the human body and mind. Yet normal nutrition in our modern society is very limited for many people due to lack of variety, lack of fresh living foods, and due to the adulteration and destruction of nutrients during food growing and processing. And, of course, many of the foods we find ourselves exposed to are in fact harmful and contribute to disease and degeneration.
We all need to eat as well as possible to counterbalance the forces of the modern world. Tonic Alchemy™ presents a means of going beyond “normal nutrition” by providing nutrients that most people simply cannot fit into their “normal diet.”
Under the guidance of Ron Teeguarden, a world-recognized master herbalist, literally every nutritional wonder known to mankind has been included in the Tonic Alchemy™ blend. Various forms of fresh water algae have earned a place because of their incredible nutritional profiles and “nutrient density.” A number of seaweeds, especially the brown seaweeds, are included because of their extraordinary and safe detoxification and protective actions in humans, and rich nutrient profiles. Certain vegetables and bean sprouts have likewise been proven to be extraordinary sources of nutrients that promote glowing health. Many fruits are included for their incredible antioxidant activities, and for other reasons. Certain mushrooms are included for their potent immune modulating functions and other benefits, especially on the cardiovascular and hepatic functions of the body. Tonic Alchemy™ also features adaptogenic herbs that contain substances that fortify our body in many ways and help us adapt to the harshness of this polluted, hazardous, stressful world.
Do not think that these are just the normal commercial grade tonic herbs found elsewhere—these are the premium tonic herbs in the world sourced from the most remote and pristine regions. Even probiotics are featured to help re-establish the intestinal bacteria balance.
By consuming Tonic Alchemy™, a person is guaranteed that they are consuming a full range of the ultimate life-enhancing foods and tonic herbs in the world. These nutrients help protect our body from toxins, ailments and even accidents. They enhance our immunity, cellular respiration and metabolism, illness control, body part regeneration capacity, and longevity. Furthermore, they can play a huge role in our performance on every level of our life. Super nutrition can enhance intelligence, intuition, creativity, work performance, athletic performance, sexual performance – and even our personality and attitude toward life, work and family. There is nothing in life that is not influenced by our nutrition, and Tonic Alchemy™ provides amazing nutrients that can help every person to attain optimal personal achievement and well being.
The Amazing Superfood Blend
For the first time ever, all of these superfoods are available in one amazing blend — and Ron Teeguarden’s credo is "Never settle for less than the best."Tonic Alchemy™ is incredibly nutritious—it is without question the ultimate superfood mix ever created. Just one serving a day will provide the body, mind and spirit with the most awesome range of nutrients ever combined in one meal, much less one product. Tonic Alchemy™ is composed of 71 individual superfoods sourced from around the world. Every ingredient is the best material available in the world.
Benefits of Tonic Alchemy™
This blend is an extraordinary health-promoting tool. By consuming one to two servings per day, you are assuring yourself of good nutrition, and you are protecting your body against the ravages of modern society. Tonic Alchemy™ helps to:- Increase mental and physical energy
- Nourish all the tissues and every cell of the body
- Build blood
- Maintain a healthy immune system
- Help establish a healthy intestinal pH balance
- Nurture and balance our natural intestinal flora
- Tonify all the organ systems
- Protect the liver, lungs, brain and other tissues from toxins and pollution
- Improve digestion
- Reduce chronic inflammation
- Deactivate harmful free radicals
- Detoxify poisons and rid them from the body
- Remove heavy metals from the body
Ingredients in Tonic Alchemy™
Tonic Alchemy™, the 71-in-1 supertonic superfood, contains thousands of essential and invaluable phytochemicals, minerals and unique nutrients that are required to promote radiant health. Tonic Alchemy™ is made with the finest ingredients in the world for people seeking truly superior nutrition and radiant health.| Supertonic Blend | Green Juice Blend | Vegetable Juice Blend | ||
| Reishi Mushroom | Barley Grass | Carrot Juice | ||
| Ashwaganda | Rye Grass | Broccoli Juice | ||
| Astragalus | Wheat Grass | Tomato Juice | ||
| Ho Shou Wu | Oat Grass | Brussels Sprouts Juice | ||
| Gynostemma | Alfalfa Grass | Onion Juice | ||
| Maitake Mushroom | Kamut Grass | Garlic Juice | ||
| Lycium Berries | Ginger Juice | |||
| Pearl | Cucumber Juice | |||
| Schizandra | Kale Juice | |||
| Agaricus | Spinach Juice | |||
| Rhodiola | Parsley Juice | |||
| Cordyceps | Cabbage Juice | |||
| Celery Juice | ||||
| Cauliflower Juice | ||||
| Green Bell Pepper Juice | ||||
| Misc. | Asparagus Juice | |||
| Luo Han Guo | ||||
| Lactobacillus | ||||
| Super Sprout Blend | Hydrilla | Sea Vegetable Blend | ||
| Amaranth Sprout | Ashitaba | Laminaria Japonica | ||
| Buckwheat Sprout | Green Tea | Ecklonia | ||
| Azuki Sprout | Spirulina | Ascophyllum Nodosum | ||
| Quinoa Sprout | Dunaliella | Macrocystis | ||
| Millet Sprout | Apple Pectin | Alaria | ||
| Flax Seed Sprout | Apple | |||
| Sunflower Sprout | Chlorella | |||
| Pumpkin Seed Sprout | Acerola Cherries | Antioxidant Fruit Blend | ||
| Garbanzo Bean Sprout | Rice Bran | Blueberry | ||
| Kidney Bean Sprout | Stevia | Cherry | ||
| Lentil Sprout | Pineapple | Papaya | ||
| Chia Sprout | Larch Bark | |||
| Sesame Seed Sprout | Bitter Melon |
Chinese Tonic Herbs Are True "Superfoods"
Ron Teeguarden has created a true “supertonic superfood” blend of nutrients in accordance with the traditional Asian principles of Yin and Yang, and the Three Treasures (3 primary life energies), and with deep respect for the advancing knowledge of nutrition from a bio-physiological and bio-medical perspective.This supertonic superfood mix may be blended with a liquid to produce a delicious, incredibly life-promoting “meal.” We are calling the blend Tonic Alchemy™ to reflect the power, the beauty and the wonder of such a remarkable nutritional elixir.
