Start Fresh will provide you with:

• Shopping List – Dr. Perricone’s recommended foods.
• Recipes – All the recipes you need to complete the 28-Day Diet.
• 28-Day Menu – Complete menu guide to our 28-Day Challenge.

How It Works

Signing up is simple, and we provide you with everything you need to begin your transformation!

1.) Sign Up to enter Start Fresh and receive your exclusive promo code.

2.) Follow Dr. Perricone’s 28-Day Diet. We’ve supplied you with a shopping list, recipes and 28-Day menu to help you stay on track. Make sure to connect with us on Facebook for motivation, tips and recipe contests.

3.) Share your results! Submit a short essay explaining how the 28-Day Diet has changed you for the better. Photos are encouraged but optional. Please send entries to startfresh@perriconemd.com. All entries are due by 11:59 pm 2/28/13. Check back for winners to be announced by 3/6/13.

Then you will be entered to win one of our fabulous prizes! To be eligible you must be a US resident, 18 years old or older. A full list of rules is available here.

Prizes

The Grand Prize Three lucky winners will receive a 3 day, 2 night trip to Los Angelos, CA for a stay at Malibu Beach Inn and receive complimentary Electro-Stim Lifting Facials at the Perricone MD Malibu Boutique, and a $500 Perricone MD shopping spree!

2ND Prize
Three more winners will each receive the Cold Plasma Collection of Cold Plasma Face, Blue Plasma, and Cold Plasma Body. This has a value of $340! The Cold Plasma Collection represents Dr. Perricone’s most comprehensive and efficacious work to date to address the 10 visible signs of aging.

3RD Prize Finally, 3 more winners will each receive a 30 day supply of Skin & Total Body Supplements and Omega 3 Supplements valued at $183. This is the perfect set to help you maintain the transformation from the 28 Day Challenge!

So what are you waiting for? Register today! For more tips on losing weight and turning back the clock, check out Dr. Perricone’s Tips to Start Fresh.

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BENEFITS

Maitake benefits several health concerns when eaten.
• The maitake mushroom offers a unique characteristic: they provide the best proportion of efficacy compared to other mushrooms used for healing purposes. For this reason, in Japan, it’s known as the King of Mushrooms.
• They are best known for their cancer fighting properties.
• Research shows that maitake extracts can block the growth of cancer tumors and boost the immune system of those with cancer.
• They have also shown the ability to minimize the side effects of chemotherapy.
• They may lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
• It has been reported that they aid digestion by regulating the stomach and intestines, and help eliminate food stagnation.
• Consuming maitake extract supports a healthy metabolism.
• Consumption also helps reduce excess weight.
• They protect, moisturizer, and strengthen skin.

How It Works

• They contain polysaccharides and polysaccharide-protein complexes that the body uses to fortify the immune system.
• The mushroom’s beta-glucan supports immune system functions, specifically by activating white blood cells that fight off microorganisms that cause disease.
• Consumption encourages the production of interleukins and other lymphokines, which have chemo protective effects, slow tumor growth, and help to inhibit the spread of cancer.
• Polysaccharide compounds are effective in assisting blood pressure, glucose, insulin and lipids regulation.
• The high lean protein content helps burn cholesterol in digestion.

If you’d like to try some dishes featuring the savory maitake mushroom, you can find some recipes HERE. Keep in mind they can cost around $18 per pound. If you’d prefer to purchase the extract for all of the health benefits, Dr. Pericone has an option for you. The Maitake Mushroom Extract SX-Fraction, is recommended to be taken 3 times a day between meals.

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How it works

The diet is relatively simple- it increased your DMAE, Asthaxanthin, and Fatty Acids by prescribing salmon for two meals a day. It also recommends generous portions of eggs and greens. What you can’t have: no coffee, no alcohol, no dairy, and no root vegetables.

So why so much salmon? Because the DMAE, Asthaxanthin, and Fatty Acids will reduce inflammation, while increasing your skin’s radiance, glow, and firmness. It also improves brain cognition.

TIPS

• Dr. Perricone recommends Wild Alaskan Salmon from Vital Choice.
• When purchasing your eggs, go for an organic cage free option.
• Pick your favorite bright greens, like asparagus, kale, broccoli, or spinach. You don’t have to eat anything you don’t like, pick and choose your favorites here.
• If your concerned about your energy levels because of the lack of coffee, keep in mind you can drink green tea.
• Of course drink plenty of fresh spring water, as well.

A sample menu is available HERE

If that sounds like too much salmon for your taste, or too restrictive, you can always try the 28 Day Plan, which offers more protein options besides salmon. You may not see the immediate glow you’ll get with the 3 Day Diet, but you will see more weight lose of the course of the diet.

It’s always important to enhance your diet efforts with quality supplements. For glowing skin and efficient weight lose try to the Beauty From the Inside Out Program. It includes Skin and Total Body set, an ideal cocktail of healthy skin vitamins. It also includes Perricone MD’s Omega-3 supplements. They provide you with the benefits of eating salmon, while suppressing your appetite and boosting your metabolism. Of course, it will give you softer, firmer skin as well.

