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I have had a lot of questions about what Eleviv is? Here is your answer.

Eleviv is a dietary supplement that contains the ingredients eurycoma longifolia (also known as Tongkat Ali), citrus peel extract, green tea extract, and l-theanine – all of which contain no extra sugar and is decaffeinated. These four ingredients have been scientifically studied and then combined to provide a supplement that can help restore the body’s natural balance and help you feel better, concentrate better, and have more energy for life.

The recommended dosage is two capsules a day, I personally take three a day as I experience a high level of stress at my job. Some days I have to take four!

This blog, all-natural herb energy, focuses on this one supplement because of everything that I have used, Eleviv is the one that actually works. Please take a moment to educate yourself about Eleviv, peruse the articles, the blog posts, the comments and then make the choice to restore your metabolic balance so you can feel better and do more!

This video says it all:

The stress you deal with day in and day out leads to the sustained stress level and this level is very detrimental and unnatural to your health and well-being. This is the “silent killer”. It does several things to you. At the chemical level, you are constantly secreting chemicals that your body is not used to having over a long period of time. In a fight or flight situation, you are supposed to use these chemicals up. Constant exposure and then depletion of these chemicals are what make stress deadly.

The two most common stress-related chemicals are adrenaline and cortisol.

Adrenaline

Initially, adrenaline is the hormone that creates that energy boost and increased mental acuity in a stressful situation you feel, but if you are constantly exposed to this hormone and its effects on the brain and muscles, it leads to fatigue and energy cycles. This is why you feel tired and don’t want to literally think.

Also of note, there is some evidence out there that too much adrenaline can damage the liver and pancreas and ultimately lead to diabetes.

Cortisole

Cortisole is the other hormone you need to be worried about; in fact, it is the real killer. It is made through synthesizing cholesterol and sugar – this is not good long term. It also inhibits serotonin and suppresses the immune system. What are the problems with this?

1. Cholesterol and heightened levels of sugar – we know these are terrible for our health. The cholesterol remains in the system, causes blood pressure and cardiologic issues. The sporadic release and control of blood sugar can disrupt your system permanently and lead to energy spikes and more importantly, fatigue or constantly feeling tired and unmotivated.
2. You ever noticed that fat around your belly? One of the main contributors is this hormone with its relationship to stress. We are supposed to burn the cholesterol and sugar off in a fight or flight situation. The problem arises when the stressor doesn’t require this exercise and cortisole does not get burned off.

3. Mentally, the inhibition of serotonin leads to suppressed mood, concentration, and memory. It may even lead to more serious long-term issues such as Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Ever felt like you couldn’t think anymore – you probably CAN’T biologically and that is due to sustained stress.

4. A suppressed immune system is the other serious condition of sustained stress. Obviously, the body cannot fight off infections, illnesses, diseases, cancers, etc. This leads you down a slippery slope where your health becomes impaired and every daily activity associated with how you feel.

In sum, sustained stress leads to fatigue, reduced alertness and concentration, blood pressure issues, obesity, cholesterol, sickness, depression, lifelong disease, and cancer. Stress uncontrolled and sustained leads you down a slippery slope to the next stage of stress.
The next state of stress is exhaustion. You can literally exhaust the hormones secreted during stressful situations and find it difficult to maintain mood, energy levels, or even think. You will break down emotionally, physically, and mentally. Illnesses and disease become rampant and if the body is not able to recover it leads to the final phase of death.

In short, stress is a silent killer that will suck the life out of you and then literally leave you for dead!
Stress Article Table of Contents
Article 1: Stress, the silent killer that will destroy your life
Article 2: The Elements of Stress and the Four Levels of Stress
Article 3: Sustained Stress – You Will Die From This

External Stimuli

Good Stress

You can categorize external stimuli as both good and bad stressors. Good stress includes emotions such as pleasure, excitement, happiness, etc. Hopefully, you have experienced this at least once in your life. Examples of the external stimuli that bring on the good stress are things such as a surprise birthday party, a new car, a visit from someone you have missed (which is a bad stressor by the way). A lot of people experience good stress when they win a court case, watch a team win a sporting event, or look at a report card full of A’s. We thrive on these emotions. They make us feel good – this is good stress.

