CHECK OUT OUR NEW REGENERATIVE WOMEN'S LINE! SHOP NOW
CHECK OUT OUR NEW REGENERATIVE WOMEN'S LINE! SHOP NOW
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We created our supplement line to be a quick and easy plant-based solution for busy people. The simple schedule looks like this:
Morning
Multivitamin+, Vitamin D3 + K2, and Maca 10x | With or without food.
We formulated our supplements to include fermented whole food ingredients with the addition of vegan friendly Omega-3 DHA. The addition of this beneficial fatty-acid means your body can more easily absorb important fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins A, D, E, and K without needing to take them with food, like you would with synthetic supplements. With the substantial inclusion of B12 in the multivitamin along with a generous 5,000 I.U’s of vitamin D3 in our D3 + K2 supplement, you might notice a nice boost of energy in the mornings from adding Nutritional Roots to your daily “rootine.”
Evening
Probiotics+ | Without food on a nearly empty stomach
We recommend taking Probiotics+ in the evening about 30 minutes before bed. This allows the beneficial bacteria to colonize your microbiome overnight while you sleep. This time of day also usually means that Probiotics+ is taken on an empty stomach, which helps ensure the good bacteria make it to the gut as quickly as possible. Additionally, the mood-balancing botanical blend contains ingredients like organic Valerian and Ashwagandha which have relaxing properties and can help support a good night sleep!
Here in the USA!
While we source the best plants from the best places around the world, all of our products are made in the United States at FDA-registered facilities using the highest industry standards of good manufacturing practices.
We prioritize organic ingredients when creating and crafting all our products. In fact, our first priority is regenerative organic plants, but there is limited availability of a lot of regeneratively grown plants. So we often fall back on certified organic ingredients. If we can’t find a certified organic source for an ingredient, we find partners that can sustainability produce the ingredient from wildcrafted sources.
Since all of our products are delivered in capsules, our products can not be USDA Certified Organic. There is currently no USDA Certified Organic capsule available. We choose to forgo the USDA seal to use capsules because we believe in protecting the raw micronutrients that are created through the fermentation processes we use.
The bottom line: we love organic almost as much as we love regenerative organic. We use a lot of organic ingredients in all our products, but we just don’t have the fancy seals on any of our products.
Our naturally-brewed microbial vitamins and minerals — made with the same anaerobic fermentation process used to make beer, yogurt, and even kimchi — produces quality whole-food nutrition.
All the vitamins and minerals in our products are organic. There is one vegan ingredient found in the capsule – vegetable cellulose – that is not yet registered on the USDA organic list. We chose to sacrifice the much politized “USDA Organic” symbol because we wanted to keep the living fermented ingredients alive. Other vitamins may use tablets to attain this USDA Organic certification, but tablets are created through a pressure and heating process that kills all the beneficial microbes found in Multivitamin+.
We intentionally lowered the Vitamin D and Vitamin K because we don’t want them to interfere with taking our incredibly cool new D3+K2+Omega-3 DHA. Since Vitamin D and K are fat-soluble vitamins, they can accumulate more in the body than water-soluble vitamins. Vitamin D is a seasonal vitamin for a lot of people. We lowered that dose to 50% the DV so that in the warmer months, when people are out in the sun and taking our Multivitamin+ and the D3+K2+Omega 3, their Vitamin D levels don’t go crazy. It helps let people control their Vitamin D doses.
Whole plants provide a diverse array of phytonutrients that make raw plants the optimal source of nutrients. We chose a specific blend of fermented whole foods to capture the goodness of raw plants found in nature.
In a recent study, scientists found that changes in dietary boron and magnesium affect calcium levels, and thus bone strength. A combined deficiency of boron and magnesium caused bad changes in bone density. It basically found that without enough boron to help our bodies properly work in tandem with magnesium created cases of osteoporosis.
