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The Search Begins

In 1937, the Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded to the father of nutritional science, Dr. Albert Szent Gyorgyi, for discovering Vitamin C. He was the first scientist to isolate the active ingredient in oranges and limes. It was known that these fruits cured scurvy, which was a common disease of sailors during the 19th century.

After conducting additional research, the doctor was astonished. He discovered that although scurvy patients recovered when they consumed an orange, they did NOT recover when they were given the isolated form of vitamin C, which is ascorbic acid. This disappointed Dr. Szent Gyorgyi because he was confident he had found an efficient way to cure this disease.

Dr. Szent Gyorgi diligently pursued the answer to his discovery and spent the next 45 years conducting scientific research trying to find the solution.

The 1999 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

In 1999, Dr. Gunter Blobel was awarded a Nobel Prize for his research when he discovered the exact mechanisms of how nutrients are transported into the cells of our bodies.

He discovered this amazing information after spending 20 years researching just one question, "How do proteins know where to go in the body?"

It was discovered that nutrients inside food are bound by many other essential elements, such as proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids (fats), which are called carrier co-factors.

The most important of these co-factors are the proteins. Proteins were discovered to contain unique signals that act like a zip code to transport the attached nutrients to the cells that need them.

These proteins are called protein chaperones because they take nutrients to the cells with them. There are many different protein chaperones, depending on which vitamin or mineral needs to be transported to which of the various cells.

If you want calcium to get into your bones, then the calcium you take must have the appropriate protein chaperone attached, otherwise it won't know where to go! The appropriate carrier co-factors must be present for the body to absorb, utilize, and retain all the nutrients bound inside the food.

This was the answer to Dr. Szent Gyorgyi's mystery of why ascorbic acid did not cure scurvy, but oranges and limes did! Without the attached protein chaperone, and all the other co-factors, the body could not utilize the isolated chemical nutrient (ascorbic acid) well enough to cure scurvy.

An Amazing Solution

In the late 1970's, a former student of the great Dr. Albert Szent Gyorgyi named Dr, Andrew Szalay, uncovered the solution. After devoting much of his life to the continuing research of his former teacher, he developed the first whole food supplement. Unfortunately, it was not the entire answer. Determined to find the solution, in 1990 Dr. Szalay finally developed a special process that extracted the nutrients from food and then re-natured those nutrients by infusing them back into a living plant. Through this process, he was able to develop concentrated nutrients, all bound together with all the co-factors of the nutrients intact. This was a major advancement in nutritional science.

In order for Dr. Szalay to accomplish this, all of the major vitamins and minerals had to be researched to discover the hundreds of co-factors and protein chaperones required to carry these nutrients directly to where they are needed in your body. It was a major undertaking.

Dr. Szalay protected his discovery and work with several international patents and his work has now been trademarked as FoodMatrix™. This new technology is revolutionizing the field of nutritional supplementation and is available to you.

Over 50 independent clinical studies prove FoodMatrix products to be far superior to isolated chemical nutrients, because the nutrients in these FoodMatrix products are in a form that your body recognizes - WHOLE FOOD.

These independent studies show:

• FoodMatrix™ products are up to 5 times better absorbed.
• FoodMatrix™ products are up to 16 times better utilized.
• FoodMatrix™ products are up to 16 times longer retained.

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