RiboseOne Energy Builder

• The “Building Block” of ATP
• Restores peak performance**
• Promotes healthy heart function**
• Increases muscle mass while reducing fat**
• Reduced fatigue and muscle cramping**

Every cell in the body needs energy to function, powering the cells that sustain life. But everyday activities and disease can rob the cells of this necessary energy, causing pain, fatigue and diminished capacity. Loss of physical energy is the third greatest health concern among Americans and more than 33 million cite energy loss as their greatest health challenge. RiboseOne offers a proven way to replenish cellular energy, giving you the energy to live life to its fullest.

FACT: 100% of the adult population could benefit from RiboseOne, helping them to lead full, more active lives.

The  Heart Watcher

Your doctor has said exercise is good for your heart. But you just can’t muster the energy to take a walk after dinner, no matter how important you know it is. It’s hard to exercise when you’re exhausted. The lack of energy can be discouraging and a little scary at times.

The Weekend Warrior

Whether the golf course, the softball field or the jogging path, you used to be able to go and play hard with no aches and pains. Not any more. These days, an active weekend can leave you tired and sore on Monday morning.

The Do-It-Yourselfer

The list of chores around the house is endless. There are leaves to rake and gardening to do, not to mention household repairs and maintenance. The sense of accomplishment can’t be beat and the activity is good for you – if your muscles didn’t ache so much the next day.

The Serious Athlete

The triathlon is coming up soon and your training is at its peak. It’s essential to stay on schedule but that can be tough when your legs are spongy and you’re out of energy. What can you do to recover from a rough workout faster so you can train harder?

RiboseOne is the ingredient that can give everyone the energy to live life completely. No matter what end of the spectrum you are on, RiboseOne may help restore energy levels.**

What is RiboseOne?

Ribose is a naturally occurring sugar that’s found in all living cells, and especially muscle cells. Ribose is the fundamental building block of the energy compound known as ATP. We must maintain healthy levels of ATP in our hearts, muscles and other tissues to maintain basic body functions and to preserve peak physiological performance. But everyday activities and diseases that limit oxygen supplies can disrupt normal ATP production. This depletion of energy reserves causes tissue stress resulting in increased free radical formation, muscle soreness, stiffness and fatigue.

In muscle, research has shown that exercise, labor and disease diminish energy levels that can take several days to recover. In hearts, replacing these reserves can take up to 10 days, and in chronic conditions of oxygen deprivation hearts may never fully rebound by themselves.

The role of ribose in regulating energy synthesis gives it a special significance unlike any other carbohydrate. Ribose is used by the body to rebuild energy levels during and following physical stress. But most tissue cannot produce ribose fast enough to quickly restore ATP levels once they have been depleted. Supplemental ribose has been shown to dramatically increase energy recovery in tissues that have been stressed by exercise or work.

RiboseOne is produced by Bioenergy, Inc., founded in 1995 by Dr. John Foker, a cardiovascular surgeon and ribose pioneer. Dr. Foker organized the Minneapolis-based company after being awarded two patents for the use of ribose in stimulating recovery from ischemia – a condition in which blood flow in and to the heart muscle is diminished, leading to lack of oxygen. Currently Bioenergy holds 11 U.S. patents for the use of ribose, including the following:

Ribose is a simple 5-carbon monosaccharide or pentose sugar. It is used by all the cells of the body and is an essential compound in energy metabolism. Ribose is also the carbohydrate backbone of genetic material, DNA and RNA, certain vitamins and other important cellular compounds. Everyone needs ribose. It is an essential ingredient in stimulating natural energy production. Research has shown that ribose promotes cardiovascular health, reduces cardiac stress associated with strenuous activity, and helps hearts and muscles maximize energy recovery. Ribose aids in the metabolism of energy in the body and regulates the process of energy production and synthesis. It provides for increased energy levels and anaerobic thresholds. D-Ribose has also been shown to increase muscle growth and aid in the treatment of low oxygen conditions.

•   Ribose improves physical and athletic performance.**
•   Ribose increases energy reserves and speeds energy recovery.**
•   Ribose builds ATP in heart and muscle.**
•   Ribose maintains healthy energy levels in heart and muscle.**
•   Ribose relieves post-exertional muscle cramping and soreness.**
•   Ribose increases tolerance to cardiac stress.**
•   Ribose improves exercise tolerance and physical function.**
•   Ribose provides healthy levels of cardiac energy needed to maintain normal heart function.**
•   Ribose decreases free radical formation during exercise.**
•   Ribose increases cardiac efficiency and lowers cardiac stress during exercise.**

What is ribose?

D-Ribose is a simple, 5-carbon monosaccharide, or pentose sugar.  It is used by all the cells of the body and is an essential compound in energy metabolism.  Ribose is also the carbohydrate backbone of genetic material, DNA and RNA, certain vitamins and other important cellular compounds.

Who needs supplemental ribose?

Everyone needs ribose.  It is an essential ingredient in stimulating natural energy production.  Research has shown that ribose promotes cardiovascular health, reduces cardiac stress associated with strenuous activity and helps athletes reach new heights.  Ribose helps hearts and muscles maximize energy recovery.  Whether you are a trained athlete, a weekend warrior or are concerned about your cardiovascular health, ribose may help give the energy boost your body needs.

How is ribose made in the body?

All the necessary compounds for life are made in the body through a series of complicated biochemical metabolic pathways.  Ribose is no different.  In the body, ribose is made from glucose (a simple 6-carbon sugar) through a pathway called the Pentose Phosphate Pathway (PPP) or Hexose Monophosphate Shunt (HMS).  Unfortunately, in heart and muscle cells important enzymes that regulate the activity of this pathway are lacking.  As such, forming ribose in heart and muscle cells is a slow process.  As a result heart and muscle tissues are unable to replace energy pools quickly once they have been depleted by disease or exercise.

How does the body derive cellular energy from ribose?

The physiologically functional form of ribose, called 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate (PRPP), regulates the metabolic pathway that synthesizes energy compounds in all living tissue.  If this compound is not available in sufficient quantity, energy synthesis slows.

How does taking supplemental ribose aid in increasing cellular energy? If the cellular energy pool is depleted by disease or exercise it must be replaced.  PRPP is required to turn on the metabolic pathway used by the body to replenish these energy pools.  Supplemental ribose bypasses the slow and rate limiting Pentose Phosphate Pathway, forms PRPP, and quickly begins the process of energy synthesis.