Vitamin Code
– Whole-Food, Raw Nutrient Cultivation
 Vitamin
Code Vitamins use a two-part process in cultivating the
whole-food, RAW nutrients in their
formulas. The first part is called “breaking the code” and has to do with
the process of growing the individual vitamins and minerals. The second
part of this process is called “code factors” and has to do with what is
completed during the “breaking the code” process.
Vitamin Code – “Breaking the Code”
Process
The following is a description of the “Breaking the Code
Process” for Vitamin Code RAW
vitamins, according to the Garden of Life formulators: “Breaking the
Vitamin Code took ingenuity, hard work, resolve and took years of trial
and error to discover and perfect the process by which The Vitamin Code
vitamins and minerals were grown. We start with a primer on how the
vitamins and minerals are cultivated. The process starts with two large
cultivation tanks. One tank grows Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a beneficial
probiotic yeast and single celled plant. The other tank contains an
isolated vitamin or mineral and a peptide specific to that vitamin or
mineral. The peptide is complexed with that vitamin or mineral. While this
is happening the yeast is being grown in the other tank. At the appointed
time, the two are mixed together. It is at this point that the “code”
first comes into effect.”
“The first part of the Vitamin Code has to do with a
peptide (chain of amino acids) that is complexed to the isolated vitamin
or mineral. The addition of the peptide is essential to creating the
Vitamin Code. If you added just the vitamin or mineral to the beneficial
probiotic yeast, the vitamin or mineral would remain outside of the yeast
during the growing process because the vitamin or mineral has no way to
penetrate the cell wall of the yeast. But when the peptide is added, the
following occurs: the peptide, complexed with the vitamin or mineral,
allows the vitamin or mineral to pass through the cell wall of the
beneficial yeast. The peptide has the “code” that allows the vitamin or
mineral and the yeast to become one.”
“This peptide process was not a simple discovery because
there is no “one size fits all” where the peptides are concerned. The
peptide that allows vitamin B6 to pass through the yeast cell wall is not
the same as the peptide that allows calcium to pass through. Every single
vitamin and mineral has a different peptide that allows it access. There
are hundreds of different peptides. Figuring out which peptide went with
which vitamin or mineral was a trial and error process that took years. It
is also what makes the Vitamin Code multivitamins unique.”
Vitamin Code – Code Factors
The second step in cultivating the
Vitamin Code vitamins is called the “code factors.” The following
description is provided by Garden of Life, the formulators of the Vitamin
Code RAW vitamins. “After “breaking
the code” to grow the Vitamin Code vitamins and minerals, the next step is
called the ‘code factors’ and describes what happens during this
cultivation process.
“We often think of nutrition in terms of vitamins and
minerals. For example: spinach is rich source of beta carotene which the
body converts to vitamin A, oranges are high in vitamin C and yogurt is
high in calcium. While all of this is accurate, it tends understate the
true nutritional value of RAW and
cultured foods. Oranges, spinach and yogurt are a lot more complex than
one particular vitamin or mineral. They also contain hundreds of
co-factors like antioxidants, probiotics, enzymes and phytonutrients as
well as other numerous vitamins and minerals.”
“We believe that isolating vitamins and minerals from
these co-factors lessens the nutritional impact of those vitamins and
minerals. That is why each of the Vitamin Code vitamins come complete with
their ‘code factors’ including the live probiotics and enzymes,
antioxidants and phytonutrients that were created during the process used
to grow the individual vitamins and minerals. When you read the Vitamin
Code vitamin label you will find important co-factors like CoQ10, SOD (superoxide
dismutase), glutathione, lipoproteins and glycoproteins.
These co-factors are not added to the process, they are
intrinsic to the process. Like a plant growing in a farmer’s field, the
process used to grow our vitamins and minerals provides powerful
co-factors. We go to great lengths to ensure that these Code Factors are
not destroyed during the growing process.”
 For
more information on the Vitamin Code cultivation process see the
Vitamin Code Book.
The Vitamin Code book is a groundbreaking book that
delves into the myths and mysteries about multivitamins. The Vitamin Code
book describes a special scientist’s in-depth journey to create active and
effective vitamins and minerals. This book also provides interesting
information on the formulation process of the RAW Vitamin Code vitamins.
Click here for more information about “The Vitamin Code Book”.
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