What is #BEFIL?

BEFIL is a 360° Heart Health Formulation.

When I first read the Befil product booklet, I was very intrigued by what it has to offer.

Firstly, Befil main focus is on taking care of your heart.

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Our heart is like the engine of our body and if it is not in good shape, we will experience many health issues.

What is a good indicator of the status of your heart?

Well, it is your Blood Pressure (BP) of course.

If you have elevated or high blood pressure, that is an indication that there is something not right with your body blood circulation system and your heart is working extra hard to compensate.

Following my car analogy, having high BP is like revving your engine all the way in the Redline zone when you drive every day.

There is only so much your heart and your blood vessel can take.

If you don’t take some preventive measures, sooner or later, it will cause permanent damage to your body.

High BP in Malaysia

How big is the issue of high blood pressure in Malaysia?

According to a news report by nst.com.my:

One in three adult Malaysians have hypertension

I believe the news report is quite accurate because I was once in the statistic.

I was once in the borderline of being in the hypertension category.

I also know of many people in my work environment that has high blood pressure.

Two of my office colleagues from IT was dead in the Hotel while sleeping due to a heart attack, another guy was 30+ years old also died due to sudden death.

High blood pressure is a prevalent issue and that’s why I took a strong interest in Befil when it was launched by BE International.

You can read about the redefinition news article here.

There is also a report from the Ministry of Health Malaysia.

The report was titled Management of Hypertension (4th Edition).

The following are some of the key points that I got from the report:

Hypertension is defined as a persistent elevation of systolic BP of 140 mm Hg or greater and/or diastolic BP of 90 mm Hg
A systolic BP of 120 – 139 and/or diastolic BP of 80 – 89 mm Hg is defined as pre-hypertension and should be treated in certain high-risk groups

For a healthy individual, your target BP should be below 120/80 mm Hg.

Understanding BP

Do you know how your blood pressure is measured?

When you measure your blood pressure, there are 2 numbers you should understand. The numbers are:

Systolic – measures the pressure in your blood vessels when your heart beats.

Diastolic – measures the pressure in your blood vessels when your heart rests between beats.

Both of the numbers are measured in a scale called “millimeters of mercury” (mm Hg).

If your blood pressure measurement reads 120 systolic and 80 diastolic, you would say “120 over 80” or write “120/80 mm Hg.”

Which is a more important reading you should observe for heart health?

After reading a few medical authoritative sites, it seems the current view is to give more emphasis on Systolic readings.

According to bloodpressureuk.org:

“We have discovered that systolic blood pressure (the top number or highest blood pressure when the heart is squeezing and pushing the blood around the body) is more important than diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number or lowest blood pressure between heartbeats) because it gives the best idea of your risk of having a stroke or heart attack.”

For those that are concern about heart health, you should give more emphasis on your systolic numbers.

BEFIL Formulation

In this section, I thought of sharing some information on Befil formulation.

Most of the information will be from the product booklet/catalog itself and I also did some deep dive into the topic just to learn more on the subject.

Let’s begin with the main focus of Befil, which is our heart.

More specifically, what causes an unhealthy heart.

There are many factors that lead to an unhealthy heart. Some of the factors are:

Aging
High cholesterol
High blood pressure
Stress
Unhealthy eating habits
Unhealthy lifestyle

The above are just 6 and I am sure there are more factors.

The end result of all the bad factors above is your heart having to work harder and also poor blood circulation around your body.

When you have poor blood circulation, it will lead to issues such as:

Lower brain function – memory loss, headaches, fainting spells, etc
Chest pain – shortness of breath, dizziness, heart disease, etc
Erectile dysfunction – reduced libido
Microcirculation – cold hands and feet and numbness of limbs

The point is, how do you reverse the effect of poor blood circulation?

The obvious answer is to change your lifestyle. Start by having a regular exercise regime and adopt a healthy diet.

Next, you should start taking a natural health supplement to strengthen your heart.

And that is where the BEFIL 360° Heart Health Formulation comes into the picture.

The formulation

What is the difference in Befil formulation?

Firstly, the consultant for the formulation is Professor Ferid Murad.

Most people would not have heard of him.

Neither have I.

Dr. Murad is a physician and a pharmacologist. He is a well-known expert in his field.

Dr. Murad was a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on the discoveries concerning nitric oxide (NO) as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.

Dr. Murad’s qualification is important because he is an expert on nitric oxide (NO), which is one of the key factors in Befil formulation.

And the formula of BEFIL is the only product that he personally endorsed, as well as he came all the way from the United State to Malaysia and Singapore for sharing on his researches and experiences with Nitric Oxide (NO).