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We’re looking to change that this year. We’re envisioning a healthier holiday in which smart foods substitutions, clever nutritional tips and healthier recipes are shared.

What are your favorite fruits and berries?
How do you incorporate healthy spices like garlic, turmeric, and cayenne?
What creative salmon recipes do you have?
How do you jazz up beans and nuts?
Where do you creatively add avocado to your diet for healthy fats?

Please share the healthy tips or recipes will you be making this holiday season? Get pinning and let us know!

How to Enter

1. Go to pinterest.com/perriconemd and follow us.
2. Create a new board called “A Healthier Holiday”, categorized under “Health & Beauty”.
3. Pin one or more of your Perricone MD-friendly recipes or healthier cooking tips along with the Perricone MD Healthy Food Board http://pinterest.com/PerriconeMD/a-healthier-holiday-contest/ that features the ingredient(s) you include in your tip or recipe. Don’t forget to include #ahealthierholiday in your description of each pin.
4. All entries are due by 12/31/12. Good Luck!

Prizes: 10 lucky winners will each win a box of the Metabolic Formula Supplements (Value: $75)

About the Metabolic Formula Supplements

This 10 day dietary supplement program supports weight maintenance by increasing your metabolism, while decreasing your appetite. The evening primrose ingredient helps make skin more radiant and healthy!

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Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Inflammation is a factor in many diseases and the visible signs of aging.  By practicing an Anti-Inflammatory Diet, you reduce the causes of inflammation, and maintain a healthy weight.

Keys to Anti-Inflammatory Diet

• 8-10 glasses of pure spring water per day
• High Quality Proteins
• Healthy fats
• Low-glycemic Carbohydrates
• Antioxidant rich beverages like green tea

Learn more about the Anti-Inflammatory Diet HERE.

Targeted Nutritional Supplements

Diet alone cannot provide the body with all of vitamins and minerals needed to optimize a balanced anti-aging regime.  Perricone MD provides quality supplements to work hand in hand with your diet for visible results. The results include youthful, radiant skin, improved mood, sharpened brain power, increased fat burning, and increased muscle mass.  There are several supplement programs available.  The Skin and Total Body Supplements assists in maintaining healthy skin, hair, nails, bones and joints.

Skin and Total Body Supplements

This program includes three vital supplements to fight free radicals, diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, improves brain function, stimulates hair and nail growth, and supports a healthy immune system.  It includes the Super Antioxidant Formula to fight free radicals, and in turn prevent the signs of aging. Omega 3 assists cardiovascular health and reduces inflammation.  Astaxanthin benefits the immune system, reduces inflammation, and prevents neurodegenerative diseases.

Clinical Skin Care

Through years of private practice and research, Dr. Perricone has developed a comprehensive line of powerful topical treatments. They work in harmony with his recommended diet and supplements to provide vibrant skin while combating the signs of aging.  If you’re new to Perricone MD, try taking the Skin Quiz to determine the best products to address your concerns.

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If you’re looking for anti inflammatory diet recipes, follow the link for some yummy and beneficial solutions.

 Keys to a Balanced Anti-Inflammatory Diet

• Adding anti-inflammatory fats like Omega 3, which can also be enhanced with supplements.
• Plenty of fruits and vegetables with antioxidants like onions, garlic, peppers, and leafy greens.
• Using plenty of herbs and spices like oregano, rosemary, ginger, curry, and turmeric.
• Avoiding unhealthy fats like Omega 6, often found in processed food, corn, and peanut and soybean oils.
• Avoiding refined carbohydrates like refined sugars, flours and food high on the glycemic index.
• Checking for food allergies, if you are allergic to wheat or dairy, their consumption can initiate inflammation.

Perricone MD’s Metabolic Formula Supplements

Enhancing your anti-inflammatory diet with the right quality supplements can make a world of difference.  They offer the perfect balance of components that may be missing in your diet, enhance the nutritional benefits of the foods you eat, and provide the proper dosage which can often require consuming more of a certain food than possible.

Perricone MD’s Metabolic Formula Supplements, provide a 10 day program that promotes healthy weight management.  You’ll notice an increase in energy and decrease in appetite, from the use of powerful antioxidants that enhance metabolic activity.  Each day also includes an Evening Primrose oil supplement, which provides radiant skin. The plan also includes some of those vital elements we mentions in the anti-inflammatory diet like Omega 3 (the GOOD fats).

While moderate consumption of fish can provide this beneficial fat, you want to avoid eating excessive amounts of fish to avoid getting too much mercury in your diet.  The Omega 3 supplements get you to the perfect balance. Turmeric is also an active ingredient in the program.  This relative of ginger, contains more than two anti-inflammatory compounds, and functions as an antioxidant. Other active ingredients include Vitamin A and C, CoQ10, and DMAE.

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Why do we need CoQ10?

