Enzymes are proteins that initiate all chemical reactions in our bodies. Without enzymes no chemical reactions will occur and the body will fail. Scientists identified eighty enzymes in the 1930’s; today more than 5,000 enzymes have been discovered. A single human liver cell contains at least 1,000 different enzyme systems.

 

Our bodies can only provide a limited amount of enzymes so we need to obtain enzymes from our foods. At a temperature of about 118 degrees Fahrenheit enzymes begin to be  destroyed. Modern food processing methods occur at temperatures higher than 118 degrees thus destroying many enzymes from our foods.

 

While we could all stand to include plenty of raw foods in our diets—bountiful salads teeming with greens, tomatoes, and onions instead of cooked broccoli, baby carrots instead of ruffled chips and sour cream dip, and a bowl of in-season strawberries and blueberries instead of a heaping helping of vanilla ice cream—the reality is that few people think “raw” when planning their menus. This is where supplements made from raw ingredients—like those with the Vitamin Code—give the body the necessary slate of enzymes needed for digestion, heart health, and immune system support.

 

 Taking supplements with Raw Food-Created Nutrients, like Vitamin Code® multivitamins, keeps your body filled with enzymes as well as living probiotics. Vitamin Code multivitamins have been produced with nutrients that have not been heated, treated, adulterated, or touched. In other words, these biologically active and raw supplements will be broken down and used by the body, not expelled from the body unused.

 

I realize that there may be Garden of Life fans who’ve been taking the Living Multi supplements, which belong to a category that we called “Fermented Vitamins and Minerals”. You may recall that these supplements were ranked right below “Raw Food-Created Nutrients”. Does the introduction of multivitamins with the Vitamin Code mean that Living Multis and their cousins are passé?

 

Yes and no. The Garden of Life Living Multi is definitely outclassed by the Vitamin Code supplements. At the same time, they are much better than USP isolated supplements. For you car lovers out there, maybe this word picture will help:

• Garden of Life Vitamin Code multivitamins: a Lamborghini Testarossa

• Garden of Life Living Multi supplements: a 7-series BMW

• USP isolated vitamins and minerals: a sputtering family sedan with 200,000 miles on the odometer

 

So while the Living Multi’s remain an excellent choice, the Vitamin Code multivitamins rank a class ahead. Living Multi remains the product of choice for those individuals who prefer a probiotic fermented multiple or who may have allergies to yeast. People who suffer from Candida overgrowth can effectively take Vitamin Code without worry because Code vitamins contain S. cervisiae, a close relative of S. boulardii, a known anti-fungal.