When it comes to keeping things in working order, maintenance is key.
Take a grandfather clock, for example. Inside its carved wooden case is an intricate arrangement of fine-tuned wheels and dials.
A well-made grandfather clock is amazing. It can run for up to 20 years without needing any repairs. By that time, it will have ticked about 470 million times and chimed about 500,000 – pretty impressive.
But if you never take care of it, after a few years, it will start to run into problems – it might get stuck at the same time every day, or the chimes might stop ringing.
A responsible owner knows that if he wants his clock to keep running smoothly, he needs to apply clock oil on a regular basis to keep the gears working smoothly.
This same principle applies to your body.
When you were young, your body could take almost anything and just keep going. But as you age, your body requires extra care – maintenance – to stay in good working order.
Sometimes, certain parts of your body are more prone to issues than others – areas such as your urinary tract, which is widely known to be prone to issues.
That’s especially true if you’re a woman… you have as much as a 50% chance of dealing with a urinary tract issue during your lifetime. If you’re a man, you’re less likely to experience urinary tract issues, but you’re not immune, especially once you pass 50.
When it comes to optimal urinary tract health, maintenance is key.
Fortunately, it’s easy to keep your urinary tract in good working order so you can stay comfortable and enjoy your active lifestyle.
In One of These Categories? You Need to Pay Special Attention to Your Urinary Health
A healthy urinary tract is something people often take for granted. But when issues come up, it can be a strong reminder of how important a healthy urinary system is for smooth daily functioning.
Taking the proper measures to maintain good urinary tract health is especially important for certain groups of women and some men. These include:
- Women who have gone through menopause.
- Any man or woman who is sexually active.
- Women who are using certain types of birth control, like a diaphragm or spermicide.
- Anyone who has trouble emptying their bladder completely.
- Anyone with blood sugar or immune health questions.
- Anyone who has had urinary tract issues in the past.
There are a few reasons people in these groups may want to pay special attention to their urinary health.
Let’s dive in and discover how to give yourself the most effective ongoing support. First, to help make sense of the big picture, here’s an overview of the simple mechanics of a healthy, normal urinary system…
A Quick Primer on Urinary Tract Health: Why Women Especially May Benefit from Daily Self-Care
On the right is a diagram of a woman’s urinary tract system. The four major parts are the same in men:
- Kidneys – Filter wastes and water from your blood to form urine.
- Ureters – Urine moves through these tubes to your bladder.
- Bladder – Urine is collected and stored in your bladder until it leaves your body.
- Urethra – When you’re ready to empty your bladder, the urine leaves your body through a thin tube called the urethra.
There are two key differences between male and female urinary systems – a woman’s urethra is shorter than a man’s, and its opening is closer to the rectum.
These two anatomical differences explain why women can be more likely to experience less-than-optimal bladder and urinary tract health. Both create the potential for a greater vulnerability to hostile invaders from either the rectum or urinary opening.
Menopausal women have an additional factor working against them... The normal drop in estrogen levels can adversely affect a woman’s urinary system, especially her urethra.
7 Simple Things You Can Do to Support Your Urinary Tract Health
As we talked about, when it comes to optimal urinary tract health, maintenance is key.
There are several things you can do to help maintain healthy urinary tract function:
- Drink plenty water – always filtered or spring water, when possible – every day to dilute your urine and help flush your urinary tract system.
- Urinate when you feel the need - don't resist or ignore the urge to go.
- For women, wipe from front to back with unscented and unbleached toilet paper, like our 100% virgin bamboo pulp Bamboo Bathroom Tissue.
- Take showers instead of baths.
- Cleanse your genital area prior to and after sexual intercourse, ideally with a bidet.
- Avoid feminine deodorant sprays, douches, and powders that can lead to irritation of the urethra and genitals.
- Only use tampons and sanitary napkins that have not been treated with chlorine and harsh chemicals, such as our Organic Cotton Tampons.
By following these simple recommendations, you can help provide your urinary system with the on-going care it needs to maintain optimal health.
In addition, there’s a nutritional strategy you can use to help support your urinary tract health. But it may not be what you may think…
Be CarefuL… Cranberry Juice Can Actually Contribute to The Issues You Want to Avoid
You’ve probably heard that drinking cranberry juice may be good for your urinary tract health. It’s a popular recommendation these days.
However, relying on this option can come with a big minus for your health…
While some studies show cranberry juice can have a positive effect on urinary tract health by promoting a healthy flora, it’s typically loaded with sugar.*
Cranberry and other fruit juices contain fructose, a simple sugar that can potentially cause health issues, including stressing your immune health.
When you eat sugars and grains (which rapidly break down to sugar), it becomes more difficult to maintain a healthy balance of flora in your gut and urinary tract. As a result, you're more likely to experience frustrating issues with your urinary tract health.
So, although cranberry juice may offer some benefits, its sugar content creates drawbacks that outweigh the benefits.
Fortunately, there actually is a way you can capture the benefits of cranberry juice without having to consume all that fructose…
The Powerful Ingredient in Cranberries, Blueberries, Peaches and Apples That Your Urinary Tract Loves*
Even though the fructose content of cranberry juice makes it a less than ideal solution for urinary tract support, cranberry fruit does contain a special compound that can help you maintain your urinary tract health.
That compound is called D-mannose.
What’s interesting is that D-mannose is actually a sugar, like fructose. But it has beneficial effects because your body processes it in a completely different way.*
Unlike other sugars, D-mannose doesn’t convert to glycogen or get stored in your liver.
In fact, your body metabolizes very little of it so it doesn’t affect your blood sugar levels or stress your body’s metabolic functions. Most of it simply filters through your kidneys and collects in your urine.
