Garden of Life provides high quality, whole-food nutritional supplements. Their unique Poten Zyme fermentation process enhances the absorption and utilization of their product’s nutrients in the body. The inclusion of Garden of Life’s probiotic nutrients in many of their products encourages a balanced, healthy internal environment.

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Garden of Life’s A-B-Cs of Foundational Nutrition
Healthy Living Article by Lorin Shields-Michel

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Vitamins: Isolates versus Whole Food Nutrition
The Case for Whole Food Nutritional Supplements
by Dr. Jordan Rubin, NMD, PhD

Whole Food Nutrition

Garden of Life believes that proper nutrition is essential to overall health and that the most complete sources of vitamins and minerals are found in whole foods.

We were designed to eat whole foods that contain the necessary proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients our body needs for proper nourishment and health. While optimal nutrition is best achieved from a whole foods based diet, this is difficult to achieve with our over-processed food supply. Supplementing your diet with whole food nutritional supplements may be necessary to support overall health.

Whole food based supplements have high nutritional integrity because they contain the micronutrients, both known and unknown, that are found in whole foods. This makes whole food based nutritional supplements a great alternative to isolated vitamins and minerals that do not provide a complete food matrix of “satellite” compounds found in nature.

So far, more than 25,000 different micronutrients (phytochemicals) have been discovered in whole fruits and vegetables. Researchers are now discovering that these phytochemicals work in concert to orchestrate a natural harmony in our bodies
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Garden of Life nutritional supplements are made from organically grown (when available), nutrient dense whole foods from around the world to provide you with high quality formulations.

Fermentation & Poten-Zyme Process

To optimize our products, Garden of Life uses probiotics in many of our formulas and select ingredients are produced through our proprietary Poten-Zyme™ fermentation process to make the nutrients in these ingredients more available to the body.

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Fermentation and Its Health Benefits
By Robert L Lawrence M.Ed., D.C., D.A.C.B.N.

Probiotics & HSO’s

Large scale use of pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals has changed the bacterial balance in the soil and depleted our natural supply of probiotics. In order to regain the probiotic benefits we historically obtained from consuming foods cultivated in healthy soil, Garden of Life developed a Homeostatic™ Soil Organism Probiotic Blend utilizing several species of beneficial microorganisms. Many Garden of Life formulations contain Homeostatic™ Soil Organisms to help you maintain a balanced, healthy internal environment. *

Probiotics are beneficial living microflora that play a critical role in maintaining good health.* These are the same or similar microorganisms as the ones used in the fermentation of healthful foods. The healthy human intestine contains billions of microorganisms – both good and potentially harmful. The good bacteria in the intestine are considered an integral part of normal immune system support.

Probiotics are also important because they can synthesize certain vitamins and short-chain fatty acids to support a healthy intestinal lining and bolster immunity. * When your intestinal lining is occupied by healthy beneficial flora it leaves unwelcome micro- organisms deprived of both space and nutrients.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.