THE DOCTORS - • Visit our Products page!
Click here to View Sportron’s
Scientific and Medical Advisory Council >>
 Dr.
Szalay was a young scientist who studied under and worked
with Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi, at the University
of Szeged in Hungary. Szent-Györgyi is considered the Father of
nutritional science and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine
in 1937 for the discovery of Vitamin C (isolated ascorbic acid).
Dr. Szalay
was part of that scientific team and as a research pharmacist,
he spent decades researching the mysteries of cellular nutrition.
In 1977 he
developed the first whole food supplement and in the 1990's he
perfected and patented the FoodMatrix™ process.
Q. How did you
come about discovering FoodMatrix ™?
A. In the last step of his
research, Szent-Györgyi concluded that
he had found something more active than the isolated/crystallized
vitamin. Furthering his work, we went through the extraction
procedure the same
way he did and discovered other very important carrier food factors.
Q. So what are these carriers?
A. Szent-Györgyi called this substance
vitamin P. This was not an individual material; it was a composition
of bioflavonoids, carbohydrates,
proteins, enzymes and fatty acids. We built this material around
the vitamin C and made a complex out of it.
Q. So, you discovered
FoodMatrix ™vitamin C. What was next?
A. The next step was to
try it with the other vitamins. So, we studied the research and
followed it through as it had been done
to determine how the vitamins were isolated and we created for
each one
a carrier food factor.
Q. Are the carriers for each vitamin different?
A. Yes, if we have
14 different vitamins, the carrier food factor is different in
all 14 of them. We went through the same process
with the minerals. We analyzed the carriers and built them around
the minerals.
Q. Is this a patented process and would it be easy
to copy?
A. We have an international patent on the process. The
carriers are very different for each nutrient and the process
is extremely complex. It would take a very long time, if ever,
to duplicate just one of the
food factor processes. You would then have to start over with
the next nutrient.
Q. So how does this discovery benefit the
consumers?
A. First, this is a food matrix. It is not a chemical
and the body recognizes it as food. In clinical trials, it was
concluded that these nutrients are better absorbed and retained
than chemical
isolates. Second, these carrier food factors hold the key to
transferring the nutrients directly to the cells providing for
greater utilization
and effectiveness. Chemical isolates do not have carriers therefore
resulting in poor utilization.
Q. Are isolated nutrient vitamins
really that different?
A. Yes. The synthetic isolated chemical
vitamins really were produced to imitate the original vitamins
in food. These chemicals
are really precursors to the vitamins.
Q. What does it mean that
specific chemicals are precursors?
A. It means that they have
to go through one or two more steps to be an active compound.
The synthetic isolated vitamins are
not identical to what the researchers originally established
as the chemical formulas
for these vitamins. They had to come up with these precursors
because the vitamins isolated from nature were not stable. The
synthetic vitamins
were developed because they were stable.
Q. Not stable, how?
A. They would break down or decompose. They could
not stand up. They would lose their potency.
Q. So you used the
carrier food factors to make the vitamin compounds stable?
A. Yes, we did.
Q. You must feel gratified when you see the studies
showing FoodMatrix ™is
superior.
A. Independent researchers conducted the studies. As
the results started to come in, we realized that we had something.
After
all the studies were completed, we were extremely satisfied.
Q. Finally, what is the one main benefit of FoodMatrix ™?
A. It is difficult to clearly isolate one benefit, as there are
so many. Of course its non-toxicity is a definite plus but I
would say that since FoodMatrix ™is essentially food, we receive
maximum nutrition.
Interview with Dr. Massoud Arvanaghi
FoodMatrix ™ Scientist
 Recently,
Sportron sat down with Dr. Massoud Arvanaghi and discussed the
distinct
advantages of Sportron's FoodMatrix ™ over USP isolated nutrients. Seldom
do we have the opportunity to take part in a revolution, or be somewhere from
the very beginning. This time we do.
Q: What is the difference between USP Isolate
and FoodMatrix™?
A: It's a comparison between a synthetic material and
real food. You are comparing ascorbic acid with an orange. You are comparing
the difference between an isolated
material and a material that is attached to all the components that you will
find embodied in nature. Simply, FoodMatrix ™is a concentrated form
of real and natural food.
