I N NA T E RESPONSE FORMULAS®
“The first thing that is destroyed in the laboratory when a nutrient is isolated from a food, is the delicate web of intelligence that binds the components of food together. When a blood cell rushes to a wound site and begins to form a clot, it has not traveled there at random. It actually knows where to go and what to do when it gets there, as surely as a paramedic - in fact, more surely, since it acts completely spontaneously and without guesswork. Even if we break down its knowledge into finer and finer bits, looking for the secret in some minute hormone or messenger enzyme, we will not find a protein strand labeled ‘intelligence’, and yet there is no doubt that intelligence is at work.”
~ Deepak Chopra, M.D
Quantum Healing
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BioSan Laboratories' Quality Assurance
BioSan Laboratories, Inc. has formulated and manufactured quality dietary supplements from whole foods and botanicals for the natural health industry since 1972. BioSan has over thirty years of experience using whole foods and botanicals to create efficacious dietary supplements with superior bioavailability. All of our products are manufactured and bottled in our privately owned FDA-registered facility, independently audited with a standing “superior” rating. The ability to create whole food supplements of consistent high quality has opened up many new international markets. Health care practitioners in Japan, England, Canada and France are drawn to BioSan’s dedication to manufacturing highest quality whole food supplements and meeting rigorous international standards.
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Why 100% Whole Food
The human body depends on supplies of energy for life, vitality and health. Such energy comes from our innate constitution, our surroundings, and primarily from the food we consume. It is a known fact that without quality food, our health and vigor declines, disease rises, and quality of life is lessened. This is an undisputable law of nature. In accordance with the laws of nature, there are the seven principles of natural medicine, which are based on the belief that the human body possesses the inherent ability to restore health. The physician’s role is to facilitate this process with the aid of natural, nontoxic therapies, including herbal and nutritional supplementation. With reverence to the body’s innate ability to heal, as well as nature’s capacity to facilitate the healing process, Innate Response Formulas® were created.
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Board of Advisors
Dr. Mary Bove
Dr. Bove obtained her doctorate of naturopathic medicine and midwifery certification from Bastyr College of Natural Medicine (1990). Dr. Bove also served as a full-time faculty member at Bastyr College, where she chaired the departments of botanical medicine and naturopathic midwifery. Dr. Bove received a diploma of phytotherapy/herbal medicine at the School of Phytotherapy in Great Britain (1987) and was elected to membership in the prestigious National Institute of Medical Herbalists, London, England (1988). In addition to practicing naturopathic medicine at her clinic in Vermont, Dr. Bove continues to write and lecture internationally on the topics of botanical medicine, phytotherapy, pediatrics and naturopathic obstetrics.
Dr. Hiroaki Nanba
Dr. Hiroaki Nanba received his PhD in biochemistry and immunology in 1976 from Kyoto University in Japan. Currently, Dr. Nanba is the senior professor of microbiochemistry at Kobe Pharmaceutical University in Kobe, Japan. Dr. Nanba is a member of the Japanese Cancer Society, Japanese Society of Immunology, Pharmacology Society of Japan and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is considered by many to be the father of Maitake mushroom research. Dr. Nanba is the author of four books, 18 published peer-reviewed scientific papers and the inventor of five patents involving Maitake mushroom in the United States and Japan.
Larken Bunce
Larken Bunce is an educator and clinical herbalist practicing in Montpelier, VT. She holds a master of science in herbal medicine and has been joyfully working and playing with herbs since 1994, weaving traditional views of health and nature with scientific understandings of plants and people. She co-directs the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, a non-profit organization providing herbalist training and free clinical services. She serves as core faculty in the Health Arts and Sciences program of Goddard College, as well as education coordinator for Plant Medicine, an international organization delivering evidence-based, clinically relevant information to professionals and the public.
BioSan Laboratories, Inc. has formulated and manufactured quality dietary supplements from whole foods and botanicals for the natural health industry since 1972. BioSan has over thirty years of experience using whole foods and botanicals to create efficacious dietary supplements with superior bioavailability. All of our products are manufactured and bottled in our privately owned FDA-registered facility, independently audited with a standing “superior” rating. The ability to create whole food supplements of consistent high quality has opened up many new international markets. Health care practitioners in Japan, England, Canada and France are drawn to BioSan’s dedication to manufacturing highest quality whole food supplements and meeting rigorous international standards.
As purveyors of whole food supplements, our manufacturing facility is also audited by, and in compliance with, the AIB consolidated standards for food safety. These standards are published strictly for food processors and are based on the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the GMPs, and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The AIB standards require programs and techniques that protect food from adulteration during storage, transfer and handling of ingredients. Based on AIB’s own inspection and audit of our facility, BioSan is rated “superior.” Our manufacturing facility, raw materials, and final products are regularly and rigorously tested so that superior quality is always guaranteed. All incoming raw material is tested to verify freedom from impurities, including microbes and bacteria. In addition, we test raw materials and finished products to validate potency and authenticity. If no testing standards exist for a particular botanical or whole food, BioSan Labs has the expertise and state-of-the-art facilities to develop objective and accurate testing methods. No element or aspect during the manufacturing process goes untested.
