BodyGuard Health

New Zealand made health supplements that can add years to your life!

History of BodyGuard Health

As a young man, Dr Cliff McGrouther, founder of BodyGuard Health watched his grandmother die of cancer. She said to him one day, "You're a fairly bright young man, why don't you do something about cancer."

Dr McGrouther's agricultural background led him to study animal health and it was on a Southland farm in the 1950s that he first saw the transformative effects of the micro-nutrient selenium.

Inspired by studies done in the US on rats, C Hercus from Hakataramea pioneered the use of selenium supplements on sheep to combat the high levels of still-births and disease that resulted from excessive use of nitrogenous fertilisers and super phosphates.

Through his extensive work with animals, Dr McGrouther had learned that Selenium and Vitamin E are important antioxidants and he believed that human health could benefit from the great successes of antioxidant use in the animal kingdom.

The use of Selenium and Vitamin E is now an internationally recognised farming practice, necessitated by Selenium deficiencies in soils worldwide.

Dr McGrouther's quest to improve human health was ignited when he came across research about the role of free radicals in the development of many degenerative diseases.

Free radicals are unstable molecules that attack healthy cells and set off a chain reaction of destruction that is called oxidation. Oxidation is the same process that causes metal to rust and cut apples to go brown.

In humans, when DNA cells are damaged, cancer can result. When blood lipids are damaged, heart disease can occur.

Antioxidants are the body's protectors against this damage. They protect the cells from damage and neutralise free radicals in the body.

Dr McGrouther went on to work with the University of Otago, School of Medicine to study the effects of Selenium and Vitamin E in people. From his own, and other international research, Dr McGrouther created BodyGuard SeleniumXL, a synergistic, high-potency formula of antioxidants that includes Selenium, Beta-carotene, Zinc, and Vitamins B, C and E.