Damage Control Master Formula

• 60 packets of 12 caps: $129
• Automatic Monthly Delivery: $129+free shipping
• Automatic Annual Monthly Delivery: $1,398+free shipping

• Mark Sisson Bio
• Ned Overend - Ageless Legend
• Study Indicates Benefits for Endurance Athlete Multivitamin Supplementation
• Supplement Facts
• Vitamin Quality Warnings

Many endurance athletes wonder whether supplementation is necessary. Even those convinced have a hard time justifying paying 129 bucks for a container of capsules - not with Costco selling a 30-day multivitamin supply for $9.99. But we all know how important stress management and recovery are - they are the keys to success in endurance sports and in modern life.

The Master Formula works and it makes a difference you can feel - guaranteed. If you don't experience it, you can have your money back. In contrast, an inexpensive commercial supplement with inferior and less potent ingredients will not make a difference and can even be detrimental to your health. Read More

Seven years ago, Mark Sisson, the designer of Master Formula, set out to manufacture the absolute highest quality supplement in the world, sparing no expense on ingredients, research or formulation. The resulting Damage Control Master Formula (frequently updated in response to the latest research) has enjoyed great popularity with people of all ages and fitness levels, including some of the world's top professional athletes.

Why the Master Formula is different

Primal Nutrition believes that almost every lifestyle concern or health issue is best addressed with a comprehensive natural formula containing not just one or two "fad ingredients", but one containing the widest possible variety of well-researched ingredients shown to provide benefits for that particular health concern.

With the Master Formula, you'll no longer feel like you have to assemble your own formula using bottle after bottle of single-nutrient tablets or capsules. The Master Formula is a complete all-natural formula - using scientific doses of key nutrients - and delivers them to you at a substantial savings over what you would otherwise pay.

Money Back Guarantee

Bradventures and Primal Nutrition are so certain that you will experience a noticeable benefit that they offer a 30-day unconditional money back guarantee: Try your first bottle and notice the benefit or your money back!

Mark Sisson, the founder of Primal Nutrition, is a noted researcher, athlete, author and nutritional formulations designer. has spent the past twenty years researching and writing about fitness, health, and nutrition - as well as using that research to design state-of-the-art performance and health-enhancing nutritional supplement products.

His unique blend of skills, knowledge and experience in the fields of fitness, nutrition and anti-aging are what make the Damage Control Master Formula unequalled anywhere in the world.

As a world-class athlete, Mark has personally experienced the highest levels of human performance. His 2:18 marathon earned him a fifth place finish at the 1980 USA National Marathon Championships; he finished 4th in the 1982 Hawaii Ironman Triathlon; he was a member of the indoor world-record 24-hour relay team (1977) and he briefly held the world record for the vertical one-mile climb on a Versa-Climber (1988).

After receiving a degree in biology from Williams College in 1975, Mark began what has become a lifelong investigation into the safest and most effective ways to maximize human performance and increase useful longevity. His extensive research and experience have resulted in several books including: The Runners World Triathlon Training Book, Training and Racing Biathlons, Maximum Results, The Fat Control System and The Lean Lifestyle Program (over 500,000 copies distributed).

He has also written over 50 magazine articles on exercise and nutrition for such notable publications as Men's Fitness, Triathlete, and Runner's World, and he was the Editor of the Optimum Health national newsletter (circ. 90,000) from 1994 through 1996. Mark has appeared on ESPN, QVC, QVC UK, FIT TV, Shop at Home, and numerous radio interview shows as a fitness and nutrition expert. Throughout this time, he has also designed several proprietary formulas for other major nutritional supplement companies.

His extensive knowledge of the effects of supplementation on human performance - what works, what doesn't, what's safe and what's not - resulted in his being appointed in 1993 as Chairman of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) Anti-Doping Commission and liaison to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission. In this prestigious international position, Mark oversaw drug-testing and anti-doping education of triathletes in 130 countries around the world.

For five years beginning in 1992, Mark served as Chief Operating Officer and head of R&D for the country's largest television-direct seller of nutritional supplements. He left that position in 1996 to form Primal Nutrition, Inc.

Mark is 48 years old; he and his wife Carrie have 2 children.