Tonic Alchemy™ epitomizes the “superior herbalism” of Shennong, the ancient Chinese sage-emperor who declared that the promotion of health and well-being is more important that the treatment of disease after the fact. Indeed, health enhancement is more important than therapy in the long run. Tonic Alchemy™, when blended with soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, oat milk, fruit juice, or with some other nutritious liquid, will provide everything the body, mind and spirit could need to maintain radiant health and to support our growth, renewal, healing and development on both the physical and spiritual planes.
Chinese tonic herbalism is based on the principles set down by the legendary Chinese sage and emperor, Shennong, over two thousand six hundred years ago. Shennong defined the “superior herbs” as: "The Superior Class of herbs and foods help maintain life and promote radiant health. These herbs are not medicines so the taking of these herbs in larger amounts or over a long period of time is not harmful. If you wish to take the material weight from the body, to supplement the energies and nutrients circulating in the body, and to prolong the years of life without aging, you should base your efforts on the herbs and foods of the Superior Class."
Those of us into the art of radiant health often note that the tonic herbs are actually “super foods,” nutritional sources that are often too rare and too hard to eat to be served at the everyday dinner table, but nonetheless even more supportive than our everyday foods. These tonic herbs are rich in antioxidants, polysaccharides, and other phytonutrients that can have radical health benefits when consumed regularly.
Most of the tonic herbs used in Tonic Alchemy™ have “double-direction activity,” which means that they help to regulate body functions and to modulate excessive and deficient activities within the body and mind. They help to protect us against the ravages of stress and our own stress reactions, which otherwise can have powerful detrimental effects on our health. The tonic herbs should clearly be considered a class of food, a class that should be consumed every day to enhance and promote life, to prevent disease, and to “prolong the years of life without aging.”
Tonic Alchemy™’s “Predigestion Process”
Ron Teeguarden and his team of herbalists, nutritionists and researchers have examined the traditional dietary habits and remedies of cultures known for their longevity and extraordinary health.
A key common bond amongst these cultures is the principle of “predigestion” by lactic acid fermentation. Predigestion (fermentation) is Nature’s method of preparing certain foods for easy assimilation in the human body.Unfortunately, most other nutritional companies and health-conscious individuals have overlooked the importance of consuming foods predigested by means of the lactic acid method.Tonic Alchemy’s proprietary lactic acid predigestion process, which we call the Probiotic-Enzymatic Predigestion Process© (or, the PEP Process©) is an ancient and natural method of bio-fermentation that incorporates beneficial probiotic microorganisms and their enzymes into foods to gently break them down into their most basic elements.
Why Predigestion?
This robiotic-enzymatic predigestion process increases bioavailability and absorption of the nutrient compounds entering the intestines, including all the superfoods in Tonic Alchemy™, making them “body-ready” for everyone, even those with compromised digestion.The application of our proprietary lactic acid predigestion process is a way for the body to utilize all of the phytochemicals and phytonutrients available in vegetables, fruits, grasses and herbs with very little stress on the digestive tract. For the healthy individual, predigested foods provide incredible nutritional resources that will help assure the maintenance of health and will contribute to a slower aging process. They support our health in numerous ways and are virtually essential to attaining the most out of our lives. The ancient bio-fermentation process using beneficial microorganisms (probiotics) and their enzymes to gently break down foods into their most basic elements neutralizes nutrient inhibitors found in foods such as grains, seeds and legumes. Many people with sensitive digestive systems have a tough time obtaining nutrition from these sometimes difficult-to-digest foods. The enzymatic process solves that problem. Sick people, with reduced ability to utilize fibrous foods and herbs, may receive a much greater boost from the herbs and foods they consume thanks to the fermentation process, making their healing and health-promoting constituents far more available to the sickened person’s body.
Predigestion for Nutrition and Digestion
Predigestion enhances the nutritional value of the food while making it much easier to digest.
The
Probiotic-Enzymatic Predigestion Process©
is one of the distinguishing factors separating
Tonic Alchemy™
from other superfood products.
