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Organic-Cell-Grown
Living Food Concentrates

How are Living Food Vitamins and Minerals Grown?

Individual USP/FCC vitamins or inorganic mineral salts are put into a fermentation tank with a proprietary liquid preparation containing certain specific food constituents. This is then combined with plant-derived, non-denatured carbohydrate and protein to form a rich nutritional media. This media is then fed to a BENEVOLENT yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiac). This yeast is considered the mother yeast for fermentation and is what nature naturally provides for fermenting wine, beer and baking bread. It has been used for over 5,000 years by diverse cultures around the globe as a source of nutrition, and more recently because of its naturally occurring protein and B-complex vitamins.

AFTER A PERIOD OF GROWTH, THE YEAST IS INACTIVATED BY A COMBINATION OF LOW HEAT AND PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES. THIS MEANS THAT THE INDIVIDUAL YEAST CELLS, WHICH NOW CONTAIN THE VITAMIN OR MINERAL FED TO THEM ALONG WITH ALL OF THE STARTING PLANT NUTRIENTS, ARE NO LONGER ALIVE. THEY HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY DISASSEMBLED AND ARE INCAPABLE OF REPRODUCING.

It is then dried at low heat and analyzed for several parameters, including appropriate microbiological testing. In the final form of a dry nutrient powder, the product is blended with specific other grown vitamin or mineral powders to create a supplement formula. Because vitamin A is not found in the plant kingdom, our vitamin A is not presently grown, but recreated in “reaction process” with carrot powder, vegetable proteins, carbohydrates, and other food constituents to significantly improve its bioavailability and reduce its inherent toxicity.

Aren’t yeasts harmful?

There are several hundred distinct strains of yeast known to science. Some are pathogenic and some are beneficial. It is the same for plants, whereby some are harmful and some are not. While we avoid eating the harmful ones, we don’t avoid eating the beneficial ones. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a BENEFICIAL yeast.

What about people and animals who are allergic to yeast or have
Candida Albicans yeast problems?

It appears that our formulas are somewhat antagonistic towards Candida Albicans in the body. In the past ten years, we have come across a number of people who had advanced chemical sensitivities and Candida Albicans, who noticed some reactions from taking our products at the normal recommended dosages. It appeared to us that there was an initial Candida die-off and the dosages had to be reduced to about one-fourth normal and gradually increased over a period of one to three months after which these people were doing fine.

What other effects have been noticed?

Rarely, some people experience mild bloating soon after taking our products. There appears to be some disruption of the unfriendly bacteria in the intestine. We have found that increasing the levels of friendly bacteria using a good probiotic (PMK ORGANICS PROENERGY) will generally eliminate this problem quickly. Continued use of our products gradually helps suppress the unfriendly bacteria to the point where there is a more natural balance between the good ones and the bad ones.

What are the main differences in health people notice and are observed in animals when switching to plant-cell-grown, Living Food Concentrates?

The most obvious is the dramatic reduction or elimination of annual colds or flu’s for most people. They are either completely eliminated or last a much shorter time. With dogs: skin problems, stiffness in joints, digestive and eliminative problems improve. With cats: kidney-bladder problems improve. These tend to be the most dramatic improvements.

Are there any other nutrients besides vitamins or minerals in the
PMK products?

There are numerous other nutrients just beginning to be documented. The fermentation process can actually increase the potency of some of the nutrients that occur naturally in the food constituents used to produce our finished products. It has been recently discovered in our vitamin C for instance, that the antioxidant activity of the bioflavonoids and vitamin C after fermentation increases by 610% over the activity prior to fermentation. This was also discovered in soy by a team of scientists in Japan in 1996 which found that of the fermented soy products, Natto (a fermented form of soaked and cooked whole soybeans) had the highest Genistein content. Genistein is a natural isoflavone which exhibits antioxidant and phytoestrogenic activity and is suspected of having an effect on breast, colon and prostate cancers. The Genistein level in our vitamin C averages 374% higher than that found in Japanese Natto. In a 1997 study done at an eastern university, our vitamin C was also found to have 11.1 times more total antioxidant strength relative to ascorbic acid, while a well-known antioxidant Pycnogenol, an expensive pine bark extract from France, was found to have only 2.57 times. Also, the total antioxidant phenol levels of Pycnogenol were found to be 1367 mcgs per gram, and our vitamin C was found to be 1255. Vitamin C as ascorbic acid was zero.