Water soluble vitamins are easily absorbed by the body, and do not need to be taken with food. Any excess amounts of vitamins our body doesn’t need is disposed of via urine. We go through them fast so they need to be replenished regularly either by the foods we consume or a handy little multivitamin. Commonly taken water soluble vitamins include the vit B Complex group and vit C. Fat (lipid) soluble vitamins need to be taken with food (or fatty acid) to be readily absorbed by our bodies. We also don’t run through them as fast as the water soluble ones. Any excess of these vitamins are stored in fatty tissue in our body for use at a later time. These include vitamins A, D, E, and K.
Short answer is yes. Our Founder Dr. Todd J. Pesek finds Maca extremely helpful for his male patients.
But Maca doesn’t work by directly boosting testosterone serum in Men. What it does do is help men and women maintain homeostasis in many areas of the body – including help balance hormones. It’s really interesting actually, Maca was recently discovered to be one of a few plants on the planets (discovered so far) that interacts with our endocannabinoid system. The endocannabinoid system has kind of a misleading name because it hints that cannabis is the only plant that affects this neuroregulatory system. This is because cannabis was the first plant discovered to do so but there are actually many more like Maca, capsaicin in hot peppers, turmeric, etc…
Emerging research points to unique compounds found exclusively in Maca called Macamides. After 14-21 days of consistent Maca consumption (that’s why the new Maca has 2 months worth in it!), Macamides increase the amount of a neurotransmitter called Anandamide in the brain. This compound supports mood and influences how the endocannabinoid system helps the body regulate itself.
Omega-3 is commonly recognized in the form of fish or krill oil, but the original source these sea creatures get it from is marine algae. We use 100% vegan algal Omega-3, which is easier metabolized by the body, and much more sustainably harvested.
Probiotics have 3 enemies: moisture, heat, and time. We encapsulate Probiotics+ in a trademarked delayed-release capsule that protects it from moisture and contrary to popular belief, some live probiotic cultures can even tolerate temperatures up to about 115°F. Our Probiotics+ are guaranteed shelf-stable for 3 years from the date of manufacture and we recommend they be safely stored at room temperature, between 68-72 degrees fahrenheit.
When it comes to choosing the right probiotic for you, don’t be fooled by massive CFU doses. That is a marketing gimmick to trick us into thinking more is best. There are several more important questions to consider when picking a probiotic.
Were prebiotics included? In ours, yes.
Does this probiotic offer a diverse array of strains? In ours, yes.
High CFU doses of minimal strains compete with each other and can often prove to be ineffective.
Our Probiotics+ contains special strains known as psychobiotics. Psychobiotics are a special classification of live probiotic cultures that have been shown to deliver mental health benefits by affecting microbiota of the host organism. They work with our gut-brain axis via the vagus nerve to support and promote neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and GABA in our brain.
Soil-based organisms are microbes that naturally occur in soil. Much like probiotics do for our microbiome, SBOs enrich the soil and protect the beneficial bacteria that plants use to grow thus helping to provide key nutrients (postbiotics) to plants. Our ancestors used to consume multiple strains of SBOs, but as we have progressed (or regressed?) our food has become sterile and we are not consuming these beneficial bacteria that our microbiomes evolved to rely on.
Prebiotics are complex carbohydrates that microbes feed off of. Prebiotics can help boost a probiotic supplement’s effectiveness when taken at the same time, so we added a prebiotic blend to Probiotics+. Prebiotics basically act as food to help the probiotic cultures grow, survive, and colonize quickly and efficiently.
The organic ingredients are sourced from USDA-certified organic farms around the world, but mostly in the United States. The digestive enzymes are from one of the biggest producers of digestive enzymes in the country. The soil-based strains are isolated from soil, and the other probiotics are cultured from various ferments. The probiotics are isolated and then put through a specific freeze-drying process to essentially pause them in their lifecycle without damaging their cellular structure. When they are reexposed to moisture, the probiotics resume their lifecycle. This is why we go to great lengths to protect the blend inside the capsule. Previously, we used the moisture-barrier bottles, but we’ve moved towards the delayed-release capsules to do even a better job protecting the probiotics until they reach the large intestine.
Nope. And if any products did contain soy, we would disclose that on the label.
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