How Homeostatic Nutrients™ can change your life - Beyond Vitamins and Minerals - Living Multi - nutritional supplement

Vegetarian Times, June, 2003 by Jordan Rubin

There is a revolution under way in multiple vitamin/mineral supplements, started by a product called Living Multi[TM].

Most breakthroughs in nutrition and science represent an evolution, but Living Multi is truly a revolution in the method by which nutrients are made available to the human body, as well as their ability to bring the body into dynamic balance known as "homeostasis."

Back to the Future

There are two schools of thought in the field of nutritional supplementation. The older school from the 1930s utilized whole food concentrates as a source of essential nutrients. But then came the promises of scientists who claimed they could duplicate these miracle nutrients in their laboratories. Thus, with the advent of sophisticated scientific technology, individual nutrients such as ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) could be identified within the whole food matrix and imitated through synthetic means.

For the most part, modern day multiple supplements rely on nutrients that are fractionated and isolated from their natural cofactors much like their pharmaceutical cousins. If there aren't enough cofactors such as other vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, when ingested, the body may not be able to recognize these as nutrients, or in turn, utilize them.

Scientific studies have now established the inferiority of synthetic vitamins as simplified imitations of the more complex structures found in nature, particularly in whole foods. This helps to explain why we as a nation are getting sicker as we get older, more fatigued, obese, and filled with more artery-clogging plaque than ever, despite the fact that more than half of all Americans are now taking some type of nutritional supplement, the majority of which are multiple vitamins.

However, the great news--the real challenge--is that we can do much better ...

Homeostatic Nutrient Complexes

Before the advent of widespread modern agriculture, the human diet consisted mostly of fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, fish, and meat from wild animals. Today we have strayed so far from the wisdom of our forefathers, that 55% of the American diet is "new food" not originally eaten by our ancestors.

No matter how we have advanced socially and technologically; our genetic constitutions and nutritional requirements still cause our bodies to crave the foods of our ancestors. Our physiology and biochemistry cry out for a primitive diet.

Living Multi supplies an abundant array of Homeostatic Nutrient complexes containing "live" probiotics and enzymes that effectively deliver nutrients, and continue to work in the body providing many health-enhancing benefits. Living Multi contains a wide range of whole food concentrates, including 23 fruits, 20 vegetables, 9 sea plants, 11 medicinal mushrooms, 6 botanicals, and more than 100 naturally occurring fulvic acid based ionic minerals. In fact, there are up to 10 times more whole food nutrients in Living Multi than in similar products.

Ancient Wisdom-Fermentation

Homeostatic Nutrients are created through the Poten-Zyme[TM] process, an ancient method of fermentation incorporating beneficial microorganisms (probiotics) and their byproducts (including enzymes and organic acids), into the nutrients and foods gently melding them into one.

The Poten-Zyme fermentation process lasts three to six weeks (unlike other methods that last as little as four hours). The end result causes the nutrients to be complexed into their preferred form and made body-ready. This not only predigests, but in turn, activates all necessary co-factors such as enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.

Also created are multitudes of novel biochemicals that the body craves, including the master antioxidant superoxide dismutase, immune-supportive beta-glucans, antimicrobial peptides, bacteriocins, biosurfactants, biotin, coenzymes, conjugated linolenic acid, glutathione, chromium compounds, hydrogen peroxide, lactic acid, and lysozyme.

The Beneficial Components in Living Multi

Poten-Zyme 9 Ocean Vegetable Blend: Spirulina platensis, Chlorella vulgaris, Lithothamnion calcereum, Dunaliella salina, Eclonia radiata, Ascophyllum nodosum, Laminaria japonica, Macrocystis pyrifera, and Alaria esculenta.

Sea Vegetables are treasure-troves of nutrients that provide important immune and detoxification support, increasing the body's resistance to many modern pollutants.

Poten-Zyme 23 Antioxidant Fruit Blend 60:1 (requiring 60 lbs of raw fruit to render 1 lb of concentrate): Acerola cherry, Blueberry (fruit and leaf), Pomegranate, Apple (fruit and skin), Black currant, Apricot, Nectarine, Prune, White cherry, Elderberry, Grape (fruit, seed, skin and leaf), Peach, Mango, Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Orange, Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime, Cranberry, Pineapple, and Papaya.

Poten-Zyme 20 Antioxidant Veggie Juice Blend 25:1 (25 lbs of vegetables are required for 1 lb of the final product): Alfalfa Grass, Barley Grass, Wheat Grass, Rye Grass, Oat Grass, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kale, Collard Greens, Brussels Sprouts, Carrot, Beet, Spinach, Parsley; Cucumber, Celery, Cabbage, and Onion.