Hammer Nutrition: Super A.O.

Everything you do, including breathing, creates free radicals and when you exercise the amount increases dramatically. Excess free radicals can easily overwhelm your body's natural antioxidant systems, wreaking havoc on your athletic endeavors and, more importantly, your health. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, but merely taking some vitamin C and E won't cut it. You need as much antioxidant support as possible from a wide variety of sources. Super AO's unique combination of herbal, enzyme, and amino acid antioxidants complements, but doesn't duplicate, the antioxidants you may already be taking.* Super AO is designed to support your immune system, maintain healthy circulation, and promote recovery, thus helping preserve the hard-earned gains you make in training.* The harder you train, the more you may need Super AO in your recovery regimen.*

The Super A.O. Formula

2. Grape Seed Extract is high in a substance called OPC, a flavonoid that is believed to be several times more potent than even Vitamin C and E.* OPCs are responsible for neutralizing three types of free radicals.* In addition, the OPCs in Grade Seed Extract help support healthy connective tissue.*

3. L-Glutathione is a protein that is produced in the liver from three specific amino acids. Along with the mineral selenium, it forms the enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which, along with SOD, is one of the body's endogenous antioxidants, and perhaps the most important one of all. Glutathione is also part of another enzyme, which has been suggested to help maintain a healthy liver.* It promotes health in individual cells as well as the tissues of nearly the entire body.*

4. Ginkgo Biloba is an herb suggested for its ability to support healthy circulation and promote the supply of oxygen to the entire body.* A potential benefit of healthy circulation is the ability to speed delivery of antioxidants throughout the body in addition to helping eliminate metabolic wastes more quickly.

5. Gotu Kola is another herb that has antioxidant capabilities as well as aiding in healthy circulation.* It is helpful with fatigue and neutralizing blood acids and is useful for optimal heart and liver function.*

6. Vinpocetine is chemically related to, and derived from vincamine, an alkaloid found in the periwinkle plant. Studies with vinpocetine surmise that it can dilate blood vessels, maintain healthy circulation in the brain, improve oxygen utilization, make red blood cells more pliable, and promote inhibition of aggregation of platelets.* Vinpocetine also has antioxidant properties.*