The benefits

Based on the product booklet, there are 4 key benefits of BEFIL. These benefits are:

Cleanse the blood vessel
Smoothens blood flow
Cardiac bioenergetics
Antioxidant

In the following section, I will delve deeper into the individual benefits proposed.

1) Cleanse the blood vessel

How does L-arginine help?

It does:

Dilates the blood vessel
Helps to dissolve plaque
Prevent plaque formation
Keeps blood vessels pliable and elastic

The above can be achieved with a component known as L-arginine.

What is L-arginine?

According to mayoclinic.org:

L-arginine is an amino acid that helps the body build protein.

L-arginine is commonly found in most protein-rich foods such as fish, red meat, poultry, soy, whole grains, beans, and dairy products.

Based on research, L-arginine can help to improve the quality of life in people with a mild to severe form of chest pain.

It can also help to lower blood pressure and improve sexual function in men with erectile dysfunction (ED) due to a physical cause.

Inside our body, L-arginine is converted into a chemical component known as nitric oxide (NO).

2) Smoothens blood flow

The second benefit proposed by BEFIL is smoothened blood flow in our circulatory system.

This is achieved through the usage of tomato extract.

Why tomato extract? What is so special about it?

From the product booklet, the benefits of tomato extract are:

Helps to maintain healthy platelet aggregation
Boosts and maintains healthy blood flow
Helps to regulate blood pressure

According to theguardian.com:

A substance found in tomatoes relieves impairment of blood vessels, which may explain why people who eat a Mediterranean diet have a notably reduced incidence of cardiovascular disease.

The substance the study referred to is lycopene.

Lycopene is a carotenoid pigment and phytochemical found in tomatoes and other red fruits and vegetables, such as red carrots, watermelons, gac, and papayas.

It is a powerful antioxidant which is 10 times more potent than vitamin E.

It also has the ability to improve and normalize the function of the endothelium (the inner lining of blood vessels).

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Researchers have found that lycopene helps to widen our blood vessels therefore allowing our blood to flow smoothly.

Here’s an interesting fact.

Do you know that tomato extract is the first ingredient with an approved European Food Safety Authority article 13.5 health claim and is backed by strong scientific evidence?

This means the health benefits of tomato extract has long been researched with scientific documentation.

3) Cardiac bioenergetics

Bioenergetics is the field of how living organisms acquire and transform energy in order to perform biological work.

Cardiac bioenergetics, therefore, is the science on how our heart harnesses energy from a variety of metabolic pathways.

Because the heart muscle produces more than 90% of its energy from mitochondrial respiration, it is a highly oxidative tissue.

To relieve oxidative stress, the formulation uses CoQ10.

CoQ10 is a fat-soluble, vitamin-like substance that helps convert food into energy.

It is also a powerful antioxidant that protects against damage from toxic free radicals.

Therefore, the added CoQ10 is able to:

Helps to fuel cardiac muscles
Improve cardiac muscles
Promote healthy heart function

4) Antioxidant effect

To provide additional antioxidant effect, the formulation uses the extract from beetroot and pomegranate.

Beetroot is highly beneficial due to its nitrate component.

Nitrate is one of the compounds in beetroot juice that converts into nitric acid in the blood and help widen and relax blood vessels.

Have you tried beetroot juice before?

At healthline.com, the writer shared 12 health benefits from drinking beetroot juice.

Next, we have pomegranate.

What is it?

Pomegranate, or Punica granatum, is a shrub that produces a red fruit.

It is actually categorized as a berry.

Pomegranate fruit is about 5 – 12 cm in diameter.

It is red, round and looks kind of like a red apple with a flower-shaped stem.

Pomegranate is highly nutritious.

At naturalfoodseries.com, you can read about the 11 impressive health benefits of the fruit.

In Befil formulation, the combination of both beetroot and pomegranate provides:

Strong antioxidant effects to combat free radicals
Protect nitric oxide (NO) against oxidative destruction
Enhance the biological actions of NO
Helps to inhibit oxidation and bad cholesterol
Protects endothelial cells and inhibits vascular damage

Clinical proven

In this section, I thought of highlighting some of the claims listed in the product booklet.

One of the benefits of the Befil formulation is its ability to smoothens your blood flow.

This is achieved through the presence of L-arginine in the product.

Is there any documentation that shows L-arginine actually dilates or relaxes your blood vessel?

The following is the actual extract from the product booklet on how L-arginine helps to improve endothelium-dependent dilation (EDD) up to 2-fold.

In simple terms, the graph below shows the effectiveness of L-arginine in helping to relax our blood vessel.