Supplement Facts

Source Naturals was created in 1982 by C.E.O Ira Goldberg to support each individual’s potential to enjoy optimal health. At that time, the kind of nutritional formulations he envisioned – for the maintenance of well-being and the enhancement of life – simply didn’t exist. The idea of combining many nutrients, herbs and nutraceuticals in one formulation, though common today, was then a rarity. Source Naturals pioneered the concept with Wellness Formula, now the industry’s #1 immune support product.

Source Naturals subsequently introduced numerous award-winning formulas, recognized for their excellence in independent surveys and nutritional analyses. In addition to Wellness, these award-winners include Life Force Multiple, Mega-Kid Multiple, Inflama-Rest, the Skin Eternal line, Higher Mind, Essential Enzymes, Male Response, and more.

Source Naturals’ comprehensive Bio-Aligned Formulas help bring the power of alignment to your body. When formulating, we evaluate the underlying causes of system imbalances, and then provide targeted nutrition to interdependent body systems. Our line of more than 600 products also includes well-researched, single entity nutrients in their highest quality and most bioavailable forms.

Nature abhors imbalance. From the solar system to our internal body systems, the natural world strives for bio-alignment. Symptoms are really systems out of alignment. Only by going deep to the root cause of system imbalances can vibrant health be attained.*

Health concerns often begin as subtle biochemical and cellular imbalances, deep below the surface of our perception, years before problems manifest. SystemiCare is a holistic, early intervention approach to healthcare that utilizes natural compounds to address these system imbalances.*

Source Naturals Bio-Aligned Formulas are critical to the SystemiCare model. They are formulations with potent bio-active nutrients that go deep to the root causes of health imbalances and become powerful tools for vibrant health and well being.*

Bio-Aligned Formulas Balance Your Body Systems
Source Naturals comprehensive Bio-Aligned Formulas go deep to address the root causes of nutritional symptoms. Our expert formulators exhaustively review the latest scientific research on nutrition and health. Then they design scientifically based formulas that help bring alignment to your multiple, interdependent body systems. Only this in-depth formulation approach can bring you the most effective formulas possible.*

Cardiovascular Symptoms*
Your heart function and circulation can be disrupted by factors including diet, stress, and free radicals. Bio-Aligned Formulas supply nutrients to meet the heart’s energy requirements, nutrients necessary for the maintenance of blood vessels, antioxidants to help control cholesterol oxidation, minerals to support normal electrical rhythms, vitamins for regulation of homocysteine levels, and fibers to help with the exertion of cholesterol.*

Cognitive & Mood Symptoms*
Brain health can be affected by nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental factors, leaving you susceptible to problems in memory, concentration, and perception. Bio-Aligned Formulas provide ingredients such as neurotransmitters for brain cell communication, phospholipids that are components of nerve cell membranes, nutrients to fuel the brain’s energy demands, and herbs for stress response.*

Digestive, Eliminative & Metabolic Symptoms*
Without adequate nutrition, your liver can’t perform its critical functions: detoxification, metabolism, and conversion of vitamins into usable forms. Bio-Aligned Formulas provide antioxidants, herbs that detoxify and promote bile flow, ingredients for the liver’s energy needs, nutrients that support glucose metabolism and pancreatic activity, and digestive enzymes.*

General Symptomatic Conditions*
Daily well-being requires nutrition for your major body systems. While typical multiples supply just enough ingredients to meet minimum requirements, Bio-Aligned Formulas provide nutrients to support energy and liver function, heart-friendly botanicals, herbs that promote circulation to the brain, immune-supporting vitamins, minerals for your skeletal system, and antioxidants for general protection.*

Immune Symptoms*
Appropriate immune response is critical for seasonal health and wellness all year around—but it can be compromised by stress, lack of sleep, and poor diet. Bio-Aligned Formulas supply botanicals that modify histamine release, nutrients for the adrenals, clearing herbs, and antioxidants to defend white blood cells.*

Joint, Bone, and Muscular Symptoms*
Healthy joints, bones, and muscles require continuous nutrition. Bio-Aligned Formulas provide components of joint and connective tissue, bone-building minerals, soothing herbs, and nutrients that support muscular energy.*

Men’s & Women’s Symptoms*
The health of men and women can be impacted by diet, stress, and aging. Bio-Aligned Formulas provide phytoestrogens for hormonal balance, calming neurotransmitters, ingredients for metabolic support, and nutritional support for skin, hair, and nails.*

Historic Benefits Confirmed by Research
Recent appreciation of fish oils arose from studies of the Inuit peoples of Greenland, whose health had long puzzled health researchers. The Inuit diet is the opposite of what we commonly think of as healthy—no fresh vegetables or fruits, little fiber, a diet heavily composed of proteins and fats. But the people are relatively quite healthy.*

