AMX BEAN PROTEIN POWDER
Product No. P0601
The beginning of the digestive process occurs when food is taken into the mouth, chewed and mixed with saliva prior to swallowing. Saliva
contains an enzyme known as alpha-amylase which begins the initial breakdown of cooked starches. After swallowing, food is passed into the stomach. In the stomach, food is mixed with acid and the proteolytic enzyme, pepsin. This mixture is slowly released into
the duodenum where it is mixed with pancreatic juice. This juice breaks down fats, proteins, and starches. Absorption of the breakdown products of proteins and starches occurs in the duodenum and jejunum.
fats are absorbed in the latter parts of the small intestine. Undigested materials are passed into the colon, from where they are eliminated.
In the late 1930's a number of foods were found to contain natural substances which inhibited the actions of both salivary and pancreatic alpha-amylases. Very little work was done on these materials until the late 1960's. It was at this time that the active inhibitor of the enzyme alpha-amylase was isolated from legumes and grains. The inhibitor molecule was found to be a protein, and the extraction process was developed to isolate this natural protein from legumes, and in particular, from kidney beans.
Raw or uncooked kidney beans also contain some very toxic anti-nutrients and haemagglutins (substances which cause clumping of red blood cells). Cooking the kidney beans is the simplest method to destroy the dangerous substances, but this also destroys the amylase inhibitor protein. Processes were developed to remove the dangerous materials from the kidney bean extracts without destroying the amylase inhibitor.
Extensive laboratory studies were conducted to test the efficacy and safety of the kidney bean amylase-inhibitor protein concentrates. The amylase inhibitor preparation most extensively studied has been the AMX brand of legume protein concentrate. This protein concentrate was found to inhibit quantities of the amylase enzyme equal to nearly twice the pancreatic output of a normal individual secreted during an average meal.
This product exhibits no anti-nutrient or haemagglutination properties. In extensive toxicity studies on both dogs and rats, no alterations of blood haematology or chemistry was noted. In addition, no gross or microscopic pathological changes were found in the organs of the animals used in the toxicity trials. Other studies were conducted in an attempt to determine LD5O dose of the AMX brand amylase inhibitor. A highly respected testing laboratory was unable to establish
either and LD50 or toxic dose of this amylase inhibitor. After validation of the safety of the AMX brand of amylase inhibitor, studies were performed in dogs to determine whether the amylase inhibitor tablet blocked the digestion of a meal's content of dietary starch.
The AMX brand of amylase inhibitor was found to block the rise in the serum glucose levels following a large starch meal. The lack of a postprandial serum glucose elevation, in conjunction with the equal recovery of the majority of the dietary starch intake, provided validation that this product blocked the digestion of starch. The ultimate test was to use this product in human subjects. This was done and results were similar to those found in the animal studies.
One AMX brand amylase inhibitor tablet blocked the digestion of a meal's content of dietary starch.
The use of AMX is restricted to those individuals who are following a meal plan with a controlled level of calories, of which a substantial portion is starch. These tablets, taken before each meal containing starch, will not block the digestion or absorption of sugars, fats, proteins, or alcohol. This dietetic product enables the individual to eat substantially greater quantities of food than one would normally be allowed on a diet program. In fact, one can consume almost twice as much. It is important that one recognises that this new diet program does not allow one to eat as much as one wants. It does, however,
greatly increase the amount and variety of foods that can be eaten on other diet regimes. Specifically, one can eat as much as 1200 additional calories per day in the form of starches (bread, potatoes, pastas, rice, etc.) when compared to other diet programs.
The ingestion of one AMX brand amylase inhibitor tablet with each meal will block the breakdown of dietary starches and will permit only the digestion and absorption of the essential non-starch constituents of the meal. Only AMX, through it's unique molecular weight separation process can provide the most effective way to prevent the digestion of starches. No other product can match the effectiveness of AMX without the use of unnatural chemical processes.
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