Q: What are the components that are embedded in
FoodMatrix ™and real
food?
A: They are protein, complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, essential
fatty acids, enzymes and all the components that are found in nature.
Q: What is the advantage of FoodMatrix ™over a synthetic
isolate?
A: Generally, synthetic material has a very difficult time being absorbed
where food does not. With FoodMatrix ™being as close to natural
food as possible, FoodMatrix ™products may be better absorbed,
better retained and better utilized than synthetic material.
Q: Why do we need to supplement with far less quantity of FoodMatrix ™nutrients
than isolated, synthetic USP?
A: Fifty years ago one didn't need to
take mega dosages of supplements because our food had all the
nutrients our body needed. Unfortunately,
due to the
depletion of nutrients in our soil and food processing, we are now
not receiving food
that is rich with nutrients. That's why we need to supplement today.
If you are now
supplementing with an isolate, only a small amount is being absorbed
because the body doesn't recognize chemical isolates. For example in
the old days,
when you were eating food, in spite of the fact that the food had only
between 5 mg
to 15 mg of calcium, that was good enough for the body. The FoodMatrix ™ideology
is that it comes closest to food and you do not need to consume mega
grams because it has both the message and the messenger and it is targeted
for the cells that
need the nutrient. The isolate UPS, because it does not have the other
food components is poorly absorbed and does not have the targeting
devices. Because FoodMatrix ™is
better absorbed, retained and utilized you don't need anywhere near
as much as the isolate. You will be getting greater benefit with less
dosage.
Q: Many people promote the benefits of isolated amino acid
chelate. Why don't we incorporate that?
A: The problem with that
is that in nature you can never find an isolate material. There
are no amino acid chelates found in food.
Neither will
you find salt
in any natural food or fruit. Manufacturers include salt to try and
make the isolate
stable.
Q: Many of our products are re-grown or re-natured in yeasts.
Many people are allergic to yeast. Does the finished product
contain yeasts?
A: Allergy to yeast is firstly to candida albicans.
In any batch we make, at the end of the process, we have microbiological
tests
done
to make
sure there
is no yeast, no mold and no candida albicans. Our manufacturing process
includes breaking down all allergic agents and yeast. People must
know that baker's
yeast is one of the most nutritious products in the world. The finished
product ends
up as close to food as possible with all the food nutrients and no
live yeast left present.
Q: Why is FoodMatrix ™more effective:
Why is FoodMatrix ™better
absorbed, better retained and better utilized?
A: Because FoodMatrix ™is
as close to natural food. You can have a car; however, if you don't
have an engine, the car is never going to run. You can
have a car with an engine but if you have no gas you're going nowhere.
You can take a lot of isolated nutrients but if it has no place
to go it's not going
to provide benefit. If you have a letter in an envelope but the
envelope has no address or zip code, the letter will never reach its
destination.
In FoodMatrix ™,
because the nutrients are embedded to protein, carbohydrates, enzymes,
fiber, etc., they are giving the nutrients directions. The body
then knows where the
nutrient goes, when to release, when to absorb and when to utilize
it. USP isolates just have the car so to speak. FoodMatrix ™ nutrients
have the car, engine, gas, global positioning and knows exactly
where to go.
Professor J. Vinson from Scranton University
in Pennsylvania for many years has been conducting trials comparing isolated chemicals
and "food state" nutrients. His summary below expresses
the important elements of this unique and remarkable technology:
"FoodMatrix nutrients are the most important advancements
in nutrition today. They are not just another brand of USP vitamins
and inorganic
mineral salts. Instead, food state nutrients are a unique generation
of vitamins and minerals that are molecularly bonded to the basic
building blocks of life: protein."
Click here to View Sportron’s
Scientific and Medical Advisory Council >>
W. Alan Tomlinson, B.A., N.D., D.O.,
D.Hom. • JT.Stephen Balch, M.D., F.A.C.P.
(Chairman) • Ruben Sher, Ph.D. • Massoud Arvanaghi,
Ph.D.
Colin Rogers, Ph.D. • J. Pat Evans, M.D. • Eric Llewellyn,
N.O.,D.O.
Dr. Leonard P. Lopez • Paul
Elliott, M.D.
• Visit our Products page! |
