Composition

Velvet Antler is composed of several nutrients that have been shown to benefit in the treatment of numerous conditions:

• Glucosamine Sulfate.........necessary for connective tissue.
• Chondroitin Sulfate...........helps rebuild degenerating cartilage between joints
• Prostaglandins..................occur naturally as an anti-inflammatory agent and help regulate lipid metabolism
• Gangliosides.....................promotes memory and learning
• IGF-1 ( insulin-like growth factor).. useful as an anti-aging agent to prevent muscular  atrophy and to promote    muscular  development.
• Nucleosides......................building blocks of DNA and RNA which control cellular function and heredity, and have been used in anti-cancer therapies.
• Amino acids, trace minerals, collagen

Harvest

     Male deer grow a new set of antlers every year. The growth rate is extremely rapid with a full set of hard antlers weighing 20 lbs. or more being completed within 120 days. After 60 days the antler cartilage begins it's calcification process and the velvet covering is shed, leaving the mature, boney antler. Hard antlers are also generally removed so that the stags aren't a threat to human safety and so that they cannot injure themselves while fighting with one another during the rut season.
    "Velvet Antler" is compassionately removed at the midpoint of the growing cycle, which is 55- 60 days, to insure it is of the highest quality. At this time the antlers are composed of cartilage, filled with nutrient rich live tissue, covered with  fine velvet like hairs. The entire living antler tissue is considered  "Velvet Antler", not  the hairy covering which is removed and discarded when processed. Removal is humanely done with no harm to the deer . The antlers are then frozen and then sent to the processing lab where they are dried, ground into a powder, and then capsulated under strict pharmaceutical conditions.
    Since antlers grow again each year, this source of valuable nutrients is a renewable resource (unlike the source of cartilage from cattle and sharks which have to be killed) providing an "animal friendly" and environmentally safe source for cartilage and valuable nutrients to improve our health and well being.

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