Ned Overend - Ageless Endurance Legend

Ned Overend - 47-years young and still crushing the competition Ned Overend, one of the world's most extraordinary endurance athletes, has been taking Damage Control Master Formula for three years with great results. Every time Ned races, he makes history. No one in the history of elite level multisport competition has demonstrated the ability to defy the law of time as dramatically as Ned. Simply put, Ned kicks ass on the young guys!

At the age of 47, he is one of the world's top professional off-road triathletes. Over the course of his 30-year career as an endurance athlete, Ned has enjoyed honors such as two Xterra world mountain bike triathlon championships, a UCI world mountain biking championship, six national mountain biking titles, and top finishes in the whole spectrum of endurance competition - the Hawaii Ironman, ultradistance trail runs and road cycling stage races.

"People think I'm ageless, but the truth is my experience compensates for my age. I know how to train smarter and look after the little details in my life that make a difference on race day. My diet, my sleep, my rest and recovery patterns and my supplementation are all superior to what they were 10 and 20 years ago.

"I think I benefit in particular from the Damage Control Master Formula because of my age. I believe that everybody over 40 ought to be taking some form of high-potency supplementation. There's just too much good evidence that these nutrients work and there's nothing out there that can compare to the ingredients in the Master Formula. Traveling, training and racing, balancing family and professional obligations - these things wear you down even more as you get older. I take the Master Formula every day and I swear by it."

Vitamin Quality Warning

Are You Wasting Money On Your Multivitamin? Many commercially produced multivitamin formulas are ineffective. Haphazard ingredient combinations, harsh production methods and artificial ingredients dramatically reduce the potency and bio-availability of the nutrients. The worst form of multivitamin to take is a tablet.

Commericially produced tablets are created by crushing nutrients under 50,000 pounds of pressure. The pressure creates a sudden flash of heat that destroys nutrient potency similar to what happens when you overcook food. Tablets typically contain toxic residues of binders, fillers, and glues that are used to stick ingredients together. Even capsules suffer heat damage when nutrients are granulated by friction grinding in preparation for encapsulation.

Other problems with commercially produced vitamins include using cheaper nutrient extracts, which are less bio-available than the preferred, but more expensive forms (e.g. - magnesium aspartate is better than the commonly used magnesium oxide). Just like there is junk food, there is junk vitamins. Always choose a natural foods store or market that carries products from manufacturers that have a commitment to health and quality.

Warehouse clubs and pharmacies are the worst places to purchase vitamin products. Look at ingredient labels carefully for artificial ingredients and chemicals in the product. Many top brands have a disclaimer on the label reading something like, 'free of corn, yeast, wheat, soy or dairy products and formulated without the use of preservatives, additives, lubricants, stabilizers, glues, artificial ingredients, flavors or colors."

Study Indicates Benefits for Endurance Athlete Multivitamin Supplementation

This article, reprinted from the Journal of Endurance, suggests that multivitamins supplementation is particularly helpful for endurance athletes.

Since the late 1940's, our soils have been depleted of 90% of their micronutrient-rich influence in organic produce. The organic content of vitamin and minerals either fed to livestock or harvested for human consumption decreases with each annual crop. If the soils deplete with each crop, our food chain fails to provide the micronutrients required.

Multivitamin supplements are often sold to consumers with the claim that supplements modify risk factors associated with disease. Because few products are validated scientifically, we examined the effects of a 24-ingredient multivitamin formula in an open-label pilot investigation. Researchers examined 150 subjects for specific endpoints including blood concentrations of selected vitamins, homocysteine, lipids, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation indices at baseline and at 12 and 24 wk.

One hundred forty-one subjects were successfully assayed for and showed significant time effects for homocysteine and vitamin B6 (as pyridoxal-5'-phosphate), B12, and folic acid concentrations during treatment. Vitamin B6, B12, and folic acid concentrations were significantly elevated at weeks 12 and 24.

Homocysteine concentration decreased significantly during the same periods (7.9 versus 6.7 versus 6.7 mM/mL. There were correlation's relating homocysteine to vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid. Significant time effects were noted for 121 subjects successfully assayed for vitamin C, E, beta-carotene, LDL oxidation rate, and LDL lag time.

Post hoc assessment showed elevations in vitamin C, E, and beta-carotene concentrations at 12 and 24 weeks. LDL oxidation lag time at baseline from 57.5 minutes average increased by 12 wk to 635 minutes average and 24 weeks 63.8 minutes on average. LDL oxidation rate averages at baseline (9.7 microM x min(-1). g(-1)) was reduced at 12 weeks (7.1 microM x min(-1) x g(-1) and 24 weeks (6.0 microM x min(-1) x g(-1).

