Dr. Michael Murray The IMMUNE FA CTOR - Natural MediFAQS

product, the consumer has no assurance that the
product will produce the desired result.
Echinamide: The World’s Best Echinacea
End of the common cold?
Natural Factors’ testing and manufacturing procedures
go beyond established guidelines to ensure the highest
quality and consistency of product. Natural Factors
grows their own echinacea using certified organic
methods, hand weeding and harvesting with no
chemical pesticides or herbicides, and the company’s
own laboratories analyze the plant material fresh from
the field. These sophisticated labs use equipment such
as HPLC (high pressure liquid chromatography)—a way
to measure plant components at every stage of growth
— to help determine the best harvesting time and
extraction methods. All this attention to testing allows
Natural Factors to produce a consistent Echinamide
extract standardized for the three key active
compounds.
Even after the finished product is complete, Natural
Factors is not done testing because they want to ensure
that the product is stable on the shelves of local natural
health food stores and active when the consumer uses
it. It is this attention to detail and dedication to quality
that sets Echinamide and Natural Factors above all
others.
Echinacea has been shown to exert significant
effects on immune function in over 300 scientific
investigations. Several classes of compounds are
responsible for these effects. In order for an echinacea
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