• It’s used in the mitochondria, the power plant of your cells. 95% of your body’s energy is made with the help of Co-Q10.
• It functions as an antioxidant.  As you age you need to stop the destruction caused by free radicals.  Antioxidants stop free radicals in their tracks.
• It aids in weight loss by boosting your metabolism.
• There is evidence it can help treat heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and high blood pressure.
• It keeps you looking young.  CoQ10 assists in the production of collagen and elastin.  Collagen keeps your skin looking firm, and elastin gives your skin flexibility.

How can Perricone, MD help you with boosting your CoQ10 levels?

With the Health & Weight Management Supplements, you’ll get a daily dose of Co-Q10 to help kick start your metabolism and give you extra energy.   The 30 day program promotes healthy weight loss and beautiful skin.

When you purchase your 30 supply, you receive everything you need in convenient packaging.  Your morning, mid-day and evening supplements are packed together, to keep you organized and make the plan simple.

It’s recommended you take each packet 30 minutes to 1 hour before meals to help repress your appetite.

Each day you’ll also take the following supplements with this total health program:

• Super Antioxidant Formula
• Tyrosine and Alpha Lipoic Acid Capsule
• DMAE Capsule
• Evening Primrose Oil Soft Gel
• Acetyl L- Caritine Capsule
• Conjugated Linoleic Acid Soft Gel
• L-Carnitine Capsule

With the holidays approaching, family gatherings and office parties often lead to extra weight gain.  To help stop it before it happens, order the Perricone MD Health & Weight Management Supplements today!

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This diet isn’t about portion control or counting calories.  The main focus is to fight inflammation by reducing saturated fats, refined sugars, and other high glycemic carbohydrates from your diet.  Here are links to lists of what you should not eat and what you should eat.

Where to start

Dr perricones recommends starting with the Health & Weight Management  Supplements.  This program is a part of Dr. Perricone’s 3-Tier Approach to a healthy body and beautiful skin. A 30 Day supply provides everything you need, organized into morning, noon, and evening packets.  It’s recommended you take each packet 30 minutes to 1 hour before a meal, which will help maximize appetite suppression.

Each day you’ll take 8 different supplements that will assist in maintaining your energy levels, increasing your lean body mass, boosting your metabolism, and satisfying your appetite.

What Supplements are Included?

• The Super Antioxidant formula helps fight those pesky free radicals with additional anti-inflammatory assistance.
• There is also a Tyrosine and Alpha Lipoic Acid  (ALA) capsule.  ALA is a powerful antioxidant, combined with Tyrosine, an amino acid, they work together to boost that pesky metabolism.
• The DMAE Capsule has several benefits.  It keeps your skin looking tone and improves brain functions. Ready to look and think younger?
• CoQ 10 boosts the metabolism and improves heart health.  Research shows people suffering from heart failure show signs of CoQ 10 deficiency.
• You need Omega-6 to help reduce inflammation, which is why each day includes an Evening Primrose Oil soft gel.
• Acetyl L- Carnitine capsules, another amino acid, assists with brain and heart function, muscle movement, and building lean muscles.
• CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) Soft Gels is a powerhouse increasing muscle mass, reducing body fat, and assisting bone density.
• The final piece to the puzzle is a L-Carnitine Capsule. It helps increase energy levels while facilitating fat burning efficiently.

It’s time to begin your journey to a healthier lifestyle, with great looking skin! Follow the Perricone Promise Diet, start fighting inflammation, and start feeling great.

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CoQ10 or co-enzyme Q10 is most easily described as a fat-soluble vitamin.  It is naturally already in your body and is used to boost your energy and cell growth.  There are a lot of various health claims about CoQ10 and it is utilized in a vast array of supplements.  Most commonly it is consumed in conjunction with cholesterol  lowering medications and for treating muscle aches, pains, and obesity.

Even though it’s relatively new in terms of skin care it has a lot of research to back it up that touts it as a neutralizing agent. As an anti-oxidant enzyme it impacts the condition of your skin by fighting free radicles, or pollutants that cause pre-mature aging.   Many factors impact the production of Co-Q10 in the body, and in a perfect world, where you spend your life on the beach meditating; your body would produce as much of the enzyme that was necessary to aid in various metabolic functions running smoothly.

However life happens.  Factors like stress, pollution, and pharmaceutical medications impact your body’s natural production of Co-Q10.  One of the main factors to the diminishing production of this enzyme is age.  As you age the production naturally declines and slows down.

If you are over 35 years of age adding a cream that contains Co-Q10 might not be a bad idea in terms of skin care. You will fight free radicles, begin to reboot the collagen levels, and elasticity of your skin. Not only is it used for anti-aging benefits it’s a great moisturizer. Co-Q10, when ingested as a supplement, gives you a physical energy boost, while it aids in combating the energy decline that’s happening on a cellular and molecular level. Even though you can find Co-Q10 naturally in food, (like spinach, salmon and soybeans) it is most easily attained through vitamin form.  It’s often recommended that you take the enzyme with food, and avoid taking it on an empty stomach.

After more research instead of asking “What is Co-Q10” the questions turns out to be why not use Co-Q10. There doesn’t appear to be any downside or ill effects.  For more info on this great vitamin see what the doc has to say about what is Co-Q10

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