What is meant by Bioenergetic testing?

Bioenergetic testing is the term we use to describe the technique we have developed to determine what should go into a specific formula and how much of it to use. Traditional formulation techniques rely on determinations made by scientists as to what a human being or animal may need in the way of vitamin or mineral supplementation. It is a commonly held belief by most health experts, that most government estimates of the minimum daily requirements for vitamins and minerals are low and in some cases so low as to be unrealistic. Health is not a subject taught in medical schools in the United States. Disease is the main focus, and the management of disease by the use of man-made chemicals (drugs) is the chosen modality.

We have developed the ability to interact with the energy fields that surround living systems. We have discovered that this energy field reacts or responds to activity near or within the body itself and can accurately feedback information as to whether a substance is beneficial or harmful to the body. Substances that the body wants or needs contribute to a strong and larger field, while substances that are harmful in some way have the opposite effect. It has been noted in scientific studies around the world that “dis-ease” as we know it shows up in the energy field before it manifests physically. Healing also reveals itself in the same way. Bioenergetic testing is not a form of Applied Kinesiology (also known as muscle testing).

Using Bioenergetic testing to create a formula produces a truly synergistic product with a congruent energy field consistent with that of a living organism. We think this produces a more natural product. We have found that to add, remove or change the amount of the nutrients in our formulas collapses the energy field. We believe the energy field to be important enough to not meddle with this revelation of nature.

Why do many of Plant-cell-grown products have lower potencies than some other products on the market?

The plant-cell-grown nutrients we use are many times more effective than the traditional vitamins and minerals used in other products. A large body of bioavailable/utilization studies of various vitamins and minerals reveals that, on average, as much as 95% or more of traditional vitamins and minerals are not used by the body and the ones that are used are not as effective because of their unnatural state. This same group of studies also showed that the closer the product is to being authentically natural, the more effective it is. Our nutrients are in the most natural form available. They are grown according to principles of nature and not the dictates of scientists. Over the years, the consistent effectiveness of the products, as compared with taking alternative products, speaks for itself. Most of us know intuitively that to consume something in a natural state is healthier than to consume something man-made. Also, the amounts of nutrients we have in our formulas are dictated by the Bioenergetic testing we use to determine what should go in it and how much.

Is it true that some vitamins and minerals are actually
harmful in higher dosages?

Yes, however, the degree to which a vitamin or mineral can be harmful is greatly influenced by the form in which it occurs. Vitamins and minerals in their natural forms derived from a living organism are processed by the body differently than the non-grown type of vitamins and minerals typically sold. The different vitamins or minerals that have demonstrated some degree of toxicity are more toxic at much lower dosages than grown vitamins and minerals.

Synthetic vitamin D (almost all vitamin D on the market) is known to enhance lead absorption. Other scientific studies have demonstrated an increased absorption of inorganic nickel, strontium and cadmium, all of which can be very toxic. According to the respected investigator, Judith A. DeCava, MS, LNC, “a study of rats some time ago showed that a large overdosage of synthetic vitamin D, an amount just below the amount which would produce toxic symptoms in the first and second animal generations given over a long period of time, produced ‘striking pathological changes’ – disease – in the third and fourth generations. There have been about two generations of humans who have been subjected to synthetic vitamin D ‘fortification’ in foods widely used in the US.” This can be particularly alarming, since she also reports that the New England Journal of Medicine found “that the amount of synthetic vitamin D listed on the containers of milk was very frequently nowhere near the amount actually found in milk samples. An analysis of the dairy’s vitamin D fortified milk showed concentrations of vitamin D-3 ranged from undetectable to as high as 232,565 IUs per quart – when it should have been 400 IUs per quart. When scientists recently evaluated 779 milk samples from ten states, they found that 80% contained 20% more or 20% less vitamin D than the labels claimed. One sample contained 914% more.” Substantial variations of this kind can contribute to threatening overdoses or deficiencies states.

This is but one example of many. A good book on this subject for people is The Real Truth About Vitamins and Antioxidants, by Judith A DeCava, MS, LNC, published by Brentwood Academic Press,
4000 Beallwood Avenue, Columbus, GA 31904.

An excellent book on vitamins/minerals for animals is
Reigning Cats & Dogs, A Holistic Approach to Royal Treatment for Healthy, Happy Carnivores
by Pat McKay