So what happens to you physically? Why do you feel so good and have so much energy when you are exposed to good stressors? When you are exposed to good stressors, the body responds by increasing breathing, perspiring, increasing muscle tension, etc. The difference between this reaction and when we are exposed to a bad stressor is that our body produces good chemicals such as endorphins, serotonins, and dopamine. These chemicals are an antidote to the chemicals our body produces when exposed to bad stressors and give us a natural “high”.

Bad Stress

Now, what about bad stress. There are many emotions connected to this type of stressor: fear, depression, sadness, disappointment, anxiety. Examples could include such things as not having enough money to pay the bills, losing your job, slamming into the car in front of you as he slams on his brakes, a loved one passes away, you are confused about a test or assignment, this list can go on and on.

Biologically, stress is a complicated series of events both physically and chemically. Your body does many things to respond effectively to external stimuli. The difference is in the chemicals secreted and exposure to these chemicals can be beneficial at first and then detrimental to your system.

The Four Levels of Stress

Your body’s reaction to stress is defined as the General Adaptation Syndrome also known as G.A.S. This syndrome includes four stages: the initial, the sustained, overkill, and death.

Initial Stage of Stress

You ever heard of fight or flight? This is the initial stage. Your body is has a system that gets you ready to deal with immediate dangers and does so by tensing the muscles, making the heart beat faster, making the lungs bring in more air to oxygenate your blood, eyes dilate and focus more intensely, and your stomach may even experience knots or “butterflies.” Chemically, your body secretes adrenaline and cortisol to make you almost supernatural. Naturally, after exposure to the danger, your body returns to normal and builds up chemicals and hormones for the next encounter. Unfortunately, we have moved beyond fighting predators to more sustained and incessant threats.

In the next article, we will talk more about the second level of stress –this is the most harmful and least obvious level.

Stress Article Table of Contents
Article 1: Stress, the silent killer that will destroy your life
Article 2: The Elements of Stress and the Four Levels of Stress
Article 3: Sustained Stress – You Will Die From This

Stress Article #1

On a daily basis, we all deal with stress. Life gets more stressful as time goes by and we get older. The dangerous fact is that stress is a sly killer. Our initial reaction to stress is natural, but our continual exposure and reaction to stress is not natural and wears down our systems to the point that your immune system cannot fend off illness and disease, you are fatigued, and your concentration and memory tend to suffer. Some people expose themselves to stress so much that they have literal breakdowns that lead to their deaths.

If you are reading this, you want to do something about stress in your life. The first way to defeat your enemy is to know your enemy. Through educating yourself, you can learn how to manage stress and prevent its terrible side effects.

This series of blog posts are meant to be informative and are essential to your vitality and wellness in fighting the silent killer, stress. Please take the time to, first, educate yourself about what stress is and what it actually does to you and then take the necessary steps to fight stress.

Check back daily for updates to this series about stress, its effects, and how to kill it.

Eleviv and Stress

Why is this article found on All-Natural Herb Energy and what does it have to do with Eleviv?

No matter what you do to manage stress, over time we lose the ability to produce the necessary hormones to combat it effectively. This can be caused by a combination of things such as sustained exposure and age. Most people are this way, you probably are or why else would you be reading this. You need to take a supplement that will help restore some of the chemicals you need to deal with stress and feel energetic and youthful again.

I am aware of only one supplement that is specifically formulated to deal with the natural degradation of the metabolic balance necessary to deal effectively with stress. It is Eleviv.

Get some now and get an edge up on managing your stress.

Stress Article Table of Contents
Article 1: Stress, the silent killer that will destroy your life
Article 2: The Elements of Stress and the Four Levels of Stress
Article 3: Sustained Stress – You Will Die From This

Are you skeptical about Eleviv’s effectiveness? Do you want to know the truth about Eleviv?

