EXCLUSIVE: Staying Productive, Healthy in the Work Place

Editor's note: In our continuing look at Atlanta-area businesses, today's Wednesday Wellness looks at local resident Cynthia Dunsky and her pursuit of offering healthier lives for individuals.

Dunsky's business is really two fold. She works with a global product brokerage company to bring products to people and people to products. The company is similar to Amazon.com but triple in size with over 35 million products with its partner stores and including 2,500 exclusive proprietary products that their customers can only purchase through an exclusive distributors and web portal. Their proprietary products are top of the line in health, nutrition, anti-aging, weight management, skin care and cosmetics. Dunsky has been in Atlanta for 12 years and after working and supporting other people's dreams, she decided to work for her future and her dreams.

GOATLANTA Marketing Director Carrie Podber, founder of www.echaincommunity.com, recently spoke with Dunsky about people being more productive, staying healthy in the work place, and the primary benefits of using Isotonix OPC-3.

GOATLANTA: They say statistically speaking that people are more productive if they are healthy. What are some of the things that contribute to productivity?

CYNTHIA DUNSKY: Exercise, eating habits, and supplementation all contribute to productivity in the work place. People are more alert which leads to being more productive. Between the toxins, antibiotics, mercury etc. we ingest we are losing valuable nutrients in our food.

GA: How do we stay healthy and productive in the work place?

CD: We need supplements to counteract lose of valuable nutrients. My recommendation is an Antioxidant, Isotonix® OPC-3®.

GA: What are the primary benefits of using OPC-3®?

CD: The primary benefits of OPC-3® include: Combats free radicals; Demonstrates anti-inflammatory activity; Helps maintain healthy cholesterol levels; Helps maintain healthy circulation by strengthening capillaries, arteries and veins; Helps maintain joint flexibility; Helps promote/support cardiovascular health; Helps reduce mild menstrual cramping and abdominal pain; Helps support visual health/visual acuity; Potent free radical scavenger; Promotes/Supports healthy blood vessel dilation; Promotes/Supports healthy nitric oxide levels; Supports a healthy complexion; Supports healthy blood glucose levels; Supports healthy platelet activity; Supports healthy sperm quality.

GA: What makes this product unique?

CD: A free radical is an atomic structure with an unpaired electron in its outermost shell. These unpaired electrons tend to be highly reactive, resulting in chemical reactions such as oxidation. Because they have one or more unpaired electrons, free radicals are highly unstable. They scavenge the body to grab or donate electrons, causing damage to cells, proteins and DNA. Free radicals are naturally occurring; however, air pollution, stress, smoking, heavy exercising and aging all contribute to the creation of harmful free radicals. Free radicals can cause oxidative damage to the body, potentially leading to serious health problems. Normally the body is able to protect itself from the damaging effects of free radicals, but if antioxidants are unavailable, or if free radical production becomes excessive, damage can occur.

Antioxidants are natural cell protectors, neutralizing free radicals by pairing an electron to the outermost shell of radical oxygen molecules, rendering them harmless. Antioxidants are nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, and enzymes that are capable of counteracting the damaging, but normal, effects of the physiological process of oxidation in bodily tissues. Antioxidants work in two ways, chain breaking and prevention. A chain-breaking antioxidant such as vitamins A, C and E, stabilize free radicals or cause them to decay into harmless atomic structures. A preventative antioxidant prevents the oxidation process by scavenging free radicals.

Isotonix® OPC-3® is an isotonic-capable food supplement that is made from a combination of bilberry, grape seed, red wine, pine bark extracts and citrus extract bioflavonoids, all found to be potent antioxidants. Oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs) are bioflavonoids (complex organic plant compounds) found in fruits, vegetables and certain tree barks that provide exceptional nutritional benefits to the human body.

Studies have shown OPCs to be up to 20 times more powerful than vitamin C and 50 times more powerful than vitamin E in neutralizing free radicals. Isotonix OPC-3 contains the only isotonic form of Pycnogenol® in the world. Pycnogenol is a natural plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, and the most clinically researched and potent bioflavonoid.

Isotonic, which means “same pressure,” bears the same chemical resemblance of the body’s blood, plasma and tears. All fluids in the body have a certain concentration, referred to as osmotic pressure. The body’s common osmotic pressure, which is isotonic, allows a consistent maintenance of body tissues. In order for a substance to be absorbed and used in the body’s metabolism, it must be transported in an isotonic state.

Isotonix® dietary supplements are delivered in an isotonic solution. This means that the body has less work to do to obtain maximum absorption. The isotonic state of the suspension allows nutrients to pass directly into the small intestine and be rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. With Isotonix products, little nutritive value is lost, making the absorption of nutrients highly efficient while delivering maximum results.

GA: Where can one go to purchase OPC-3®?

CD: You can purchase the product directly through my Web site at: www.healthaccessgroup.com.