In natural foods the essential vitamins and minerals we need to function healthily and efficiently are not found in isolation (free state). Vitamins and minerals are both found bound within the food matrix with a variety of co-factors depending on the vitamin or mineral. Differences between the "Re-natured state" and the "free state" determine the ways the body deals with materials in the two states. This "Re-natured state" makes them more recognisable to the body (increasing their absorption and availability) and conveys a degree of protection to that vitamin or mineral while appearing to prevent chemical interactions from occurring. For example, in the "free state", vitamin E and iron put into close proximity negate each other, making them unacceptable for use by the body. This does not happen when these two materials come into close contact when "Re-natured" as the active principle is satisfied in this state and is not free for chemical interchange.

Complexed with Food Components

The "Re-natured" vitamins, minerals and trace elements are complexed with food components of which yeast is one. Others are carrot concentrate for betacarotene; citrus pulp for vitamin C; vegetable oil for vitamin E etc. The final product is a food matrix containing co-factors such as: proteins, glycoproteins, lipoproteins, phosphoproteins etc. and is unlike the standard isolated chemical alternatives.

"Re-natured" materials do not need to be taken with food as all the food components are integral, thus eliminating the need for a random chance meeting of the active substance with its specific food co-factors.

What about Yeast Allergies and "Re-natured"?

Most allergens are complex protein based molecules, therefore for something to stimulate this allergy to yeast, it must contain complex long chain molecules as true allergies are molecule specific. With "Re-natured" minerals, once the yeast has taken up the mineral the outer cell wall is removed, the yeast cell is ruptured, and the long chain proteins broken down to peptides by the use of proteolytic enzymes. Hence none of the potentially allergenic long chain molecules exist. These products are generally safe to use even by yeast sensitive people; this has been proven by their use in allergy clinics where the patients are whole yeast sensitive. No product, it must be said however, is totally non allergenic.



Re-natured Minerals

Minerals are available in two forms, inorganic (free state) and organic (Re-natured). Inorganic minerals are generally accepted to be inappropriate for human tissue, whereas in the organic form minerals are readily recognised and used by the body.

Nature's process is to convert the inorganic minerals into the organic minerals form through the growing of plants in the soil. The plant is then eaten by humans (or animals that humans eat) and the organic mineral is available for the human.

With this in mind, "Re-natured" minerals are produced by feeding living plant cells the particular mineral, resulting in a super concentrated "Re-natured" mineral plant. This is then harvested, spray dried and tableted. This is then harvested, spray dried and tableted.

Supplements (using a food matrix such as yeast, citrus or carrot) have amassed a great deal of both scientific and clinical evidence of benefit over the past two decades. They are therefore the natural choice for Good Health. After years of research a new innovation offering an additional advance in nutrient delivery systems and consequently an exciting new product development. Bio-gurt nutrients are complexed with Lactobacillus bulgaricus, a bacterium resident in the healthy human gut, which has been studied extensively for over a century since its discovery in the late 1800s by Nobel laureate Dr Elias Metchnikoff. Bio-gurt nutrients are based on a bacterial system native to the human gut - not just acceptable but synergistic to the body that actively metabolises nutrients during its growth cycle and incorporates them into its own tissue structure, which is in turn readily absorbed, assimilated and utilised in the body traditionally respected by the health-conscious public, with no negative connotations. In short, all Re-natured nutrients offer you the benefit of the very latest breakthrough in nutrient supplementation. The higher nutrient potency of Bio-gurt overcomes the problem of large tablet size. Yeast-free formulations remove any concern about existing or potential yeast allergy.

Manufacturing and Bioavailability.

An important factor in general absorption rates and bioavailability, apart from the materials themselves, is the method of manufacturing the tablet. Many so-called innocuous excipients used in the process of tableting can, themselves, effect the availability of the active substances for absorption. Hence the importance of reducing these excipients to the minimum required. In the case of "Re-natured" ONLY the minimum amount of excipients are used.

"Pressure" and Bioavailability

Another factor is the pressure applied in creating a tablet. Too great a pressure generates heat and may deleteriously affect the presence of the active substance. It also disturbs the disintegration time of the tablet, consequently producing a poor or negligible absorption. This is more important when dealing with free state inorganic minerals which have critical, mineral specific gut absorption / transmission areas. If these are missed the mineral is unable to be absorbed fully due to their precipitation in the alkaline medium of the small intestine. Truly chelated mineral/amino acid group are treated more like the amino acid part and have a wider area of absorbability in the post-duodenal gut.


"Heat" and Bioavailability

The practice of very high output production runs with insufficient "rest" periods for the punch heads to release their heat build up, allow high internal temperatures to build up in the tablet, so creating the same problems.

Conclusion

All three factors play their role in absorption availability. Great care is taken in producing the tablet as well as in sourcing the materials, both active and excipient.

Vitamins and minerals in the "Re-natured state" have resulted in an improved response rate and tolerance rate, enabling a considerable reduction in the actual levels of intake, so that they are closer to the amounts found in natural foods. The nutrient matrix in food presents nutrients in low levels as does Re-natured. It is the appropriate form of nutritional presentation, not the level of dosage that is important in providing nutrients to the body.