 
Greg Zulak, award-winning writer of training articles, is an authority on all matters relating to bodybuilding and muscle growth. In recent years his expertise has reached worldwide acceptance. Among the most interesting and safest ways to tan are the so-called tanning pills and tanning lotions. Canthaxanthin was promoted as a safe tanning pill in Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaws Life Extension. The FDA, however, has outlawed tanning pills. This doesn't mean that Canthaxanthin isn't still available, because it is. Canthaxanthin is now being sold through the mail and at some health food stores as an "anti-oxidant," the way beta-carotene, selenium and vitamin E are promoted as anti-oxidants. Canthaxanthin comes from the same carotenoid family as beta-carotene. The only side effect of Canthaxanthin is the turning of the fat layer of the body, which is just below the skin, a bronze color. Since the skin is translucent, you appear to have--tadaaa--a tan! The best stuff I have used is the Canthaxanthin sold by RPM Total Vitality of Yorba Linda, California. In the past many Canthaxanthins sold as tanning pills were of the yellow / orange-base type, which made the skin look a very unnatural orangey-yellow color. This Canthaxanthin is red-brown based and makes the skin look a much more natural reddish-brown color, which over time turns to a very natural-looking bronze. This Canthaxanthin is of the highest quality, and is the purest and darkest Canthaxanthin available. It contains no chemicals. It is all natural and is sold by RPM not as a tanning pill but as a "natural carotenoid food color" and an anti-oxidant. The FDA does not allow any Canthaxanthin to be sold as a tanning pill. RPM says that, if you take this product, one of the side effects will the coloring of the skin to a reddish-brown color. I have recently gone through a few bottles of their Canthaxanthin and I can tell you this stuff works great. It really does give a natural-looking color. Everyone at the gym keeps asking me where I've been to get such a great tan. When I tell them it was from Canthaxanthin, they can't believe it. "It looks so natural," they've all said. Where can you get this stuff? Call 1-800-234-3092 or write RPM Total Vitality, Life Extension Specialist, 18032 Lemon Drive, Suite C, Yorba Linda, CA 92886. You start taking four a day until you achieve the color you want, and then back off to two capsules a day as a maintenance dosage. I suggest three bottles to begin with to get a good color going. When combined with sun tanning or tanning bed, this Canthaxanthin can give you a fantastic natural-looking tan. Take it from a light-skinned guy who always burns and rarely tans. -- Sept 1994 Muscle Mag, p.251 Back to Top |
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