Leptin is a protein hormone with important effects in regulating body weight, metabolism and reproductive function. 

Recent studies with obese and non-obese humans demonstrated a strong positive correlation of serum leptin concentrations with percentage of body fat.

The 16 September 1999 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reports the results of a year-long trial of recombinant human leptin in a 9-year-old girl who is homozygous for a frameshift mutation in her leptin genes (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/341/12/879.pdf).

Summary of the report:

• She began the trial weighing 94.4 kg (208 lbs), of which 55.9 kg (123 lbs) was fat (adipose tissue).
• She was given daily injections of recombinant leptin for one year.

At the end of that time:

• she had lost 16.4 kg (36 lbs).
• Her appetite and thus food intake had decreased.

A new study by Michael Rosenbaum, M.D., and his colleagues at Columbia University Medical Center has provided new insight into the critical interactions between the fat-derived hormone leptin and the brain in response to weight loss.

With about 90 percent of previously obese individuals regaining their lost weight, Rosenbaum, working with Rudolph Leibel, M.D., co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University, were interested in developing approaches to help individuals maintain a lower body weight, since even modest, sustained weight loss can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Reference:

http://www.jci.org/articles/view/36284
http://www.gsas.columbia.edu/cu/news/record/thin.html

Max International and their MaxWLX Weight Loss Accelerator focuses on regulating the levels of leptin in the body to best achieve weight loss.

Glutathione is a small molecule found in almost every cell. It typically cannot enter most cells directly and therefore must be made inside the cell, from its three constituent amino acids: glycine, glutamate and cysteine.

Glutathione has the following purposes:

1. It is the major antioxidant produced by the cell, protecting it from ‘free radicals’ (‘oxygen radicals’, ‘oxyradicals’) which will damage or destroy key cell components (e.g. membranes, DNA).
2. Glutathione recycles other well-known antioxidants such as vitamin C and vitamin E, keeping them in their active state.
3. Glutathione is a very important detoxifying agent, enabling the body to get rid of undesirable toxins and pollutants. Many cancer-producing chemicals, heavy metals, drug metabolites etc. are disposed of in this way.
4. Glutathione plays a crucial role in maintaining a normal balance between oxidation and anti-oxidation. This, in turn, regulates many of the cell’s vital functions, such as the synthesis and repair of DNA, the synthesis of proteins and the activation and regulation of enzymes.
5. Glutathione is required in many of the intricate steps needed to carry out an immune response. For example, it is needed for the lymphocytes to multiply in order to develop a strong immune response, and for ‘killer’ lymphocytes to be able to kill undesirable cells such as cancer cells or virally infected cells.

Glutathione is vitally important to the body.

Supplements Containing Glutathione Alone Will NOT Increase The Body’s GSH Levels. It is pointless to purchase supplements that merely contain glutathione, because the digestive system breaks down ingested glutathione and it will not be absorbed into your system. On the other hand, MaxGXL provides the proper nutrients needed to promote the body’s own ability to manufacture and absorb glutathione. MaxGXL also aids in liver support by destroying environmental poisons helping the liver to function as the main production site and storehouse for glutathione

The key is a product like MaxGXL which contains the necessary components of glutathione that when absorbed into the body; stimulate the body’s own production of glutathione in every cell of the body.

I learned about Max from a gentleman I was working with.  He was taking the MaxGXL product and a Max affiliate.  When it was presented to me I thought this is another MLM scheme and I was hesitant and ignored his requests to try Max.

After a few requests for me to give Max a try he mentioned that Max was coming out with a weight loss product.  Between the Glutathione product and a weight loss product I was a little more intrigued.  Still skeptical, I did a bit of research on both products.  From my research the many experts seemed to agree that Glutathione and Leptin were key components to heatlh/energy and weight loss respectively.  He seemed pretty convinced from his experience these products from Max were the real deal and I decided to give them a shot. 

I decided I would give the products (MaxGlx and MaxWlx) 2 months of use before I considered if I wanted to attempt to sell the products myself.