Seasonal Relief Caps (63 count) Formerly Cold & Flu Defense Nature's Seasonal Defense System. Detailed Description Contains clinically proven Herbs, Roots and Bark Potent Anti-Viral, Anti-Fungal and Anti-Bacterial properties Possesses Expectorant and Anti-Inflammatory abilities Purifies Blood and Facilitates Circulation Stimulates and Enhances Immune Functions Assists in Eliminating Excess Mucous Utilizes exclusive Poten-Zyme™ process In any given day, you are exposing yourself to a multitude of pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and fungus as you interface with other people in the workplace, at school, through public transportation, and even with other family members. This is simply a natural part of living in the world, to which a healthy body can easily adjust and compensate. When however, inadequate sleep or the stress of everyday life causes your immune system to breakdown, the most sensible place to look for assistance, is to nature itself. Your Body's Natural Healing Process Garden of Life®, recognizes that an occasional cold or flu is your body's natural cleansing and detoxifying response to bacterial and viral invasions. We understand, that rather than slowing down this very natural process - that instead, the best "defense" is to provide your immune system with the most powerful botanical concentrates that nature has to offer. This allows you to rebalance, regenerate and super strengthen natural immune functions so your own body can heal itself, as it is designed to do. A normal human body has billions of beneficial bacteria needed to ensure proper metabolic functioning. Conventional antibiotic treatments, are "non-selective" in their destruction of bacteria, indiscriminately destroying everything. This can create many new problems, including yeast and other fungal infections, as well as constipation and digestive disorders. In addition, bacterial strains can often mutate, thus becoming more virulent and antibiotic resistant. Whole Food Nutrition In honoring your natural response process, Cold & Flu Defense delivers the most potent, immune boosting ingredients that nature has to offer. We have specifically chosen clinically proven and time honored herbs, roots and bark for their anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal properties. When these properties are naturally occurring in whole food concentrates, they selectively neutralize the invading pathogens, without automatically destroying the beneficial bacteria that maintain a healthy internal environment. Your body recognizes these as tonic foods, easily assimilating what it needs to restore balance, and excreting what it doesn't. This natural process is called "selective absorption". All In One Formula The unique herbal, root and bark concentrates in Cold & Flu Defense, contain within them powerful immune building compounds which have the ability to not only neutralize pathogens, but equally as important, to boost immune functions. This is the first time a natural formula has combined therapeutic amounts of anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal ingredients all together in one formulation, targeting its beneficial healing properties directly at the source - your immune system. Ancient Wisdom - Fermentation The ancient Greeks understood that important chemical changes took place during fermentation. Their name for this change was "alchemy". The whole food ingredients in Cold & Flu Defense, are lacto-fermented and enzymatically pre-digested, utilizing a proprietary natural process called Poten-Zyme (Potentiation by Enzymatic activation). This ancient method of bio- fermentation incorporates 14 strains of beneficial micro-organisms and their enzymes into the foods, gently breaking them down into their most basic elements. Fermentation creates and liberates valuable medicinal compounds within the foods including enzymes, antioxidants, beta glucans, phytosterols, and other phytonutrients - greatly enhancing the nutritional value while making it easier to digest. This assures more complete absorption and delivery of nutrients at the cellular level. Supplement Facts Serving Size: 3 Caplets Servings Per Container: 21 Ingredients: Wild Oregano Concentrate (6% volatile oils) - 900mg Poten-Zyme™ Ginger Juice Powder Extract (20:1) - 360mg Olive Leaf Extract (20% Oleuropin) - 300mg Poten-Zyme™ Horseradish Juice Extract (20:1) - 810mg Poten-Zyme™ Onion Juice Extract (20:1) - 180mg Poten-Zyme™ Elderberry Flower Extract - 100mg Echinacea Angustifolia Extract (24% Echinacosides) - 100mg Poten-Zyme™ Yarrow Extract - 100mg Poten-Zyme™ Peppermint Extract - 100mg Elderberry Fruit Extract (30% Anthocyanins) - 100mg Poten-Zyme™ Garlic Juice Extract (20:1) - 90mg Golden Seal Extract (5% Hydrastine) - 100mg Bayberry Bark Extract(70% Myricetin) - 23mg Lonicera japonica Extract - 17mg Note: Because we believe that in an weakened condition such as during colds or flu, your body needs a potent jumpstart - it is important that you saturate your system for a full 7day period to ensure adequate healing time, and to regenerate and strengthen system-wide immune response. To that end, we suggest 3 caplets 3x per day on an empty stomach for maximum absorption. More sensitive indivivduals however, may need to take Cold & Flu Defense with their meals.