Bob Stratton from Seattle, WA was a patient for a clinical study on the Pharmanex Bio-Photonic Scanner presented at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in April, 2006. A landmark study conducted in collaboration with three major US universities to test skin carotenoid levels, as an indicator of the overall antioxidant network, was presented at the annual meeting of the FASEB in San Francisco , CA . Pharmanex scientists collaborated with these universities on this groundbreaking research which studied over 300 healthy subjects. The study results show that a consumer-friendly tool called a Bio-Photonic Scanner provides a good indicator of fruit and vegetable intake, antioxidant nutrition and oxidative stress (free radical damage) making it an accurate way to measure overall antioxidant health in the body. The Pharmanex Bio-Photonic Scanner provides a personalized, scientifically validated measurement of how diet and supplementation is protecting a person's cells and overall nutritional health. This portable instrument measures carotids as a biomarker for antioxidant health. Carotenoids are powerful antioxidants found in abundance in many fruits and vegetables and they protect the body at the cellular level against the effects of aging and the environment. The instrument measures the caretenoid level in the skin of the palm using a safe blue light and a technology called Raman spectroscopy. By consistently tracking caretenoid antioxidant levels in the body consumers are equipped with the knowledge to maintain a lifestyle and nutrition habits that will help boost antioxidant levels and maintain proper nutrition and health. The study presented at FASEB showed highly significant correlations between skin carotids and other blood antioxidants such as vitamin C and E. In addition, a highly significant inverse corrolation between skin carotids and oxidative stress was observed. Together these results confirm that the Scanner is the best non-invasive indicator of overall antioxidant status in the body as well as a good indicator of overall oxidative stress. In addition, the study demonstrated that skin carotenoids as measured by the scanner are a convenient non-invasive indicator of average fruit and vegetable consumption. Previously blood carotenoids had been viewed as the gold standard indicator of fruit and vegetable intake. The results also confirmed prior research showing strong correlations between skin and blood carotenoids and that the test with the scanner is as reliable as blood measurements. It takes weeks to make a significant change in skin carotenoids, but the blood carotenoids vary from meal to meal.
Bob was scanned on July 29, 2006 which was three days after beginning to drink Kangen Water. He got a mediocre score of 28,000. Bob drank the alkaline water and was scanned again September 18th at a big Pharmanex meeting. Pharmanex people stood and told stories of improved antioxidant levels in their bodies. All of them were on at least $200.00 per month worth of Pharmanex nutritional products. All of them were seeing steady improvement in their scanner scores. The most successful were also exercising more and eating better. Not one of them has a scanner score improvement of over 6,000 within an 8 week period. Unlike the Pharmanex people who shared their stories at the meeting. Bob made no diet changes and had not exercised at all in several months other than walking an occassional round of golf. Bob's score went up by 15,000 from 28,000 to 43,000 in just 7 weeks and 2 days!
Bob was scanned on July 29, 2006 which was three days after beginning to drink Kangen Water. He got a mediocre score of 28,000. Bob drank the alkaline water and was scanned again September 18th at a big Pharmanex meeting. Pharmanex people stood and told stories of improved antioxidant levels in their bodies. All of them were on at least $200.00 per month worth of Pharmanex nutritional products. All of them were seeing steady improvement in their scanner scores. The most successful were also exercising more and eating better. Not one of them has a scanner score improvement of over 6,000 within an 8 week period. Unlike the Pharmanex people who shared their stories at the meeting. Bob made no diet changes and had not exercised at all in several months other than walking an occassional round of golf. Bob's score went up by 15,000 from 28,000 to 43,000 in just 7 weeks and 2 days!