Some of you may think that what I have to say about Eleviv in this blog is too good to be true. Personal testimonies and skin deep explanations aren’t enough. That is fine. I decided in this article to highlight some of the Scientific proof behind its effectiveness in a simple bulleted list. You can look up the individual articles and learn more:
• Eleviv helps restore normal vigor levels in healthy stressed individuals – Talbott, Journal of American College of Nutrition, 2007
• Eleviv helps to reduce tension by 27% – Talbott, MSSE, 2007
• Metabolic balance is a ratio of catabolic to anabolic hormones and an imbalance of these hormones could lead to adverse psychological and physical effects such as depression and lack of energy – Bjorntorp, Journal of Internal Medicine, 1995
• Eleviv can improve this metabolic balance ratio by 20% – Talbot, FASEB Journal, 2006

Not convinced enough yet? I guess you’ll need to do even more reading about the ingredients found within Eleviv. Here are some articles on the different ingredients – remember that in science you cannot make the assumption that what these ingredients do alone they do as well when mixed with the other ingredients within Eleviv. Have fun reading; medical journals are a great read.

Articles about Eurycoma Longifolia

1. Cyranoski D. Malaysian researchers bet big on home-grown Viagra. Nat Med. 2005 Sep;11(9):912.

2. Bedir E, Abou-Gazar H, Ngwendson JN, Khan IA. Eurycomaoside: a new quassinoid-type glycoside from the roots of Eurycoma longifolia. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2003 Nov;51(11):1301-3.

3. Jiwajinda S, Santisopasri V, Murakami A, Sugiyama H, Gasquet M, Riad E, Balansard G, Ohigashi H. In vitro anti-tumor promoting and anti-parasitic activities of the quassinoids from Eurycoma longifolia, a medicinal plant in Southeast Asia. J Ethnopharmacol. 2002 Sep;82(1):55-8. Erratum in: J Ethnopharmacol.2003 Mar;85(1):173.

4. Chan KL, Choo CY. The toxicity of some quassinoids from Eurycoma longifolia. Planta Med. 2002 Jul;68(7):662-4.

5. Ueda JY, Tezuka Y, Banskota AH, Le Tran Q, Tran QK, Harimaya Y, Saiki I, Kadota S. Antiproliferative activity of Vietnamese medicinal plants. Biol Pharm Bull. 2002 Jun;25(6):753-60.

6. Choo CY, Chan KL. High performance liquid chromatography analysis of canthinone alkaloids from Eurycoma longifolia. Planta Med. 2002 Apr;68(4):382-4.

7. Ang HH, Hitotsuyanagi Y, Fukaya H, Takeya K. Quassinoids from Eurycoma longifolia. Phytochemistry. 2002 Apr;59(8):833-7.

8. Ang HH, Ikeda S, Gan EK. Evaluation of the potency activity of aphrodisiac in Eurycoma longifolia Jack. Phytother Res. 2001 Aug;15(5):435-6.

9. 16.Adimoelja A. Phytochemicals and the breakthrough of traditional herbs in the management of sexual dysfunctions. Int J Androl. 2000;23 Suppl 2:82-4.

10. Chaing HS, Merino-chavez G, Yang LL, Wang FN, Hafez ES. Medicinal plants: conception / contraception. Adv Contracept Deliv Syst. 1994;10(3-4):355-63.

11. Le-Van-Thoi, Nguyen-Ngoc-Suong. Constituents of Eurycoma longifolia Jack. J Org Chem. 1970 Apr;35(4):1104-9.

Articles about Theanine

1. Kakuda T, Yanase H, Utsunomiya K, Nozawa A, Unno T, Kataoka K. Protective effect of gamma-glutamylethylamide (theanine) on ischemic delayed neuronal death in gerbils. Neurosci Lett. 2000 Aug 11;289(3):189-92.

2. Sadzuka Y, Sugiyama T, Hirota S. Modulation of cancer chemotherapy by green tea. Clin Cancer Res. 1998 Jan;4(1):153-6.

