In a nutshell, what the research reveals is this:

• The human body is a marvelously designed living organism with the ability to grow, regulate, repair, and defend itself when given natural, premium, full-spectrum nutrition.
• Simplexity Health's Super Blue Green Algae (Aphanizomeon flos-aquae) is a rare food plant with unique biomodulating capabilities.

Good question.

Let's define the concept of nutritional biomodulation:

(Please hang in there for just a few minutes. This is very important information that can make a real difference in your Simplexity Health product experience!)

A biomodulator is a nutritional substance that seems to increase the synergy of the human body. Synergy means that the whole is much more than the mere sum of the parts. The synergy of the human body is a fancy way of saying that everything is working better because everything is more connected, cooperating, and flowing. When synergy is taking place inside the human body (or anywhere else for that matter), it starts to feel like a different reality, where one plus one always equals more than two!

When synergy is taking place, there is little or no observable obstruction in the way of more optimum and near perfect internal functioning. By providing a full spectrum of balanced micronutrients, a biomodulating food succeeds in nourishing all the parts of the body (cells, organs, tissues, systems), and by so doing provides the opportunity for the whole body to function much closer to its original design, structure, function, and purpose.

Nutritional biomodulation is very important in understanding how and why and what makes Simplexity Health nutritional products so unique and special. Nutritional biomodulation is also very important in helping to explain why paying attention to the rest of your diet and lifestyle is one of the keys to complete customer satisfaction on the journey to better nutrition!

Nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals

Nutritional biomodulation, as a direct side effect of the various foods and supplements in our diet, is very different from the active side effects of most drugs and pharmaceutical substances. Most pharmaceutical substances target very specific biochemical functions, by attempting to either "turn on" (stimulant drugs) or "turn off" (depressant drugs) various parts and pieces of our biochemistry. There are always negative biochemical consequences with the introduction of pharmaceutical substances into the human body…always. These consequences are well known to everyone. They are called adverse side effects. There are many other important differences between food-grade nutraceutical substances (such as Super Blue Green Algae) and pharmaceutical substances. This is just one of them.

Learn more about the difference between Nutraceuticals and Pharmaceuticals.

What the Research Reveals

Researcher Gitte S. Jensen, Ph.D, along with several associates at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Montreal, Quebec, wrote the article entitled: Consumption of Aphanizomenon flos- aquae Has Rapid Effects on the Circulation and Function of Immune Cells in Humans: a novel approach to nutritional mobilization of the immune system.

This report was published in the January, 2000, issue of The Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association, Vol 2, No.3.

What the research reveals is stated as follows, which appears in the concluding statement of the article: "Consumption of Aphanizomenon flos- aquae leads to rapid changes in immune cell trafficking, but not direct activation of lymphocytes. Thus, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae increases the immune surveillance without directly stimulating the immune system."

What does this mean?

Basically, what this means is this: Consuming Simplexity Health's SBGA restored normal function of the natural killer cells without causing any abnormal stress to the immune system or any other part of the body. This is significant because research on pharmaceutical substances reveals a variety of toxic adverse side effects in exchange for their highly targeted stimulating or depressing activities. And this is the biggest and most important difference between Nutrition and Medicine, between nutritional biomodulation and pharmacological medical treatment.

Back to our research conclusion statement:

Natural killer cells (NK cells) are a unique subset of cells within our immune system. Known as lymphocytes, their primary function is to constantly look out for pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites, and diseased cells in the blood, lymph, and tissues of the body. But wait…they not only perform surveillance duties. These magnificent protectors and defenders of our health are very lethal adversaries indeed. When they are wide awake, they are armed to the teeth and fully capable of identifying, neutralizing, and completely eliminating from the body things that don't belong there.

Without a fully awake and fully empowered legion of NK cells on duty 24 hours a day, we would suffer the slow ravages of a constantly depressed immune system, and a variety of chronic dis-ease conditions and symptoms.

What the research reveals is that Simplexity Health's Super Blue Green Algae contains enough of the right nutritional stuff to keep our entire legion of NK cells fully awake and fully empowered. We can't think of a more important benefit.The discoveries made about the nutritional impact of SBGA on NK cells in this study (and subsequent studies) have far-reaching implications in our ongoing understanding of the relationship between nutrition and human health.

What research like this reveals is concrete evidence of a major, long overdue paradigm shift within the scientific research community. Much scientific research and practical clinical study has contributed to the exploration and discovery of the positive and negative influences of pharmacological substances on the various cells, organs, functions, and systems of the human body. Miraculous discoveries have been made in some areas, and not much progress has been made in other areas.

A well-nourished body doesn't make mistakes. A well-nourished body is a healthy body--ready, willing, and able to protect and defend itself. In light of this information, it is important for us find and do the things that nourish us best.

Let's conclude this conversation about what the research reveals with some thoughts about the field of nutrition in general.

Functional Nutrition is based on a variety of traditional health approaches combined with the most sophisticated of modern scientific techniques. Functional Nutrition is based on the simple observable phenomenon that what we eat affects our health. What a concept!

As we saw in our brief review of Simplexity Health's natural killer cell study, functional nutrition is not trying to stimulate or depress the normal functions of the human body…as all pharmacological substances do…but to nourish, strengthen, build up, and complement the normal functions of the human body via better nutritional habits, with the goal of attaining optimal biological functioning and optimum human health.

Here's how author and nutrition consultant Jerry Stine, in the book Optimal Digestion (Avon Books, 1999, page 5) describes the "new" medicine and the future of Functional Nutrition:

"The metabolism of food is a primary focus in the new functional and nutritional medicine and now has center stage. Food is now recognized as the primary source of the chemicals we require for life. Our responses to food are an excellent example of bio-chemical individuality, since food is also one of our primary chemical interactions with our environment. We are chemical beings. The way our body reacts to foods and processes them is a significant component of maintaining health or developing illness."

Isn't our Journey to Better Nutrition interesting?

Thank you for reading this far. Our journey is just beginning, and we have many discoveries to make in the days (and pages) ahead!