What is the “Code”?

When we refer to the “code” in Vitamin Code^®  we are really talking about two different concepts. The first one has to do with the process of growing the individual vitamins and minerals that make up The Vitamin Code multivitamins. The second one has to do with what is completed during that same process. The first concept is about Breaking the Code and the second one is about Code Factors.

Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code involved ingenuity, hard work and most importantly, resolve. It took years of trial and error to discover and perfect the process by which The Vitamin Code vitamins and minerals were grown.
A primer first on how the vitamins and minerals are cultivated. The process begins with two large cultivation tanks. One 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 code has to do with peptide that is complexed to the isolated vitamin or mineral. A peptide is a chain of amino acids. Without the addition of the peptide, there would be no 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. The vitamin or mineral has no way to penetrate the cell wall of the yeast. However, when the peptide is added the story changes. 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.

Not that it was a simple discovery. There was no “one size fits all” where the peptides were 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. In fact 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.

Code Factors

If breaking the code is about the most important step in the process used to grow Vitamin Code vitamins and minerals, Code Factors is about what happens during the process. Code Factors are compounds that are created during the growing process.

We often think of nutrition in terms of vitamins and minerals. Oranges are high in vitamin C. Spinach is rich source of beta carotene which the body converts to vitamin A. Yogurt is high in calcium. While all of this is true, it tends to sell short the true nutritional value of raw and cultured foods. Oranges, spinach and yogurt are a lot more complex than one vitamin or mineral. They also contain hundreds of co-factors like probiotics, enzymes, antioxidants and phytonutrients as well as a host of other 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 The Vitamin Code line of multivitamins comes complete with Code Factors. Each Vitamin Code multivitamin comes complete with live probiotics and enzymes, antioxidants and phytonutrients that are created during the process used to grow the individual vitamins and minerals. When you read the label you will find important co-factors like CoQ10, SOD (superoxide dismutase), glutathione, lipoproteins and glycoproteins.
It is incredibly important to remember that 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. Click here to learn why Vitamin Code is "100% Active".