3. Sadzuka Y, Sugiyama T, Miyagishima A, Nozawa Y, Hirota S. The effects of theanine, as a novel biochemical modulator, on the antitumor activity of adriamycin. Cancer Lett. 1996 Aug 2;105(2):203-9.

4. Sadzuka Y, Sugiyama T, Sonobe T. Efficacies of tea components on doxorubicin induced antitumor activity and reversal of multidrug resistance. Toxicol Lett. 2000 Apr 3;114(1-3):155-62.

5. Sadzuka Y, Sugiyama T, Sonobe T. Improvement of idarubicin induced antitumor activity and bone marrow suppression by theanine, a component of tea. Cancer Lett. 2000 Oct 1;158(2):119-24.

6. Sadzuka Y, Sugiyama T, Suzuki T, Sonobe T. Enhancement of the activity of doxorubicin by inhibition of glutamate transporter. Toxicol Lett. 2001 Sep 15;123(2-3):159-67.

7. Sadzuka Y, Yamashita Y, Sugiyama T, Sonobe T. Effect of dihydrokainate on the antitumor activity of doxorubicin. Cancer Lett. 2002 May 28;179(2):157-63.

8. Sugiyama T, Sadzuka Y, Tanaka K, Sonobe T. Inhibition of glutamate transporter by theanine enhances the therapeutic efficacy of doxorubicin. Toxicol Lett. 2001 Apr 30;121(2):89-96.

9. Sugiyama T, Sadzuka Y. Combination of theanine with doxorubicin inhibits hepatic metastasis of M5076 ovarian sarcoma. Clin Cancer Res. 1999 Feb;5(2):413-6.

10. Sugiyama T, Sadzuka Y. Enhancing effects of green tea components on the antitumor activity of adriamycin against M5076 ovarian sarcoma. Cancer Lett. 1998 Nov 13;133(1):19-26.

Articles about Green Tea

1. Ahn WS, Yoo J, Huh SW, Kim CK, Lee JM, Namkoong SE, Bae SM, Lee IP. Protective effects of green tea extracts (polyphenon E and EGCG) on human cervical lesions. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2003 Oct;12(5):383-90.

2. August DA, Landau J, Caputo D, Hong J, Lee MJ, Yang CS. Ingestion of green tea rapidly decreases prostaglandin E2 levels in rectal mucosa in humans. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1999 Aug;8(8):709-13.

3. Benzie IF, Szeto YT, Strain JJ, Tomlinson B. Consumption of green tea causes rapid increase in plasma antioxidant power in humans. Nutr Cancer. 1999;34(1):83-7.

4. Chantre P, Lairon D. Recent findings of green tea extract AR25 (Exolise) and its activity for the treatment of obesity. Phytomedicine. 2002 Jan;9(1):3-8.

5. Chow HH, Cai Y, Alberts DS, Hakim I, Dorr R, Shahi F, Crowell JA, Yang CS, Hara Y. Phase I pharmacokinetic study of tea polyphenols following single-dose administration of epigallocatechin gallate and polyphenon E. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2001 Jan;10(1):53-8.

6. Dulloo AG, Duret C, Rohrer D, Girardier L, Mensi N, Fathi M, Chantre P, Vandermander J. Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999 Dec;70(6):1040-5.

7. Dulloo AG, Seydoux J, Girardier L, Chantre P, Vandermander J. Green tea and thermogenesis: interactions between catechin-polyphenols, caffeine and sympathetic activity. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2000 Feb;24(2):252-8.

8. Elmets CA, Singh D, Tubesing K, Matsui M, Katiyar S, Mukhtar H. Cutaneous photoprotection from ultraviolet injury by green tea polyphenols. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2001 Mar;44(3):425-32.

9. Gupta S, Ahmad N, Mohan RR, Husain MM, Mukhtar H. Prostate cancer chemoprevention by green tea: in vitro and in vivo inhibition of testosterone-mediated induction of ornithine decarboxylase. Cancer Res. 1999 May 1;59(9):2115-20.