Tonic Alchemy™ utilizes a proprietary “mother culture” that contains a range of microorganisms resistant to many of the factors and agents that kill more fragile probiotic species, such as stomach acid, heat, cold, chlorine, fluorine and ascorbic acid.
For the fermented superfoods component of Tonic Alchemy™, we start with a blend of cereal grasses (Organic Barley Grass, Organic Wheat Grass, Organic Alfalfa Grass and Organic Oat Grass) and other superfoods (Organic Spirulina, Dunaliella Salina, Organic Yam, Agave, Chlorella and Kelp) and cover them with our mother culture for three to six weeks. This completely natural process, conducted under rigidly controlled conditions, results in a food that is completely predigested, yielding an abundance of probiotics, enzymes, B-vitamins and proteins. Tonic Alchemy™’s PEP Process© also creates several novel phytochemicals that the body craves, including superoxide dismutase (SOD), the body’s master antioxidant, as well as various immune-supporting polysaccharides, and many other antioxidants — all created from the “alchemy” involved in fermentation.
better absorption and elivery of nutrients to cells
The predigestion-enzymatic process creates and liberates valuable compounds within the foods including enzymes, antioxidants, beta glucans, phytosterols and many others.The predigestion-enzymatic process enhances the nutritional value of the food while making it much easier to digest. This assures the Tonic Alchemy™ user more complete absorption and delivery of nutrients at the cellular level.
Why Not Just Take Straight Probiotics?
Unlike other probiotic products, the probiotics and enzymes contained in Tonic Alchemy™ are created within the foods themselves. Tonic Alchemy™ provides probiotics, enzymes and phytonutrients from an extraordinary range of the world’s greatest superfoods in one whole food package.Probiotic colonization in the digestive tract is much more likely to succeed and achieve optimal functioning when the probiotic micro-organisms are delivered in this manner. Studies indicate that most probiotic organisms are lost when they are consumed alone without the natural co-factors associated with real food fermentation.
Green Food “Magic”
Why Is the Color Green So Important?
Tonic Alchemy™ is rightfully called a “green superfood.” It is clearly green and this is due to the large amount of chlorophyll in the numerous individual super foods that make up Tonic Alchemy™.Chlorophyll is nature’s ubiquitous green plant pigment. It is central to the most fundamental process of life on earth, the process of converting solar energy and carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbohydrates and oxygen. Without chlorophyll, life as we know it on earth would not exist. Chlorophyll is a cluster of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen atoms surrounding a single magnesium atom. Remarkably, hemoglobin, the pigment that makes our blood red and that carries oxygen to our cells, is almost identical to chlorophyll and can be made from it. Hemoglobin has an iron atom in place of the magnesium atom found in chlorophyll – and that is the only difference. Chlorophyll is thus nature’s perfect blood tonic.
Chlorophyll can be a powerful antioxidant because it is capable of electron transfer. In addition, chlorophyll has potent antibacterial action. It helps clean the digestive tract by effectively clearing up putrefaction. It helps remove materials that create body odors.
Many people have a microbial imbalance in their digestive tract as a result of chemicals in their diet, antibiotics and stress factors. Chlorophyll has an anti-yeast effect in the digestive tract. Thus Tonic Alchemy™ can play a very important role in people who are in need of reducing yeast (candida) populations in their intestines (and throughout their body) and in fostering the growth of beneficial organisms.
Furthermore, some green foods are extraordinarily rich nutritionally. The green grasses grown from food grains, in particular, are extraordinarily nutritious. Barley grass, for example, is very rich in nutrients. It contains substantial amounts of calcium, potassium, magnesium, selenium, zinc, and an abundance of trace minerals. Barley grass contains eight essential amino acids (barley grass is 25% protein), beta carotene, vitamin C, bioflavonoids, vitamin E, various B vitamins, and vitamin K. Of course, it is a superb source of chlorophyll. It is rich in a variety of enzymes, and is also an excellent source of superoxide dismutase (SOD), an enzyme that is a very important antioxidant in human beings. Barley grass is a very good anti-inflammatory. It helps reduce cholesterol and has been used specifically to help the pancreas, stomach, duodenum and cardiovascular systems. Barley grass is a highly alkaline food, which helps to counteract the acidity present in the modern diet. Juiced barley grass provides the nutrients quickly, and these provide quick energy. Whole and fermented barley grass provides valuable fiber that improves elimination and benefits the body in many ways. Fermented barley grass provides not only a vast array of probiotics, but also a whole range of enzymes and other co-factors that benefit the intestines and immune system.
Tonic Alchemy™ contains barley grass juice, fermented barley grass and whole dried barley grass. It also contains wheat, kamut, oat, rye and alfalfa grasses, all prepared in the same ways as the barley grass. In addition, Tonic Alchemy™ contains various other green plants such as green tea, gynostemma, spirulina, chlorella, hydrilla, and others. The overall benefits of such a dense source of green foods is spectacular for human health. All of these green foods are organically grown or are wildcrafted.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.A Ron Teeguarden product from Dragon Herbs:
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