BioSan’s commitment to producing the most bioavailable and efficacious supplements is unwavered throughout every step of the manufacturing process. Because granulation and heat consequences in standard tableting procedures denature and deactivate many of the bio-active peptides, enzymes, amino acids and other volatile food components present in the raw plant material, BioSan has tailored precise heat-free tableting procedures to prevent denaturation. To maintain the integrity of the whole food concentrates and botanicals, our tablets are formed using tableting machines that are maintained and monitored to run at low speeds to keep secondary heat production at a minimum.
BioSan guarantees to limit the use of any fillers, flowing agents or binders when compressing our food tablets. Due to the adhesive nature of our True Active™ FoodState® whole food concentrates, only a scant amount of vegetable stearic acid is requisite as a lubricant on the tableting machines to prevent clumping, which will hinder tablet formation. Once compressed, each tablet is then coated sparingly with a pharmaceutical glaze to protect the whole foods and botanicals from oxidizing and to preserve freshness. Without this coating, the whole foods and botanicals would oxidize and nutritive content would diminish over time. Finished tablets are tested for weight variation, content uniformity and disintegration. Our tablets are readily digested and utilized by the body. For those who have difficulty swallowing, our tablets can be readily broken and/or crushed and stirred into a beverage of choice.
At BioSan, superior quality whole foods and botanicals are not simply a product, but rather a philosophy; whole food nutrients with superior bioavailability are our goal, not simply ingredients in a formula. Every stage of crafting superior whole food supplements is customized to this end: What Mother Nature creates, BioSan delivers.
Why 100% Whole Food
The human body depends on supplies of energy for life, vitality and health. Such energy comes from our innate constitution, our surroundings, and primarily from the food we consume. It is a known fact that without quality food, our health and vigor declines, disease rises, and quality of life is lessened. This is an undisputable law of nature. In accordance with the laws of nature, there are the seven principles of natural medicine, which are based on the belief that the human body possesses the inherent ability to restore health. The physician’s role is to facilitate this process with the aid of natural, nontoxic therapies, including herbal and nutritional supplementation. With reverence to the body’s innate ability to heal, as well as nature’s capacity to facilitate the healing process, Innate Response Formulas® were created.
Food in its natural state, similar to the human body, is complex in its constitution. Food not only provides essential nutrients and macro-nutrients, but also an intricate web of synergistic constituents that include bio-active peptides, enzymes, amino acids, lipids and a myriad of beneficial compounds. These interrelated constituents, or bioactive co-factors, once considered non-nutritive compounds, are now known to work in unison to help protect the body against a decline in overall health, as well as having paramount roles in the assimilation and utilization of essential nutrients in the body. In totality, these constituents are the essence of food. If any one of these constituents or nutrients are removed or altered, the biological activity of all the constituents is greatly diminished. Functioning and existing as a whole, food nutrients have the innate intelligence to nourish and restore the body.
Contrary to popular belief, most of the vitamins, minerals and nutraceuticals used to create dietary supplements are not derived or isolated from food, but are instead produced synthetically from chemicals and manufacturing by-products. This produces pure, crystalline analogues of vitamins and minerals, which are chemically synonymous to pharmaceutical drugs. In this state, pure vitamins and minerals are devoid of the vital essence food intrinsically delivers. Devoid of food intelligence, the biological activity of pure vitamins and minerals is low; therefore, the amount of each nutrient required to instigate an organic response in the body far exceeds the amount of each nutrient present in whole foods. Although pure vitamins and minerals have curative properties and have helped to eradicate nutritional deficiencies, the benefits are often associated with harmful consequences. Numerous studies have demonstrated the long-term use of synthetically pure nutrients to have toxic consequences in the body. Beta-carotene and iron are two well-documented examples. In consideration of the chemical nature and toxicity associated with pure, crystalline vitamins and minerals, it is apparent that the exclusive use of non-food nutritional therapies is not harmonious with the laws of natural medicine.
As research continues to discover how nutrients are delivered and function in the body, it is evident that nutrients delivered in their natural state (in whole foods) are the safest and most bioavailable form in which to nourish the body. Since 1972, BioSan Laboratories has strived to craft authentic nutritional formulas using the highest quality whole food nutrients with unparalleled bioavailability. Innate Response Formulas® are crafted with BioSan’s proprietary True Active™ FoodState® whole food concentrates and botanicals, to naturally nourish the body as nature intended.