10. Hakim IA, Harris RB, Brown S, Chow HH, Wiseman S, Agarwal S, Talbot W. Effect of increased tea consumption on oxidative DNA damage among smokers: a randomized controlled study. J Nutr. 2003 Oct;133(10):3303S-3309S.

11. Hakim IA, Harris RB, Chow HH, Dean M, Brown S, Ali IU. Effect of a 4-month tea intervention on oxidative DNA damage among heavy smokers: role of glutathione S-transferase genotypes. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2004 Feb;13(2):242-9.

12. Hodgson JM, Puddey IB, Croft KD, Burke V, Mori TA, Caccetta RA, Beilin LJ. Acute effects of ingestion of black and green tea on lipoprotein oxidation. Am J Clin Nutr. 2000 May;71(5):1103-7.

13. Komatsu T, Nakamori M, Komatsu K, Hosoda K, Okamura M, Toyama K, Ishikura Y, Sakai T, Kunii D, Yamamoto S. Oolong tea increases energy metabolism in Japanese females. J Med Invest. 2003 Aug;50(3-4):170-5.

14. Kovacs EM, Lejeune MP, Nijs I, Westerterp-Plantenga MS. Effects of green tea on weight maintenance after body-weight loss. Br J Nutr. 2004 Mar;91(3):431-7.

15. Lin JK, Liang YC, Lin-Shiau SY. Cancer chemoprevention by tea polyphenols through mitotic signal transduction blockade. Biochem Pharmacol. 1999 Sep 15;58(6):911-5.

16. Maron DJ, Lu GP, Cai NS, Wu ZG, Li YH, Chen H, Zhu JQ, Jin XJ, Wouters BC, Zhao J. Cholesterol-lowering effect of a theaflavin-enriched green tea extract: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Intern Med. 2003 Jun 23;163(12):1448-53.

17. Pisters KM, Newman RA, Coldman B, Shin DM, Khuri FR, Hong WK, Glisson BS, Lee JS. Phase I trial of oral green tea extract in adult patients with solid tumors. J Clin Oncol. 2001 Mar 15;19(6):1830-8.

18. Weisburger JH, Rivenson A, Aliaga C, Reinhardt J, Kelloff GJ, Boone CW, Steele VE, Balentine DA, Pittman B, Zang E. Effect of tea extracts, polyphenols, and epigallocatechin gallate on azoxymethane-induced colon cancer. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1998 Jan;217(1):104-8.

Articles about Citrus Peel Extract

1. Berthiaume M, Laplante M, Festuccia WT, Cianflone K, Turcotte LP, Joanisse DR, Olivecrona G, Thieringer R, Deshaies Y. 11beta-HSD1 inhibition improves triglyceridemia through reduced liver VLDL secretion and partitions lipids toward oxidative tissues. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Oct;293(4):E1045-52. Epub 2007 Jul 31.

2. Delaney B, Phillips K, Buswell D, Mowry B, Nickels D, Cox D, Wang HB, Manthey J. Immunotoxicity of a standardized citrus polymethoxylated flavone extract. Food Chem Toxicol. 2001 Nov;39(11):1087-94.

3. Delaney B, Phillips K, Vasquez C, Wilson A, Cox D, Wang HB, Manthey J.Genetic toxicity of a standardized mixture of citrus polymethoxylated flavones. Food Chem Toxicol. 2002 May;40(5):617-24.

4. Desbriere R, Vuaroqueaux V, Achard V, Boullu-Ciocca S, Labuhn M, Dutour A, Grino M. 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 mRNA is increased in both visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue of obese patients. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2006 May;14(5):794-8.

5. Kawaii S, Tomono Y, Katase E, Ogawa K, Yano M. Antiproliferative activity of flavonoids on several cancer cell lines. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 1999 May;63(5):896-9.

6. Kurowska EM, Manthey JA, Casaschi A, Theriault AG. Modulation of HepG2 cell net apolipoprotein B secretion by the citrus polymethoxyflavone, tangeretin. Lipids. 2004 Feb;39(2):143-51.