Only vitamin C was significantly correlated with LDL oxidation rate. A multi-ingredient vitamin formula with antioxidant properties has measurable effects on homocysteine and LDL oxidation indices [1].

COMMENT: The inverse correlation between homocysteine and levels of vitamin B6, B12, and folic acid are convincing. When it comes to maximally effecting blood lipid health, taking a potent multiple is offsets diet-induced and genetic malefactors, which may increase homocysteine, vascular disease, and accelerated lipid oxidation.

Because endurance athletes present a higher caloric exchange in terms of intake versus exercise-induced expense, the multivitamin requirements are greater to offset potential homocysteine levels presented by diet or genetic factors. High macronutrients caloric expenditures imply a proportionate increase in micronutrient supplementation. REFERENCE [1] Nutrition 2002 Sep;18(9):738-42.

Supplement Facts

Serving Size: 2 Packets (6 capsules per packet - 2 packets per day) Servings per container 30 (60 packets).

The Supplement Facts panel below lists the 48 exceptional nutrients and the amounts of each contained in the Damage Control Master Formula.

	Amount Per Two Packets		% Daily Value
	Vitamin A (67% [10,000 iu] as natural beta carotene)	15,000 iu	300%
	Vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate)	1500 mg	2500%
	Vitamin D (as cholecalciferol)	400 iu	100%
	Vitamin E (as natural d-alpha tocopheryl succinate)	800 iu	2666%
	Vitamin B1 (as thiamine HCl)	150 mg	10000%
	Vitamin B2 (as riboflavin)	17 mg	1000%
	Vitamin B3 (as non-flushing niacin)	100 mg	500%
	Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxal 5’ phosphate)	20 mg	1000%
	Folic Acid	800 mcg	200%
	Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin)	600 mcg	10000%
	Biotin	2 mg	666%
	Vitamin B5 (as calcium pantothenate)	250 mg	2500%
	Calcium (as ascorbate, citrate, carbonate, pantothenate)	700 mg	70%
	Iodine (as potassium iodide)	150 mcg	100%
	Magnesium (as magnesium oxide, magnesium chelate)	400 mg	100%
	Zinc (as zinc citrate)	30 mg	200%
	Selenium (as selenium methionate)	200 mcg	287%
	Copper (as copper citrate)	2.5 mg	125%
	Manganese (as manganese citrate)	10 mg	500%
	Chromium (as chromium niacinate)	240 mcg	200%
	Molybdenum (as molybdenum aspartate)	150 mcg	200%
	Boron (as boron citrate)	2 mg	*
	Vanadium (as vanadium citrate)	40 mcg	*
	Choline	100 mg	*
	Inositol	100 mg	*
	Co-enzyme Q10	100 mg	*
	Tocotrienol Complex (7.5% as tocotrienols)	266 mg	*
	N-Acetyl Cysteine	500 mg	*
	Alpha Lipoic Acid	100 mg	*
	Grapeseed Extract	100 mg	*
	Green Tea Extract	100 mg	*
	Trimethylglycine (TMG)	100 mg
	Tomato Extract (5% lycopene)	200 mg	*
	Lutein	6 mg	*
	Bilberry Extract (25% anthocyanidins)	20 mg	*
	Phosphatidyl Serine (Corti-PS®)  1	200 mg	*
	Milk Thistle (80% silymarin)	125 mg	*
	Soy Isoflavones	10 mg	*
	Ginkgo Biloba (extract 24/6)	90 mg	*
	Vinpocetine	10 mg	*
	Beta Glucan (as beta-1,3-D glucan)	20 mg	*
	DMAE (as dimethylaminoethanol)	100 mg	*
	Curcumin C3 Complex (95% curcuminoids) 2	250 mg	*
	Quercitin	200 mg	*
	Hesperidan Bioflavonoids	300 mg	*
	Mixed Carotenoids (from Betatene 7.5%)	6 mg	*
	Arabinogalactans	100 mg	*
	Digestive Enzyme Blend	20 mg	*

* Daily Value not established Other ingredients: gelatin capsules, silica, magnesium stearate 1- Corti-PS is a registered trademark of Lucas Meyer Inc. 2-Curcumin C3 Complex is a registered trademark of Sabinsa Corp.

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