Innate Response  is a committed leader in whole food nutritional supplements, which are  sourced from the freshest raw foods, then carefully milled to maximize nutritional value. Their drying techniques captures metabolically active forms of vitamin and mineral complexes. A thin coating of natural cellulose helps ensure rapid nutrient delivery.

Innate Response’s extensive laboratory testing and commitment to Food . . . Not Chemicals, gives practitioners the confidence to provide their health care community dietary supplementation with supportive healing nutrients. 

Nutrition From Food--Is there a difference in supplements?

What is vitamin C without the orange? If not found within the living content of whole food, what is calcium but crushed rock? These forms of nutrients are but highly refined chemical isolates in much the same way as refined sugar, flour and oils. Countless clinical studies continue to confirm these same results.

The best nutrition is from whole foods. Long-term studies question the viability of isolated vitamins for nutritional support. Isolated vitamins were originally used to prevent scurvy, beri beri and rickets. These nutritional ailments are no longer as widespread as they once were. Instead, we are faced with an increased need for nutritional support for metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and many other long-term nutritional challenges.

Based on studies confirming the effectiveness of whole food and the less than positive results of isolated vitamins, it is clear that whole food supplements such as Innate Response not only provide vitamin nutrition, but also all of the other cofactors necessary for optimal health. Vitamins without food are nothing more than isolated chemicals, stripped of their metabolically active components that make them functionally complete to comply with RDA minimum requirements.

Which Whole Food Supplements should you consider?

Many companies promote that their supplements are made from whole foods; however, there are only a few companies that actually can substantiate this claim. Authentic whole food supplements are made with vitamins and minerals delivered in whole food concentrates. The food concentrates selected have been grown in a controlled environment where budding plants are fed a nourishing broth enriched with bioactive peptide carriers.

The peptide carriers act as nutrient messengers, which govern a vitamin’s or mineral’s ability to be transformed into the plant’s cellular matrix. Once the plant’s natural capacity to store the nutrient within its cells is achieved, the growing process is complete, and harvesting is started using natural enzymes to carefully break down the cells walls, and release the intra-cellular nutrients. The whole food supplement produced is rich in vitamins and/or minerals including all of the plant’s inherent food components unadulterated.

These are vital co-factors helping the body to recognize and then use the nutrients that are in the whole food supplement. Whole food nutrients are recognized through digestive absorption as food, and so are naturally better  when compared to any other supplement form. Food is the complex form in which all nutrients are found in nature. Supplements in these dietary forms will list a nutrient by its exact names; for example-Vitamin C, folate or calcium and will indicate the mg dosage of each, but they will not denote a fractionated chemical name.

Nutrients as they exist in food cannot be listed as one identifiable organic compound in this way, for the reason that they always exist interconnected and never as one isolated element. Nutrients in a whole food state will be listed with their food source in the supplement facts panel such as vitamin C (Citrus sinensis).

Food Based Whole Food Supplementation-Read and Review the Label

This category of supplements is created from a physical mix of pure, fractionated nutrients with varying amounts of food powders or extracts. There are several different factors that need to be considered when determining the absolute nutritional value of a food based formula. The primary factors that affect the quality of a food based supplement are the amount, variance and form of the foods included in a particular formula.

A premium food base formula is one that provides a broad range of unadulterated whole food or plant concentrates in at least a 3:1 ratio of food to vitamins and minerals. The broader the range of foods and the higher the ratio of food to nutrients in a formula will significantly improve the bioavailabilty and biological activity of the vitamins and minerals. Delivering isolated vitamins and minerals in a premium food base is an energy-saving process, as the body will not waste vital energy stores to transform the vitamins and minerals into absorbable nutrients.

Ascorbic acid is a good example of a chemically synthesized vitamin that has been vastly studied; it has demonstrated enhanced utilization when the nutrient is delivered with its natural co-factors, such as bioflavonoids, rutin and tyrosinase, which always co-exist with vitamin C in food. The utilization factor can be increased by as much as 3 to 5 times (from 10% for vitamins in the first category, to 30 - 50% for food based).

To determine if a supplement has a food base, review the label for chemical names (see above), as well as a combination of food extracts or powders. To determine the ratio of nutrients to foods, add up the total milligrams of the listed nutrients and for the food extracts.

Is your dietary supplement Pure, Hypoallergenic and Natural?

This is the most prevalent category of professional supplements available today. Contrary to popular belief, the vitamins and minerals used to create supplements in this category are not derived from consumable food or botanical sources.

Instead, they are synthetically produced, fractionated or isolated from refined raw materials such as crushed rock, petroleum by-products and organic solvents to produce a pure, crystalline vitamin or mineral analogue. Although the final compound is an analogous structure to a specific vitamin or mineral, it is no longer attached or associated with any of the synergistic co-factors that the nutrient is inherently found with in foods.

As a result, pure vitamins and minerals have significantly reduced biological activity and a lower rate of utilization in the body. The body needs to recognize and then manage to utilize nutrients in this form, which in the process looses biological activity and nutritional value.

Supplements from this category are readily distinguishable by looking at the supplement facts panel. The vitamins and minerals in the formula will be denoted by a two part chemical name such as vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamin A (retinyl palmitate), or calcium (calcium citrate).

Whole Food Nutrition is truly the only natural choice. Innate Response Whole Foods Dietary Supplements are the right choice!

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