7. Kurowska EM, Manthey JA. Hypolipidemic effects and absorption of citrus polymethoxylated flavones in hamsters with diet-induced hypercholesterolemia. J Agric Food Chem. 2004 May 19;52(10):2879-86.

8. Lee MJ, Fried SK, Mundt SS, Wang Y, Sullivan S, Stefanni A, Daugherty BL, Hermanowski-Vosatka A. Depot-specific regulation of the conversion of cortisone to cortisol in human adipose tissue. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Jun;16(6):1178-85. Epub 2008 Apr 3.

9. Manthey JA, Grohmann K, Montanari A, Ash K, Manthey CL. Polymethoxylated flavones derived from citrus suppress tumor necrosis factor-alpha expression by human monocytes. J Nat Prod. 1999 Mar;62(3):441-4.

10. Manthey JA, Grohmann K. Phenols in citrus peel byproducts. Concentrations of hydroxycinnamates and polymethoxylated flavones in citrus peel molasses. J Agric Food Chem. 2001 Jul;49(7):3268-73.

11. Manthey JA, Guthrie N. Antiproliferative activities of citrus flavonoids against six human cancer cell lines. J Agric Food Chem. 2002 Oct 9;50(21):5837-43.

12. Mora A, Paya M, Rios JL, Alcaraz MJ. Structure-activity relationships of polymethoxyflavones and other flavonoids as inhibitors of non-enzymic lipid peroxidation. Biochem Pharmacol. 1990 Aug 15;40(4):793-7.

13. Paulsen SK, Pedersen SB, Fisker S, Richelsen B. 11Beta-HSD type 1 expression in human adipose tissue: impact of gender, obesity, and fat localization. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Aug;15(8):1954-60.

14. Schnackenberg CG. 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 inhibitors for metabolic syndrome. Curr Opin Investig Drugs. 2008 Mar;9(3):295-300.

15. Schuster D, Maurer EM, Laggner C, Nashev LG, Wilckens T, Langer T, Odermatt A. The discovery of new 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 inhibitors by common feature pharmacophore modeling and virtual screening. J Med Chem. 2006 Jun 15;49(12):3454-66.

16. Schweizer RA, Atanasov AG, Frey BM, Odermatt A. A rapid screening assay for inhibitors of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (11beta-HSD): flavanone selectively inhibits 11beta-HSD1 reductase activity. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2003 Dec 30;212(1-2):41-9.

17. Su X, Vicker N, Trusselle M, Halem H, Culler MD, Potter BV. Discovery of novel inhibitors of human 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2008 Aug 15.

18. Takanaga H, Ohnishi A, Yamada S, Matsuo H, Morimoto S, Shoyama Y, Ohtani H, Sawada Y. Polymethoxylated flavones in orange juice are inhibitors of P-glycoprotein but not cytochrome P450 3A4. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2000 Apr;293(1):230-6.

19. Tomlinson JW, Sherlock M, Hughes B, Hughes SV, Kilvington F, Bartlett W, Courtney R, Rejto P, Carley W, Stewart PM. Inhibition of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 activity in vivo limits glucocorticoid exposure to human adipose tissue and decreases lipolysis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Mar;92(3):857-64. Epub 2007 Jan 2.