Danish investigators were the first to determine that the key to Inuit health was the omega-3 fatty acids from the Inuit’s fish-laden diet. That research from the 70s sparked worldwide fascination with the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. Current research of fish oils and omega- 3 properties continues, but now, as researchers understand the compounds more fully, the benefits of omega-3 fish oils are confirmed: fish oils offer astonishing benefits to the circulatory system, to the brain, and to the immune system. Fish oil is among the most important additions modern people can make in their dietary regimen.*

Pollution Has Made Much Seafood Toxic
Yet just as Americans have begun to eat more seafood, studies have shown that fishes from numerous sources are unsafe because of high amounts of heavy metals, particularly mercury, and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl--poisonous compounds often found in industrial waste). Modern practices such as dredging, processing fossil fuels, smelting, and fish farming have all contributed to the poisoning of the Earth’s waters. Unless you are quite sure of the purity of the water where they were caught, eating fish to obtain the benefits of natural fish oils is, sadly, a difficult choice.*

Source Naturals offers you the benefits of healthy fish oils, from fishes caught in the Arctic Ocean, the North Sea, the North Atlantic, and other clean bodies of water, then processed with unique distillation methods to extract and further purify the oils. The ArcticPure fish oil products are among the purest oils available, with superior product stability. Natural flavorings give our ArcticPure oils a taste that is pleasing to both children and adults.*

Compare Source Naturals oils to others. If your oil smells rancid—the “fishy” smell many people complain of—you are not receiving fresh, pure fish oil, and you are robbing your body of nutrients. Fish oil is prone to spoilage and oxidation by exposure to oxygen; if the omega-3 oils in your supplement smell “fishy” they are oxidized and they may have become partially rancid—limiting their usefulness to your body. Extraordinary measures must be taken to keep oxidation of the oils at the barest minimum.*

Unique Processing And Encapsulation
Source Naturals fish oils are processed at state-of-theart, pharmaceutically licensed laboratories in Norway, just below the Arctic Circle, and in Canada, at a pharmaceutically licensed, cGMP laboratory in Nova Scotia. The purity standards meet and exceed all international requirements, including those of the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The raw material is chromatographically tested using international protocols. Oils that meet the standards for purity then undergo a molecular distillation process and an organic filtration process. These processes further purify the oils from PCBs, metals, dioxins, or pesticides. The distillation concentrates the omega-3 components while eliminating oxidative compounds. Fish smells and other microscopic impurities are removed in a low-temperature vacuum process.*

The bottling or encapsulation is completed onsite, at the points of manufacture. This is done in a low-temperature, oxygen-free environment so the oil is not oxidized. This ensures that the freshness of the products is sealed and cannot be contaminated in the bottling process.*

The distillation and cold-vacuum process ensures a fresh product, and natural flavorings are then added. “Fish taste” and “repeating,” two of the traditional criticisms of fish oils, as well as rancidity— the natural quick spoilage of oil when it meets oxygen—have been eliminated with these state-of-the art processes. These combine to make Source Naturals ArcticPure among the purest, finest fish oils available worldwide.*

The Essential Fatty Acids omega-3, omega-6, omega-9, omega-18—if you’re like many Americans, you’ve heard these mentioned again and again and still don’t understand why they’re important. Simply stated, the essential “omega” fatty acids like omega- 3 and omega-6 are needed for regulating blood pressure and brain function. The fatty acids are critically essential in the following key areas:*

• Supports brain cell function and development
• Provides cardiovascular support
• Supports eye and retina health
• Promotes healthy mental function
• Supports the immune system

Omega-3 and omega-6 are called “essential” fatty acids because they are not produced naturally by the body; you must obtain them from food sources. Most Americans get more omega-6 than they can handle, because omega-6 is from corn oil, sunflower oil, and safflower oil—more than abundant in typical American diets. However, we have severe deficiencies of omega-3, which is from fatty fish and to a limited extent, flax seed oil. Most medical experts consider an optimal omega-6/omega-3 ratio to be 2:1 or even 1:1. Americans commonly range from the 10:1 to the 50:1 ratio.*

This unbalanced ratio has important consequences. Omega-6s and omega-3s compete for the same metabolic enzymes, enzymes that break down fats. If there is too much omega-6 in the diet, too many omega-6 byproducts are produced, including compounds called eicosanoids that are involved in inflammatory response: prostaglandin E-2, thromboxane A-2, and leukotriene B4. Eicosanoids participate in the healthy immune defense systems of the body, but an overabundance of these compounds can overstimulate inflammatory responses. Omega-3, however, produces compounds that minimize inflammatory response. These are the long-chain compounds that have been found to have such positive effect in cardio, brain, and immune function health. A balance of omega 3 and 6 is needed; sufficient quantities of omega-3 keep the omega-6 acids in their proper, healthy ratio.*