And this is the key to how D-mannose works to promote urinary tract health…*
When D-mannose reaches your urinary tract, it’s available to meet up with any unwelcome inhabitants that may be lingering in your bladder. Upon contact, it “coats” the invaders so they can’t stick to the walls of your bladder and then carries them away during normal urination.*
In addition, D-mannose also helps nourish your healthy flora. Unlike other sugars, it doesn’t disrupt or affect the actions of your “friendly” bacteria.*
These two supportive actions add up to powerful support for your urinary tract health.
Research shows that raising your blood mannose level is what raises the level in your urine. But that takes more D-mannose than you typically find in a reasonable amount of juice.
However, supplementing with D-mannose has been shown to be effective at significantly raise your blood mannose levels. That’s because the amount of D-mannose in supplements is 10 to 50 times higher than that in cranberry juice.
Maintenance For Your Urinary Tract – Powerful Duo Helps Keep You Running Smoothly
We understand how important a healthy urinary system is for keeping up with your active lifestyle… and the crucial role daily maintenance plays.
So, we formulated D-Mannose and Cranberry to provide the most effective levels of D-mannose, based on recent research. Then we paired it with a research-based amount of cranberry extract – not juice – for additional benefits we’ll discuss in just a bit.
With 1,000 mg of D-mannose and 400 mg of organic cranberry fruit extract, our formula provides you with beneficial levels of nutrients your urinary tract loves.
We’ve even raised the bar with our cranberry…
Because we are deeply committed to caring for the earth as well as for your health, we seek out organic ingredients whenever possible.
Using organic cranberries is especially important. Conventional cranberries are grown with exceptionally high amounts of chemicals, often making their way onto “dirty dozen” lists of conventional produce to avoid.
We source our cranberry extract from organic cranberries, which helps protect both you and the earth from the risks of conventional cranberry farming, including:
- Potentially toxic synthetic pesticides.
- Potentially toxic synthetic herbicides.
- Chemical fertilizers that deplete soils and potentially diminish nutrient values.
- Polluted waterways caused by runoff from conventional fields.
- The long-term impacts of unsustainable chemical farming.
With powerful antioxidants from organic cranberries and the benefits of D-mannose, D-Mannose and Cranberry is designed for long-term, regular use for both women and men to help you maintain your bladder and urinary tract health.
So, let’s talk about how cranberry fruit extract adds further benefits to the action of D-mannose in your urinary tract.
How This Special Phytochemical in Cranberries Supports Your Urinary Tract Health
More than 70 animal and human studies have been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, revealing how cranberries support urinary tract health.*
While many people assume it’s the D-mannose in cranberries that’s influencing their urinary tract health, there’s actually at least one other factor…
At first, researchers believed cranberries were valuable for bladder and urinary tract health because of their ability to lower urinary tract pH – which they do.*
However, they then discovered that cranberries contain naturally occurring compounds that act directly in your urinary tract to promote health.*
Chief among these compounds is proanthocyanidins (PACs), phytochemicals that provide antioxidant and protective qualities in your gastrointestinal tract and urinary tract.*
PACs are also found in green tea, grapes, apples and chocolate. However, the type of PACs found in cranberries – called A-type PACs – are different from the B-type PACs found in these other foods.
And here’s the important thing you need to know about A-type PACs…
Studies show that only A-type PACs can potentially prevent unfriendly invaders from sticking to your urinary tract walls. And cranberries contain the highest number of A-type PACs of any food.
Researchers have established that this unique compound is cranberry’s claim to fame in supporting urinary tract health.* And dose really does matter.
Getting the benefits of cranberry in a concentrated extract form, as compared to drinking cranberry juice loaded with metabolism-wrecking fructose, is truly the way to go.
With D-Mannose and Cranberry, you can provide your urinary tract with the daily maintenance it needs to keep running smoothly.
Just for Women… An Effective Ongoing Strategy for Maintaining Optimal GI, Vaginal and Urinary Tract Health*
We had one other goal in mind when we formulated D-Mannose and Cranberry…
We wanted to provide women with a complete, ongoing strategy for maintaining overall and urinary tract heath.
D-Mannose and Cranberry now makes the ideal companion to our Complete Probiotics for Women and Complete Spore Restore for an effective ongoing strategy for maintaining optimal gastrointestinal, vaginal and urinary tract health.*
By taking D-Mannose and Cranberry daily, you can live your life the way you want – and not worry about being sidelined.*
And when you add our Complete Probiotics for Women with 10 valuable strains for women’s health, you’re supporting not only your gut health but your vaginal health as well.*
To enhance the benefits of Complete Probiotics and to improve your gut integrity, Complete Spore Restore provides your gut with four exceptional reconditioning spore biotics and a prebiotic organic blend of three highly valued mushroom mycelium.*
They’re the perfect combo for women who want to maintain optimal GI, vaginal and urinary tract health so they can keep up with their normal active lifestyle.
Don’t Miss a Beat in Your Active Lifestyle – Support Your Urinary Tract with D-Mannose and Cranberry
No one wants to be sidelined by issues that keep you from enjoying life. When it comes to making sure your urinary tract is in good working order, maintenance is key.
D-Mannose and Cranberry provides the perfect complement to your personal health regimen. This powerful combination of research-backed ingredients makes daily maintenance for your urinary tract a breeze.*
In this powerful duo, potent polyphenols from organic cranberry extract enhance the actions of D-mannose.*
When taken daily as part of a plan that includes drinking plenty of water, emptying your bladder regularly and practicing good hygiene, D-Mannose and Cranberry can help support smooth function of your urinary tract.
Give your urinary tract the maintenance care it needs so you can stay comfortable and keep up with your active lifestyle. Order D-Mannose and Cranberry today.