20. Walker BR. Cortisol–cause and cure for metabolic syndrome? Diabet Med. 2006 Dec;23(12):1281-8.

Eurycoma Longifolia is the latin name for the more commonly known Tongkat Ali (which literally means Ali’s walking stick). It is used throughout Asia as a remedy for everything from malaria to sexual dysfunction to testosterone deficiencies. Physically, it is a medium size tree about 30 feet tall. The root is where we get all the benefits. Phytochemically, it consists of alkaloids, quassinoids, canthin, eurycomanol, glyco saponins, tannins, glycol protein. Eurycoma longifolia’s phytochemicals are anti-viral, anti-malarial, and anti-cancerous; help reduce blood pressure, and dysentery.
One of the most famous attributes to eurycoma longifolia is its ability to increase the formation of testosterone. Testosterone is essential to remaining youthful. It stimulates metabolism, promotes the burning of fat, increases red blood cell formation, and increases muscle growth. Basically, testosterone is key to higher energy levels, the type you felt when you were a kid.
In addition to boosting testosterone, some claim that eurycoma longifolia also reduces mental fatigue and exhaustion, helps tone the skin and muscles, and improves your immune system. Great! How do you get some?
Eleviv is a supplement that has been tested and shown to increase the Vigor levels of most people who take it. One of the key ingredients of Eleviv is eurycoma longifolia. It also contains other vital Asian herbs such as green tea extract (decaffeinated) and L-theanine. This is a real energy-boosting supplement that is not detrimental to your health and can be used long term. It naturally increases your energy levels by restoring a metabolic balance.
Do you need more energy, better concentration, or a better mood? Try Eleviv. Its working for me.

For those of you that have been on the edge trying to decide if you want to try Eleviv or not, here is a new option for you. You can purchase a one-week trial for $25.00 and see if it works. Here is the stipulation, though. You have to live either in the U.S. or Canada (I won’t ship anywhere else) and you have to take your Vigor score before and after your trial.

Come back to this website and let us know what it did for you. Did it help you sleep better, with your stress, study harder, concentrate better, make you less irritable (my definite benefit), remember things better, improve your workout, etc. What was the improvement in your Vigor score? Take the survey to the right if you’re shy about your results.

Thank goodness for Eleviv. I am back on and have been for a little over a week. I have noticed that I sleep better at night. I face challenges at work and home with a better attitude, imagination, and initiative. My patience is much more elevated and I don’t succumb to irritation and anger like I did off Eleviv. It has been a stressful couple of weeks: bills, sick children, stressed wife, workload, etc. Thank goodness for this supplement that really makes it possible for my outlook on life and its challenges to be rosier.

For all of you navigating the internet looking for a solution for general feelings of depression, stress, inactivity, and overall feelings of blah, do what I have done – take Eleviv. Don’t ever quit using it as long as you are exposed to stressful situations – a.k.a. Life. My Vigor Score increased to a 22 from 12. That is significant.

It has been over a week now since I stopped taking Eleviv. I have noticed a few things immediately and have come to realize a few over through taking my Vigor score again. First of all, the obvious. I am more irritable and I do not handle stressful situations (like doing taxes and paying bills) very well. There was a noticeable difference between how I react before and after taking Eleviv. Also, I do find it more difficult to stay focused and retain information as I learn and take on new tasks.

At work, my initiative has been lacking. It isn’t terrible, but it could be a lot better. I’ve also begun to sleep worse the past few nights and there was no real reason why that should be happening. I don’t sleep as soundly and I find that I am tired much earlier during the day.

It’s amazing how well Eleviv does work in subtling changing your life for the better. Today I have begun to take Eleviv again to see what the changes will be. I am excited about raising my Vigor score (of which I got a 12 this time).

Tell me about your experiences with Eleviv. For those of you that may be critical about its effects, you really have to be scientific about it before evaluating it. Take the Vigor test, look at the different areas of your life that affect your vigor score and hone in on those as you take Eleviv. Do they really improve? You would probably be surprised.

Eleviv definitely helps with my irritability – a discovery I have made this past week. I wasn’t sure if Eleviv was doing anything for me anymore. I didn’t have to initial surge of energy, the acuity of mind, etc. Or at least this is what I thought. So as an experiment, I stopped using Eleviv to see what would happen.

My energy levels are lower, I find it hard again to concentrate, I now remember what it was like before taking this all-natural supplement. The worse thing I discovered, and this happened last night, is that without Eleviv, I am a very impatient, short-tempered individual. I had to work really hard to keep my cool in normally reoccurring circumstances. I even asked my wife “why is it so hard for me to find patience this evening?”

This has not been a good week for me. I am going one more day just so I can say that I have gone a week without and then I will retake my vigor score and see if the results are as good as they were the first time I started taking Eleviv.