Meet the Omega 3s
The omega-3s balance the omega-6s in many functions, but they also have importance on their own. Omega-3s are an essential part of the structure of every cell in the body as an integral component of the cell membrane. This cell integrity enables each cell to accomplish its function. Omega-3s are part of the body’s internal message communication system. Without them, hormones that deliver important messages from the brain and glands can not enter the cell to instruct the DNA on what action to take or what compounds to make. Most hormones cannot enter the cell; instead they dock on the outer cell membrane, converting the fatty acid present into certain prostaglandins, intracellular, hormone-like compounds that relay the instruction of the hormone to the DNA in the nucleus of the cell. The DNA then begins the process of producing the relevant proteins, enzymes, andother compounds to enable the body and mind to further function in good health. Omega-3s enable the body to function in all its amazing intricacy and multi-leveled beauty.*

DHA and EPA
Two of the omega-3 acids that have the greatest importance to human health are: Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) and Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA). Although these two wonder-acids can be formedby the metabolism of alpha-linolenic acid from plants, the process of conversion is slow and only 15 percent of the alphalinolenic acid is properly metabolized. But EPA and DHA are found in rich quantities in fish oil, where the metabolizing and conversions have already been completed. These two acids are synthesized from ocean phytoplankton, which are the first links in the food chain of fishes.*

DHA is a primary part of the neuronal membranes that influence the proper activity of neurological transmitters. DHA is a key to a healthy mood and retinal health. It is recommended for maternal nutrition, as it is essential for the growth and functional development of the fetal and infant brain and visual system.*

EPA assists in thinning our blood and dilating blood vessels. It is the fatty acid most associated with a healthy cardiovascular system, and it regulates the 1- and 3-series thromboxanes, prostaglandins, and leukotrienes, chemical mediators that help regulate physiological processes including blood pressure and blood clotting.*

DHA and EPA together support heart health by enhancing nitric oxide production. Both EPA and DHA inhibit 2- and 4-series interleukens and prostaglandins, compounds associated with overstimulation of inflammatory response. Both EPA and DHA inhibit low density lipoprotein (“bad” LDL cholesterol) synthesis in the liver, thereby supporting healthy circulation.*

DHA and EPA influence our genetic expression toward good health. This complicated process, called gene regulation, actually stimulates our DNA toward good health. In its resting state, DNA is coiled around proteins called histones and resides in the nucleus of the cell. EPA and DHA can trigger certain proteins to go into the nucleus and unwind specific areas of the DNA that contain the coded templates for different functions. Once unraveled, the DNA double strand is “un-zipped.” The DNA message is transcribed onto messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) which transfers the DNA instructions to the cell on what proteins to produce or what healthy actions to take.*

The omega-3s are among the most important compounds you can take for supporting a healthy heart. Omega-3s maintain the activity of L-type calcium channels during periods of stress. EPA and DHA also have been shown to reduce resting heart rate and increase left ventricular filling capacity. Omega-3 fatty acids produce healthy eicosanoids, like prostaglandins E-1 and E-3, leukotriene B-5 and thromboxane A-3, compounds that support healthy arteries. Fish oil enhances nitric oxide production, which promotes blood vessel relaxation. Arterial elasticity is increased with both EPA and DHA supplementation.*

EPA and DHA also stimulate fatty acid oxidation in the liver by increasing transcription of regulatory enzymes. Studies also show substantial lowering of triglyceride levels with fish oil supplementation.*

The Highest Standards of Purity in the World
Source Naturals' manufacturers comply with the voluntary analytical standards as set forth in the CRN (Council of Responsible Nutrition) Voluntary Monograph. CRN is an international dietary supplement trade association that includes suppliers and manufacturers of omega-3 fish oils. They set industry standards for purity testing: higher and more stringent than standards set by the European Union, Canada, or the United States governments. ArcticPure is proudly compliant with these high standards, and in fact, Source Naturals exceeds them.*

Unique Testing and Distillation
Source Naturals fish oils are processed and encapsulated at state-of-the-art, pharmaceutically licensed laboratories in Norway, justbelow the Arctic Circle, and in Canada, at a pharmaceutically licensed, cGMP laboratory in Nova Scotia. The raw material is chromatographically tested using international protocols. Oils that meet the standards for purity then undergo a molecular distillation process and an organic filtration process. These processes further purify the oils from PCBs, metals like mercury or lead, dioxins, or pesticides. The distillation concentrates the omega-3 components while eliminating free radical oxidative compounds. Fish smells and other microscopic impurities are removed in a low-temperature vacuum process.*

Oxygen-Free Bottling and Encapsulation
The bottling or encapsulation is done in a low-temperature, oxygen-free environment so the oil is not oxidized. This ensures that the freshness of the products is sealed and cannot be contaminated in the bottling process. The distillation and cold-vacuum process ensures a fresh product, and natural flavorings are then added. “Fish taste” and “repeating,” two of the traditional criticisms of fish oils, as well as rancidity—the natural quick spoilage of oil when it meets oxygen—have been eliminated with these state-of-the art processes. These combine to make Source Naturals ArcticPure among the purest, finest fish oils available worldwide.*

Ultra Potency for Highest Function
Source Naturals softgels have among the highest potencies of any on the market today. Don't be misled by labels containing filler oil amounts; these softgels contain a significant 850 and 800 mg of 100% pure omega-3 fatty acids.*